The Waterloo Centre for German Studies and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies are hosting a reading by German author Michael Götting. He'll read from his premier novel, Contrapunctus (English: Counterpoint). The reading will take place on January 26 at 4:00 p.m.
Since the summer of 2015, members of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies have been working on a book tentatively titled The Germans of Waterloo Region. The first round of editing is almost complete, and the second drafts are starting to come in.
The book is based on interviews conducted between August 2013 and March 2015 with immigrants from German-speaking Europe and/or their children. Participants ranged in age from 28 to 94.
As 2015 comes to a close, 2016 opens up a special anniversary for the City of Kitchener. One hundred years ago, residents of the City of Berlin adopted the name of a British lord and Secretary of State for War during World War I. The name change was wrought with conflict brought on by the social and political environment of World War I.
This year's Jakob-&-Wilhelm Grimm Lecture, The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of 1800: Medicine as Cultural History, was a huge success, with standing room only by the time the lecture began.
If you weren't able to make this year's lecture, catch it online. Enjoy!
After 18 months of talking with 126 German immigrants and/or their children here in Waterloo Region, work has now begun on a book for the community, tentatively entitled Germans of Waterloo Region.
German filmmaker Marc Bauder is coming to uWaterloo next week to talk about the creation of Lichtgrenze, an art installation commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Read more about the event at the Daily Bulletin and visit the WCGS's event page.
Award-winning German director Maria Speth will be visiting the University of Waterloo tomorrow, April 21st. Read more about her upcoming visit.
This event is co-represented by the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and the Goethe-Institut. Maria Speth is a guest of the Goethe-Institut.
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.