Hey, der Chef brennt! Review on Führerbunker
Sonja Schäfer, a graduate student studying for her Joint MA in Intercultural German Studies, wrote a review about the experimental chamber opera Führerbunker by Andrew Ager. Have a read!
Sonja Schäfer, a graduate student studying for her Joint MA in Intercultural German Studies, wrote a review about the experimental chamber opera Führerbunker by Andrew Ager. Have a read!
Führerbunker premières at The Registry Theatre this Wednesday, February 11th. This article appeared in the Record, the local paper for Waterloo Region, on February 10th.
For details on the event and the composer, visit our events listing.
Thanks to a financial donation and volunteer time to recruit participants, the German Oral History Project currently underway at the Waterloo Centre for German Studies can increase the number of interviews it conducts this year.
Marga Weigel, Ernst Friedel, and Manfred Richter have been instrumental in speaking to members of the German community in Waterloo Region and raising $20,000. The financial donation was made through the German-Canadian Education Fund plus personal donations from Weigel and Friedel.
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) is looking for people of German descent—or their children—who would like to talk about their years in German-speaking Europe, their arrival in Canada during the 1950s, 1960s or later, and their lives in Waterloo Region.
Whether they arrived in the 1950s on a ship or a few years ago on a passenger plane, German immigrants to Waterloo Region still hold many untold stories in their families that risk being lost if they are not recorded. The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is looking for people of German descent—or their children—who would like to talk about their years in German-speaking Europe, their arrival in Canada during the 1950s, 1960s or later, and their lives in Waterloo Region.
The latest issue of the joint newsletter of Waterloo Centre for German Studies and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is out: Newsletter Archive Link
We are pleased to present the “K-W German Walk”, a mobile application that will take you on a journey on the trail of German-Canadian history in the region of the twin cities Kitchener-Waterloo, more popularly known as K-W.