German Studies at the University of Aberdeen

Good luck to everyone receiving their exam results today! The University of Aberdeen is here for you and our Clearing hotline and online chat will be open from 8am - https://www.abdn.ac.uk/clearing/

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Our Clearing lines will open at 9am tomorrow for you to speak with our friendly staff about your options. Good luck to everyone receiving their results - https://www.abdn.ac.uk/clearing/

German lecturer Dr Tara Beaney discusses the exciting new MLitt in Comparative Literature, starting in September 2024! 🌍📚💻

MLitt Comparative Literature (post-graduate), University of Aberdeen The postgraduate Comparative Literature degree at Aberdeen is an exciting programme that will allow you to study literature and art forms from across the glo...

Besides the football during , this (earworm) has been the runaway success of the tournament. If you haven't heard it yet, enjoy! "Diese EM in Deutschland!"⚽⚽⚽🎶🎶🎶 University of Aberdeen LLMVC

Lovely&Monty - Diese EM 2024 | Offizielles Musikvideo | UEFA Euro 2024 Tauche ein in die pulsierende Atmosphäre der UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 mit unserem neuen Song "Diese EM 2024". In diesem besonderen Musikvideo ne...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch to Dr Katya Krylova, our Sen Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture! 🇦🇹📽️

We're continuing to celebrate this week! Congratulations to our very own Dr Katya Krylova (pictured at University of Aberdeen graduation last week), who presented her work at the German Screen Studies Network’s ‘The Future of German Screen Studies’ conference, held at the University of St Andrews, 19-21 June. Dr Krylova gave a paper titled ‘Victims, Perpetrators, Implicated Subjects: The Future of Austrian Remembrance on Screen’, arising from her current research project. University of Aberdeen LLMVC

Many congratulations again to Vienna!

Huge congratulations/Herzlichen Glückwunsch to all our students who graduated today! We so enjoyed celebrating with you all earlier. Many congratulations to our doctoral graduates Dr Lauren Cuthbert (PhD in German) and Dr Isabella (Bella) Engberg (PhD in Comparative Literature; MA English and German, UoA 2020) - pictured here with their very proud supervisors! Wishing you every success and all the very best for the future. Please stay in touch! University of Aberdeen LLMVC

Get ready for this year’s ACF Translation Prize 2024. The call for submissions is open!

We invite professional and aspiring translators to participate in the fifth biannual competition held for the best German to English translations of contemporary Austrian prose writing.

For more information about the exciting selection of literature to translate, visit: Austrian Cultural Forum London - TRANSLATION PRIZE 2024 ← Grants and opportunities ← Austrian Cultural Forum London (acflondon.org)

The austrian cultural forum london Translation Prize 2024 competition has just been launched! Students and graduates, do consider entering under 'Category B: Aspiring Translators': https://www.acflondon.org/grants-and-opportunities/austrian-cultural-forum-london-translation-prize-2024/

Over on our Twitter/X page, students, staff and alumni are sharing what Kafka means to them. We're not sure this can be topped though... https://x.com/HerrGalloway/status/1797688525397414046

Today marks exactly one hundred years since the untimely death from tuberculosis of the Prague-born German-language writer Franz Kafka, aged just 40. People around the world are commemorating 100 years of Kafka's legacy today and throughout this year: https://rb.gy/597un4 . You can currently find a raft of Kafka programmes on German and Austrian broadcasters (see, for example: https://oe1.orf.at/kafka ). Few writers have had such an enduring influence on world literature and popular culture.

The German Filmklub is also paying tribute to Kafka and his legacy by inviting you to watch a recording of a dance-theatre adaptation of the writer's most famous work – Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis, 1915].

WATCH The Metamorphosis, adapted from Kafka's novella (choreography: Arthur Pita | music: Frank Moon | Royal Ballet 2013 | Runtime: circa 90 mins) via Learning on Screen https://rb.gy/c5idkz (UoA sign-in) or via YouTube

SHARE your responses (ideally within the next 7-10 days) to what you've seen via this padlet https://tinyurl.com/39jadj3x by clicking the add (+) sign. In tribute to Kafka's lived multilingualism, you can leave your message in English, German or any other language.

