- $141,320
Germany's Cosmopolitan Capital: Berlin and the Myth of German Monoculturalism
Recipient: Shandley, Robert R (College Station, TX 77843-4215 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843 USA)
Goal: A five-week school teacher seminar for sixteen participants to study Germany's cosmopolitan society over the past two centuries, to be held in Berlin.
Description: This seminar uses writers and film makers associated with Berlin, the city's museums, neighborhoods, and larger cultural scene to explore how German society's sense of itself has been tested and enriched by its encounters with migrants during the past two centuries. Participants will use the tools of the humanities to contrast the twin myths of German homogeneity and German monoculturalism with the literary and social reality of Germany's cosmopolitan capital. Locating the seminar in Berlin will let participants make the leap from intellectual awareness to a genuine understanding of contemporary German culture. Our objects of inquiry include an 18th-century French migrant to Berlin, who became a key author in Germany's Romantic tradition and a number of Berlin's German-Jewish authors. The seminar also focuses on the Turkish Germans, and includes a Russian Jew and Berlin resident, now one of the most popular chroniclers of "multi-cultural Germany."
Grant: 197398 / FV-50225-09, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2009 - $185,497
German Exile Culture in California: European Traditions and American Modernity
Recipient: Berman, Russell (Stanford, CA 94305-2031 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)
Goal: A six-week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty on the cultural experience and contributions of German artists, writers, and musicians who fled Nazi Germany to settle in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s.
Description: This seminar for college teachers examines the complex cultural interactions that took place when German writers, artists and musicians who had fled Nazi Germany encountered American culture during the 1930s and 1940s. In particular, the seminar focuses on German intellectuals who gathered in the Los Angeles area, including the novelist Thomas Mann, the playwright Bertolt Brecht, film directors Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder, the actress Marlene Dietrich, the philosopher Theodor Adorno, and the composers Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler. Their works display rich tensions between their European heritages and their encounters with American democracy, in particular the "mass culture" of the film industry. Grateful for the refuge they found, the exiles engaged in thoughtful reflections on the cultural distance between their background and the American they experienced, especially with regard to problems of art and politics, democracy, and modernism.
Grant: 191901 / FS-50178-08, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2008 - $130,000
Arranging, Describing, and Creating Access to the Papers of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1883-1977
Recipient: Shawcross, Nancy M (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)
Goal: The arrangement, description, and preservation as well as the creation of an online finding aid for the papers of Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and her husband, the playwright and novelist Franz Werfel (1890-1945).
Grant: 168013 / PA-50640-04, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2004 - $112,790
Dictionary of Old High German [OHGED]
Recipient: Lloyd, Albert L (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)
Goal: The completion of the third volume of a multi-volume etymological dictionary of Old High German (ca. 750 to 1150 A.D).
Grant: 158354 / PA-24189-02, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2002 - $109,860
Dictionary of Old High German [OHGED]
Recipient: Lloyd, Albert L (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)
Goal: To support the preparation of volume three of the proposed eight-volume dictionary of Old High German.
Grant: 158034 / PA-23384-99, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 1999 - $180,000
Post Wall Germany: Integrating Post-Unification German Culture into the High School Classroom
Recipient: Byg, Barton (Amherst, MA 01003 USA) in affiliation with University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Goal: To support a four-week institute for 25 high school teachers to study ways of integrating post-unification German culture into the classroom.
Grant: 143640 / ES-23041-97, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1997 - $300,000
Designing, Teaching, Training and Re-Training: A Model Curriculum in German from Zero Knowledge to PhD Orals
Recipient: James, Dorothy (New York, NY 10021 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College
Goal: To support a three-year project to articulate an eight-year sequence of study in German from beginning undergraduate levels through graduate training at two four-year colleges, a two-year college, and a graduate school in New York.
Grant: 142153 / EF-20268-95, Division: Education Programs, Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education, Year Awarded: 1995 - $210,000
German Across the Curriculum: Reintegrating the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Recipient: Berwick, Roswitha (Claremont, CA 91711 USA) in affiliation with Pomona College
Goal: To support a three-year project to develop German language components for eighthumanities and social science courses and to integrate languages into the disciplines at Pomona, Scripps, and Claremont McKenna Colleges.
