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News and Events

“Queer Home Berlin? Making Queer Selves and Spaces in the Divided City, 1945-1970.”

Emma Thomas Named 2016-17 Institute for Humanities Fellow

Thurman 2016-18 UMS Faculty Fellow

Johannes von Moltke's Book on Siegfried Kracauer Released

Scandinavian Program Updates

U-M German Faculty & Graduate Student Presentations at 2016 GSA Conference in San Diego, September 29 - October 2

Take a Germanic Department Faculty Member to Lunch

Ronald Bartlema's NOS Jeugdjournaal a Model for Childrens' News

Signe Karlström Event: Lars Norén Festival

Max Kade Visiting Author: Selim Özdoğan

Fulfill Requirements in the Germanic Department

Johanna Eriksson Named Collegiate Lecturer

Johannes von Moltke - The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America

Coming This Fall

Alice Goff: Michigan Society of Fellows Assistant Professor

Andrei Markovits Awarded

Faculty Publications

Saying "Yes" to Opportunities in Germany

4th Annual Open-Book Translation Contest

Department Awards Almost $50,000 of Summer Funding

Mapping Black Central Europe

Josh Brigham 2016 Memorial Scholarship

Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies 2016

What do U-M German faculty do in the summer?

"German skills are incredibly relevant."

Letter from the Chair

Fall 2016 Kothe-Hildner Prize Winners

Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit

16th Annual Werner Grilk Lecture: Helmut Lethen

Thurman Interviews Davies

Letter from the Chair

Faculty Research

Welcome Fall 2016 Graduate Student Cohort!

Research Snapshot at the Graduate Level

Congratulations, Graduates

U-M German Graduate Student Reunion

Annemarie Toebosch on Dutch Elections

Art & Revolution in 20th-Century Germany

2017 Phi Beta Kappa Nominees

Professor Andy Markovits Invited to Oxford Union

The Transnational Comics Studies Workshop

Max Kade Visiting Author: Selim Özdoğan

Wonen in Nederland

21st Annual De Vries – Van der Kooy Memorial Lecture with Ronald Bartlema

The Signe Karlström Event

The Museum of Vitreous Ecology

German 472 Students Translate Selim Özdoğan

Exhibit Commemorates 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

Transnational German Studies Workshop

Barndt’s Object Lessons in LSA Magazine

Departmental Awards

Congratulations, 2017 Graduates!

The Little Typewriter

Mozart's Magic Flute

Puff Awarded Collegiate Professorship

German PhD Alumni Block and Orozco Contribute to German Studies Review

Germanic Department Honored for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education

German Day 2017

Letter from the Chair

Toward a Critical Appreciation of Waiting

Discussions on Film Theory and Criticism

Music and Sound Studies

Objectivity/Launen der Sachlichkeit

Graduate Student Awards

Diversity and Tolerance

Scandinavian Program 2017

From Classroom Translation to Published Translation

Exhibit to Commemorate 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

Werner Grilk Lecture

From U-M German Student to U-M's German Librarian

German American Career Day

German-Speaking Research Assistant Needed

Hannah McMurray, PhD

Samuel Heidepriem, PhD

von Moltke Lectures at Deutsches Filmmuseum

Max Kade Vacancy

German Career Day

German Studies Association 2017 Conference

Elizabeth Nijdam, PhD

German Band Einshoch6 on US Tour

22nd De Vries - Van der Kooy Lecture

Nijdam Interviewed by LSA Magazine

Markovits Comments on Current Events

Andrei Markovits Presents Hillel Book

Apply to Live in Max Kade AY 2018-19!

Homecoming 2017

Einshoch6 Concert

$1,000 for Study in Freiburg

2018 Internship Funding Available

Letter from the Chair

Department Happenings

Curious Humanist Named 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cottrell Prize 2017

Learning from Living in Scandinavia

U-M Scandinavian Club

Thurman Awarded the Berlin Prize Fellowship

22nd Annual De Vries – Van der Kooy Memorial Lecture

IFK Fellows: Thurman and Dickinson

LSA Professor Wins Charles Bernheimer Prize

LSA Visiting Scholar Wins Dissertation Prizes

German PhD Students Commemorate Martin Luther King Day

Toebosch Publishes Article

Rottmann Community of Scholars Fellow

LSA Professors to Present at Dartmouth

LSA Professors IFK Fellows

LSA Professor and Graduate Student to Present at NeMLA

Exhibiting the Reformation

Thank you, Kathleen Canning!

