Tag: Germanist
Uwe Timm on the death of the Germanist Ulrich Dittmann – Culture
The friend, literary scholar and citizen Ulrich Dittmann died in an accident on February 7th. In the evening he had visited the Oskar Maria Graf regulars’ meeting in Munich, which…
Obituary for Eckhard Heftrich, Germanist and Thomas Mann researcher – culture
In its Introductory speech at the German Academy German scholar Eckhard Heftrich described the uncompromising rejection of the Nazi regime in his parents’ house as a biographical stroke of luck.…
Germanist Oxana Matiychuk on the situation in Ukraine – culture
My hometown of Chernivtsi/Chernivtsi is located on the south-western tip of Ukraine, in the northern part of the historical region of Bukovina, the EU border with Romania is 40 kilometers…