IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

MASTERKOLLOQUIUM IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES | SS 2024

If you are a Master's student and are in the process of planning, writing, or finishing your M.A. thesis within the Summer semester 2024, register NOW for the Masterkolloquium in English & American Studies!

In the summer semester 2024, the Masterkolloquium will take place on 28 JUNE in the Amerikanistik Foyer (EF 50). 

In order to sign up for the event, please contact the colloquium's coordinator Kathrin Opheiden via e-mail by including ...

• your full name & e-mail
• student-id
• a proper title of your thesis 
• the name of your advisors (Erst- & Zweitgutachter:in)

THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 17 MAY 2024!

A program will be desgined as soon as the registration is closed.

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EXTRA SEMINAR / American Studies | SS 2024

154677 | "Poets, Philosophers, Musicians: Important Moments in Twentieth Century German Culture" (2 HS)

Block: 03.06. - 15.07.2024 | Mo 16:00 - 19:15 Uhr | Room 0.420 | INSTRUCTOR: ELLIOTT NIBLOCK 

For centuries, Germany has produced world-renowned poets, philosophers, and musicians, ranging from Goethe to Bach, Kant to Hegel. In this course, however, we will focus on a handful of more recent luminaries from these three genres across the span of the Twentieth Century, looking at six different figures within their own historical contexts: Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Nina Hagen, and Peter Fox. In addition to learning about the life and work of each of these figures, you will also learn about the historical contexts in wR. 0420hich they lived, including fin de siècle Germany, Berlin in the Weimar Period, the rise of Nazism and the flight into exile of German-Jewry, how culture flourished on both sides of what Churchill called “the iron curtain” during the Cold War in both the BRD or West Germany and the DDR or East Germany, and finally the challenges, as well as the fruits, of multiculturalism following the fall of the wall and reunification in the 1990’s and into the Twenty-First Century.