Mediating the Modern

Welcome New Students!

2017 Photo Contest

German 346 - Media Matter

Hermann F. Weiss, Professor Emeritus

Holihan Receives Fellowship for Dissertation Research

LSA Professor Has Two Forthcoming Publications

2018 Vienna Experience

Hennessy Humanities Institute Graduate Student Fellow

Swedish Students in Sweden

Spring and Summer 2018 German Language Courses

LSA Professor Named Visiting International Professor

Fong Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Weineck Presents Research

LSA Visiting Faculty Elected to ASA Executive Board

McNeill Wins Sweetland Fellows Seminar Fellowship

Second-Year German Students Perform

Swedish Students Host Swedes

German Day 2018

Departmental Award of Excellence

Winter 2018 Swedish Student Celebrations

SWEA MAME Scholarship

Winter 2018 Kothe-Hildner Prize Winners

Congratulations, 2018 Graduates!

Departmental Awards

2018 German 336 German in Song Concert

German Students Named 2018-19 Fulbright Finalists

Spector Awarded Collegiate Professorship

Weineck on "Soccer"

6th Annual Open-Book Translation Contest

Visiting Scholar at SASS Conference

Hutter Receives Dissertation Fellowship

PhD Alumna to lead Renaissance Society of America

Singing Against the Grain

LSA Professor Silke-Maria Weineck Talks About Receiving Credit for Work

LSA Professor Julia Hell Publishes New Book

LSA Professor Silke-Maria Weineck Talks Free Speech

Professor Silke-Maria Weineck Interviewed for Podcasts

Professor Andrei S. Markovits at DLS Marbach

Professor Peter McIsaac Gave Lecture at Humboldt University in Berlin

Professor Andrei S. Markovits Honored by Leuphana University

Summer 2018 Letter from the Chair

Visiting Scholars Focus

Visiting Scholars Focus

Visiting Scholars Focus

Visiting Scholars Focus

LSA Professor Scott Spector Publishes New Book

LSA Professor Johannes von Moltke Named Freiburg Institute Fellow

Graduate Student Focus

What's in an Honors Thesis?

German Comics? Ja! Oui! Sì!

Staying Connected

Scandinavian Studies

Remembering Hansjörg Schelle

LSA German Professors Published

Toebosch Publishes Article

LSA Professor McIsaac to Present at Vanderbilt

Graduate Student Interviewed by JFDA

German Alumni Panel

Rottmann to Present at IRWG Community of Scholars Symposium

Elizabeth McNeill Wins Best Graduate Student Essay Award

U-M Faculty and Graduate Students to Present at German Studies Association Conference

Holihan to Present at Legacies of the Enlightenment Workshop

Giving Blueday 2018

Winter 2019 Max Kade Vacancies

LSA Professor Honored at "Andyfest"

Johannes von Moltke's Co-Edited Book Published

Letter from the Chair

Letter from Freiburg

Eardrums: Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

Hartmut Rastalsky Named Collegiate Lecturer

Careers for Students of German

Student Photo Contest

German Film Series

Nic Heckner, PhD

Welcome, New Students!

Staying Connected

Congratulations to Kathryn Sederberg!

Congratulations to Ela Gezen!

