Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany
Current students
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Book Release: Wem kein Bogen gesetzt. Gedichte
David John, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo and founding Director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, has just edited a volume of poetry by the late Hans Eichner.
Monday, September 13, 2021
Apocalypse and Salvation: Faith in Catholic Miracles during Twentieth-Century Germany
From World War I until the late 1950s, Catholics in Germany reported more instances of stigmata and visions of the Virgin Mary than at any time in modern history. This lecture emphasizes the stigmata of the charismatic Therese Neumann of Bavaria and the Cold War apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the small town of Heroldsbach. Neumann’s story in particular reveals much about the fall of German democracy in the 1920s and the relation of Catholics to the Third Reich.
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.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
25th International Bremen Film Conference, May 5-8, 2021
Mind/Screen: Mental Illness and Film
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?
This event has passed, you can check out the recording here.
Ann Marie Rasmussen + Melanie Jackson
James Skidmore + Myrto Provida