UW Press: German Studies

German Studies

This page represents the full scope of our publishing and distribution in German Studies, including mostly scholarly works but also some fiction, memoir, and other genres. Several of our book series intersect with the titles listed here; also see the series pages for the George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History, Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Monatshefte Occasional Volumes, and the books we distribute for the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies. We also publish the distinguished German Studies journal Monatshefte, founded in 1899.

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The Holocaust and the West German Historians

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The Holocaust and the West German Historians
Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory
Nicolas Berg
Translated and edited by Joel Golb

“A highly original, intelligent, and reflective piece of historical scholarship. One of the most important works to have appeared on the subject of postwar German historiography in the past decade.”
—Anthony Kauders, author of Democratization and the Jews

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Eat Smart in Germany
How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure
Mary Bergin

Savor the many flavors of Germany to better understand culture, traditions, and heritage.

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A Diary of Pique 1983–1984 / Tagebuch des Grolls 1983–1984
A Bilingual Poetry Collection
Carl Djerassi
Fall 2012

The Body of the People
East German Dance since 1945
Jens Richard Giersdorf
Fall 2012

Robert Koehler’s The Strike
The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest
James M. Dennis
Spring 2011

The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion
An Illustrated History
John C. Eastberg
Fall 2009

An Uncompromising Generation
The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office
Michael Wildt, Translated by Tom Lampert
Fall 2009

In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
A Novel
Agate Nesaule
Spring 2009

My Germany
A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped
Lev Raphael
Spring 2009

Between Resistance and Martyrdom
Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Third Reich
Detlef Garbe
Fall 2007

An Epitaph for German Judaism
From Halle to Jerusalem
Emil Fackenheim
Spring 2007

Somewhere in Germany
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig, Translated by Marlies Comjean
Fall 2006

Mr. Brecher’s Fiasco
A Novel
Martin Kessel, Translated by Brigitte Goldstein
Fall 2005

Ach Ya!
Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin
Compiled and Edited by Philip Martin and James P. Leary
Fall 2005

Transformations
Thinking after Heidegger
Gail Stenstad
Fall 2005

Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Between History and Faith
Nils Roemer
Spring 2005

The Star of Redemption
Franz Rosenzweig, Translated by Barbara E. Galli
Fall 2004

The Wisconsin Office of Emigration 1852–1855 and Its Impact on German Immigration to the State
Johannes Strohschänk and William G. Thiel
Fall 2004

Liebe Hanya
Mary Wigman’s Letters to Hanya Holm
Compiled and edited by Claudia Gitelman, Introduction by Hedwig Müller
Fall 2003

Schubert’s Winterreise
A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song
Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller
Spring 2003

On Jewish Learning
Franz Rosenzweig, Edited by N. N. Glatzer
Fall 2002

Requiem for a German Past
A Boyhood among the Nazis
Jurgen Herbst
Spring 2002

Germany and Its Gypsies
A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal
Gilad Margalit
Spring 2002

A Duel of Giants
Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War
David Wetzel
Fall 2001

The German-Speaking 48ers
Builders of Watertown, Wisconsin
Charles J. Wallman
Spring 2000

An Underground Life
Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Gad Beck, Written with Frank Heibert; Translated by Allison Brown
Fall 1999

Confronting History
A Memoir
George L. Mosse
Fall 1999

Dictionary of German Names
Hans Bahlow, Translated by Edda Gentry
Spring 1998

In Search of Authenticity
The Formation of Folklore Studies
Regina Bendix
Fall 1997

Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days
Edited and Translated by Jack Zipes
Fall 1997

Film Essays and Criticism
Rudolf Arnheim, Translated by Brenda Benthien
Spring 1997

The Politics of Proverbs
From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes
Wolfgang Mieder
Spring 1997

Folklore Fights the Nazis
Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940–1945
Kathleen Stokker
Spring 1997

Volksgeist as Method and Ethic
Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
Edited by George W. Stocking Jr.
Spring 1996

Re-reading Wagner
Edited by Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand
Spring 1993

The German Language in America, 1683–1991
Edited by Joseph C. Salmons
1993

The Golden Signpost
A Guide to Happiness and Prosperity
Translated by Colin D. Thomson, Edited by Charlotte Lang Brancaforte
1993

The Life and Works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793–1864
Edited by Charlotte L. Brancaforte
1993

Crossing Borders
Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction
Robert C. Holub
Fall 1992

The German-American Press
Edited by Henry Geitz
1992

From the Greeks to the Greens
Images of the Simple Life
Edited by Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand
Fall 1989

Witness to History
A Refugee from the Third Reich Remembers
Joachim Von Elbe
Fall 1989

Brothers and Strangers
The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923
Steven E. Aschheim
Fall 1982