Lectures and Readings
Lectures And Readings Archive
(For information on upcoming lectures and readings, see our Upcoming Lectures and Readings page.)
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Workshop: "Topic Modeling"
Sponsored by the Humanities Digital Workshop in conjunction with the "Distant Readings" German Dept. Symposium
Friday, February 24, 2012
Keynote by Dietmar Dath (Workshop: What is Left? Political Tendencies in German Literature after 1989);
Organized by Franziska Bomski
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Workshop: What is Left? Political Tendencies in German Literature after 1989;
Organized by Franziska Bomski
Friday, February 10, 2012
Friday Colloquium: A conversation with Volker Weidermann (Max Kade Center Critic for SP12)
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Lecture: "Sex, Gender, and Food in the Medieval Sexual Badges"
Speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen (Duke)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Reading: A Reading from his Works under the Aspect of War
Speaker: Norbert Gstrein, Austria
Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011
Lecture: "The Future of Futurity: Time Travel and Parallel Worlds in 21st-Century German Literature by Alexander Kluge and Yoko Tawada"
Speaker: Leslie Adelson, Cornell University
Monday, April 5,2010
Reading: A Reading from his Works
Speaker: Durs Grünbein
Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010
Lecture: "How Jewish is German Sexuality? Sexual Politics and Holocaust Memory in Post-Nazi Germany"
Speaker: Dagmar Herzog
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Lecture: "Herder and the Origin of Rock and Roll"
Speaker: Simon Richter
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Lecture: "The Leipziger Literaturinstitut: History, Function, Prospects "
Speaker: Hans Ulrich Treichel
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Lecture: "Haunted Heimat: The Specter of Male Violence in Postwar West German Film "
Speaker: Jennifer Kapczynski, Fellow for the Humanities; German Department, Washington University
Friday, April 3, 2009
Lecture: "Urban Imaginaries, the Modernist Miniature, and the Feuilleton "
Speaker: Andreas Huyssen, Columbia UniversityIrene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Reading: "Daddy's War "
Speaker: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
Monday, March 23, 2009
Lecture: "Traumatic Memories of the Second world war and their Narrative Transformations "
Speaker: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Panel Discussion: "The Bologna Reforms and the Future of the German University: German and American Perspectives"
Speakers: Walter Erhart (Bielefeld); Alexander Kosenina (Hannover); Paul Michael Lützeler (German, Washington University); Wolfram Schmidgen (English, Washington University); Priscilla Stone (IAS, Washington University)
Friday, February 20, 2009
Title: "Mobilisierung der Natur: Anmerkung zur romantischen Landschaft"
Speaker: Helmut Schneider, Distinguished Visiting Professor
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Title: "A Conversation With Lisa Hock" (Pedagogy Initiative Lecture)
Speaker: Lisa Hock, Wayne State University
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Title: "Aktueller Radio-Journalismus"
Speaker: Kristina Pfoser, Max Kade Critic in Residence (Vienna)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Title: "The Role and the Growth of Germanistik in China"
Speaker: Prof. Xiaohu Feng, Beijing
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Title: "A Literary Scholar's Transatlantic Literary Experience"
Speaker: Prof. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Title: "Literature and Literary Events in Austria"
Speaker: Dr. Britta Steinwendtner, Salzburg
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Title: "Prekäres und unverhofftes Glück Anmerkungen zur klassischen deutschen Literatur"
Speaker: David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Title: "Orte und Praktiken religiöser Gewalt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Konfessionelle Unterschiede und ihre Wahrnehmungen im Spiegel von Selbstzeugnissen "
Speaker: Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Title: "Historical Event and Contemporary Experience: the Capture and Destruction of Magdeburg in 1631"
Speaker:Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Title: "Rückkehr des Autors? Literatur und kulturelle Autorität in der interkulturellen Kommunikation"
Speaker:Doris Bachmann-Medick
Monday, March 24, 2008
Title: An informal discussion with Dr. Maxim and German department graduate students
Speaker: Dr. Hiram Maxim, Department of German Studies, Emory University
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Title: "The Thirty Years War as Experience and Memory: Microhistorical Views of a Macrohistorical Event"
Speaker: Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Title: "Writing in the Web of Words"
Speaker:Yoko Tawada, Max Kade Writer
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
