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Mark Chinca on BBC R4 In Our Time on Thursday 1 December

Prof Mark Chinca will be one of Melvyn Bragg’s guests on BBC Radio 4 In Our Time this Thursday at 9:00am, when the programme will be discussing medieval Germany’s most famous and notorious epic, the Nibelungenlied. Listen online here .

Former student wins top prize from English Goethe Society

We are delighted to announce that Helena de Guise, one of last year’s Part II students, has won the Thomas Mann Prize of the English Goethe Society for her essay 'Ein ‘Platz an der Sonne’ ohne Sonnenbrand: Understanding Irony in Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig (1912), Unordnung und frühes Leid (1925), and Mario und der...

Radio: Dr Sharma on multilingualism and migration in Germany

We are delighted to announce that our Teaching Associate in German Linguistics, Abhimanyu Sharma was recently interviewed by the Bayerischer Rundfunk. You can listen to the report on multilingualism and migration in Germany here . Dr Sharma is interviewed at around 00:21:00.

'Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners' by Prof. Sarah Colvin

Congratulations to Schröder Professor Sarah Colvin on the publication of her new book, Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners . A nation, in the words of Nelson Mandela, ‘should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones’. Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful...

Congratulations to Charlotte Lee

The MMLL German Section would like to congratulate Dr Charlotte Lee, who has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the academic year 2022-23.

Cambridge Undergraduate Conference in German Studies

'Optimism in the German-speaking world' 18th & 19th February 2022 With a keynote from Kübra Gümüşay Panel discussions: 'Building optimistic societies' 'Optimism in entertainment' 'Sensitive optimism: memorial work' 'Optimism in thought and literature' Careers panel with German studies graduates All German studies...

The Schröder Ambassadors

The German Section, with the support of the Schröder Fund, is delighted to announce the appointment of eight new Schröder Ambassadors. The new team in 2024-25 is made up of first-year, second-year and fourth-year students: Rebecca Rae, Megan Hampton, Isadora Watson, Max Holden, Gabrielle Nkem-Ajoku, Brénainn Sheppard...

Event: ‘Deutschland 83’ - Comparing British and German TV awards

DAAD Cambridge and the Grimme Institut invite you to attend an online debate (3 Dec) featuring the team behind 'Deutschland 83' on the similarities and differences between British and German TV and its awards.

German Academics on The CLC News Podcast: The German Election

Two affiliated lecturers at the Section of German, Dr Darren O’Byrne and Dr Tara Talwar Windsor, talk about the September election on the Cambridge Collective Language podcast. 'In this episode, the results of this election and the prospects for Germany’s future are analysed in depth along with an exploration of the...

Doctoral Dissertation Won Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Prize

Congratulations to Margarete Tiessen whose doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘Creating Liberal Germany from Empire to Exile: The Fischer Circle, 1908-1950’ and supervised by Professor Joachim Whaley from 2016 to 2020, won this year's Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Prize, administered by the prestigious Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for...

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New podcast on language and rhythm

1 April 2025

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new podcast, Language and Rhythm, made by Cambridge TV and funded by the British Academy and the Schröder Fund, University of Cambridge. You can listen to the full series or watch a taster video.

Paul Hoegger wins Pilkington Prize

20 March 2025

Congratulations to Paul Hoegger, who has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

Dr Abhimanyu Sharma publishes new study on Indian Sign Language

20 March 2025

Dr Abhimanyu Sharma, Teaching Associate in German Linguistics, has published a study which calls on the Indian Government to recognise Indian Sign Language as an official language.

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