SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES

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We are delighted to announce the final conference programme.

UCC Library, Department of German, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Department of Music would like to invite you to an evening of poetry, sound, and photography.

Congratulations to our student Domas Kalesnykas for winning the Dr HH Stewart Literary Prize in German. We spoke to Domas, who studies German as part of his World Languages degree, about his achievement, his motivation to study German, and his experience at UCC.

The call for the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme is now open, and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Department of German welcome expressions of interest from candidates wishing to apply to undertake PhD study at University College Cork. The scholarship application deadline is 4pm on 12^th October 2023. 

We are delighted to share the joyous news that Jan Brandenburg, final year student in the Department of German, has emerged as the winner of this year's writeAUT literature competition with his exceptional piece titled "Moral”: A text about Hans Asperger who finds himself in a world ruled by Artificial Intelligence. 

Anna Rottensteiner and Stefano Zangrando will discuss themes of temporalities in the context of their own writings as well as translations: For example, how important are aesthetic strategies in self-translation when one considers what happened in the text and what happens in the translation? What will and could happen in and with the text that is currently being brought to life? What role do the various languages play? What opportunities do they provide?

The 22nd of February 2023, marking the 80th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s death, was the decisive starting point for this symposium, organised by Dr Claire O’Reilly, Department of German, entitled ‘Understanding the Past to (re-)Inform the Future: The role of NS-Resistance yesterday and its Relevance today’.

This semester the first "Austrian Cine Club" will take place in the Department of German.

Last week at a ceremony in the Hub, Dragan Miladinovic was awarded the UCC President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. 

See Programme below

We are delighted to announce that Dragan Miladinović, University Language Teacher at the Department of German, received the IRAAL Postgraduate Award 2022. 

A National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Online Seminar discussing lessons from lockdown for Language Teaching.

We would like to invite you to the following hybrid seminar on the Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer on 1st March 2022, 4-5.30 p.m. Mary Ryan Seminar Room and online.

Austrian novelist Marlen Haushofer's Die Wand (The Wall, 1963, film adaptation by Julian Poelsler in 2012) has been described by Daniela Strigl as one of the key works of the 20th century.  For several reasons, it also became a book to read during Covid times. 

Webinar 6-8 pm (GMT), 21st February  

Interactive webinar with UCC Department of German and Friends of the Earth  

In this interactive session, we explore shared reading and open dialogue as practices that can help to build resilience, clarity and purpose in the face of ecological crisis.

The multi-award-winning Viennese comic artist Nicolas Mahler will read from "Schwarze Spiegel" and talk about his work as a comic artist. 

Congratulations to our student Giancarlo Paradisi, for winning the First Prize in the Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarships and Prizes in German. We spoke to Giancarlo, who studies German as part of his World Languages degree, about his achievement, his motivation to study German, and his experience at UCC.

Speaking the Predicament: 

Das Symposium untersucht Erscheinungsweisen von Natur in der Lyrik Christian Lehnerts und deren ökologisches Potenzial im Anthropozän.

Jason Groves, University of Washington

Implicated Language, Implicated Ecologies: Paul Celan and the Eco-Poetics of Memory

Thursday 2 December 2021, 5.00-6.15 pm Irish time
Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/eco-humanities-online-lecture-series-tickets-195796621967
(Zoom link to follow 2 days before the event)

Together with the Goethe Institute Dublin, we are offering A1.1 beginners and A2.1 Intermediate Beginners evening classes starting on 8th November 2021. We are offering a special rate for UCC staff and students.

UCC (Departments of German and History) and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Irish Studies) are delighted to announce a collaborative study day on 'Journeys Across the Waves', featuring presentations and discussions on Irish-German identity and Irish-German historical parallels, among other topics. All welcome - sign up below to register.

Together with the Goethe Institute Dublin, we are offering A1.1 beginners and A2.1 Intermediate Beginners evening classes starting on 8th November 2021. We are offering a special rate for UCC staff and students.

Prof. Caitríona Ní Dhúill has been awarded an Irish Research Council New Foundations award to support research on the potential of literature to foster enhanced awareness of environmental crisis. 