Dutch Memorial Day

Scandinavian Studies

Mary Crichton, Professor Emerita

Ferdinand Schmalz Reads "canned meat” (“dosenfleisch”)

The Time of the Antechamber: A History of Waiting

Habsburg Zionisms Between East and West

German Certificate Student Wins 2018 Carter Manny Award

Kracauer's Propaganda in the Post Truth Era

‘White Rebels in Black’: An Interview with Priscilla Layne

Spring and Summer 2019 German Language Courses

Spring/Summer 2019 Scholarships

CfP: Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment

Karuç Presents at Conference

U-M Confers More Undergraduate Degrees in German Than Any Other U.S. Institution

Graduate Students Present at 2018 GDGSA Conference

Hennessy Publishes Article

LSA Professor Contributes to MLA, GSA, and DAAD

Graduate Students Win Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

German Day 2019

Markovits Interviewed

Toebosch Publishes Article

Mapping Black Germany

German Students "Protest"

Congratulations, 2019 Graduates!

Departmental Awards

Gailus Wins 2019 John Dewey Award

Brunssen Presents at International Conferences

von Moltke to Give Berlin Program GSA Distinguished Lecture

von Moltke's Berlin Program GSA Distinguished Lecture

PhD Sneak Peek Event

U-M Faculty and Graduate Students Presented at German Studies Association Conference

Giving Blueday 2019

Translating Anti-Racism

Emily Gauld awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Naomi Vaughan successfully defends dissertation

Lauren Beck awarded DAAD and Fulbright grants

Katy Holihan awarded Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Emma Thomas successfully defends dissertation

Publication Announcement

Seda to join the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies as a research fellow

Max Kade Grant from the American Friends of Marbach

Emma Thomas Wins U-M History Department’s Dissertation Prize

Black Lives Matter

Transcending Borders to Global Authorship

Was Beethoven Black?

Reverend Jesse Jackson calls the Netherlands on its anti-Black racism

U-M German Department Featured in Journal

Are We Hearing A Crescendo of Anti-Racism in Classical Music?

When Marian Anderson Defied the Nazis

Reparations Gone Wrong

Congratulations on your retirement, Janet Hegman Shier!

Emma Thomas Awarded Dissertation Prize

Remaking the German Studies Curriculum: A Diversifying Approach

Andrea wins second dissertation award

Dutch and Flemish Studies featured in recent Litnet article

PhD candidate Pavel Brunssen published by Heidelberg University Press

PhD candidate Veronica Williamson's virtual exhibit now live

City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit

Assistant Professor Kira Thurman on PBS's American Experience

Professor Silke-Maria Weineck awarded two book prizes

German faculty and alum among finalists for 2019 German Book Prize

In-Person International Experience Notice

Katy Holihan awarded ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Yom HaShoah Address

Time Travel with Typewriters

Kira Thurman NYT Article: When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear

Pavel Brunssen: Keynote Lecture at "Changing the Chants" Conference

Announcing the Public Humanities Internship Program for Undergraduate Students

Photography Exhibit: Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund

Apply to live in Max Kade House!

2022 Summer Language Institute

German Teaching Information Session

An Interview with Annemarie Toebosch: academic, activist, and human being

The Future of U-M's Dutch Program

Old Typewriters, New Tricks

German Outreach Program

Helmut Puff delivers inaugural lecture as Collegiate Professor

Dutch King’s “Apology” for Colonial Slavery Is an Erasure of History

German Day 2021

Vielfalt gewinnt'— Exploring the theme of diversity in German society and beyond!

German Day 2022

Where is Anne Frank Film Screening with Ari Folman

German Day 2023

Remembering Ton Broos

In Memoriam: Dr. Renata de Bies

UM Alum Maureen Thomas accepted to 2024-2025 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals program

Detroit's Olympic Uprising Documentary Released

Von Moltke Sheds Light on the "Metapolitics" of the New Right

Cho-Polizzi Wins Wolff Translator's Prize

Zafer Şenocak, Turkish-German Poet, Visits Department as the 2024 Max Kade Writer-in-Residence

Kira Thurman named 2016/17 Eisenberg Faculty Fellow

Recent Successes by German Graduate Students

U-M in Helsingborg, Sweden!

Emma Thomas receives IRWG Graduate Student Research Award -Congratulations!

Congratulations to Abby Weisberger, who will attend Leo Baeck Summer University

Silke-Maria Weineck wins MLA's Scaglione Prize

Mary Hennessy wins Essay Prize

Andrei Markovits receives U-M Press Book Award

UM German Faculty and Grad Students @ GSA Washington DC, Oct. 1-4, 2015

Alexandra Trecha named DAAD Young Ambassador for 2015/16

Congratulations to Will Morgan!

