- $172,804
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 will examine 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. The German exile community in Los Angeles is especially interesting because of the confrontation between "old-world" understandings of culture and the very different presuppositions underlying the cultural habits of American democracy. The seminar will study works by the novelist Thomas Mann, the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, the philosopher and essayist Theodor Adorno, the film director Fritz Lang, and the composers Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler. The seminar therefore spans several humanities areas: literature, theater, philosophy, cinema and music. We will address underlying issues: the conflict between European cultural conservatism and American democracy, modernism and mass culture, and the larger relationship between the arts and politics.
Grant: 182058 / FS-50091-06, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2006 - $150,143
Melting Pot Vienna: Then and Now
Recipient: Kecht, Maria-Regina Josefine (Houston, TX 77005-1892 USA) in affiliation with Rice University (Houston, TX 77251 USA)
Goal: A four-week institute for twenty-five college teachers, conducted in German, drawing on works of literature and studies of migration and ethnicity, in order to examine both the benefits and the tensions arising from the mix of cultures and nationalities in Vienna in the twentieth century.
Description: Vienna as a ‘case study’ illustrating the tremendous contribution immigrants have made to modern Europ. societies; the complexity of a city—derived from the multi-ethnic, socio-economic, and political-ideological diversity of its population.Understanding the people of Vienna and the urban culture they have created through the last century will allow participants to reorient their intellectual perceptions.Through readings and filmviewings, scholarly presentations by Austrian experts on questions of migration and multi-ethnicity, as well as site visits to historically important, topically relevant Viennese facilities, we will offer participants the opportunity to develop fresh insights into an academically as well as socially exciting topic.
Grant: 176821 / EH-50050-05, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers, Year Awarded: 2005 - $184,942
Terror and Culture: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM
Recipient: Berman, Russell (Stanford, CA 94305-2031 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)
Goal: A six-week summer seminar for college teachers on the relationship between culture and totalitarianism, primarily in Nazi Germany, based on an examination of Hannah Arendt's ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM and related texts.
Grant: 171905 / FS-50032-04, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2004 - $99,040
Berlin 2000: Literature, Culture and Politics from ZERO HOUR to the BERLIN REPUBLIC
Recipient: Mews, Siegfried (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3160 USA) in affiliation with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA)
Grant: 151612 / FS-23185-99, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1999 - $97,096
Bertolt Brecht: The Berlin Years
Recipient: Mews, Siegfried (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3160 USA) in affiliation with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA)
Grant: 151585 / FS-23102-97, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1997 - $155,000
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 national summer institute on contemporary German society and culture for 25 high school teachers of German.
Grant: 143619 / ES-22898-95, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1995 - $50,326
Masochism: An Introduction to Freud Studies
Recipient: Gilman, Sander L (Atlanta, GA 30322-0660 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA)
Grant: 151470 / FS-22736-95, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1995 - $57,365
Goethe as Poet and Scientist
Recipient: Fink, Karl J (Northfield, MN 55057 USA) in affiliation with St. Olaf College
Grant: 154559 / FV-21880-94, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1994 - $104,735
The City and Modernity: Film, Literature, and Urban Culture in the Weimar Republic
Recipient: Kaes, Anton (Berkeley, CA 94720-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Grant: 151440 / FS-22658-93, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1993 - $83,248
The Writer and the Socialist State
Recipient: Bathrick, David (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University
Grant: 151447 / FS-22679-93, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1993 - $58,226
German Literature in Exile in the U.S. after 1933
Recipient: Spalek, John M (Albany, NY 12222 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Goal: To support the completion of the third volume of a guide to the papers of German intellectuals who emigrated to the United States as a result of the Nazi takeover.
Grant: 159700 / RG-20059-93, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Guides, Year Awarded: 1993 - $76,705
Goethe's FAUST and Thomas Mann's DOKTOR FAUSTUS
Recipient: Boerner, Peter (Bloomington, IN 47401-0000 USA) in affiliation with Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN 47405 USA)
Grant: 154379 / FV-21486-92, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1992 - $154,667
Tension Between the Individual and Society: The Teaching of German Literature, Culture, and Language
Recipient: Erhardt, Jake (New Wilmington, PA 16172-0000 USA) in affiliation with Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA 16172 USA)
Goal: To support a five-week national institute, with study in Berlin, for 25 high school German teachers on German literature, language, and culture.
Grant: 143399 / ES-22208-91, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1991 - $102,960
The City and Modernity: Film, Literature, and Urban Culture in the Weimar Republic
Recipient: Kaes, Anton (Berkeley, CA 94720-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Grant: 151362 / FS-22430-91, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1991 - $89,696
Modernity and Its Discontents: Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the Weimar Republic
Recipient: Kaes, Anton (Berkeley, CA 94720-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Grant: 151293 / FS-22253-91, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1991 - $339,345
HORSPIEL (Sound Play): Adaptations of German Radio Drama
Recipient: Frost, Everett C (New York, NY 10003 USA) in affiliation with Voices (New York, NY 10012 USA)
Goal: To support production of a 13-part radio series in English of postwar German radio dramas and planning for a production of Muricio Kagel's award-winning play, THE INVERSION OF THE AMERICAS.
Grant: 156654 / GN-23861-89, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1989 - $73,733
Modernity and its Discontents: Film, Literature, and Myth in the Weimar Republic
Recipient: Kaes, Anton (Berkeley, CA 94720-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Grant: 151160 / FS-21883-89, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1989 - $121,841
Institute on German Literature, Culture, and Language
Recipient: Erhardt, Jake (New Wilmington, PA 16172-0000 USA) in affiliation with Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA 16172 USA)
Goal: To support a four-week immersion institute, including study in Berlin, on German literature, language, and culture for 25 U.S. high school teachers.
Grant: 143241 / ES-21580-88, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1988 - $46,349
DAUGHTERS OF EVE: Contemporary Women Writers of the German Democratic Republic
Recipient: Lukens, Nancy (Durham, NH 03824-3596 USA) in affiliation with University of New Hampshire, Durham (Durham, NH 03824 USA)
Goal: To support the preparation of the first English-language anthology of short prose by the current generation of East German women writers.
Grant: 160105 / RL-21278-88, Division: Research Programs, Program: Translations, Year Awarded: 1988 - $20,000
Hoerspiel USA
Recipient: Frost, Everett C (New York, NY 10003 USA) in affiliation with Voices (New York, NY 10012 USA)
Goal: To support planning for a 13-part radio series of one- and two-hour programs presenting English-language productions of radio dramas written by 20th-centuryGerman authors.
Grant: 156564 / GN-23313-88, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1988 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category German Literature; items 1-21 of 41 with a total funding of $2,238,221.