In association with the German-Irish Lawyers and Business Association, GILBA, the Department of German is very happy to award two prizes for 2021. The competition is open to all BComm International (German) students currently in UCC. 

Details:

- x1 award: overall best BComm International (German) student in German language (based on class engagement and end-of-semester results)

- x1 award: best BComm International student (based on class performance and end-of-semester results in content modules)

In association with the German Embassy and the DAAD, the UCC German Department has invited poet Christian Lehnert to read from his latest volume of poetry Cherubinischer Staub (2018) and to give an insight into his poetics revolving around nature, language, and religious mysticism.  

 The event will be in German and it will be live using MSTeams. Everyone is welcomed to join.

 Please confirm your attendance to hanna.bingeljones@ucc.ie so that you will receive the link to MSTeams.

The event is hosted by the UCC German Department and funded by the German Embassy in Dublin. 

An Infographic showing the support services currently available to students providing further information about each service. 

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Script viewing in the Department of German is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 1 July and Thursday 2 July 2020. 

We are happy to announce a new evening course!

Invitation to the opening of the exhibition "AFTER-LIFE... and how to fake it!"

The Department of German, University College Cork, is offering two scholarships in German Studies which will cover the amount of first year PhD fees for EU students (€5,770 per annum for either EU or International students; please note International students will have to pay the balance of International fees).

We are happy to announce the following two PhD-Scholarships:

Miriam Sachs, Berlin author, director and scenographer, will speak about her approach to Kleist and Kafka, and about her very own process of reanimation which is a tightrope walk between literature and fanfiction, remodelling and reshaping, bridging the broad fields of docu-fiction, fake art and falsification.

Thursday, 27th April 2017, 3pm

CASiLaC Seminar Room, ORB 1.24

ALL WELCOME!

Cork Educate Together Secondary School in association with UCC Historical Society and UCC Department of German hosted a visit from Herman Polak, a Holocaust Survivor, who spoke about his experiences as a Jewish 'hidden child' during the war. 

His story is both compelling and moving and part of a rapidly dwindling cohort of eye-witness testimonies.

The event was on Wednesday 5th April 2017

To view this event, please click here: https://ucc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7165537c-b7ca-47ac-89da-2387a928e7a8

Further education event will take place at University College Cork for the first time

For the third year running, the German Department is offering its very successful once-off half-day course.  This is aimed at Senior Cycle students and will take place on Saturday 4th March 2017 from 10am to 2.15pm.  The course will be taught by experienced second and third level teachers, including some native speakers, and will focus on oral communication skills, including expanding vocabulary, pronunciation and fluency, as well as strengthening grammar basics.  The cost will be 35 for the day, which will consist of five sessions.

Here is a selection of responses from 2016 attendees:

• I loved the active learning and how encouraging the teachers were;

• Just talking in German to people and hearing it all morning;

• Everyone had to participate.

We look forward to seeing you on 4th March!  Click here for more details:  

The Department of German at UCC, in cooperation with the Boole Library, will launch an art exhibition presenting engravings by the German surrealist Caspar Walter Rauh on Thursday, 13 October 2016 in the UCC Boole Library.

The CASiLaC Research Cluster European Thought and Global Inspiration cordially invites you to a new lecture in the series German Thinkers and the European Tradition

Liliane Weissberg

University of Pennsylvania

Hannah Anredt in Jerusalem

Thursday 28th April, 5pm

CACSSS Mary Ryan Seminar Room, ORB G27

Second Year BComm International with German, year abroad 2016-17 in Germany/Austria got new Tshirts!

