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’.