Peter McIsaac publishes Exhibiting the German Past, co-edited with Gabriele Mueller

Johannes von Moltke receives 2015 LSA John Dewey Award

Summer Office Hours!

Graduation Photos Available!

Hannah McMurray has been awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2015-2016

Recent and Upcoming Talks by Faculty and Grad Students

Silke-Maria Weineck of Germanic Languages and Literatures to Chair Faculty Governance System

Hannah McMurray Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor

Kathryn Sederberg to Join TCU Faculty This Fall

Kathryn Sederberg receives Honorable Mention for Dissertation

Summer Language Institute - Apply now!

Andrea Rottmann lobbies successfully for LGBTQ in DC

31st Annual German Day on 3/13: REGISTER NOW!

Department News

German Film Institute

Global Engagement of Scandinavian Program

Silke Weineck Editor of Absinthe

Sara Jackson - 2014 WIG Dissertation Prize Winner

Archived Events

Graduation Reception

German in Song End-of-Semester Concert

Alamanya Talk by Ipek A. Celik Rappas "In Permanent Crisis: Refugees from European Media to Cinema"

Colloquium Series with German Comics Scholar Dr. Christian Klein

Colloquium Series: Humanities PhD Careers Panel

Colloquium Series "Brains: Forms of Life in German Modernism"

Cynthia Epler (German, Class of 1999) Lunch

Cynthia Epler (German, Class of 1999) - Career Talk

Cynthia Epler (German, Class of 1999) - Defense Intelligence Agency Information Session

German Department Information Session

The Author's Forum presents: A Conversation with Silke-Maria Weineck & Jonathan Freedman

German Department Information Session

Alamanya Workshop: FREE Film Screening

Colloquium Series "The Color of Vowels: Synthesia and Physiology in Aesthetics, 1850-1900"

Colloquium Series - Author reading from "Neue Leben" novel

Colloquium Series - Author reading from "Contrapunctus" novel

German Department Information Sessions

German Department Information Session

Colloquium Series "Mise-en-scene, Mood, Milieu: Stimmung as Compositional Principle"

Colloquium Series "Germany and the Refugee Crisis in Europe - A Prognosis for 2016"

Colloquium Series "Stepping onto the Pedestal: The Silence of Art in Napoleonic Prussia"

Fall 2015 Signe Karlström Event - Sibelius and Contemporaries

Vox Popular: The Surprising Life of Language in the Media

Max Kade Open House

Stefan Szymanski and Silke-Maria Weineck Reading

Lecture: From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion

2015 Graduate Student Conference Chronopolis: Time & Urban Space

Annual Grilk Lecture ~ The Metropolitan Miniature: Theory and Literary Practice

DeVries-VanderKooy Memorial Lecture ~ Building Cross-Cultural Bridges

89/90: A Look back at German Unification

Professor George Steinmetz Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture

The Invention and Inversion of the German National Landscape by Jewish Filmmakers 1918-1968

The Cut - MICHIGAN PREMIERE at the Cinetopia Film Festival

German Film Institute "The Futures of the Past: German Cinema and Its Media"

2015 German Department Commencement Reception

Colloquium Series - Kathleen Canning "Gender and the Imaginary of Revolution in Germany, 1918-19"

Colloquium Series - Anna-Carola Krausse "Alternative Horizons. GDR Art in the Shadow of Socialist Realism"

German Department Open House - Course Previews for Fall 2015

Annual Signe Karlström Event

Colloquium Series - William Rasch "Carl Schmitt's Defense of Democracy"

German in Song End-of-Semester Concert

Information Session about the German Major/Minor

Sound and Memory in Antifascist Commemorative Music

Michigan Theater: "Diplomacy", a film by Volker Schlöndorff (director of The Tin Drum)

Transit/ions: Interdisciplinary Forum of Undergrad and Grad Student Research on Multicultural and Multilingual Dimensions