"Der Dreißigjährige Krieg und die Krise des 17. Jahrhunderts: Historiker-Interpretationen im Licht zeitgenössischer Selbstzeugnisse"
Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Göttingen
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Wien-Zürich: Als Wiener Kulturkorrespondent bei der Neuen Zuercher Zeitung
Paul Jandl, Max Kade Critic for Spring semester
October 16, 2007
Workshop: Poststructuralism, Trauma, and Cultural Memory
by: Harald Weilnböck (University of Zurich/Berlin); and Erin Mcglothlin, Stephan Schindler, and Lutz Koepnick (Washington University)
October 1, 2007
Gesetze der Form - Gottfried Benn 1933
Eva Geulen, universität Bonn
Apr. 19, 2007
"Mittelwärts"
Ursula Krechel, Max Kade Fellow, Berlin
Apr. 19, 2007
"Ohnehin. Roman"
Doron Rabinovici, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Vienna
April 2, 2007
Die Gruppe 47, von heute aus gesehen
Wilfried Barner, Professor of German, University of Goettingen, Germany
March 29, 2007
1943: The Jewish World at Ground Zero
David G. Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture, Professor of Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary; 2006-7 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, U.S. Holocaust Museum
March 29, 2007
Turkish-German Constellations in Literature and Film
Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Professor of German, University of Münster/Germany
March 29, 2007
The 'Conquest of Nature': Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany
David Blackbourn, Harvard University
March 9, 2007
SALON WORKSHOP: Counting on God: Economic Providentialism in Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Autobiography
Co-sponsors: SALON; Comparative Literature
Richard Gray, University of Washington
March 8, 2007
Deep Pockets: The Economics and Poetics of Excess in Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemil
Co-sponsors: SALON; Comparative Literature
Richard Gray, University of Washington
Feb. 7, 2007
Die internationale Verbreitung österreichischer Literatur
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York
Nov. 15, 2006
Jurek Becker und Amerika
Christine Becker, Writer and Editor
Nov. 8, 2006
Meine Arbeit als Literaturredakteur beim 'Spiegel'
Volker Hage, Max Kade Fellow, Kritik, Der Spiegel
Oct. 26, 2006
Exercises in Being Jewish, Poems and Prose
Esther Dischereit, German-Jewish Writer from Berlin
Oct. 24, 2006
Extensive Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom
Richard Day, Chair and Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
Oct. 23, 2006
Extensive Reading Belongs in the Foreign Language Curriculum
Richard Day, Chair and Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
Oct. 13, 2006
Dr. Patrizia McBride, Associate Professor of German, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
"Modernism and the Ethos of the Humanities"
October 4, 2006
Tendenzen der Gegenwartslyrik (Grünbein, Petersdorff, Hartung, Kling, Runge und andere)
Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
September 27, 2006
Wiederkehr der Traditionen - im Modus der Komik (Erhardt, Rühmkorf, Gernhardt und andere
Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
September 20, 2006
Sprechen und Schweigen bei Paul Celan
Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
September 13, 2006
Brecht und China: Taoismus in seiner Lyrik
Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
April 14, 2006
Attention, Awareness, and Consciousness-Raising in Second/Foreign Language Teaching
Richard Schmidt, Director of National Foreign Language Resource Center; Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
April 13, 2006
Findings and Implications from Second Language Acquisition Research
Richard Schmidt, Director of National Foreign Language Resource Center; Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
April 12, 2006
Travel Literature & Enthography: A.V. Thelen, H. Fichte and B. Vesper
Diedrich Diederichsen, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany
Feb. 17, 2006
How Jewish Is It? Translations of Jewish Memory in Contemporary German Culture (Pedagogy Lecture) and Workshop: German Studies/Jewish Cultural Studies/Diaspora Studies: The 'Place' of Germany
Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota
Feb. 8, 2006
Das Ende der Literaturkritik in den Medien
Hans-Joachim Steinert, Max Kade Critic in Residence
Nov. 16, 2005
Screening of short documentary film by Yale Strom: A Man from Munkacs: The Gypsy Kelzmer
Yale Strom, Director, Composer, Musician, Writer & Photographer
Nov. 16, 2005
A Wandering Feast: A Journey through the Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe
Yale Strom, Director, Composer, Musician, Writer & Photographer
Nov. 15, 2005
Moving from Research to Classroom and Task Design and Talk in Tasks (Pedagogy Lectures)
Susan Gass, Michigan State University
Oct. 14, 2005
Task-Based Materials Design and Current Issues in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) (Pedagogy Lectures)
Michael Long, University of Maryland
Sept. 21, 2005
Das phantastische Bureau. Kafkas Datenverarbeitung
The phantastic office. Kafka's data processing.
