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As 2015 comes to a close, 2016 opens up a special anniversary for the City of Kitchener. One hundred years ago, residents of the City of Berlin adopted the name of a British lord and Secretary of State for War during World War I. The name change was wrought with conflict brought on by the social and political environment of World War I.

This year's Jakob-&-Wilhelm Grimm Lecture, The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of 1800: Medicine as Cultural History, was a huge success, with standing room only by the time the lecture began.

If you weren't able to make this year's lecture, . Enjoy!

After 18 months of talking with 126 German immigrants and/or their children here in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region, work has now begun on a book for the community, tentatively entitled Germans of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region.

German filmmaker Marc Bauder is coming to uÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ next week to talk about the creation of Lichtgrenze, an art installation commemorating the 25th​ anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Read more about the event at the Daily Bulletin and visit the WCGS's event page.

Award-winning German director Maria Speth will be visiting the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ tomorrow, April 21st. Read more about her upcoming visit.

This event is co-represented by the University of Toronto, the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and the Goethe-Institut. Maria Speth is a guest of the Goethe-Institut.

Sonja Schäfer, a graduate student studying for her Joint MA in Intercultural German Studies, wrote a review about the experimental chamber opera ¹óü³ó°ù±ð°ù²ú³Ü²Ô°ì±ð°ù by Andrew Ager. Have a read!

¹óü³ó°ù±ð°ù²ú³Ü²Ô°ì±ð°ù premières at The Registry Theatre this Wednesday, February 11th.  appeared in the Record, the local paper for À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region, on February 10th.

For details on the event and the composer, visit our events listing.

Thanks to a financial donation and volunteer time to recruit participants, the German Oral History Project currently underway at the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Centre for German Studies can increase the number of interviews it conducts this year.

Marga Weigel, Ernst Friedel, and Manfred Richter have been instrumental in speaking to members of the German community in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region and raising $20,000. The financial donation was made through the German-Canadian Education Fund plus personal donations from Weigel and Friedel.

The À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Centre for German Studies (WCGS) is looking for people of German descent—or their children—who would like to talk about their years in German-speaking Europe, their arrival in Canada during the 1950s, 1960s or later, and their lives in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region.