At the annual meeting at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, five new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the American Friends of Marbach, the American group of supporters of the German Literary Archives at Marbach (DLA).
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American-Hungarian Philosopher Àgnes Heller to receive the 2019 Nietzsche Prize. The Jury Selected Liliane Weissberg to Present the Laudatio
August 19, 2019Àgnes Heller, a prolific political philosopher and former student of Georg Lukàcs, has been elected to receive the prominent 2019 Nietzsche Prize.
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Rudi Weissenstein Exhibit Has Opened at the Villa Grisebach, Berlin; Liliane Weissberg Offered Opening Talk
August 19, 2019Art historian Sarah Hadda has curated an exhibition of Rudi Weissenstein's photographs for the distinguished gallery and auction house Villa Grisebach in Berlin.
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Isabella Cuan ’18 Publishes Berlin Essay in the German Studies Review
August 19, 2019In Fall 2017, Isabella Cuan, a BIBB major and Art History minor, took Liliane Weissberg’s class on “Berlin: History, Politics, Culture.” Isabella wrote a superb term paper on Third Reich photographic journalism.
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Liliane Weissberg has been awarded the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin
May 8, 2019Liliane Weissberg is a 2019-20 recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize. These awards are offered annually to a small group of American artists, writers, scholars, journalists, and politicians who will spend one semester at the Arnhold villa at the Wannsee where they will live and do rese
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Dr. Sonia Gollance (Penn PhD '17) has accepted a multi-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University
April 30, 2019Dr. Sonia Gollance (Penn PhD '17) has accepted a multi-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University, where she will be revitalizing the Yiddish program.
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Kittler and the Human(ities) conference a success
April 12, 2019On March 28 and 29, the Department of Germanic Langauges and Literatures hosted the Kittler and the Human(ities) conference centered on the theme of the shifting legacy of Friedrich Kittler's thought and German Media Theory today.
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Liliane Weissberg Curated an Exhibition in Frankfurt/M in 2013. Today, the Exhibit is in the Media again.
April 5, 2019In 2013, Liliane Weissberg curated the exhibition “Juden. Geld. Eine Vorstellung” at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt/M. The exhibit proved to be the most successful show in the Museum’s history, and was reviewed widely in newspapers, on radio, and television.
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Liliane Weissberg will join Penn’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in Fall 2019
March 26, 2019Liliane Weissberg has been named the Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow at Penn’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
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Didem Uca has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor of German position
March 14, 2019We are pleased to announce that Penn German grad student Didem Uca has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor of German position at Colgate University for 2019-2021.