May 10, 2021
We are pleased to share this contributing post by Therese Decker, co-translator with Martin W. Walsh of the play Mariken van Nieumeghen (Mary of Nijmegen), which was published by Camden… READ MORE
February 15, 2021
1968. A ten-year-old boy picks up a ‘Hobby Buch’ in his local library, expecting a ‘Boys Own’ treat of exciting snippets of information about rocketry, technology, geography, plants and animals,… READ MORE
January 12, 2021
It was with great sadness that I learned of the death on December 5 of Theodore Ziolkowski, professor emeritus and former graduate dean at Princeton; prolific scholar of German Studies,… READ MORE
September 11, 2020
What is the state of German Studies as an academic discipline as we move deeper into the twenty-first century? How does it manifest nationally and globally, what fresh challenges await the discipline and how… READ MORE
June 25, 2020
I have long been fascinated by the extent to which Western culture generally and American popular culture specifically have been permeated by Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian elements: from the three Virgilian… READ MORE
November 29, 2019
One of the first three volumes in our new Camden House series German Film Classics is Christian Rogowski’s take on the 1987 filmic poem Wings of Desire. Here Dr. Rogowski… READ MORE
July 10, 2019
Indebted to Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, and Otto Dix, as well as the drawings of Adolf Menzel, Bernhard Heisig (1925-2011) was one of East Germany’s most important artists. Indeed, one… READ MORE
March 6, 2019
Camden House Editorial Director, Jim Walker, shares his recent experience attending the Sixth Biennial Workshop in German Jewish Studies at the University of Notre Dame from the 24th – 26th… READ MORE
February 14, 2019
German History in Context accepts proposals for monographs and edited collections on all aspects of modern German history. We especially encourage submissions on any aspect of post-1945 cultural, political, and… READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History