Benno Wagner, University of Siegen
Apr 19, 2005
'Milliarden neuer Sterne'. Ein New York Buch
Angela Krauß, Leipzig, Max Kade Writer in Residence
Apr 18, 2005
Pedagogy Workshop: Technology, Language and Literacy: The New Pedagogical Challenge
Lecture: Post 9/11: Foreign Languages Between Knowledge and Power
Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley
Apr 11, 2005
Eros, der alles begonnen. Bemerkungen zur Liebesthematik in Goethes Faust
Per Øhrgaard, University of Kansas, Visiting Max Kade Professor of German
Apr 7, 2005
Violent Women: Searching for Xena in the 19th Century
Nancy Richardson, Graduate Student (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
Mar 16, 23, 30, and April 6
Lectures on German Literature and Culture: Women and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Germany and Western Europe
Heide Wunder, Kassel, Distinguished Visiting Professor
Mar 1, 2005
Literatur und Radio
Stephan Krass, Freiburg, Max Kade Critic in Residence
Feb. 24, 2005
Werner Sollors, Professor of Afro-American Studies and English, Harvard University
"A Foreign Affair: Notes Toward a Cultural History of the American Occupation of Germany after World War II"
Feb. 21, 2005
'Vernichtendes Gefühl': Zur Affektdynamik von Scham und Schuld in Schillers Jungfrau von Orleans und Kleists Penthesilea
Claudia Benthien, Berlin
Feb. 17, 2005
A Medievalist Investigates the most Famous Murder of 1286
William Layher, Washington University in St. Louis (Brown Bag Lecture Series)
Feb. 15, 2005
Als Kulturkorrespondentin der NZZ in New York
Andrea Köhler, Zürich, Max Kade Fellow
Feb. 2, 2005
The People's War: Constructing the Home Front in 1940s American Cinema
Jennifer Kapczynski, Washington University in St. Louis (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
Jan. 25, 2005
Germanistik aus koreanischer Sicht
Chin-Gil Chang, Visiting Professor
Nov 18, 2004
Pedagogy Workshop: L2 Vocabulary Learning: Rehearsal Regimes, Student Awareness and Dictionary Use
Jan Hulstijn, Amsterdam
Nov 17, 2004
Pedagogy Lecture: Second-language Vocabulary Learning
Jan Hulstijn, Amsterdam
Nov 5, 2004
Pedagogy Lecture: Theory and Practice in Reading Chinese and Japanese as Foreign Languages: Contemplating Well-Worn Paths and Future Directions and Pedagogy Workshop: Applying Current Reading Theory to the Chinese/Japanese Language Classroom
Michael Everson, University of Iowa
Nov. 4, 2004
Public Art and Social Sculpture
Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock, Berlin
Oct. 25, 2004
Die Frau im Text. Wunschprojektion oder gefährliche Kreatur? Zwei Straßburger Drucke aus dem 16. Jahrhundert
Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Växjö
Sept. 2, 2004
Pedagogy Lecture: Discussing his book Auf Geht's
Lee Forester, Hope College
Apr. 19, 2004
Reading: Der Spaziergang von Rostock nach Syrakus
Friedrich Christian Delius, Berlin
Apr. 1, 2004
19th Century German Crime Stories
Michael J. Divine, Graduate Student (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
Mar. 3, 2004
Als Schriftsteller in Krisengebieten der 'Dritten Welt'
Hans Christian Buch, Berlin, Max Kade Fellow
Mar. 1, 2004
Fetish Holocaust: Reflections on a theme in contemporary discourse
Doerte Bischoff, University of Münster
Feb. 26, 2004
A Reading of His Works
Hugo Loetscher, Zürich
Feb. 25, 2004
Grosskritiker und kleine Popjungs: Zur aktuellen deutschen Literatur und Filmkritik
Gregor Dotzauer, Berlin, Max Kade Critic in Residence
Feb. 11, 2004
Deutsche Denkmäler im 19. Jahrhundert: Paulskirche, Bavaria, Völkerschlachtdenkmal
Wilfried Schoeller, Frankfurt am Main, Max Kade Fellow
Jan. 30, 2004
A Roundtable on An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New (New York Univ. Press 2004)
Werner Sollors, Harvard University
Jan. 29, 2004
Multi-Lingual American Literature: What difference does it make?
Werner Sollors, Harvard University
Oct. 28, 2003
"Spoils of War: Building Libraries in the 17th Century"
Dr. Gillian Bepler, Director of Fellowships, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Oct. 27, 2003
"Traveling and Posterity: The Archive, the Library, and the Cabinet"
Dr. Gillian Bepler, Director of Fellowships, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Oct. 22, 2003
"Germanistik in India"
Pramod Talgeri, Professor of German, Nehru University, New Delhi
Oct. 21, 2003
"The Internet as a Resource and a Tool: Developing cultural activities for the language classroom"
Franziska Lys, Associate Professor of German, Chair, Council on Language Instruction, Northwestern University
Oct. 2, 2003
"Expressionist Architecture: The Work of German Modernist Bruno Tant"
Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh, Senior Program Officer, Getty Grant Program
Sep. 29, 2003
"Speaking in Tongues: Religious Excitement and Working Class Germany, 1880-1914"
Christoph Ribbat, The University of Bochum
Apr. 16, 2003
