German Department at UC Irvine

01/30/2022

Swedish “sticky” chocolate cake (Kladdkaka). Happy fika (coffee hour)!

01/06/2022

Halli-Hallo! How's your first week of winter quarter going? Anything you'd like to share?

12/06/2021

Happy second of Advent!
In many European countries, people light one candle on the four Sundays leading up to Christmas.

12/02/2021

BBC News - Merkel picks German punk singer Hagen for last serenade

Nina Hagen started out as a Schlager star and used her knowledge of stage presence and performance to move into the more overtly provacative punk scene. The move paid off. Publicly avant garde, she is one of the most recognized and cited figureheads of alternative culture around the globe.

Hildegard Knef, with her raspy, sultry voice, delivers the marvelous stuff of dreams gone by. This is the place where being and time meld.

These remarkable women stand in good company: the third piece selected is an 18th century hymn.

Nina Hagen's song will be played during a military ceremony in the outgoing chancellor's honour.

11/22/2021

Sign up for European Studies winter quarter courses now!

11/09/2021

Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu and Prof. Frank Wilderson in conversation at UC Irvine.

07/02/2021

Ja or Nein?

04/23/2021

Translation is a beautiful thing

03/07/2021

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Germans have a knack for stringing lots of words together to create new words. From Mundschutzmode to Coronamutationsgebiet, the pandemic has spawned a plethora of them.

02/08/2021

Two worlds collide and it’s amazing!✨🚀🧜
sings Disney





-WanKenobi

In this video I sing a selection from the great Film, the kleinstes Mermaid. When I first saw the film, I was being tortured by a group of partisans in what ...

01/07/2021

It's normal to feel stressed by the news coming out of our nation's capital. These UC Irvine Counseling Center tips from the 2020 election are relevant to the current situation: https://bit.ly/3olRGdL

A few tips:
-Focus on tasks that are within your control
-Connect with friends and family for emotional support
-Opt out of unproductive conversations

12/17/2020

To help make the European debate decent and civilised, it is now more important than ever to value the skills of the linguist