Articles about 'Department of German and Dutch'

Performance marked the launch of digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler's works and archive.

Arthur Schnitzler digital: Digital Critical Edition (Works from 1905 to 1931

In this article, Katharina Karcher from the Department of German and Dutch discusses the election prospects of the self-described “chancellor for turbulent times”. 

Saved from destruction by the Nazis and smuggled in secret to Cambridge, the rescue of author Arthur Schnitzler’s archive is as dramatic as any fiction he committed to paper.

Seven Cambridge academics have been elected to the fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding research.

“A human translator will beat any machine any day” proclaims Klaus Fritz, the translator of the Harry Potter books into German.

Professor Sarah Colvin, currently at Warwick University, has been announced as the new Schröder Professor of German, and is to start in the Department of German and Dutch in January 2014.

German Idealism changed the world and influenced politics, science, art and numerous other fields. The ways in which it shaped the modern world have been the subject of a three-year research project, which reaches its conclusion in Cambridge this week.

The 12th-century German “Chronicle of the Emperors” (Kaiserchronik) – widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important literary works of the European Middle Ages – is to receive a landmark new edition.

A new analysis of the Munich Games of 1972 places the event at the very centre of modern German history, as Dr Chris Young explains.