19th Annual DeVries-Vanderkooy Memorial Lecture

Signe Karlström

Sneak Preview - Graduate Work in German Studies

Annual Grilk Lecture

Introduction to the German Major/Minor

Introduction to the German Major/Minor

Max Kade Open House

Winter 2015 Open House

Graduation Reception

Annual Signe Karlström Event

Annual Signe Karlström Event

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Guest Lecture - "Die Entdeckung neuer Räume: Der Spatial Turn in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur"

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Guest Lecture - "Show Time: Poetics and Politics of Temporality in Contemporary History Museums"

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Guest Lecture - "Breeding a Better Man: French and German Enlightenment Thinkers and Their Dreams of the Perfect Society"

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Guest Lecture - "Crowds and Democracy: Understanding the Shapelessness of German Collectives"

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Guest Lecture - "Monumental Memory, Moral Superiority, and Contemporary Disconnects"

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Open House

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Werner Grilk Annual Lecture

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

SCECH Workshop for High School Teachers of German

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Wiener Takes All (The Austrian Experience)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Max Kade Haus German Table (Deutschtisch)

Max Kade Haus Coffee Hour (Kaffeestunde)

Honor Thesis Presentations

Workshop - "Mimesis & Literary Activism: Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street"

Lecture - "Montage & Storytelling in Weimar Germany"

Guest Lecture - "Singing the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Weimar Culture, and the German Translation of African American Modernism"

29th Annual German Day

Guest Lecture - "Photographic Modern Architecture and the 'Bauhaus-Debatte,' 1945-1953"

Cool Concentrations Hangout

Guest Lecture - "Politics, Community, and Loss in Post-War Heilbronn"

Guest Lecture - "Engineers' Philosophy: Technical, Intellectual, and Social Elits in Germany during the Second Industrial Revolution (1890-1930)

Academic Year in Freiburg 2013/14

Guest Lecture - "Marx, Temporality, and Modernity"

Guest Lecture - "Cosmopolitan Women"

Cultural Vistas Sustainability Fellowship 2013

German-American Hall of Fame Student Scholarship Essay Contest

Interships for the Salzburg Medical Seminars

Cultural Vistas: Summer Intership Application

German Club - Stammtisch

Joggen auf Deutsch

Swedish Lecture Series - "August Strindberg's Turbulent Life"

Swedish Lecture Series - "Nina's Journey"

Werner Grilk Annual Lecture - "The Sovereignty Effect"

Signe Karlstrom Event -"Finnish National Romantics: Sibelius and Madetoja in Concert"

Guest Lecture - "Performing Resistance/Resisting Performance"

Film Screening - "To Be Or Not To Be"

Graduate Student Conference - "Hauntings"

Graduate Student Conference - "Hauntings"

Guest Lecture - "The Present Tense Novel and (Its) History"

German Chancellor Fellowship for Prospective Leaders 2013-2014

5th Annual German-American Career Day

Study-Abroad Program in Tübingen (Winter '13)

EMGIP - Bundestag Internship

Fulbright 2013/2014 - Research or Teaching Abroad

Sommer Deutschklub

Sommer Deutschklub

Sommer Deutschklub

3-12 Month Internship Opportunities at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

Sommer Deutschklub

Sommer Deutschklub

Fulbright Information Sessions

Sommer Deutschklub

Fulbright Information Sessions

Sommer Deutschklub

Sommer Deutschklub

German American Chamber of Commerce, Chicago

International Parliamentary Scholarships (IPS)

Sommer Deutschklub

Sommer Deutschklub

Sommer Deutschklub

Sommer Deutschklub

<i>Abschied (So sind die Menschen)</i> (1930)

<i>Die Welt ohne Maske / The World Without a Mask</i> (1934)

<i>Der ewige Traum</i> (1934)

<i>Gold (1934)</i>

<i>Das Stahltier</i> (1934)

<i>Ewiger Wald</i> (1936)

<i>Die Tochter des Samurai</i> (1936)

<i>Der Choral von Leuthen</i> (1933)

<i>Niemandsland</i> (1931)

