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Henk de Berg next and the cover of his new book Trump and Hitles

Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying 

Prof. Henk de Berg explores one of today's most controversial topics -- the similarities and dissimilarities between Trump and Hitler.
Beech with dried tress in front with the sea in the distance

Waiting for the flood

Sean Williams turns to the pages of history and literature about the Wadden Sea – archipelagos along the coast of Northern Europe, stretching from the Netherlands to German and Denmark.

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Germany's colonial past

Kieran Howard was awarded a research grant to carry out doctoral research into how contemporary German literature confronts the nation's colonial past.
Cover of the publication Rethinking Ernst Bloch and a picture of Ernst Bloch

New collection of essays on Ernst Bloch by Henk de Berg

Professor Henk de Berg publishes an edited collection of essays on Ernst Bloch, one of the most significant European thinkers and public intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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Nina and friend sitting on the banks of the Neckarwiese in Heidelberg, looking to die Alte Brücke & Altstadt.

German Translation Competition 2023

Students of German in Years 12 and 13 in the UK are invited to submit their translation of the original short German text below. Get your entry in before midnight 26 November 2023.

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Winner of the Gibbons Prize: 'Make the most of your time at university'

We are delighted that Rachael Norman was awarded the prestigious Gibbons Prize for the best performance among all first-class Arts and Humanities students.
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Sheffield in winter with Eleanor on the right (Photo: Sophie Adams)

My First Year in Sheffield

What was your First Year studying with us like ? Do you feel at home? What is Sheffield like as a city? We asked Eleanor Lawrence to look back and share her experience.

groups of about 25 students in the Peak district

Herbstwanderung 2022

This year our Deutscher Verein and Nederlandse Vereniging couldn’t wait to get out into Sheffield’s beautiful countryside!
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My years in Sheffield and Germany

Sandeep Kaur looks back on her four years of studying German: "There is a high demand for German speakers".

Freud's couch covered in carpet

German Taster Session

The psychologist Sigmund Freud was one of the greatest German-language thinkers of the twentieth century. Join us on 26 April 2022 for a session on Freud and find out what studying German is like.
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Literature competition 2022

Organised by Austrian lecturers from 10 different universities, writeAUT is a literature competition running across the UK and Ireland which is open to all German language university students.
Group of students in a cafe setting for the German Coffee mornings

Our German language classes

German language classes at Sheffield range from beginners to specialists. One on our language tutors, Franziska Auer from Austria, offers a taste of her activities and argues that 'play' is a crucial part of language learning.

A group of german students on a night out. some wearing German traditional clothes

Relax: Have a Kaffee!

Every week the MLTC  German speaking team meet with students for two sessions of Kaffee und Kuchen. The formula is simple: grab a coffee (or any other drink), and join our chat in German.
Ben Lewis standing on road

Ben Lewis 'transforms' Oswald Spengler

Ben Lewis recently completed his PhD thesis on Oswald Spengler, author of one of the most influential books of the twentieth-century, "The Decline of the West".
Katherine Calvert

The Idealised Mother and the Socialist Movement in Weimar Germany: Public Lecture by Katherine Calvert (Germanic Studies), 22nd October 2020

Germanic Studies PhD candidate Katherine Calvert will give the 2020 Sylvia Naish Prize lecture online: 1.30pm-3pm, 22nd October 2020.

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An unusual way to practise German

Although Coronavirus has interrupted the Year Abroad in recent months, our students Rowan O’Donnell and Otto Weaver have found an unusual way to practise and improve their German.
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Why I stayed in Austria

I’d been working as an English language teaching assistant in Austria for approximately four weeks when the government closed schools and implemented a general lockdown at the beginning of March. That is when I decided to stay in Salzburg.
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Research Seminar: Sensory history

How do we incorporate our senses into our understanding of the past? Dr Marcel Thomas offered an online seminar on the effects of building noise in the Federal Republic, 1945-80.