The mandatory German Placement Exam will be available online from January 6-January 13, 2022.
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With the support of a Penn Undergraduate Mentored Research Program grant, Professor Simon Richter, Becky Lee, Jenesis Cochrane, and Justine Seo created an animated video about the remarkable fact that many Dutch people, including some Dutch agencies, don’t really know.

A few years ago, Liliane Weissberg organized a conference that considered this question here at Penn. The project has developed further, and turned into a book.

As of July 1st, Ian Fleishman has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. He continues to serve as Graduate Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures and as a member of the core faculty of Cinema & Media Studies.

On July 5, Liliane Weissberg will present the Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (per zoom). This is the first event of an annual cooperation between Dresden and the American Academy in Berlin.

He was the son of one of Berlin's wealthiest bankers and merchants, a student of Lessing and Mendelssohn, a dealer in silver and coins, a factory owner who employed poor Jewish lace workers from the Eastern territories, and an author of economic treatises.

In Fall 2020, Hannah Arendt’s German publisher, Piper Verlag, has begun to reissue Arendt’s works in a new Studienausgabe, supervised by Thomas Meyer.

Recent Penn PhD Erika Kontulainen has an article on "Landscape and Memory in Theodor Fontane's Works" in the current volume of Colloquia Germanica, a special issue dedicated to Fontane in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth last year. 

Although usually understood as a "European" event, the Holocaust also resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of Jews born in the Muslim world of the Ottoman Empire (e. g., today's Greece).