"Judentum und Antisemitismus- Karl Kraus und Heinrich Heine"
Dietmar Goltschnigg, Professor of German, University of Graz
Apr. 8, 2003
"Paarweise": Lesung und Diskussion
Lilian Faschinger, Max Kade Writer in Residence
Mar. 26, 2003
"Written Capitals: Washington D.C. and Berlin"
Walter Erhart, Professor of German, University of Greifswald
Feb. 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2003
"Lectures on German Literature and Culture: Diskurse über die Liebe in der Literatur des Mittelalters"
Ingrid Kasten, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin
Nov. 21, 2002
"Text und Bild"
Wilhelm Vosskamp, Professor of German, University of Cologne
Nov. 7, 2002
"The Third Sex: Emancipated Women and Homosexuals at the Turn of the Century"
Robert Tobin, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of German, Whitman College
Apr. 11, 2002
A Reading of His Works with Philip Boehm, Freelance Writer and Translator
Perikles Monioudis
Feb. 19 and 26, Mar. 12, 19 and 26, Apr. 2 and 9, 2002
"Lectures on German Literature and Culture: One Hundred Years of German Film"
Gertrud Koch, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Humboldt University
Oct. 16, 2001
"Gender and Interaction in the Language Classroom"
Dr. Monika Chavez, Associate Professor of German and Applied Linguistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Oct. 15, 2001
"Das Eine, das Andere, und das Dazwischen- Österreichische Literatur 2000“
Klaus Zeyringer, Professor of German and Austrian Literature, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers, France
Oct. 3, 2001
"The Debate over National Missile Defense: The European Perspective": Luncheon Discussion in cooperation with The American Council on Germany St.Louis Wartburg Chapter
Elizabeth Pond, Foreign Correspondent and Author
Oct. 1, 2001
"Verdinglichung und Objektivierung- Zur Form des Erzählens in Bertolt Brechts ’Dreigroschenroman’“
Klaus-Detlef Müller, Professor of German Literature, University of Tübingen
Sep. 24, 2001
"In flagranti. Die literarische Darstellung Ent-deckter Ehebrüche“
Alfred Ebenbauer, Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature, University of Vienna
Sep. 20, 2001
"The Nature of Evil: From the Simple to the Complex“
John A. McCarthy, Professor of German and of Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University
Sep. 4, 2001
"Nibelungischer Zorn und sein höffisches Regulativ: Affekt und Affektkontrolle im ‘Nibelungenlied’.“
Dr. Irmgard Gephart, The University of Bonn
Apr. 30, 2001
A Reading of His Works
Ingo Schulze, Author of 33 Augenblicke des Glücks and Simple Stories
Nov. 27, 2000
"Looking the Other Way: Goethe and Political Conflicts in Classical Weimar"
Daniel Wilson, Professor of German, The University of California, Berkeley
Oct. 8, 2000
Commentary on Texts: Liederabend, featuring: Franz Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock and music of Brahms, Strauss, and Wolf
Paul Michael Lützler, Rosa May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Washington University
Apr. 17, 2000
"Dort sein, wo Geschichte stattfindet. Schriftsteller in Berlin/ Schriftsteller und Berlin"
Brigitte Burmeister, Author, Berlin
Dec. 6, 1999
An Introduction to His Works in Commentaries and Readings
Günter Grass, President, Berlin Academy of Arts, Playwright and Author, Berlin
Nov. 1, 1999
"Gottes Griffel. Kleist und das Naturereignis"
Franz Eybl, Professor of German, University of Vienna
Sep. 27, 1999
"Der Erzähler und der Cyberspace"
Walter Grond, Writer, Austria
Sep. 23, 1999
Reading from His Works
Hansjörg Schertenleib, Writer, Switzerland
May 5, 1999
Reading from His Work “Helden Wie Wir“
Thomas Brussig, Author, Germany
Apr. 6, 1999
"Reading Mary. Medieval Marialogical Allegory in Tracts, Legends, and Sermons"
Andreas Rüther, Associate Professor of History, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Mar. 19, 1999
Readings from “Opernball"
Josef Haslinger, Writer, Vienna
Oct. 27, 1998
"Home is Each Other, Language is Self: An Excursion into the Literary World of a Writer away from Home and in Another Language"
Jeannette Lander, Author and Essayist
Oct. 19, 1998
"Der späte Max Frisch"
Norbert Oellers, Thyssen Fellow, Professor of German, University of Bonn
Oct. 11, 1998
Commentary on TextS: Liederabend, featuring: Robert Schumann’s “Frauenliebe und –leben" and Hugo Wolf’s “Italienisches Liederbuch"
Egon Schwarz, Professor Emeritus of German and Rosa May Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Washington University
Aug. 31, 1998
Reading from Her Works
Esther Dischereit, Author, Berlin
Apr. 21, 1998
"Nature as Artist: Monism and Aesthetics around 1900"
Georg Braungart, Professor of German Literature, University of Regensburg
Apr. 15, 1998
"Literatur als Endspiel- Ein Thema, Zwei Variationen (Thomas Mann, Bert Brecht)"
Reinhard Baumgart, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Berlin
