Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston The Department offers a Major in German, a Minor in German, and a Minor in German Studies.
The Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston is the youngest department in the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs and provides students with opportunities to study the language, literature, cinema and culture of German-speaking Europe and Russia. America has many long-established social and cultural ties with the nations of the German-speaking world: Aust
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06/18/2024
Final intern Dylan, was placed at the Baden Württemberg state office for sustainable mobility housed at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe. A double Computer Science and German major, Dylan will work with his team on rating the walksbility and bikeability of microregions around the state.
06/17/2024
Trey King, an International Business and German Studies double major is doing his internship at SRAM in the Bavarian city of Schweinfurt. SRAM the industry leader in high performance, precision bicycle components. Trey will rotate through after marketing sales, logistics, research and development and warrantee servicing. Thanks to Trey and his supervisors for giving Herr DL a comprehensive tour and the opportunity to shadow the day to day workings of this exciting company.
06/14/2024
Herr DL is making his rounds to the first students participating the Summer Internship Program in Germany. On his first stop to Berlin, , he's visited Jalena Austen, a Computer Science and German Studies Major doing coding for the European Institute for Participatory Media, Yesterday was spent with Alex Geis, a Business Major with a concentration in Logistics (along with German studies as a minor) who is working at Tree Logistics, a partner in the Amazon organization that facilitates environmentally sustainable delivery.
Of course no experience in Germany is complete without a little Gemuetlichkeit in an old Berliner pub. Congratulations to both of these students for their flexibility, tenacity, willingness to learn and enthusiasm --on the side of both them and their respective employers!
04/25/2024
Congratulations to all 14 of our high achieving German Majors and Minors inducted into the Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society this week!
04/14/2024
04/09/2024
Congratulations to Max Moore '24, German and Spanish double major, who has been accepted to the Goethe-Institut Sommerakademie in Dresden!
Grüß bitte den Zwinger, die Frauenkirche sowie die Semperoper von uns!
03/31/2024
Many thanks to Will Evans of Deep Vellum Publishing for a fascinating talk about "The Business of Literature"!
03/19/2024
Join us on March 28th at 3:30pm for a wonderful event with translator, publisher and entrepreneur Will Evans. He will talk about founding Deep Vellum, which is currently the largest publishing house for translated literature in the U.S.
02/19/2024
Stammtisch is meeting at 5pm at Kudu Coffee every Wednesday. Come join us!
Come work with us! The Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of German. Application review begins February 26th.
Come work with us! The Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of German beginning August 16, 2024.
10/27/2023
We cannot thank Stephanie-Lahya Aukongo enough for her masterful and moving performance of selected poems at the College of Charleston yesterday!
This event would not have been possible without the generous support of the German Embassy Washington as well as the Program in African Studies, in African American Studies, the German Program, and the Program in Women‘s and Gender Studies.
A special thank you to Dr. Nancy Nenno for organizing the event and to her students for translating Lahya‘s poems for the audience!
10/19/2023
We are very excited to welcome Stephanie-Lahya Ndeshipewa Aukongo on campus on Wednesday, 25 October 2023:
Namibian-(East)German poet, Q***r activist, disability advocate, and artist Lahya Aukongo recounts her memories and experiences of growing up in the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s. In her deeply personal spoken-word poetry, which has been described as “written for everyone – as a declaration of love, as gentle admonition, as protest,” Lahya vividly narrates her story in English, German, and Oshivambo, linking her lived experience to the heretofore unacknowledged legacy of colonialism and anti-Black racism in Germany. Her reading at the College of Charleston will be her first public reading in the United States.
The Reading will begin at 2:30 pm in Arnold Hall. Please plan to arrive between 2 and 2:30 pm!
A Discussion in English and a small Reception will follow the reading.
Lahya Aukongo's visit is generously sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and its annual “Germany on Campus” program. This event has also received support and funding from the Program in African Studies, the Program in African American Studies, the German Program, and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies. We are grateful to all who have contributed to making this event a reality. A very special thank you to our colleague Dr. Nancy Nenno for introducing Lahya and her masterful poetry to our campus community!
10/03/2023
We are very much looking forward to this talk on Thursday at 3:15 pm and hope that you can join!
09/07/2023
Earlier today, Drs. Irina Erman and Kessi Kuhn had a great time showcasing the German and Russian Department at the LCWA event. If you haven’t heard this abbreviation before: LCWA stands for the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs. Students were eager to learn more about the different language programs, our amazing colleagues, courses, study abroad opportunities, events, and more. It was wonderful to meet them and we hope to see them again soon in our classes!
08/31/2023
We are excited to invite you to the following Zoom event on September 5:
08/24/2023
The students in Herr DL’s class did concept maps on day 2 of his Contemporary German Issues class. All of them were great and point to a great Fall 2023 semester.
06/27/2023
Claire Beck ’23 (Urban Studies and German Studies) interns at the non-profit “Nachbarschaft” in Kreuzberg, Berlin | germanrussiannews Claire Beck ’23 (Urban Studies and German Studies) interns at the non-profit “Nachbarschaft” in Kreuzberg, Berlin Leave a reply Urban Studies major and German Studies minor Claire Beck ’23 is interning this summer at the Nachbarschaft Community Center in Kreuzberg, Berlin. As part of her wor...