The CASiLaC Research Cluster European Thought and Global Inspiration cordially invites you to a new lecture in the series German Thinkers and the European Tradition

Stanley Corngold

Kafka and the Poetry of Risk Insurance

Thursday 14th April, 5pm

CACSSS Mary Ryan Seminar Room, ORB G27

BuGI conference in Royal Irish Academy 4th March 2016

The CASiLaC Research Cluster European Thought and Global Inspiration cordially invites you to a new lecture in the series German Thinkers and the European Tradition

Dr Gert Hofmann

Dionysus, Nietzsche, Artaud. European Theatre between Religion, Philosophy, and Art

Thursday 3^rd March 2016, 5pm, ORB 2.44

Intercultural Learning Through Digital Skills: The Virtual Irish-German Classroom

UCC-Department of German meets Cologne University of Applied Sciences in an online classroom

As part of a twinning project, funded by Cork City Council, between the colleges in 2015- 2016 two student groups came together and worked throughout a semester in a virtual Irish-German Classroom. The aim was to develop intercultural learning skills through the use of digital skills and by completing an on-line intercultural exchange project.

Visit the project's website here: http://corkcolognetwinning.eu/

The German Department is offering a half day course for senior cycle school students.  It will concentrate on spoken German:

Developing Fluency and Competence in Spoken German.

Date:  Saturday 27th February

Time: 10am - 1pm

Cost: 30 Euro

Contact:  german@ucc.ie or telephone 021 490 2078

Payment link:  http://uccshop.ie/product-category/online-bookings/german-language-courses/

Poster Schools Feb 2016

Schools App Form 27 Feb 2016

We are proud to announce that our Students

Anne Buckley, Róisín Harrington, and Aisling O'Sullivan

received a DAAD Summer Course Scholarship this year!

Reading and Talk with renowned German poet Jan Wagner and his translator Iain Galbraith.

Wagner will read in German. Galbraith will read his English translations of the poems.

Tuesday 15 September 2015, at 6 p.m.

CACSSS Seminar Room

The Reading is part of the seriesThis Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation.

https://thisdustofwords.wordpress.com/

German Thinkers and the EUROPEAN TRADITION

Professor Helmut Pfotenhauer

University of Würzburg

Jean Paul  - ein europäischer Schriftsteller

Wednesday, 9^th September, 5.45pm

CACSSS Seminar Room

The German Department is delighted to announce the following 24-week courses from September 2015:

A1 Beginners - Monday 6-8pm
A1 continuation - evening tbc, 6-8pm
A2 - Thursday 6-8pm
B1 - Tuesday 6-8pm

Application deadline 11th September

Courses will cost €390 / €340 (concession)

Please contact Veronica or Deborah at german@ucc.ie or 021 490 2078 for more details.

http://www.ucc.ie/en/german/evening/

The German Department is offering an Intensive Beginners German Summer course

This will take place on Saturday 18th and Saturday 25th July from 9.30am to 3.30pm each day.  The cost will be €100 / €80.

Thursday, 28 May 2015

A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

OV, English subtitles

7pm, ORB 1.56

Now Open:

EXHIBITION 

Germany’s Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context

A University of Leeds project team, in collaboration with the UK National Holocaust Centre and the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, has put together an exhibition on Germany’s Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context.

19^th May – 22^nd May

Aula Maxima, UCC

A‌ Lecture in German on laughter and forbidden laughter in Nietzsche, Kafka and Heine. 

Tuesday, May 19th, 5pm, CACSSS Seminar Room

‌March 11th, 6.15pm, ORB 1.32

JUDITH HERMANN
"Kaltblau"

The Schools of Languages, Literatures & Cultures & English, UCC, are delighted to host award-winning playwright, director, author & adaptor, Hattie Naylor, for 2 days of events on her work for radio:

The German Department is offering a once-off half day course in oral comunication for Senior Cycle students. This will take place on February 28th from 10-1.30pm. 

It will focus on oral communication skills, including expanding vocabulary, pronunciation and fluency.

German Department’s student Liadan Sage has successfully received a Commendation in German at NUI Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarships. For her "outstanding academic achievement in the College of Arts, Social Science, and Celtic Studies" she also received UCC’s title as “QUERCUS UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR”. 

At the British Museum:

Germany memories of a nation A 600-year history in objects.

This exhibition will examine elements of German history from the past 600 years in the context of the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago.

Enrolment now open for new evening & weekend courses, German at different levels,

and we are proud to announce Turkish for Beginners.

