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Teaching Environments: Workshop on German Ecological Thought in the Classroom

5 May 2022

Teaching Environments: Workshop on German Ecological Thought in the Classroom On April 11, 2022, the German and Dutch Graduate Students Association of the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosted a virtual workshop…

Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German Special Section on “Sustainability and Community Engagement in German Studies”

1 February 2022

Kiley Kost, Dan Nolan, and Seth Peabody served as co-curators for a section of essays entitled “Sustainability and Community Engagement in German Studies” in the Fall 2021 issue of the…

Virtual Exhibition: Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur

10 November 2021

The virtual exhibition “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur: Ein kuratierter Spaziergang durch eine Geschichte der Verwicklungen” on the Rachel Carson Center’s Environment and Society Portal was curated by…

Syllabus: Thinking Green: Sustainability, Literature, and Culture in Germany

27 August 2021

Target Level English, B1-B2, C1-C2 Description The following is a course description and reading list from a course I developed and taught over Zoom in Spring 2021. The class was…

Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s “Der Tunnel”

8 July 2021

Wir bewegen uns auf Schienen, der Tunnel muss also irgendwo hinführen. Friedrich Dürrenmatt Target Level: B1-B2, C1-C2 Description: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s short story “Der Tunnel” lends itself well to textual analysis…

Syllabus: Catastrophe! Natural Disaster in German Literature

12 April 2021

Target Level: B1-B2, C1-C2 Description: The following is a course description and reading list from a German literature course I developed and taught in Winter 2020. The class was a…

City Symphony Film Project

12 March 2021

Level: seminar in English, cross-listed between German and Environmental Studies, intermediate (200-level) Description The materials linked here were used for a creative assignment in a class about environmental film and…

Arbeitsblatt zu Raabes “Pfisters Mühle”

3 March 2021

Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle (1884) is often identified as the first “Umwelt-Roman.” Published in 1884, the text is an important source that illustrates and highlights the complex social and industrial processes that were enabled by the industrialization at that time. Reading Pfisters Mühle in the German classroom can be one way to introduce students simultaneously to a German classic and to important questions concerning sustainability.

Creative environmental communication project

20 February 2021

Target Level: B2 Description: This project first guides students to examine a number of creative videos dealing with environmental topics. Then, in a small-group project, students create their own videos.…

Reading Guide for Franz Hohler’s “Die Rückeroberung” (1982)

10 February 2021

In this short story the city of Zürich is gradually taken over by animals and plants native to the area.

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