In 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.

Liliane Weissberg has been named the Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow at Penn’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

We 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.

Penn German PhD Matt Handelman has published his first book, entitled The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory.

Penn Professor Ian Fleishman's essay, "The World Unspoken: Kleist, Kafka, McCarthy," appeared in the most recent volume of Comparative Literature Studies, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press.

Freya Zhou is a junior in the College majoring in German and cinema studies.

Didem Uca (PhD Candidate, ABD) was elected to serve a three-year term on the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Women in German. Didem has been involved in the organization since 2013 and has been the Social Media Coordinator since 2014.

Penn Prof Simon Richter and Carl Niekerk (U of Illinois) co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Dutch Literature. The issue focuses on Margins and Contact Zones: 500 Years of Dutch-German Cultural Interaction.

Sonia Gollance (PhD Penn, 2017) has won the Coalition for Women in German Award for Best Article for “‘Spaß mit der schönen Jüdin’: Mixed Space and Dancing in Karl Emil Franzo’s Judith Trachtenberg,” which appeared in Austrian Studies.

Just as in the past years, students from GRMN 104 and GRMN 107 met with German volunteers from Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (