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German Play: "Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung" by Ödön von Horvath to be performed at Clifton High School on 24 and 25 February 2010. More details to follow.
2010 Postgraduate Masters Scholarship in German

Bristol's German Department has a high reputation for teaching and research. We attract highly qualified students who study a broadly based but flexible curriculum. At its core is a well-established language teaching programme, but the Bristol Department also covers:

literary studies from the medieval period to the present day,
German and Austrian history and politics,
medieval studies,
linguistics, and
cultural studies.

Photo of Department Building The teaching programme combines an introduction to the key disciplines within German studies, as well as the opportunity to follow an unusually wide range of options geared to personal interests. There is an active students' German Society, which organises regular cultural and social events and visits to German cities, and produces a German play every year.

Winning Poem by Bristol Student Andrew Beck

Read the poem which won one of three prizes in a national competition organised by the DAAD

Winning Essay by Bristol Graduate Faith Dennis

In the recent DAAD student essay competition Bristol student Faith Dennis (B.A. in German and Portuguese, now studying at the FU Berlin) won a prize with her contribution subsequently published by Der Spiegel. Read her brilliant piece by following this link:

Der Spiegel June 2005 - "But don't mention the war": Hunting for Sausage and Sauerkraut in Berlin

Geschichten aus dem ersten Jahr

A collection of short stories by our Year One students (2005/06) can be downloaded here. (257kb pdf file) Please note that this downloadable version does not contain any of the pictures.