Grant: 142163 / EF-20288-95, Division: Education Programs, Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education, Year Awarded: 1995 - $202,000
Berliner Sehen: A Hypermedia Documentary
Recipient: Crocker, Ellen (Cambridge, MA 02139 USA) in affiliation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Goal: To support a two-year project to produce an interactive computer-based language learning system for use with beginning to advanced students in German.
Grant: 142157 / EF-20276-95, Division: Education Programs, Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education, Year Awarded: 1995 - $155,000
Language through Content: Content through Language: Teaching German Across the Curriculum
Recipient: Grandin, John M (Kingston, RI 02881-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI 02881 USA)
Goal: To support a four-week institute for teams of faculty members in German and other disciplines, on theoretical and practical approaches to integrating German into German coursework in various subjects.
Grant: 142144 / EF-20223-94, Division: Education Programs, Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education, Year Awarded: 1994 - $224,525
Dictionary of Old High German [OHGED]
Recipient: Lloyd, Albert L (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)
Goal: To support preparation of volume 3 of the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF OLD HIGH GERMAN, a dictionary of the language attested in German literary texts from ca. 750 to 1150.
Grant: 161356 / RT-21437-93, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Tools, Year Awarded: 1993 - $107,332
Inventing Germany: Cultural Symbols and National Fictions
Recipient: Berman, Russell (Stanford, CA 94305-2031 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)
Grant: 151386 / FS-22505-93, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1993 - $171,618
Dictionary of Old High German [OHGED]
Recipient: Lloyd, Albert L (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)
Goal: To support work on the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF OLD HIGH GERMAN, which will provide the first complete documentation of the German language for the period ca. 750 to A.D. 1150.
Grant: 161321 / RT-21275-91, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Tools, Year Awarded: 1991 - $33,184
A Computer Concordance to Freud's GESAMMELTE WERKE
Recipient: Parrish, Stephen M (Ithaca, NY 14853-0000 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA)
Goal: To support the preparation of a concordance to the complete writings of SigmundFreud.
Grant: 161295 / RT-21171-90, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Tools, Year Awarded: 1990 - $149,730
Dictionary of Old High German [OHGED]
Recipient: Lloyd, Albert L (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)
Goal: To support work on the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF OLD HIGH GERMAN.
Grant: 161270 / RT-21057-89, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Tools, Year Awarded: 1989 - $89,658
Concepts and Ideas of German Drama
Recipient: Hinderer, Walter H (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University
Grant: 151153 / FS-21854-88, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1988 - $164,385
Dictionary of Old High German [OHGED]
Recipient: Lloyd, Albert L (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)
Goal: To support work on the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF OLD HIGH GERMAN.
Grant: 161214 / RT-20793-87, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Tools, Year Awarded: 1987 - $150,429
A Novel Learning Community for Rural Teachers of Foreign Language
Recipient: Alexander, Loren R (Manhattan, KS 66506-0000 USA) in affiliation with Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS 66506 USA)
Goal: To support a four-week institute for 32 secondary school German and Spanish teachers in rural areas. Staff visits, pre- and post-institute conferences, andten telecommunication sessions will focus on German and Hispanic cultures.
Grant: 143188 / ES-21405-87, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1987 - $70,965
Literature, Culture, and Language Institute for High School Teachers of German
Recipient: Erhardt, Jacob (New Wilmington, PA 16172 USA) in affiliation with Westminster College
Goal: To support a four-week institute and extensive follow-up activities on German literature and culture for 25 language teachers.
Grant: 125459 / ES-21238-86, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1986 - $55,916
The Tales of the Brother Grimm: Discovering Their Literary and Cultural Significance
Recipient: Haase, Donald (Detroit, MI 48202-0000 USA) in affiliation with Wayne State University (Detroit, MI 48202 USA)
Grant: 132031 / FV-20637-86, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1986 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category German Language; items 1-21 of 30 with a total funding of $2,944,209.