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WCGS invites one and all to a talk by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo professor of History. Dr. Taylor will discuss her latest book, In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Germany, 1945-1952.

Originally from Germany, Dr. Schreyer Duarte has made a name for herself as a dramaturg in Toronto while also transitioning into directing in the past ten years.

WCGS welcomes Dr. Silke Reineke of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.

Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are led to a deportation point sometime between April 19 and May 16, 1943 (Wikimedia Commons )

Join WCGS as professor James Diamond, Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo, gives his talk The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi.
 

This summer, we’ll be reading

Heike Geißler: Saisonarbeit / Seasonal Associate, trans. Katy Derbyshire

German-Swiss author Benedict Wells has been making a name for himself with novels such as Becks letzter Sommer from 2008 (also a film starring Christian Ulmen) and Vom Ende der Einsamkeit from 2016

Join WCGS in Stratford Friday, July 12, 2019 for Nathan the Wise, the 18th-century play by German playwright G.E. Lessing

It was a close call, with most titles tied except for one. So our reading selection for the spring meeting will be...

Dörte Hansen: Altes Land / This House is Mine, trans. Anne Stokes