Prizewinners

The Max Kade Award for the Best Article in
The German Quarterly

 

2008 (Winter issue, 81.1)

The Gender of Terror: War as (Im) Moral Institution in Kleist's Hermannsschlacht and Penthesilea

Elisabeth Krimmer

2007 (Fall issue, 80.4)

Gesamtkunstwerk Dresden: Official Urban Discourse and Durs Grünbein's Poetic Critique

Rolf Goebel

2006 (Fall issue, 79.4)

Poesie as Anthropology: Schleiermacher, Colonial History, and the Ethics of Ethnography

Chad Wellmon

2005 (Summer issue, 78.3)
Self, Race, and Species: J.F. Blumenbach's Atlas Experiment

Sara Eigen

2004 (Fall issue, 77.4)
Beyond the Wandering Jew: Anti-Semitism and Narrative Supersession in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

Karin Schutjer

2003 (Volume 76)
No award given

2002 (Fall issue, 75.4)
Dialectic at a Standstill: The Discourse of Victimhood in Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz

Fatima Naqvi

2001 (Winter issue, 74.1)
Revolutionsträume vor dem Mauerfall: Der DDR-Dramatiker Holger Teschk

Anne Kuhlmann

2000 (Fall issue, 73.4)
On the Utility of Art for Politics: Musil's "Armed Truce of Ideas"

PATRIZIA McBRIDE

1999 (Winter issue, 72.1)
"Ist er kein Jude, so verdiente er einer zu sein": Droste-Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche and Religious Anti-Semitism

William Collins Donahue

1998 (Summer issue, 71.3)
"Wer wagt es, eitlen Blutes Drang zu messen?" Reading Blood in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche

Martha B. Helfer

1997 (Spring issue, 70.2)
Du Bois and Wagner: Race, Nation, and Culture between the United States and Germany

Russell A. Berman

1996 (Spring issue, 69.2)
The Ins and Outs of Intimacy: Gender, Epistolary Culture, and the Public Sphere                                             Simon Richter