German Theater: Woyzeck
Dec. 3 & 4, 2009
Holiday Party
Dec. 10, 2009
Mini Seminars:
Metamorphoses -
Franz Kafka and Jeremias Gotthelf
An Evening with Herta Mueller:
Students and Faculty Readings
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Monday,
November 16, 3:30pm, Lovejoy 450.
Round-table discussion of Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis." This mini seminar is open to all interested students. Contact Cyrus Shahan (cshahan) for further information and/or links to digital texts.
Friday,
November 6, 4:00p, Lovejoy 4th Floor.
A celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.Student
and faculty designs of Wall 'pieces' will be used to rebuild our unique version of
the Berlin Wall before a ceremonious tearing down of this symbol of division and
the Cold War.
Awards for best artwork:
Peter Thompson '11 (Most authentic) /
Tory Gray '11(Most creative) /
Jack Lewis and Mallory Livingston '12 (Most 'It').
Tuesday,
November 3, 7:00pm, Diamond 122.
Discussion of the fall of the Berlin Wall and its implications from a
variety of disciplinary angles, including economy, philosophy, government,
history and cultural studies. Panelists will shared personal reflections and
comment on developments and shifts in their respective disciplines.
Lydia Moland, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Raffael Scheck, Professor of History
Cyrus Shahan, Assistant Professor of German
Andreas Waldkirch, Assistant Professor of Economics
Jennifer Yoder, Associate Professor of Government and International
Studies
Moderated by: Arne Koch, Assistant Professor of German
Co-sponsored with the Goldfarb Center. A reception follows immediately after the roundtable.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 7:00pm in Pugh
Language Assistants and their students once again performed
outstanding German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and
Chinese songs. Those familiar with the annual Eurovision Song Contest could not wait for this exciting evening in which the Japanese team just barely edged the defending champions, the German team. Outstanding performances and choreography were topped off by desserts prepared by faculty and Language assistants.
The German team's version of "Deutschland" by Die Prinzen was quite the hit. See the video HERE.
Friday, October 2, 2009.
Majors and minors got together at Professor Koch's home for an evening of board games and desserts away from campus. This semester's Scrabble winner: Susie Hufstader.
Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 10:30 a.m., Fairchild Room in Dana Dining Hall.
Family Weekend! Students of German, family and friends please join the
German Faculty for brunch and hear what's new in German Studies.All films screened with English subtitled.
17 September Das Versprechen/The Promise (Dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 1995)
1 October Stilles Land/Silent Country (Dir. Andreas Dresen, 1992)
15 October Schaut auf diese Stadt/Look at this City (Dir. Karl Gass, 1962)
29 October Das Leben der Anderen/The Life of the Others (Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
12 November Gegenbilder/Counterimages (GDR Underground Films 1983-1989)
3 December Good bye, Lenin! (Dir. Wolfgang Becker, 2003)
Time: 7pm / Lovejoy 213 / Questions? Email: mvonhoff
Friday,
September 11, 2009, 3:00 - 5:00 pm, German & Russian
Department, 4th floor, Lovejoy.
Please stop by and meet new
students, our new Language Assistant, Donata, and faculty, and welcome those who
returned from a semester or a year of studying in
Germany.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 12:30-2:30pm - As part of this year's tutorial and German AT program,
Professors Koch and Shahan met with prospective German ATs and our Language
Assistant, Donata, to prepare for their tutorial and teaching assignments for the year. Susie Hufstader '12 will be accompanying first- and Josh Cornell '10 and Micha Hempel '11 second-semester German, while our LA from Louisenlund, Germany, Donata, will be working with upper-level students on her two one-hour conversation classes.
Check out what Meredith Fast's '11 summer research assistantship helped produce and how James Violette '11 kept busy this summer researching narrative sequencing in the liberal arts German curriculum!
Congratulations to Kate Dutcher (German Studies Major), Justin Mohler (German Literature Major), and Nicole Veilleux (German Minor, all three, Class of 2009) who have all been awarded Fulbright Teaching Assistantships to Germany for 2009-10. Nicole and Justin also each received an Austrian Fulbright for the year. The awardees have yet to hear about their destinations in Germany, however Justin will be spending his year teaching in Graz, Austria. We all congratulate Justin, Kate, and Nicole to their achievements and are proud to highlight that this year three out of four Fulbrights awarded to Colby students went to German students.
