News and Events

Selected highlights of the many activities in which students and staff are involved can be found below:

• Congratulations to final-year student Olesia Gendziora on winning the 2008-9 Year Abroad Photo Competition!
• On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Günter Grass' The Tin Drum, Professor Stuart Taberner talks to the BBC World Service about one of the most influential, disturbing, and controversial novels of the last half-century.
• Professor Frank Finlay appointed as new Dean of the Faculty of Arts
• Photo competition 2008-2009
• A roundtable discussion with Henry Tietzsch-Tyler Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute and the German Department, 30 April 2009
• 'From "Turkish" to "Muslim": Gendered Stories and the German Contribution to the Making of A European Other' and 'The Global Province. Recent Migration Literature in German', 3rd February 2009
• NBA: Stuart Taberner / Karina Berger (eds.), Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic
• Excellent results in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for German at Leeds
• Sauerkraut Cup!
• Second German Dissertation Mini-Conference A Great Success
• A Hat-Trick (Plus) for former student Grace Panti-Amoa