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Friday, October 15, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT (GMT -07:00)

“A German Board Game & the Need for New Stories," by Dr. Lars Richter

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Friday, October 8, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT (GMT -07:00)

"Winnetou, White Innocence, and Settler Time," by Dr. Maureen Gallagher

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Proclaiming “every generation has its Winnetou,” German network RTL ushered in the return of Winnetou to German television with a big-budget film trilogy, Winnetou–Der Mythos Lebt.

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Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany

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.

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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.

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.

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is happy to announce the winner of the WCGS Book Prize for first books published in 2019.

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“A German Board Game & the Need for New Stories," by Dr. Lars Richter

"Winnetou, White Innocence, and Settler Time," by Dr. Maureen Gallagher

Der Reisende / The Passenger: a Novel, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, trans. by Philip Boehm

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Apocalypse and Salvation: Faith in Catholic Miracles during Twentieth-Century Germany

Apocalypse and Salvation: Faith in Catholic Miracles during Twentieth-Century Germany

WCGS Reading Group: A Complicated Kindness/Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe, by Miriam Toews, translation by Christiane Buchner

WCGS Reading Group: Töchter / Daughters by Lucy Fricke, translation by Sinéad Crowe

25th International Bremen Film Conference, May 5-8, 2021

Mind/Screen: Mental Illness and Film

Winner of the WCGS Book Prize for 2019: Matthew Birkhold