Feb. 26, 1998
"Fontane, Wagner, Thomas Mann: Zu den Anfängen des modernen Romans in Deutschland"
Hans Vaget, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Smith College
Feb. 3, 1998
"Heinrich Böll und seine aktuelle Rezeption"
Martin Hielscher, Max Kade Critic in Residence, Cologne
Dec. 2, 1997
"Kleist und das Gesamtkunstwerk: Bild, Musik und Text in der ’Heiligen Cäcilie’"
Thomas Fries, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Zürich
Nov. 17, 1997
Reading from Her Works
Marlene Steeruwitz, Dramatist and Novelist, Austria
Nov. 3, 1997
"Tis Sixty Years Since: My American Exile- Beginnings in St.Louis"
Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor of German, Wayne State University
Oct. 27, 1997
"George Taboris post-dokumentarisches Theater und das ’Bewältigungsproblem’ auf den deutschen Bühnen (seit 1969)"
Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer, Professor of Theater, University of Munich
Oct. 20, 1997
“Ein Schriftsteller und sein Thema. Passagen aus den Werken mit Kommentaren“
Hugo Loetscher, Author, Zürich
Sep. 30, 1997
"Myths and Metaphors of the Internet"
Bernhard Debatin, Professor of Communications, Institute of Communication and Media Strategies, University of Leipzig
Sep. 24, 1997
"Mass Emigration and Intellectual Exile from National Socialism: The Austrian Case"
Egon Schwarz, Professor Emeritus of German and Rosa May Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Washington University
Sep. 22, 1997
“Der Text als Kugel: Über Heinrich von Kleists Der Zerbrochene Krug“
Klaus Jerziorkowski, Professor of German, Frankfurt University
Apr. 30, 1997
“Zur Sprachideologie des Nationalsozialismus im Dritten Reich“
Jan Wirrer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld
Apr. 24, 1997
Reading from His Work, Johannisnacht
Uwe Timm, Author, Munich
Apr. 8, 1997
Reading from Her Book, Mein Text so blau. Der Sound der Literatur. Essays, Stories und Dramen vom Tatort
Isolde Schaad, Author, Zürich
Apr. 1, 1997
“Argumente gegen die ’Tragödie’: Zur Theorie und Praxis des deutschen Nachkriegsdramas“
Ulrich Profitlich, Professor of German, Free University of Berlin
Mar. 27, 1997
“Das Nahe, das Ferne: Schreiben über fremde Welten“
Uwe Timm, Author, Max Kade Writer in Residence
Mar. 18, 1997
Reading from His Works
Harald Hartung, Author, Berlin University of Technology
Feb. 24, 1997
“Wahnsinn als Metapher? Pathographie und Literatur bei Goethe, Lenz und Büchner“
Burghard Dedner, Professor of German, University of Marburg
Jan. 23, 1997
“Anachronismus als Prinzip: Neue Literatur und Neue Media“
Hubert Winkels, Max Kade Critic in Residence
Nov. 21, 1996
“Käte Hamburger. Exil und Rückkehr einer Literaturwissenschaftlerin"
Heide Ziegler, Professor of Literatur, Former President of Stuttgart University
Oct. 29, 1996
“Ein Mann, Eine Frau...: Erzählperspektive und Geschlechterdiskurs in Malina“
Monika Albrecht
Oct. 23, 1996
Reading from His Book, Soviel Ihr Wollt
Otto Marchi, German-Swiss Writer
Oct. 1, 1996
“Die Ostjuden in der deutschsprachigen Literatur“
Karol Sauerland, Professor of German, Warsaw University
Apr. 18, 1996
“Das Geständnis. Liebe und Risiko in Rede und Schrift“
Walter Haug, Professor of German, University of Tübingen
Mar. 18, 1996
“Die Liebe des Künstlers. Frauenbilder und Erzählverfahren bei E.T.A. Hoffmann“
Hartmut Steinecke, Professor of German, University of Paderborn
Sep. 25, 1995
Reading from His Works
Herbert Berger, Dramatist and Novelist, Austria
Apr. 11, 1995
“Echo-Rede und ’Lesen’ Ruths: Die Begründung von Autorschaft in Bettina von Arnims Roman Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde“
Bernhard Greiner, Max Kade Exchange Professor, University of Tübingen
Mar. 23, 1995
Reading from His Novel, Paarungen
Peter Schneider, Max Kade Writer in Residence
Feb. 13, 1995
“Literaturwissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung: Probleme und Aufgaben“
Hans-Gert Roloff, Professor of German, Director of the Forschungsstelle für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur, Free University of Berlin
Feb. 2, 1995
“Wer Heimat sagt, nimmt mehr auf sich- Max Frischs Auseinandersetzung mit der Schweiz“
Beatrice von Matt, Max Kade Critic in Residence
Nov. 9, 1994
Reading from His Works
Franco Biondi, Psychologist, Fiction Writer, Poet
Nov. 7, 1994
“Vienna and New York: The Politics of Identitiy in Two Major Ports of Immigration“
Rüdiger Wischenbart, Austrian Cultural Historian
Oct. 23, 1994
Commentary on TextS: Liederabend, featuring: Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Robert Schumann’s Liederkreis
Paul Michael Lützler, Rosa May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Washington University
Oct. 18, 1994
“Die Menschen sind nur durch Trennungen zu vereinigen. Aspekte einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft im Spätwerk Lessings."