<i>Ein Mann will nach Deutschland</i> (1934)

<i>Ein Mensch ohne Namen</i> (1932)

<i>Der Schuss im Tonfilmatelier</i> (1930)

<i>Razzia in St. Pauli</i> (1932)

<i>Verräter / Traitor </i> (1936)

<i>Großstadtschmetterling</i> (1929)

<i>Polizeibericht Überfall</i> (1929)

<I>April, April!</i> (1935)

<i>Die verliebte Firma</i> (1932)

<i>Ein blonder Traum</i> (1932)

Arm wie eine Kirchenmaus (1931)

<i>Lohnbuchhalter Kremke</I> (1930)

<i>Jenseits der Strasse</i> (1929)

<i>Zwei Welten</i> (1929)

<i>Hunger in Waldenburg</i> (1929)

<i>Cyankali </I> (1930)

<i>Mutter Krausens Fahrt in Glück</i>(1929)

<i>Sprengbagger 1010 (1929)</i> / Blast Excavator 1010

<i>Der Kaiser von Kalifornien / The Emperor of California (1936)</i>

<I>F. P. 1 antwortet nicht / F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer (1932)</I>

Opening Reception

U-M Institute for the Humanities

3-12 Month Internship Opportunities at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin

Internships at German American Chamber of Commerce

Application Deadline

Sabine Meyer and the Trio di Clarone

DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship to Germany 2012/2013

Journalism Internship Program in Berlin

RISE: Research Internships in Science and Engineering in Germany

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

Hamburg Symphony Orchestra presents

U.S. English Language Teaching Assistantship Program

German Undergraduate Student Advisory Board

Academic Year in Freiburg 2012/2013

'World on a Wire'

Young Executives Club (German American Chamber of Commerce)

Max Kade German Residence Program 2012/2013

International Post-Graduate Trainee Program with ZF

Salzburg Medical Seminars Internships

Max Kade Kaffeestunde, Deutschtische, Filmabende

Graduate Student Instructor Position

Young Executives Club (German American Chamber of Commerce)

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals

Max Kade Open House

Annual Karlstr??m Event presents

Erotic Photography and the Optics of Queer Desire During the Sexual Revolution

16th Annual DeVries-Van der Kooy Memorial Lecture1

16th Annual DeVries-Van der Kooy Memorial Lecture

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK: Banquet

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK: Video Contest

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK: Film Screening

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK: Film Screening1

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK: Game Night

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK: Working Abroad

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK; Visual Arts Gala

Careers and Internships with German Companies

GERMAN LANGUAGE WEEK: Essay Contest

??migr?? Memorial German Internship Program at German State Parliament

Second Annual Soccer Euro Cup

Bosch's Professional Development Training Program

Visual Arts Contest

Max Kade Kaffeestunde

Career Opportunities Panel

Kleist Ancient and Modern

One Semester Study-Abroad Program in T??bingen (Winter 2012)

DAAD ??migr?? Memorial German Internship Program EMGIP - Bundestag 2012

Young Technology Leaders: Water Management

3-12 Month Internship Opportunities at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin1

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions

DAAD Young Ambassadors Program

Internship Opportunities for German Students in Berlin

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Jacques Ranci??re presents "Aesthetics, Politics, Performance"

German Club Meeting

Internship Funding 2011 through the German Department

Internship Funding 2011 Through German Department

Michigan Language and Word Association1

External Threat - Internal Cohesion: an Ancient Remedy for Decadence1

External Threat - Internal Cohesion: an Ancient Remedy for Decadence

PANEL DISCUSSION: WHY COMPARE?

