DAAD Chair in Contemporary Poetics

Spring 2022

Jenny Erpenbeck

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: Millstones of history: East German writers reflecting hopes, losses, and guilt

Fridays 2:00 – 4:45pm, meets March 4 – April 25

Taught in English

PAST DAAD CHAIRS

FALL 2021

Marcel Beyer

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: Creating Reality: From a writer's point of view

Tuesdays 2:00 – 4:45pm, meets October – November

Taught in English

Spring 2020

Ann Cotten

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: What’s so political about formally innovative poetry? 

Mondays, 3:30 - 6:10pm, January 27- March 16th.

Taught in English

Spring 2019

Esther Dischereit
Topics in Modern German Literature: Fiction and Testimony: The Past in the Present

Taught in English

Spring 2018

Clemens Meyer
Topics in 20th Century German Culture: Auf der Suche nach der deutschen Moderne

Taught in English

Spring 2017

Katja Petrowskaja

Poetics & Theory Seminar: The Poetics of Memory

Taught in English

Spring 2016

Ilija Trojanow
Poetics & Theory Seminar: The Poetics and Politics of Walking

Taught in English

spring 2015

Yoko Tawada
Poetics & Theory Seminar: Wie denken Tiere?

Taught in German

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spring 2014

Emine Sevgi Oezdamar
Poetics & Theory Seminar: Auto Fiction: Writing the Self

Taught in German