# German Department Princeton
**Source**: https://german.princeton.edu/
**Parent**: https://admission.princeton.edu/academics/degrees-departments
Unser schreibzeug arbeitet mit an unseren gedanken. Friedrich Nietzsche
Our writing tools are also at work on our thoughts. (Friedrich Nietzsche in a letter to his secretary Peter Gast. February 1882)
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[We Are German Undergraduates](/department/about/introduction)
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[We Are German Graduate Students](/department/about/introduction)
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[We Are German Faculty](/department/about/introduction)
The Princeton German Department explores the language, literatures, intellectual history, arts and media of Germany and German-speaking cultures from the Middle Ages to the present. Our highly diverse and distinguished faculty employ the critical tools of multiple disciplines to investigate and appreciate the wide range of German cultural production, its significance for–and reception of–other cultures, and its continued importance for our current historical moment.
[Read about the history of the Department](/department/about/history)
[Message from the Chair](/department/about/introduction)
[Why major in German?](/programs/undergraduate/about-major)
## Events
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Goethe Seminar
The Routes of Poetry: Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan
February 27, 2026
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Spring 2026 Lecture Series
Reconstructing ‘Bioanalysis’: Freud, Ferenczi and the Discomfort with Heredity
March 23, 2026
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Film Screening
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
March 25, 2026
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Film Screening
Hitlerjunge Quex (1933)
April 7, 2026
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Spring 2026 Lecture Series
Political Leanings: The Queer Contrapposto of *Hitler Youth Quex*
April 13, 2026
## News
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Art Exhibition
[Special Exhibition Curated By Graduate Student Dennis Schäfer](/whats-on/news/special-exhibition-curated-graduate-student-dennis-schafer)
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Faculty Award
[Baylor Honors Princeton Professor with Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching](/whats-on/news/baylor-honors-princeton-professor-robert-foster-cherry-award-great-teaching)
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German Language Tables
[German Language Tables - Come and start a conversation!](/whats-on/news/german-language-tables-come-and-start-conversation-2)
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Faculty Article
[Sara S. Poor Elected Second Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America](/whats-on/news/sara-s-poor-elected-second-vice-president-medieval-academy-america)
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Student Award
[Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship Recipient - Erica Passoni](/whats-on/news/charlotte-elizabeth-procter-fellowship-recipient-erica-passoni)
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Summer Graduate Seminar
[CFA: LMU\_PU Summer Seminar - Lying and Deceiving in Poetics and Politics](/whats-on/news/cfa-lmupu-summer-seminar-lying-and-deceiving-poetics-and-politics)
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Faculty Distinction
["Two German Department faculty ranked as “The best German thinkers” by the FAZ"](/whats-on/news/two-german-department-faculty-ranked-best-german-thinkers-faz)
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Alumni
[Former German Major Leland Ko ’20 at Carnegie Hall](/whats-on/news/former-german-major-leland-ko-20-carnegie-hall)