Apocalypse and Salvation: Faith in Catholic Miracles during Twentieth-Century Germany
Canada is the guest of honour at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair. In that spirit, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies has chosen a Canadian author in German translation and is offering this meeting on a Sunday to make it more convenient for fellow readers from Germany to join us. We'll be reading A Complicated Kindness/Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe, by Miriam Toews, translation by Christiane Buchner.
The WCGS German Reading Group has selected Töchter / Daughters by Lucy Fricke, translation by Sinéad Crowe as its next read.
For its anniversary, the film symposium commits itself to a long-time companion of the cinema: Mental illness has been accompanying cinema since its origins contributing to its topics and forms, widening its possibilities of expression and theory.
Paola Mayer + Rüdiger Müller
Our talk will focus on our forthcoming edition of Frey's short fiction and on our plan for an article on his tale, "Der Mensch." We will address such questions as: Who was Alexander Moritz Frey? What did his oeuvre look like? How does one create an anthology that will put him back on the literary map? What does a Robinsonade written in 1940 by an exile author look like?
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Ann Marie Rasmussen + Melanie Jackson
James Skidmore + Myrto Provida
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is happy to announce the winner of the WCGS Book Prize for first books published in 2019.
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) is pleased to announce the shortlist for its annual Book Prize.
This Winter we are reading:
Der geteilte Himmel/They Divided the Sky by Christa Wolf, trans. Luise von Flotow