German Underground Music 1

German Club Meeting1

Michigan Language and Word Association1

Goethe Institut Spring/Summer 2011

German Studies Colloquium 2011

German Underground Music

German Club Meeting1

Annual Grilk Lecture 2011

Center for International & Comparative Studies (CICS)

German (Advising) Information Sessions

LSA Concentration Fair

Michigan Language and Word Association

2011 CES-EUC Summer Research and Internship Grants

LSA Language Fair

Summer Internship Opportunity with DAAD New York

Internship for the Salzburg Medical Seminars International at Schloss Arenberg

German Underground Music1

German Club Meeting

College of Engineering International Internship Scholarship

Michigan Language and Word Association

German Underground Music

German Club Meeting

Michigan Language and Word Association1

International Post-Graduate Trainee Program

DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship 2011/2012

Research Internships in Science and Engineering

2011 Honors Summer Fellows Program

German Underground Music

Was Socialist Realism Avant-Garde?

Eyyep Murat Ozyuksel

Max Kade Residence

Global Education Fair

Objects as Texts: Reading Nydia

Charles G. Koch Internship Program1

Internship for the Salzburg Medical Seminars International

AESTHETICS: A Mini-Conference

Thursday Deutschtisch

Information Sessions for Internships with Investment Banks1

RC Deutsches Theater presents

Information Sessions for Internships with Investment Banks1

Tuesday Kaffeestunde

German Lab and German Conversation Hours: Kaffeestunde1

German-style Christmas market

Thursday Deutschtisch1

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals1

CDS Summer Internship Program in Germany 2011

March - August 2011 Internship

Tuesday Kaffeestunde1

Max-Kade House Openings (W11)

German Lab and German Conversation Hours: Kaffeestunde1

Tuesday Kaffeestunde1

German Lab and German Conversation Hours: Kaffeestunde

Jewish Studies Faculty Colloquium

Thursday Deutschtisch

Work Abroad Programs 2011 <b>Information Session</b>

Tuesday Kaffeestunde

Special Advising Session: Course Selections Winter 2011

Information Sessions for Internships with Investment Banks1

German Lab and German Conversation Hours: Kaffeestunde1

German Club! German Slang

GEF??HLSWELTEN: Affect, Culture, Community [Thurs & Fri Conference]

Graduate Student Conference; Gef??hlswelten: Affect, Community, Culture

GEF??HLSWELTEN Conference, Keynote Address

Thursday Deutschtisch1

Information Sessions for Internships with Investment Banks

Information Sessions for Internships with Investment Banks1

Tuesday Kaffeestunde1

German Lab and German Conversation Hours: Kaffeestunde1

Thursday Deutschtisch

Tuesday Kaffeestunde

German Lab and German Conversation Hours: Kaffeestunde1

Soccer Tournament:

Challenges of Managing Conflict in Today???s World

How to Learn a Foreign Language

The Business of Writing:

Global Education Program Fair

Mobility and Jewish Studies

Book Signing: Professors Markovits and Rensmann

Information Session About German Major and Minor

One Semester Study-Abroad Program in T??bingen

Internship: Salzburg Medical Seminars International at Schloss Arenberg

Student Panel for New Instructor Workshop

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions

International Parliamentary Scholarships Program at the German Bundestag

Transatlantic Program:

DAAD Young Ambassador Program

The Graduate School Experience: Fellowships for Advanced Undergraduates Majoring in German

Fulbright Information Sessions1

"How Green is Germany": A Quiz

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions1

Fulbright Information Sessions1

North Face (2008)

EUC Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe

The Origins of European Pluralism

Max Kade Movie Night 4/20

Summer Internship Opportunities

Heinz Prechter Scholarship

German Coffee Hour

North Face (2008)1

Film: The White Ribbon (2008)1

Book Launch & Signing

Film: The White Ribbon (2008)

Film: The White Ribbon (2008)

Film: The White Ribbon (2008)

German Coffee Hour1

GSC 2010: Oedipus Pater: Fatherhood and the City

The Magic Flute1

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra

The Magic Flute

Max Kade Movie Night 4/06

German Coffee Hour

GSC 2010: ???Ein Totenbuch des Ich???

Walter and Florence E. Aupperle Scholarship

GSC 2010: B??la Bal??zs and the Fairy-Tale Close-up

Bronson-Thomas Essay Prize

German Coffee Hour

Summer Internship Funding Through German Department

Debjani Ganguly presents

Tanner Lecture on Human Values

GSC 2010: Literary Worlds after 1989:

Max Kade Movie Night 3/23

German (Advising) Information Session1

German Coffee Hour1

Goethe-Institut Student

GSC 2010: Publishing Workshop

LSA Language Fair1

LSA Concentration Fair

Funding for Student Summer Internships 2010 Through CICS

Teaching Assistance for Kindergarteners at the Deutsche Schule Ann Arbor

357: Tutoring High-School German Students

German (Advising) Information Session

German Coffee Hour

GSC 2010: Herta M??ller???s Atemschaukel (Discussion)

Academic Year in Freiburg 2010/2011

College of Engineering International Internship Scholarship 2010

Max Kade Movie Night 3/09

German Coffee Hour1

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL): Internship Program

German Coffee Hour

Charles G. Koch - Charitable Foundation - Summer Internship Program

German Table Dinner

Max-Kade House End-of-Term Party

Rethinking European Urbanism for the 21st Century

Three Penny Opera

Coffee Hour (German)

German Table Dinner

Plus ??a change? The Romanian Revolution of 1989 and its Aftermath

LSA Collegiate Chair Inaugural Lecture

Max-Kade House Movie Night 12/8

Coffee Hour (German)1

Charles G. Koch Internship Program

German Table Dinner

CDS Summer Internship Program in Germany 2010

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program for Young Professionals

Coffee Hour (German)1

Vienna Boys Choir

German Table Dinner

Max-Kade House Movie Night 11/24

Special Advising Session

Coffee Hour (German)

Digital Audio-Video Jam Session

Freedom Without Walls!

German Table Dinner1

Freedom Without Walls!1

Special Advising Session

CDS Summer Internship Programs Info Session

Berliner Philharmoniker

'Fall der Mauer':

Fall of the Wall Panel Discussion

Coffee Hour (German)1

Freedom Without Walls!1

Lexia Visual Culture / Dance and Culture Study Abroad

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Freedom Without Walls!1

The Signe Karlstrom Event: Festen 2009

Un/Building the GDR: Four Films Twenty Years After 1989

Freedom Without Walls!1

German Table Dinner

Max-Kade House Movie Night 11/10

The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 Years of Reconstruction and Reconciliation

Coffee Hour (German)

Albrecht Diem lecture

Un/Building the GDR: Four Films Twenty Years After 1989

German Table Dinner1

Coffee Hour (German)

EMGIP - Bundestag Internship (Deadline)

Stammtisch - German Club

Max-Kade House Movie Night 9/29

German Club at University of Michigan: Fundraiser

Coffee Hour (German)1

Faculty Research Assistant

German Table Dinner

Vanessa Agnew receives Kenshur Book Prize!

Coffee Hour (German)1

Idealism Matters

German Table Dinner

9s Conversations on Europe

Coffee Hour (German)

German Table Dinner

German Placement Test Schedule1

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

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ThyssenKrupp Steel Internship Application Deadline

German Placement Test Schedule

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German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

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Volunteer Your English Skills in Ann Arbor

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German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule1

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule

German Placement Test Schedule1

German Placement Test Schedule

Fulbright Information Sessions [May]

German Studies Colloquium: Mika Lavaque-Manty

Teaching Assistantships [deadline]

DAAD Ug Scholarships [Deadline]

UROP [deadline]

Summer Journalism in Berlin [deadline]

Research Internships in Science & Engineering [deadline]

German Studies Colloquium: Mike Layne & David Choberka

What's Love Got to Do With It? The Dialectic of Narcissism in Kleist's Penthesilea and Kaetchen

Schott Summer Internship [Deadline]

Summer Internship

USA-Interns Program [Deadline]

Visit to Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills

CDS Work Abroad Programs 2009 (info sessions)

Special Advising Session (Course Selections, Study Abroad, etc.)

Szenen & Lieder aus deutschen Dramen

Graduate Student Conference "Examining the Avant Garde", Oct 16-17

German-American Career Day 2008

Study Abroad Fair

Advising Session

German Film Institute Public Schedule

Two of our GSI's Win Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards

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Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies

Transnational German Studies Workshop

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