CSB/SJU German Newsletter May 2007

Professor Gregory Schroeder and His Family Head to Salzburg with
Fifteen CSB/SJU Students

Student Members of the Salzburg Program Include
Sara Allen, Nick Elsen, Nicole Bach, Melissa Hendrickx, Laura Ruprecht, Jason Fluto, Josephine Hall, Gregory Nordlund, Emily Karnas, David McKay, Candice Kamke, Brian Downes, Ben Bartelt, Brittany Boll, Audrey Gabe.

Professor Schroeder is a lover of all things Austrian and is especially fond of the beauty of Salzburg and the opportunities we have developed in the thirty years we have been at the University. Our professors there are stellar and our small class sizes give students the chance engage intensely with the language and cultures of Germany and Austria. Schroeder's emphasis in his teaching will be on Austrian identity from the era of the Hapsburg Empire to the present. he will also be introducing a new immersion course on Austrian culture and language. This is Professor Schroeder's third time directing the program for CSB/SJU students, having gone with other groups in 2001 and 2004. Zukunftige Salzburger and Herr Professor Doktor Schroeder, how lucky you are to spend fall term in this most beautiful of cities. We all wish you Gute Reise!

CSB/SJU German Department - In the News! Newsletter of the German Section of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures of The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Spring/Fall 2007 See also: Fall Semester in Salzburg! Fall 2005 Newsletter Spring 2005 Newsletter Spring 2006 Newsletter
Laura Wunsch, Ryan Fader, Erik Hendrickson, Mark Bublitz, and David Lambert Awarded Fulbright Scholarships for Research and Teaching in Austria!
	Wunsch Also Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Germany	Laura, Ryan, Erik, Mark, and David, we admire your global vision and wish you the best for the very rewarding year ahead!
Each year, CSB and SJU German majors and minors are selected for research projects and teaching positions in Austrian and German Gymnasien, or schools. Over the past 15 years some 50 CSB/SJU students have participated in these prestigious programs following their graduation. The Fulbright Program especially appreciates applicants who are interested in the study and use of German in their plans for the future, either in teaching or in other careers. For more information about how to apply before next year's October 15th (Germany) and February 1st (Austria) deadlines, see the Fulbright Webpage and Application Form.

	Pictured here are German Professors Wendy Sterba, Lisa Ohm, Andreas Kiryakakis, and Mark Thamert	German Faculty Continues Work on Creating New Courses and Activities New Goals Include More Cooperation with Other CSB/SJU Departments; Continued Rise in Number of Majors and Minors; Excellence in Our Programs Abroad; and Stronger Relationships with Minnesota High School Teachers
	Dear Friends, German Departments across the nation are strengthening their curricula with new courses aimed at engaging a broader variety of students, intensifying student learning about culture, and forming partnerships with professors from a variety of departments in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Even in the process of developing new courses and extracurricular events for our department these past two years, we have seen an astonishing rise in numbers of majors and minors in German, a trend we hope will continue. Thank you to our colleagues and administrators who have given important support to our curricular developments. Special thanks to Provost Rita Knuesel, Dave Lyndgaard, Mike Connolly in Student Development and John Taylor in Institutional Advancement for helping make the Fulbright position possible on our campuses this coming year. John, thank you again for your work on our behalf with a local foundation which supports German activities. Thank you Fr. Tom Andert for your superb teaching of German students preparing for a teaching career. Thanks also to Professors Wendy Klepetar and Gregory Schroeder. We appreciate your work with our German students who have completed the German Option in your courses in Management and German History. Thank you Mary Niedenfuer for all the energy you bring to the faculty and students of Modern and Classical Languages as department coordinator! To all of you, we are grateful to be working with colleagues like you who care deeply about students and faculty.
	Thanks from the Heart -- We Couldn't Do It Without You!
	Rita Knuesel, Dave Lyndgaard, John Taylor, Mike Connolly, Tom Andert, Wendy Klepetar, Greg Schroeder, Mary Niedenfuer

	18 CSB/SJU Students Head to Munich for May Term

	This is the fifth summer in the row that students of our colleges have had the chance to experience Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy first hand. The first May Term -- one of the first in our colleges' history -- was offered three years ago for 30 students and featured a comparison of the art and architecture of Berlin and Munich. the last two years 45 students participated in a similar May term, but the topic shifted to the development of German Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture in relation to what was happening culturally in the Mediterranean region. This summer on May 19 and again on July 13, a total of forty-five more students will depart for the summer term seminar titled, Rome, Florence and Munich: Arts and Ideas. Pictured here: Students biking through Munich learning about the history of its architecture and the intellectual movements that gave rise to radically different kinds of architectural expression. Our tour director Dave gives a lecture in front of the Friedensengel in Munich. In the picture on the right, Sam Pokorney (center) joins Bavarian Schuhplattler in a traditional Volkstanz.

	Berlin Cabaret Artist Bridge Markland Presents Magnificent One-Woman Show, "Faust in a Box" 200+ CSB/SJU German Students and Area High School Teachers of German Gather to See Markland on a Blustery Sunday Evening in February
	Markland wrote to us about her stay at CSB/SJU: "The vitality of your students is amazing. The energy in the audience shows your students' and colleagues' deep interest in German culture past and present. I am grateful for this chance to see the American college scene up close." more >>>

		Eva Nowotny, Austrian Ambassador to the United States, Visits CSB/SJU for the First Time Praises Our Salzburg, Melk, and Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Programs as Remarkable Initiatives over Past Forty Years.
	On May 13, Dr. Eva Nowotny and her husband visited Saint John's with Honorary Consul General of Austria, Ron Bosrock, to learn more about our campuses' long history of cooperation with the country of Austria. Nowotny has been Ambassador to the United States since 2003. During the first half of 2006, when Austria held the rotating European Union presidency, Nowotny a played a pivotal role not only in Austrian but also in European foreign affairs. More from our student newspaper, The Record >>>

		The Haydn Brass Quartet from Eisenstadt, Austria, Performs for Sunday Mass Tuba Player Is the Owner of a Burgenland Vineyard Who Has Hosted Our Students for Wine Tastings and Authentic Austrian Bauernschmaus
	Special thanks to Fr. Bob Koopmann, Abbey Music Director, (pictured fourth from the left) and Emmy Sack, German teacher at Saint John's Prep, who invited the group to our campuses (on the right).