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The DAAD-University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies and the Centre for Geopolitics are delighted to welcome Professor Dirk Oschmann to Cambridge to give a lecture on ‘Has German Unification Failed?’. Professor Oschmann’s lecture will mainly deal with the question of ‘Belonging’: does East Germany belong to Germany at all? It will focus on the public discourse and its effects, a discourse that is dominated by West German perspectives, West German Media, West German politicians. Hence this framing produces multiple forms of separation and exclusion that are devastating for the social cohesion of the entire country. The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
About the Speaker
Professor Oschmann, born in 1967 in Gotha in East Germany, studied German, English, and American Literatures, received his PhD in 1998 in Jena and became a Professor for German Literature in 2011 in Leipzig. He taught as guest lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Kent in Canterbury, the UC Davis, the University of Notre Dame, and at Brown University. His main field of research is German Literature from the 18th to the 20th century. He has written and edited several books, among them: Poetry in Motion. Theory of Language and Poetics in Lessing, Schiller, and Kleist (2006); Freedom and Estrangement. Kafka’s Novels (2021); The East: a West-German Invention (2023).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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