Honors, Grants and Prizes

Departmental Honors

2009

Molly Seaward, '09
Beyond the Fräuleinwunder and Feminism: Julia Franck's Novel Die Mittagsfrau as Historiography of Gender & Sexuality
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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 Gut 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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2005
Adnan Prsic,
"Kanak Sprak und Kultur: Feridun Zaimoglus Weg vom Ethnographen zum Pop-Star"
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Elizabeth Davidson,
"From Euripides to Sophocles: Hofmannsthal Creates His Own Voice"
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Ted Reinert,
"Andreas Dresen and Tom Tykwer: Eastern and Western Filmmaking Traditions in Post-wall German Cinema"
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Whitney Schrader,
"Ostalgie : remembering youth and childhood in the GDR"
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Bretton McEvoy,
"Imperialism, memory suppression and the Snow-White Goose : the quest for balance in W. G. Sebald's post-Holocaust world"

2004
Kyle David Staller, "Icarus Transformed: Cultural Constructions of Civil Aviation in Germany"
Hanny Studer, "Amerika: Ausgangspunkt-Fluchtpunkt-Sehepunkt. Charaktere in der Schweizer Literatur"

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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, a total of 45 since 1993. 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.

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)

2006-2007
Benjamin Kreider '05, Joel Presti '06, Whitney Rauschenbach '06, Ashleigh Watson '06

2005-2006
Kevin Erspamer, Ted Reinert, Dan Coogan, Whit Schrader (Germany)

2004-2005
Samantha Altschuler '04 Germany
Mark Drauschke '04 Germany
Hannah Tucker '04 Germany

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Louise Ann Harbach Grant
Supports deserving German majors who are studying this academic year at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (More about the Louise Ann Harbach Grant »)
2007
Catherine Jager '09 and Theresa Weaver '09.

DAAD Grants (German Academic Exchange Service)
 Rebecca Silva '11 (awarded 2009)
Han Guo '09 (awarded 2007)

Dorothy Haythorn Collins Award 2007
Jared Hunt '08

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 Frizzell, '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 

Congress-Bundestag Apprenticeships 1999-2000
Jeffrey Chen Berlin, Germany

Old Broad Bay Prizes in Reading German

old broad bay prize for germanThe 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)

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
2006 Joel Presti '06, Peter Rocco '07, Allison Ryder '06
2005 Lauren Steffel '07, Laura Wexler '05, Daniel Coogan '05
2004 Samantha Altschuler '04, Rebecca Follansbee '05, Hanny Studer '04

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German Consular Prize in Literary Interpretation

german consular prizeThis 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)

2009 Scott Nebel
2008 Jared Hunt
2007 Jordan Krechmer, Lauren Steffel
2006 Allison Ryder
2005 Ted Reinert
2004 Natalie Handel, Hannah Tucker


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