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Carolin Duttlinger, Professor of German Literature and Culture and Fellow of Wadham College, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy along with five other Oxford academics in the humanities and social sciences.

5 Nov 2026

Illustration of Kapellmeister Kreisler tanzt im Wahnsinn'

International Conference at the Taylorian for E .T. A. Hoffmann's 250th birthday

The conference 'E. T. A.

9 Jul 2026

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LIDL Year Abroad Prizes 2026 Awarded!

Six students have been awarded funding to develop creative projects during their Year Abroad in a German-speaking country. The scheme supports creative, cultural, and research-based projects developed during students’ year abroad.

15 Jun 2026

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Research

Creative Multilingualism

The research was being conducted in the context of an unprecedented crisis in language learning in UK schools, which is in turn undermining the health of Modern Languages departments in universities.

German Research Seminar

The German Research seminar has this last year run three times per term bringing together colleagues from across the German Sub-Faculty also with gust from other Faculties e.g. History.

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Oxford Kafka Research Centre

The Oxford Kafka Research Centre aims to advance and co-ordinate research on Franz Kafka, and more generally on German-language and especially German-Jewish literature and culture in the period of Modernism.

Books

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All under One Roof

The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for Summer 2018

The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose 2004 Selected Poems received the coveted Schlegel Tieck Prize, returns with All under One Roof.

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Andere Wege: Gesammelte Gedichte

H. G. Adler was born in 1910 in Prague as the son of German-Jewish parents. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, and from 1944 to other camps including Auschwitz...

Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture

In our digital and interconnected world, attention is more important than ever, particularly for writers, scholars and artists, and yet it’s also a cognitive resource under unprecedented strain.