2011
Rebecca R. Silva '11
Blurring Boundaries: Active Femininities and Reactive Masculinities in Erich Kästner’s Fabian: Die Geschichte eines Moralisten
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Julia M. Littlefield '11
Spaces of Transit / Transitional Spaces: Examining the Partial Ruins of Berlin’s Anhalter Bahnhof
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2010
Sally Hudson, '10
Herausforderungen an die deutsche Kulturnation: Literatur, Politik und die Rolle des Intellektuellen um 1990
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Brenna Nicely, '10
From Germany to Maine: The Translation and Transportation of Kerstin Specht's 'Lila'
2009
Molly Seaward, '09
Beyond the Fräuleinwunder and Feminism: Julia Franck's Novel Die Mittagsfrau as Historiography of Gender & Sexuality
Project Summary
Theresa Weaver, '09
Um der gebrechlichen Einrichtung der Welt willen": Geschlecht und Scham in Heinrich von Kleists Die Marquise von O...
2008
Natalie Dudar, '08
Negotiating the Diaspora: Bleeding Boundaries in Fatih Akin's Dialectical Cinema
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Jared Hunt, '08
Towards a Contemporary Brechtian Dramaturgy: Reimagining Gender in Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan
Lana Mathis, '08
Defying Stereotypes of the Migrant Experience: Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Literary Negotiations of Legal, Cultural, and Gendered Identity within Two Worlds
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Kathryn Yankura, '08
Not a Chick Flick: Understanding Sommer vorm Balkon in the Context of East German Cinema
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2007
Jordan Krechmer, '07
Cultural Construction: Searching for Love, Life and Humor in German-Jewish Post-Holocaust Literature and Film
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Andrew McDonald, '07
Defining Fluctuation: Movement and Change in Fiction and Feature Films about Millennial Berlin
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2006
Courtney Reichert,
Creating His Own Myth: Werther’s Façade, Self-Deception, and Delusion
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Allison Ryder,
The Camera, the Double and the Woman: Expressionist Transformations in Wenders' Himmel über Berlin and Tykwer's Lola rennt.
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Fulbright Teaching Grants and other International prizes
Bowdoin German majors continue to be extremely successful candidates for teaching and research grants to Germany and Austria. An average of three to four seniors and recent graduates have won Fulbrights every year, more than 50 in the last 15 years. They have also won Bundestag-Congress-Fellowships, Truman fellowships, and DAAD grants, as well as scholarships for summer study abroad and junior year abroad. The department also confers yearly Old Broad Bay Prizes in Reading German and the German Consular Prize in literary interpretation to deserving students.
2010-2011
John Lehman '10 and Scott Nebel '09 (Germany)
Keri Forbringer '10 (Austria)
2009-2010
Kathryn Yankura '08 and Theresa Weaver '09 (Germany)
Catherine Jäger '09 (Austria)
2008-2009
Lana Mathis '08 (Austria), Courtney Reichert '06 (Austria)
2007-2008
Jordan Krechmer '07 (Germany), Andrew McDonald '07 (Austria), Hillary Pietricola '07 (Germany)
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DAAD Grants (German Academic Exchange Service)
Erica Ehrhardt '10 (awarded 2010)
Rebecca Silva '11 (awarded 2009)
Han Guo '09 (awarded 2007)
DAAD/EMGIP (Émigré Memorial German Internship Program): Fully funded internship opportunities for US and Canadian students in the German Parliament, the Bundestag.
Sally Hudson '10
Graduate School Experience - Summer Seminar in German Studies
Sally Hudson '10, Scott Nebel '09 (awarded 2009)
Theresa Weaver '09 (awarded 2008)
Munich Summer Fellows Program, 2009
(outstanding advanced first year students receive an all-expenses paid stay in Munich):
Elizabeth Clegg, '12, Samuel Frizell, '12
Munich Summer Fellows Program, 2008
(outstanding advanced first year students receive an all-expenses paid stay in Munich):
Robert Burkhardt, '11, Johanna Clarke '11
Bowdoin Awards / Departmental Prizes
Louise Ann Harbach Grant
Supports deserving German majors who are studying in Germany (More about the Louise Ann Harbach Grant)
2010
Rendon Sabina '11
2007
Catherine Jager '09 and Theresa Weaver '09
Old Broad Bay Prizes in Reading German
The income from a fund given by Jasper J. Stahl '09, Litt.D. '60, and by others is awarded to students who, in the judgment of the department, have profited especially from their instruction in German. The fund was established as a living memorial to those remembered and unremembered men and women from the valley of the Rhine who in the eighteenth century founded the first German settlement in Maine at Broad Bay, now Waldoboro. (1964)
2010 Mikyo Butler '10, Brenna Nicely '10, Rebecca Schouvieller '10
2009 Samuel Landis '11, Rebecca Silva '11, Theresa Weaver '09
2008 Johanna Clarke '11, Jared Hunt '08, Lincoln Pac '08
2007 Sally Hudson '10, James Nicholas Manny '09, David Scott '08
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German Consular Prize in Literary Interpretation
This prize was initiated by the German Consulate, from whom the winner receives a certificate of merit and a book prize, in addition to a small financial prize to be awarded from the income of the fund. The prize is awarded annually to the senior German major who wins a competition requiring superior skills in literary interpretation. (1986)
2010 Mikyo Butler
2009 Scott Nebel
2008 Jared Hunt
2007 Jordan Krechmer, Lauren Steffel
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