Assistant Professor Nicholas Baer has published chapters in two new edited volumes: “An Animated and Animating Medium: On Hegel, Adorno, and the Good of Film,” in What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship (University of California Press, 2023); and “Relativist Perspectivism: Caligari and the Crisis of Historicism,” in
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November 30, 2023
The UC Berkeley Department of German and BAMPFA were pleased to host Werner Herzog’s Mosse Lecture. The author of more than a dozen books of prose, Herzog read from the long-awaited Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir (Penguin Random House, October 10, 2023) and engaged in conversation with Deniz Göktürk, Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
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October 24, 2023
This work addresses the issue of magical communication found in the Elder Futhark runic inscriptions. It examines the Kragehul Spear Shaft (DR 196), Björketorp runestone (DR 360), the Horn(s) of Gallehus (DR 12), Gummarp runestone (DR 358), Lindholm amulet (DR 261), Straum whetstone (KJ 50), Ribe skull fragment (DR EM85; 151B), the Noleby runestone (KJ 67), and the Eggja runestone (N KJ 101).
October 18, 2023
GSA article prize | German Studies Association (thegsa.org) The winning article, "Politics and Literary Capital in Tomer Gardi's Broken German"can be read here: Project MUSE - Politics and Literary Capital in Tomer Gardi's <i>Broken German</i> (jhu.edu)
October 12, 2023
Freya collaborated with Ricky W. Law (Carnegie Mellon University) and Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick (University of Wisconsin–Madison) to curate a two-part panel series titled “Asian Diaspora in the German-Speaking World.”
This series brought together seven scholars who explored facets of Asian-German interactions across diverse mediums, including art, film, television, and new media, as well as delving into Asian migration history and activism in Germany.
October 6, 2023
Co-edited with Cynthia Walk of the Sunrise Foundation for the Study of German Cinema and Media, WeimarCinema.orghas becomea central online archive and research hub for exploring Weimar film culture. The Fall 2023 edition features a new design and, among other things, a 64-page dossier on the Weimar classic The Cabinet of Dr.
August 28, 2023
September 1, 2023: 3rd year PhD student Elise Thora Volkmann recently performed the role of Susanna in Mozart's Figaros Hochzeit. The production premiered in Middlebury, Vermont as part of the Middlebury German for Singer's program and then travelled to Scharbeutz, Germany where Elise performed several additional shows. Photos taken by Bettina Matthias featuring other members of the cast.
August 4, 2023
4th year PhD student Sean Lambert has published a review of Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World in the journal Post45 Contemporaries. The essay appears as part of a cluster of writings on "heteropessimism." Click here for article.
April 15, 2023
-- an English translation of the best-selling German nonfiction book, Desintegriert euch! by Max Czollek, published in English by Restless Books as De-Integrate: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century.
February 21, 2023
Lou is finishing her dissertation titled "Of Goo and Dust: Aesthetic Theories of Formlessness." Congratulations!
November 17, 2022
Damani's book examines the relationships between European Enlightenment, Holocaust memory, and “Black” futures in modern Germany.
Damani is Professor of of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
Wir gratulieren, Damani!
November 12, 2022
The GSA Prize 2022 for the Best Essay in German Studies by a Graduate Student is awarded to the best unpublished, article-length manuscript written by a graduate student during the previous year.
Freya's award-winning essay, "'A Temporality of Imminent, Never-Consummated Arrival’: Contemporary German Documentaries on North Korea,” will be published in an upcoming issue of the German Studies Review.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Freya!
November 1, 2022
Paul Dobryden, "Marked Man: Fantasies of the Able Body in Fritz Lang's M," German Studies Review, Volume 45, Number 3, October 2022, pp. 407-428. Paul is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Virginia and the author of The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder (2022).
October 3, 2022
She presented a paper titled “Redefining Media Literacy” at a three-day seminar on “German Studies Approaches to Media Literacy,” co-organized by Thomas Küpper, Tanja Nusser, and Rolf Parr. This paper grew out of Prof. Lilla Balint’s seminar on “Digital Literatures, Critical Practices” last semester.
October 1, 2022
Co-edited with Cynthia Walk from the Sunrise Foundation for the Study of German Cinema and Media, WeimarCinema.org represents a central online archive and research hub for the exploration of Weimar film culture. The project would not have been possible without the collaboration of former and current graduate students in the German department.
September 27, 2022
Elizabeth presented her paper titled "Halbzeug Realities: How do we interpret machine-generated literature?" as part of the "Modeling IR-Reality" panel.
Molly's paper was titled "'Was übrig bleibt:' Max Czollek and the ‘Lachrymose Aesthetic’ in Contemporary German-Jewish Poetry”; it was part of the panel “Jews - Holocaust - Poetry." The LBI fellowship was awarded for her dissertation project with the working title, After Auschwitz: Contemporary German-Jewish Poetics and the Persistence of the Past). Since the grant is geographically flexible, she will spend a year in Berlin.
Freya's article "Queering the Screen: Spectral Figures and German-Taiwanese Encounters in Monika Treut’s Ghosted" was published in Seminar (University of Toronto Press) vol 58 Issue 3 September 2022, pp. 251-270.
September 20, 2022
(TRANSIT, VOL. 13, ISSUE 2, 2022: TRANSIT )
Under the topic of Archival Engagement, the beautifully designed issue contains refereed scholarly essays, including work of our own UCB graduate students and alums as authors, translators, and reviewers.
September 18, 2022
Verena's paper, "Narratives of Risk: Aesthetic Form and Language in Christa Wolf’s Störfall," was part of a conference, "The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature, and Culture," which was organized by Princeton's Department of German from May 11- May 13, 2022.