Arno Schilson, Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Literature, University of Mainz
Sep. 22, 1994
“At the Crossroads of Germanistik and Comparative Literature: The Idea of World Literature“
Hendrik Birus, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Munich
Apr. 28, 1994
"The Mind and the Thinking Machine: Coping with the Ever Growing Body of Human Knowledge"
Eberhard Lämmert, Professor of Comparative Literature, Free University of Berlin
Apr. 21, 1994
"Ruhe im Objekt oder Mielke und die Musen. DDR-Literatur und Ministerium für Staatssicherheit: Auftrag, Struktur, Methoden und Fallbeispiele"
Joachim Walther, East German Author
Apr. 20, 1994
“European Integration and Swiss Identities“
Dominik Müller, Swiss Chair, University of Wisconsin and Professor of Swiss Literatur, University of Geneva
Apr. 13, 1994
“Von der Studentenrevolte bis zur deutschen Einheit: Das Jahr 1968 und die Folgen für Literatur und Gesellschaft“
Thomas Anz, Professor of German, University of Bamberg and Fritz Tyssen Fellow, Washington University
Apr. 5, 1994
Reading from His Works
Yüksel Pazarkaya, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Cologne
Mar. 10, 1994
“Die deutschen Medien und der Literaturbetrieb-Innenansichten": A Debate in German, Moderated by Hiltrud Gnüg, Professor of German, University of Bonn, Fritz Thyssen Fellow, Washington UniversitySibylle Cramer, Freelance Critic, Berlin and Martin Lüdke, Max Kade Critic in Residence, Chief Editor, Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden
Mar. 3, 1994
"’Gelegentlich Hölderlins’ Hölderlinrezeption in der Lyrik der DDR und der BRD"
Hiltrud Gnüg, Professor of German, University of Bonn, Fritz Thyssen Fellow, Washington University
Feb. 28, 1994
"Out of the Closet and Into the Klausur: An Introduction to Queer Theory"
Craig Palmer, Ph.D. Candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Feb. 1, 1994
"Literaturkritik im Kulturbetrieb Bekenntnisse eines Täters"
Martin Lüdke, Max Kade Critic in Residence, Baden-Baden
Jan. 25, 1994
"Germany Today, Looking to Tomorrow"
Christoph Sander, Deputy Consul General of Germany
Nov. 3, 1993
Reading and Discussing Her Book, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich
Alison Owings, Writer and Journalist
Oct. 13, 1993
"Switzerland in a Changing Europe"
Carlo Jagmetti, Ambassador of Switzerland
Sep. 20, 1993
Reading from Her Works
Keto von Waberer, German-Bolivian Writer, Munich
Sep. 13, 1993
"Musik im Zeichen des Saturn: Melancholie und Heiterkeit in Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus"
Dieter Borchmeyer, Professor of German and Theater, Heidelberg University
Apr. 26, 1993
"Georg Büchner und die Nachwelt"
Katharina Mommsen, Professor of German, Stanford University
Apr. 20, 1993
"Die ostdeutschen Schriftsteller und die Widervereinigung"
Jurek Becker, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Berlin
Apr. 13, 1993
"Von Stämmen zu Systemen. Über den theoretischen Umgang der Germanistik mit Einheit und Vielfalt der Literatur im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum"
Michael Böhler, Professor of German, University of Zürich and Visiting Professor, Stanford University
Apr. 7, 1993
"Jews and Anti-Semites in Vienna around 1900"
Egon Schwarz, Professor Emeritus of German and Rosa May Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Washington University
Apr. 5, 1993
Reading from Her Works
Elisabeth Borchers, Poet, Frankfurt am Main
Mar. 31, 1993
Reading from His Works
Jurek Becker, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Berlin
Mar. 22, 1993
"Von zwei deutschen Literaturen zu einer Literatur? Bemerkungen zu einigen Entwicklungen vor und nach der Wende."
Hartmut Steinecke, Professor of German, University of Paderborn and Visiting Distinguished Professor, Washington University
Feb. 22, 1993
"Die Schauspielerin zwischen Repräsentation und Prostitution: Zur Geschichte der weiblichen Bühnenkunst"
Renate Möhrmann, Professor of Theater, Film, and Television, University of Cologne
Feb. 11, 1993
"Wie die Alten den Tod gebilded- zur Todeskonzeption von Lessing bis Heine"
Jürgen Brummack, Professor of German, University of Tübingen
Jan. 27, 1993
"Ab in die Nische? Über die neueste deutsche Literatur und was sie vom Publikum trennt"
Uwe Wittstock, Max Kade Critic in Residence
Nov. 18, 1992
"Bob Dylan of Germany [Lecture/Performance]": Concert followed by informal discussion with students, staff, and faculty about the current problems of reunificationWolf Biermann, Writer, Ballad-Singer
Nov. 17, 1992
"’Public Television and the Public Sphere’: The Discussion in Germany and the U.S."