If you would like to (re)read Die Verwandlung, you can do so via the library or Project Gutenberg.

The German Filmklub will program a further Kafka-inspired film in the coming academic year - watch this space! For now, hopefully this provides a timely opportunity to reflect on Kafka's work and legacy.

Photo: Kafka Museum, Prague, Czechia. Photo ©Katya Krylova, 2013 - all rights reserved.

Which Kafka character are you? Take the quiz to find out!

Comparative Literature | Postgraduate Taught Subjects | Study Here | The University of Aberdeen Study of literary texts in transnational, global and postcolonial contexts. Engage with literary and cultural texts from different language backgrounds using an exciting range of methodological approaches.

German - Dönerpreisbremse.

Dönerpreisbremse: Die Partei „Die Linke” in Deutschland will gegen die steigenden Dönerpreise vorgehen. Sie fordert eine Dönerpreisbremse. Maximal 4,90 Euro soll das Gericht kosten. Vor allem junge Menschen und jene aus ärmeren Haushalten seien von teuren Dönern besonders betroffen:

Our very own Dr Katya Krylova gave a lecture earlier today as part of the Ringvorlesung 'Kanonische Literaturverfilmungen' [lecture series: canonical film adaptations], held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Salzburg, and open to students, staff and members of the public. Dr Krylova spoke about Terrence Malick's 'A Hidden Life' and its transnational depiction of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943).

Come say “Hallo!” to our committee representatives today at the Offer Holder Fair in the AUSA Building!

Our very own Dr Lauren Cuthbert (affiliated early career researcher & frischgebackene PhD from German Studies at the University of Aberdeen!) will be presenting her research at this fab conference on DEFA film, to be held at Universität Rostock at the end of May! 🎞️📽️👏👏👏

Symposium - Quo vadis DEFA Research? (english) - Institut für Medienforschung - Universität Rostock Universität Rostock

This morning, our very own Dr Lauren Cuthbert (affiliated early career researcher and frischgebackene PhD from German Studies at the University of Aberdeen!) and Dr Katya Krylova (Senior Lecturer) presented their research at the ‘Entrenched Narratives, Hidden Figures: Reappraising Representations of War Across German Screen Media’ conference, held over the past two days at German Studies at Warwick, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Dr Cuthbert’s paper, arising out of her doctoral research on the representation of the Vietnam War in the films of Heynowski and Scheumann, was presented in the ‘Documentary Remediations’ panel, while Dr Krylova’s paper, arising out of her project on ‘Evolving Austrian Memory Culture in Literature and Film' was presented in the ‘Austrian Wartime Experiences’ panel. Many congratulations to the organisers, Molly Harrabin (German Studies at Warwick, School of Modern Languages and Cultures.) and Lawrence Alexander (University of Oxford) on organising this enriching and thought-provoking conference!

Herzlichen Dank to everyone who came to the German Filmklub screening of 'Rebellinnen' yesterday. We greatly enjoyed watching Pamela Meyer-Arndt's documentary about East German women artists, just ahead of International Women's Day. Many thanks to our DAAD-Lektorin Julia Röder for hosting the screening and discussion. Join us next time, on Tuesday 19th March (5pm in MR051), when we'll view 'Undine', a fairytale set in modern-day Berlin, directed by Germany's leading auteur filmmaker Christian Petzold. The screening will be led by Dr Tara Beaney, who is convening an honours course this semester on 'Fairytales and Feminism'.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch to our Jun Hons student Lee Morrow, who was flying the flag for German Studies at the University of Aberdeen at the Cambridge Undergraduate Conference in German Studies this weekend! Lee gave a paper entitled 'Echoes of the Past, Visions for the Future: Holocaust Memorialisation in Contemporary Vienna', in a panel on 'Remembering National Socialism on Site & Screen'

Many congratulations to the German at the University of Cambridge organisers, and to all undergrad participants from institutions around the UK, Ireland, Germany and the US!👏👏👏

Photos courtesy of the German section, University of Cambridge, used with permission.

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Our very own Lee Morrow (Jun Hons student in German) will be presenting at the 2024 German at the University of Cambridge Undergraduate Conference this weekend. What a fab programme - many congratulations to the organisers and viel Vergnügen to all participants! University of Aberdeen LLMVC