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The Department of German Language and Literatures invites you to a lecture by Professor David Chisolm, the Max Kade Distinguished Lecturer in German for 2012:

and Wozzeck: from Georg B to Alban Berg.

Professor Chisolm will discuss the evolution of from the historical figure who was publicly beheaded on the market square in Leipzig in 1824 for murdering his mistress in 1821, to Georg B play of 1836 1837 (based in part on medical evaluations of Woyzeck mental condition submitted to the court after the murder), to the first publication of the play as in 1879 and another edition in 1909, its first performance in Munich in 1913, and the premiere of Alban Berg opera in Berlin in 1925.

We will view or listen to excerpts from the opera and discuss the relationship between the fifteen scenes s Fitflop Sling Danmark elected by Alban Berg (from the published editions of B play) and the musical structure of these scenes. program in Transcultural German Studies. He has also taught at the University of Hamburg, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Illinois and the Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico. His teaching and research interests include German literary political cabaret, interrelationships between music and German literature, German lyric poetry, versification, and linguistic approaches to literature, and he has lectured on these topics at various universities in the United States and Europe. He h 2013 Fitflop Electra Slide as held Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships for research in Germany, and currently serves on the board of directors of the Executive Board of the Arizona chapter of the Fulbright Association. Among his publications are books on Goethe's Knittelvers, literary concordances to Goethe Faust, Erster Teil and the poetry of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer; and articles on a wide variety of topics including German cabaret, interrelationships between music and literature, and linguistic aspects of German and English poetry and prose. He has also translated German poetry, prose and radio plays into English, and is a contributor to the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and the Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. He is currently working on a history and anthology of German Knittelvers from the Middle Ages to the present.

The Department of German Language and Literatures at Oberlin College invites you to the Max Kade Distinguished Lecture for 2011 Professor Alvin Rosenfeld

it Possible to Understand the Germans? The Life and Writing of Primo Levi.

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Director of the university Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. He founded Indiana University well regarded Borns Jewish Studies Program and served as its director for 30 years. Indiana University Press published his Confronting the Holocaust: The Impact of Elie Wiesel (co edited with Irving Greenberg) in 1979 and, in 1980, published h is A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (the book has since appeared in German and Polish translations; a Hungarian translation is forthcoming). With his wife, Erna Rosenfeld, he translated Gunther Schwarberg The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm, a book on Nazi medical atrocities published by the Indiana University Press in 1984. His Imagining Hitler was published by Indiana University Press in 1985 (available also in a Japanese translation). He edited Thinking About the Holocaust: After Half a Century (Indiana University Press, 1997), a collection of articles by 13 scholars, which includes his essay, Americanization of the Holocaust. His most recent study, The End of the Holocaust, is due to be published in 2011. In recent years, he has also written about contemporary antisemitism, and some of his articles on this subject have evoked intense debate. He is also editor of a series of books on Jewish Literature and Culture published by Indiana University Press.