Michael Hofmann, Professor of Sociology, Free University of Berlin
Nov. 10, 1992
Reading from His Works, including Tigor
Peter Stephan Jungk, Author, Paris
Sep. 17, 1992
"Germany After Unification: External and Internal Challenges"
Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Attorney, SPD, Baden-Württembert
Apr. 27, 1992
"Das Vorbild der Naturwissenschaft und die Antwort der Literatur im deutschen Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts"
Hans Esselborn, Professor of German, University of Cologne
Apr. 7, 1992
"’Auf Tiefgang Tanzen’- Texts, Poems and Songs": A Satirical Cabaret
Thomas Brewer, Heidelberg
Apr. 2, 1992
"Erika Mann in amerikanischen Exil"
Barbara Bauer, Professor of German, University of Munich
Mar. 18, 1992
Reading from His Works
Sten Nadolny, Author and Max Kade Writer in Residence, Germany
Feb. 5, 1992
"Muttermuse und Nomadendame. Ein Lebensbild der Julia Mann"
Wilfried F. Schoeller, Max Kade Critic in Residence, Hessischer Rundfunk, Framkfurt am Main
Feb. 6, 1992
"Ästhetik der Ambiguität: zur Modernität Thomas Manns"
Rolf Günter Renner, Professor of German, University of Freiburg
Jan. 23, 1992
Reading from His Works
Gerd Fuchs, Author, Heidelberg
Nov. 18, 1991
Reading from His Works
Dr. Gerhard Köpf, Writer, Germany
Oct. 29, 1991
"Physiognomy of Guilt: Kafka and Criminal Anthropology"
Mark Anderson, Professor of German, Columbia University
Oct. 9, 1991
"Is there a Wall After the Wall?"
Peter Schneider, Author, Berlin
Oct. 4, 1991
"Der Epochenbegriff Fin-de-siècle"
Dr. Hans Hinterhäuser, Professor Emeritus, University of Vienna
Oct. 1, 1991
"Der ‘Hang zum Wunderbaren’ im Zeitalter der Aufklärung: Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Rationalität und Irrationalität im letzen Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts"
Jürgen Viering, Professor of German, University of Göttingen
Sep. 17, 1991
Klaus Weimar, Professor of German, University of Zürich
"Ironie, Metapher, Fiktion"
Sep. 4, 1991
"Minoritäten in Österreich"
Peter Wiesinger, Professor of German, University of Vienna
Apr. 24, 1991
"Schreiben im Exil zwischen Literatur und Publizistik. Heine und Heinrich Mann in den Spuren Voltaires"
Albrecht Betz, Professor of German, University of Aachen
Apr. 18, 1991
Reading from Her Works
Gitta Deutsch, Writer, Austria
Apr. 11, 1991
Reading from Her Works
Dr. Ursula Krechel, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Frankfurt
Apr. 1, 1991
"Brecht und Spanien"
Reinhold Grimm, Professor of German, University of California, Riverside
Mar. 29, 1991
"Women Mystics of the Hochmittelalter: Hildegard von Gingen and Mechthild von Magdeburg"
Elizabeth Ambrose, Ph.D Candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Mar. 25, 1991
"Theoretische und historische Aspekte der Komödie: Hofmannsthals Schwieriger und Musils Vinzenz..."
Dietmar Goltschnigg, Professor of German, University of Graz
Mar. 19, 1991
"Das Erhabene im 18. Jahrhundert und in der Gegenwart- wiederkehr einer aesthetischen Kategorie?"
Rolf-Peter Janz, Max Kade Visiting Professor, The University of Kansas
Mar. 5, 1991
"Destruktion der Allegorie im frühen Prosaroman: Faustbuch, Wickram, Fortunatus"
Jan-Dirk Müller, Professor of German, Universities of Hamburg and Munich, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Washington University
Feb. 19, 1991
"Kafkas Tagebücher- Neu ediert, neu gelesen"
Volker Hage, Max Kade Critic in Residence, Editor, Die Zeit
Feb. 11, 1991
"’Lebt und liebt euch um die Wette’- Hochzeitsgedichte des Barockzeitalters"
Wulf Segebrecht, Professor of German, University of Bamberg
Nov. 6, 1990
"’Weil die Farce soeben von vorne beginnt...’- Dramenschlüsse bei Max Frisch"
Peter Hasubek, Professor of German, University of Göttingen
Nov. 1, 1990
"Literarisches Leben in Berlin- Ein Kultursoziologischer Beitrag"
Hartmut Eggert, Professor of German, Free University of Berlin
Oct. 23, 1990
"’Komm zu dir, Odysseus!’- Formen des Fremden und Formen des Mythos in der frühen deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur"
Manfred Karnick, Professor of German, University of Göttingen
Oct. 9, 1990
"Traumreisen in eine jenseitige Welt"
Klaus Speckenbach, Professor of German, University of Münster
Oct. 2, 1990
"The German Unification: Economic Implications for Europe and the World"
Dr. Thomas J.P. Geer, Chief Economist, Head of Corporate Planning, Fried. Krupp GmbH, Essen
Sep. 27, 1990
"Einig Vaterland: Die Schwierigkeiten des deutsch-deutschen Diskurses"
Hermann Glaser, Former Cultural Commissioner of the City of Nürnberg
Sep. 21, 1990