For more information on Colby's
Fulbright success, read the official
press release.
Monday, September 07, 2009, 9:30 am - 11:00 am, Lovejoy 205
Placement is determined by test score.
A score of
20 - 45 places a student in GM 125
46 - 53 in GM 126 54 - 61 in GM 127
62 - 63 in GM 127 or GM 128
64 - 80 please meet with faculty for placement and advice
The placement test at Colby is a written test, and does not include a speaking and listening comprehension section.
Please join the German faculty in congratulating the graduating seniors and their families on Saturday, May, 23, 2009 in the Department of German & Russian on the fourth floor of the Lovejoy building. Immediately following the Baccalaureate.
Certificates for outstanding achievements in German and book prizes,
sponsored by the German Consulate General in Boston, were presented at the
department's annual End-of-the-Year-Celebration that included, once again, a
fierce volleyball match of Germans vs.
Russians! CLICK on the winning team below.
Beginning German: Jack Lewis '12, David Oxnard
'12
Intermediate German: Sarah Flanagan '12, Lizzy Schneider
Advanced German: Susie Hufstader '12, James Violette '11, Samuel Morales '09, Nicole Veilleux '09
Graduating Seniors: Kate Dutcher '09, Sommer Engels '09, Justin Mohler '09
The Harrington Putnam
German Prize: Meredith Fast '11
Congratulations to
all!
Thursday, May 7, 2009, AMS Party Room
4:00
pm Volleyball Match - Germans vs. Russians
5:00 pm Barbecue: Bratwurst,
Sauerkraut and Kartoffelsalat
5:30 Student Awards
Come celebrate student achievements and join us in a farewell to our Language Assistant Ranja Radwan.
Thursday and Friday, April
30-May 01, 2009 in Hurd Room (Roberts)
Kate Dutcher '09, Sommer Engels '09, Justin Mohler '09, and Nicole Veilleux '09 each gave a presentation on their ongoing senior research topics as part of the German Studies Senior Seminar on "Identities and Ideologies". Sei Harris '10 (on the Krautrock band Faust) and Matt von Vogt '10 (on the group films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder) also presented their research findings that they had developed over the past year in their respective independent study projects. Titles and abstracts can be found in the
online
program of the symposium.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in Given Auditiorim at 7:00
pm
A selection of songs, skits, monologues and poems of some of the GREATEST Cabaretists of ALL times, along with an ORIGINAL piece performed by Colby's German students. All performances will be in German, English translations will be provided. The program and list of participants can be found here. And here's what the Colby Echo had to say about it!
Thursday, April 16, 2009 in Diamond 242 at 12:00 pm
Arne Koch will give a presentation entitled "Fatih Akin and the Transnationalims of the New German Cinema" in conjunction with the International Studies program's faculty luncheon series. Everyone is welcome to atttend.
Saturday, April 12, 2009 at 6:00 pm in Mary Low Coffee House in Hurd Room (Roberts)
Join Ranja and our special musical guests from Germany, Luch MC, for what will likely become a regular German Musik Jam Session. Everyone is invited. To listen. To join in. To jam.
Saturday, April 04, 2009, 8 am-11pm, Pugh Center
Come join the German Club, Ranja and faculty in a Marathon Screening of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's classic 15 1/2-hour television adaptation from 1980 of Alfred Döblin's landmark novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). 
Bring your PJs, pillows, blankets, and whatever munchies you may need to face a filmic challenge like no other!
Tuesday, February 12, 2009
Ralf Saborrosch, Director of the Lewis & Clark program in Munich,
will meet with students who have expressed an interest in studying in
Munich. Over the years, Ralf has guided many Colby students in their
study-abroad year in Munich.
Check out the adventures of German Studies major James Violette '11 who is spending his January in northern Germany as an intern and English Language Assistant at one of Germany's leading private high schools.
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 4:30 pm in the Pugh Center.
Please join us for the annual Holiday Party of the German & Russian Department. Come for delicious German and Russian sweets and sing along with students from all classes and members from the community. Frohe Weihnachten!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Dr. Antonia Gohr and Iris Heine, both from the Jakobs University in Bremen, will offer an informational session for interested students outlining some of the exchange possibilities for study abroad terms in Bremen.
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2008, 2:00pm in Lovejoy 207 - Information session on this year's German and Austrian Fulbright research and teaching competitions as well as the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) funding opportunities. Previously successful applications will be discussed.
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