As part of Prof. von Hammerstein’s promotion to Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, she will present her research in the Provost’s distinguished speaker series, an exceptional set of talks by the most outstanding faculty of the university. Her presentation takes place April 24th, 2021 at 4pm, and she will speak on “Voices of Genocide: From […]

Exciting developments in the German Studies textbook arena: Impuls Deutsch 2 is coming out in April 2021, following the successful release of Impuls Deutsch 1 by Klett. The series, co-authored by Prof. Friedemann Weidauer and by two recent Ph.D. students from the German Studies program, Drs. Nicole Coleman (Wayne State University) and Niko Tracksdorf (University […]

On March 16, 2021, the second double lecture within our “Decolonizing Area Studies” series took place online, with great interest from different groups and constituencies. For more information about this series and the project, please visit the “Decolonizing Area Studies” webpage. Nicole Coleman is Assistant Professor of German at Wayne State University, where she teaches […]

Aussprache ist das Stiefkind im Fremdsprachenunterricht und folgt in Lehrbüchern zumeist einem Nachsprechmuster, das für Zweit- oder Drittsprachler nur schwer nachvollziehbar ist. Dabei fallen Unregelmäßigkeiten in Artikulation und Prosodie bei Zuhörern oft schwerer ins Gewicht als Grammatikfehler. In diesem Kolloquium wollen wir uns mit den größten Ausspracheschwierigkeiten des Deutschen beschäftigen. Dabei ist von besonderem Interesse, […]