"Das 15. Jahrhundert- Ein Zeitalter der literarischen Innovationen in Deutschland"
Hans-Gert Roloff, Professor of German, Free University of Berlin, Editor in Chief, Daphnis
Apr. 17, 1990
"Eine Entexilierung aus Deutschland- Eine kurze Lesung und ein kurzer Film"
Antonio Skármeta, Visiting Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages
Apr. 10, 1990
Reading from His Works
Klaus Hoffer, Max Kade Writer in Residence
Apr. 5, 1990
"Terreur und Anarchie- Gustav Landauer und die französische Revolution"
Norbert Altenhofer, Professor of German, University of Frankfurt
Mar. 5, 1990
"Der Roman als moralische Anstalt. Zu Christian Fürchtegott Gellerts ’Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G.’ (1747-48)"
Bernd Witte, Professor of German, Technical University of Aachen
Dec. 7, 1989
"Preussen 1803-1813 im ’Vaterländischen Foman’: Willibald Alexis, George Hesekiel, Theodor Fontane"
Christian Grawe, Professor of German, University of Melbourne
Dec. 4, 1989
COLLOQUIUM: "Tears in the Curtain: Recent Developments in East and West Germany"
Elisabeth Domansky, Western European Studies Program, History Department; Thomas Fox, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Paul Michael Lützeler, Western European Studies Program, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Gerhild Scholz Williams, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Nov. 7, 1989
"Azteken in Wien. Jelinek, Handke, und Bernhard. Eine Tendenz der österreichischen Literatur der 80er Jahre"
Helmut Lethen, Professor of German, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Oct. 26, 1989
"Hölderlin’s Melancholie- Überlegungen zum Hyperion-Roman"
Wolfgang Braungart, Professor of German, University of Giessen
Oct. 19, 1989
"Funktionen der Kolonialliteratur. Literatur und Kolonialismus am Beispiel der deutschen Kolonialliteratur über Togo"
Adjai-Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon, Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University
Oct. 2, 1989
"In the Shadow of Greatness: Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Georg Büchner and the Concept of Epigonentum"
Carol Anne Costabile
May 10, 1989
Assembly Series Lecture: Reading from Zunge zeigen and discussion
Günter Grass, West German Writer and Artist, Author of The Tin Drum
Apr. 25, 1989
"DDR Autoren in der Diskussion. Der X.Schriftstellerkongreß November 1987 und neues Denken"
Dieter Schlenstedt, Visiting Professor of German, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Apr. 18, 1989
"Politik und Literatur in Österreich: Theorie und Praxis"
Josef Haslinger, Writer and Editor, Austria
Apr. 13, 1989
"Cabaret and the Dilemma of Political Satire in the Wimar Republic"
Peter Jelavich, Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin
Apr. 11, 1989
"The Love of Kings: Thoughts on the Structure of Medieval Sensibilities"
Stephen Jaeger, Professor of German, University of Washington
Apr. 6, 1989
Reading from Her Works
Erica Pedretti, Max Kade Author in Residence, Switzerland
Mar. 21, 1989
"Parzival ohne Illusionen"
Walter Haug, Professor of German and Medieval Studies, University of Tübingen
Mar. 9, 1989
"German-Swiss Literature since 1945: Productive Antagonisms and Conflicting Identities- Cultural, Political, Personal"
Michael Böhler, Professor of German, University of Zurich and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Washington University
Mar. 1, 1989
"Europe in 1992: Hopes and Worries"
Fran?ois Duchenne, Institute of Strategic Studies, London
Feb. 23, 1989
"Eine Literatur für die Demokratie- Zur Geschichte der Gruppe 47"
Heinrich Vormweg, Max Kade Critic in Residence
Feb. 9, 1989
"Contemporary Playwriting in the GDR"
Michael Hamburger, Dramaturg, Deutsches Theater, East Berlin
Jan. 23, 1989
"Forms of Comedy: Hofmannsthal’s Der Schwierige as Illustration"
Mark Roche, Assistant Professor of German, The Ohio State University
Jan. 18, 1989
"Schleiermacher and Schlegel on Myth, Language, and Interpretation"
Sabine Wilke, Assistant Professor of German, University of Washington
Nov. 28, 1988
"History and Language"
Reinhart Koselleck, Professor of History, University of Chicago- University of Bielefeld
Oct. 17, 1988
"’Berlin-Stockholm-Berlin-und wieder Stockholm’- Zur Heimatlosigkeit des Peter Weiss"
Helmut Müssener, Professor of German, University of Stockholm
Oct. 6, 1988
"Die Wiederentdeckung Georg Büchners durch Karl Emil Franzos"
Dietmar Goltschnigg, Professor of German, University of Graz
Sep. 26, 1988
"Vom Engagement zur Utopie. Über Kleists vaterländische Dramen"
Hans Joachim Kreutzer, Professor of German, University of Regensburg