Click here for more information and registration forms.

The Virtual Recruitment Fair is focused on giving German speaking candidates the opportunity to apply and search for various careers offered across Europe. This event gives you the opportunity to interact and engage with HR professionals from many international companies from the comfort of your own home. If you are fluent in German and you are interested in finding a great job throughout Europe or willing to relocate for an exciting opportunity that meets your skills this is a great event! 

From 28th January to 1st February UCC German Society will run German Week 2014.  There will events such as Stammtisch, Speedfriending, and a presentation on the Erasmus Year Abroad.

PLease give your support.  http://german.uccsocieties.com/

UCC German Department supports the German Week iniative.

Dr. Manfred Schewe recently visited the University College of Teacher Education of Christian Churches Vienna/Krems where he taught several workshops and was acclamimed as „Father“ of Drama Pedagogy. 

We are proud to announce that two of our students received a NUI undergraduate award: The Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarship in German 

UCC has honoured staff members for their outstanding contributions to university life in an Awards Ceremony held on 10 October 2013 and announced the winners of three award schemes: Teaching & Learning, Staff Recognition and Research.

Dr Manfred Schewe, Head, Department of German, was awarded one of the four Teaching Fellowships 2013-2014. The Fellowship will be valid for one year from the date of appointment. However, candidates can retain the title ‘UCC Teaching Fellow’ beyond the year and join a growing community of institutional, national and international Teaching Fellows. For further details of the Awards Ceremony click here

Exploring Performative Practices across Disciplines

• Fri, September 13^th 2013, 9.15 – 17.00, UCC Drama Lab (Connolly Building, Western Road)
• Sat, September 14^th 2013, 10.30 – 13.00, Main Campus, Alfred O’Rahilly Building, Room 1.23

The Department of German at UCC is offering 3 intensive courses in August 2013

German poet Ulf Stolterfoht will read tonight at 7pm, at the SoundEye festival, in the Guesthouse 9 Chapel St. 

Certificate in Languages for the Global Marketplace

German Evening Courses 2013

The Europeanization of Ireland – A German view

Modernism Symposium, 12-13 April 2013

Hans-Jörg Schertenleib reads from his works

“I Was a Boy in Belsen”. Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental

Lampadius: Post-Unification German Cinema

„Plaudertaschen und Zwitschermaschinen“. Die Autorin Annette Pehnt über ihr literarisches Werk

Reading with Annette Pehnt and Matthew Sweeney

Website GermanConnects:) has been launched!

This year's GSAI Annual Conference will take place at University College Cork, Ireland on 24th and 25th November 2017. The papers will focus on the topic "Self-reflection". See details in our Programme.

The Department of German will offer beginners RUSSIAN, TURKISH and DUTCH beginning in the week of 16th January 2017.  Please check our Evening classes section for further details.  Closing date 9th January.

Alexandra Philbin wins Henry Stewart Hutchinson prize for Literature

Foreign Language Demonstrator Post available to start September 2016
 

Cork Poetry Lectures 2025: University College Cork: November 19–20, 2025 Cork Poetry

Lectures 2025 with Peter Waterhouse

“without mediation; only language, only being present”

Attentiveness, Contemplation, and Deliberation: Peter Waterhouse’s Approach to Observing the World by Means of Language

Cork Poetry Lectures 2025: University College Cork: November 19–20, 2025

“without mediation; only language, only being present”

Attentiveness, Contemplation, and Deliberation: Peter Waterhouse’s Approach to Observing the World by Means of Language

The Cork City Library is running a German bookclub. 

They are meeting every second month on a Saturday, the next meeting is on the 21st February.

The group has decided on the following contemporary readings for the year in 2026:

• Ein Mann seiner Klasse
• Nachmittage
• ⁠Die Optimistinnen
• Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß
• ⁠Sehr geehrte Frau Ministerin
• Simone

Anyone who is interested in German literature is more than welcome. Keep in mind that our discussions are in German (with the odd English phrase when the right word can’t be found in the moment).