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Thanks to the generous support of the Max Kade Foundation, the German Department is proud to welcome Swiss writer Katja Brunner to campus on Thursday, April 3, 2025. In addition to meeting with our students, Brunner will give a reading from 5:30-7:00, which is open to all. Please join us!
The opportunities event is held annually to inform students what resources are available to them in order to use their German in New York City and in Germany. Students share their recent study abroad experiences, alumni report on what they've been doing since graduation, and we welcome representatives from the Goethe Institut, DAAD: German Academic Exchange […]
The opportunities event is held annually to inform students what resources are available to them in order to improve and expand their german scholarship. The department hosted representatives from the Goethe Institut, DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service, The German American Chamber of Commerce, and Cultural Vistas. Follow the links to learn more!
Metin Hakverdi, German Bundestag member (Social Demcoratic Party), lecture from the American Council on Germany - One Year Later: Russia's War in Ukraine, Germany's Policy Pivot and Implications for Transatlantic Relations Metin Hakverdi joined the Social Democratic Party in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. He serves on the Bundestag's […]
Reception to Follow Welcome address by Consul Yasemin Pamuk from the German Consulate General New York. Co-presented with the University Alliance Ruhr (Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University and University of Duisburg-Essen), the Consulate General of Germany in New York, and the Hunter College Department of German, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of Otto […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Kafka's Last Trial Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka's Last Trial, in conversation with Lisa Anderson, professor and chair of the German Department at Hunter College. Franz Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. When the moment arrived in 1924, […]
Markus Meckel is a German politician and former Protestant pastor who was a prominent critic of the East German (GDR) regime. He grew up in the GDR and became a member of the opposition in the 1970s. In 1989, he was a co-founder of the Social Democratic party in the GDR and became its deputy […]
Andrea Maria Schenkel, author of the best-selling The Murder Farm and Ice Cold, has penned six novels, edited a collection of Christmas stories, and written numerous essays and short stories. Born and raised in Regensburg, Germany, Schenkel has received several awards, including the German Crime Fiction Prize for both The Murder Farm and Ice Cold, […]
Presented by the Philosophy and German Departments. Introduction by Professor Omar Dahbour from the Philosophy Department. Speakers: Brooks Schramm Kirsi I. Stjerna Vishwa Adluri
