Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Shining Sheep has been longlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize 2025
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Karen Leeder has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2025 with her translation of Durs Grünbein, Psyche Running: Selected Poems 2005-2022 (Seagull Books 2024).
Kirstin Gwyer has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26.
Karen Leeder discusses The Café with No Name with Austrian Writer for Oxford Literary Festival Thursday 3rd April, 2 pm 1 hour Bodleian Convocation House £8 £15 tickets here International bestselling Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler talks about his late
Karen Leeder has been longlisted for the prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize 2025 with her translation of Psyche Running.
February 21 -22 in Freiburg, Germany https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/colloquium-and-concert-celebrate-the-work-of-almut-suerbaum/
The Oxford Kafka Research Centre is delighted to announce its Undergraduate Kafka Essay Prize competition
The Franz Kafka Exhibition is now open in New York until 13th April 2025, and Professor Barry Murnane, Associate Professor of German, MML, attended the opening weekend.
2024 marks the 26th year for the NTA, and the 10th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose.
Oxford MML alumna Dr Kelsey Rubin-Detlev has been awarded a Level II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant.
Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Shining Sheep has been longlisted for the award.
The panel discussion ‘Hunger Artistry: Kafka and the Art of Starvation’ which took place in May is now available online.
Professor Karen Leeder has been awarded a residency to translate Durs Grünbein in his home town.
To mark the centenary of the death of Franz Kafka, Oxford University is joining together in an initiative called #OxfordReadsKafka.
Professor Karen Leeder has been longlisted for the Dublin Literature Award for her translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's 'Monsters Like Us'.
Traces of the White Rose is a new podcast co-hosted by Dr Alexandra Lloyd, featuring translations by Oxford languages students.
The MML Faculty has secured a new donation from the Dieter Schwarz Foundation to support Oxford students to take German from scratch.
Dr Karolina Watroba was on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’, discussing Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’.
2023 marks the first year that prospective students can apply to study Beginners’ German as part of Joint Schools degrees.