Writers-in-Residence Program

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      Since 1992, the German Department at Allegheny College has been able to offer a writer-in-residence program. Generously supported by a grant from the Max Kade Foundation (New York), every fall semester a writer from a German-speaking country comes to Meadville to teach a course in creative writing. The class is well-suited for students of German in their third and fourth years. Student response has been enthusiastic. Finding ways to express oneself creatively in a foreign language has been a singular opportunity. Also, since the writer lives in the German House, contacts outside of the classroom are numerous and open up conversations on political, cultural, and social topics in Germany, Switzerland or Austria. So far, the following writers have been appointed as Max Kade writers-in-residence:

 

2008 Petra Morsbach (Munich)
2007 Richard Pietraß (Berlin)
2006 Hans-Michael Speier (Berlin)
2005 Liane Dirks (Cologne)
2004 Sherko Fatah (Berlin)
2003 Margret Kreidl (Salzburg)
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2002 Peter Stamm (Winterhur)
2001 Tanja Dückers (Berlin)
2000 Renate Welsh (Vienna)
1999 Jürg Amann (Zurich)
1998 Rudolf Bussmann (Basel)
1997 Anna Mitgutsch (Linz)
1996 Klaus Modick (Hamburg)
1995 Reinhold Batberger (Frankfurt)
1994 Elisabeth Reichart (Vienna)
1993 Walther Petri (Berlin)
1992 Rolf Niederhauser (Basel)