06/20/2023
Julia Rhyne ’25 (Music and German Studies) interns at Berliner Philharmonie Media | germanrussiannews Julia Rhyne ’25 (Music and German Studies) interns at Berliner Philharmonie Media Leave a reply CofC Music major and German Studies Minor Julia Rhyne is enjoying her fabulous internship at Berlin Phil Media, the social media arm of the world-renowned Berliner Philharmoniet. Julia is part of a team...
06/15/2023
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germanrussiannews | Just another College of Charleston Blogs site Chloe Goff, International Studies and German Studies double major, interns in international development aid in Munich Leave a reply Chloe Goff ’25, German and International Studies double major, is interning this summer in international developmental aid in Munich. She is working for Menschen für...
05/16/2023
The academic year 2022/2023 might have come to an end, but the impact of our students on the Charleston community prevails. Students in Dr. Koellner's Hons 390: Borders, Arts and Migration did not only learn academically about issues of forced migration, borders, and the arts, but also were able to discuss Sam Zamrik's poetry with the author in class and hear from Lutheran Services Carolinas about refugee resettlement in Charleston. In support of the Charleston refugee community students packed welcome packages and raised awareness of forced migration by distributing Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone, Sam Zamrik's Ich bin nicht, and Abbas Khider's A Slap in the Face to Free Little Libraries all over town in an attempt to create a cultural memory of Hons390 and share it with the greater Charleston community.
04/01/2023
Today Professor Stephen Della Lana attended the annual conference of the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters at CofC . . . his popular class GRMN 333, Translation for the Professions, which includes online collaboration between his students and translation students from the Netherlands,will be offered against in spring 2024!
03/03/2023
German Studies and International Business double major Zachary Clawson is having a grand time on his yearlong exchange at the University of Tübingen and had also gotten a good deal of travel in, as you can see from the below pictures from Oktoberfest and Budapest! This month he's taking an intensive language class and then in April semester #2, the Sommersemester, begins--wir beneiden dich, Zach!
03/03/2023
Congrats to Anna Kelley '22 on completing the German Major and Linguistics Minor at CofC this December, the final semesters all completed while an exchange student at the University of Tübingen while she and her family live in the Stuttgart area. (The diploma just arrived in Germany in the mail yesterday!)
01/18/2023
Today the German Consul General from Atlanta, Melanie Moltmann), joined by Honorary Consul General General of Charleston Elizabeth Gibbes, met with several of our German Studies Majors for lunch. We look forward to welcoming her back sometime in the near future for a public lecture!
01/17/2023
Baker Garland '22 is continuing to make the most her CBYX Fellowshipo year journey studying Exercise Science in Saarbrücken. See he November and December update here! https://bakergarland.wordpress.com
Exercise Science/Sports Science Student in Germany This is a place where I plan to document my year in Germany as a member of the 39th CBYX Young Professionals cohort and as an Exercise Science/Sports Science student.
12/07/2022
Last night, 70+ audience members enjoyed the performance "Justice Matters!", written, directed and performed by the amazing students of German 468 as their final class project. Thanks to everyone who came and congratulations to the students on the audacious, provocative, and entertaining performance!
11/29/2022
This Monday, December 5th, at 7pm, this semester's GRMN 468 class presents their final project "Justice Matters," a 60 minute performance in German with stagings of and/or student reactions to works by German language authors Franz Kafka, Nora Abdel-Maksoud, Phillip Koepsell, Burhan Qurbani, and Elfriede Jelinek. Subtitles in English provided. The performance is at 213 Harborwalk, 360 Concord St. near the aquarium
11/28/2022
Please join us for a conversation with Becca Watson, GrowFood Carolina Farm Coordinator on December 1, at either 10:00 am or 10:50 am in Maybank 222. Becca Watson is going to introduce us to GrowFoods, which " provides local farmers the sales, marketing, logistics, warehousing and distribution functions they need and that previously have been available only to large-scale industrial farms." With our conversation, we will reflect upon the sustainable solutions presented in the film "Zeit für Utopien" at the local level. For further info: https://www.coastalconservationleague.org/projects/growfood/
German Embassy Washington
Sponsored by The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Washington and the College of Charleston Department of German and Russian present
The Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston is the youngest department in the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs and provides students with opportunities to study the language, literature, cinema and culture of German-speaking Europe and Russia.
America has many long-established social and cultural ties with the nations of the German-speaking world: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Today, a knowledge of German has become important for anyone engaged in international commerce, research and technology. The Department offers a Major in German, a Minor in German, and a Minor in German Studies.
The Russian Studies program offers a multidisciplinary course of study, which combines the Russian language with courses related to Russian civilization, culture, history, politics and economic. A primarymajor goal is to provide an understanding of the relationship between the United States and Russia in the aftermath of the Cold War. The Department offers a Minor in Russian Studies.
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Both German and Russian programs offer a full range of extra-curricular activities
in which students and faculty participate.
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