The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures proudly salutes the student recipients of its annual awards.

Kate Greer (photo left) was selected to receive the first Wolfgang Fleischhauer Award, established in honor of a professor of German linguistics at Ohio State from 1936-1978. This award, generously funded by the Robert F. Gagel/Margo Cox Endowment Fund, provides approximately $1,000 to support a German major’s senior-year study. Kate is double majoring in German and History. She spearheaded the creation of the Seal of Biliteracy. In 2016, Kate testified before the Ohio House Education committee, urging lawmakers to adopt the Seal of Biliteracy, which is attached to the high school transcript or diploma of students who show proficiency in a foreign language. And now she is working towards this goal at Ohio State!

Jonathan Lee received the 2018 Dieter Cunz Award for the outstanding undergraduate student with a major or minor in German. Jonathan is a double major in German and Chinese. He is a thoughtful and hardworking student who pursues a broad range of academic interests with verve and vigor.

Lauren Schefsky, double major in German and International Studies, was awarded the Ilsedore Edse Scholarship in the amount of $750. This summer, she will intern at the U.S. Department of State at the largest U.S. Consulate in the world (Frankfurt a/M). Lauren will conduct outreach activities, organize roundtables and other events for US officials, and engage with German audiences.

Mitchell Walker, a Physics major who minors in German, won the Undergraduate Project Award in German for his excellent video 'Die Ökumene in Deutschland,' filmed in Germany.

Our graduate students were also honored at the Awards Celebration.

Carolin Mueller was selected as this year's recipient of the Graduate Associate Distinguished Teaching Award for her extremely engaging, interactive, and supportive teaching, sense of responsibility and commitment, strong student evaluations, and original syllabus design around the topic migration in Germany. Caro considers her students the most valuable resources in teaching. She wrote, "My ideal classroom makes students co-designers of their own learning experience."

Gina Wrobel won the Graduate Service Award for her exemplary work with the GGSA, the GAC, and FLRT (Foreign Language Research and Teaching) reading groups, workshop, and symposium.

Dennis Schaefer won the Graduate Seminar Paper Award for "Moments of Modernity: Towards a Definition of Modernity with Nietzsche and Marx."

Congratulations to all of our winners!