TGDP presentation at the monthly meeting of the Comal County Genealogical Society: “The Texas German Dialect Project 2001-2024.” (Hans C. Boas) (April 9, 2024)
Former TGDP member Heiko Wiggers passed away on April 10, 2024. Heiko was with the TGDP from 2002 until he graduated with his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Low German from the University of Texas. After graduation, Heiko became a German professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Heiko was a wonderful, gentle, smart, and funny person and an outstanding linguist. We very much enjoyed working with him for over the years. Our deepest sympathy to his family.
TGDP member Jana Weiss starts a blog miniseries on Texas German, together with students from her spring 2024 Texas German class at UT. What a wonderful way to learn more about Texas German history, culture, and language!
Dallas College student Everett Durand produces and films a documentary film Texasdeutsch fuer Immer on Texas German, click here for the film on Youtube.
TGDP presentation by Verena Sauer at the 48th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “Hochdeutsch and Plattdeutsch as Concepts in the Minds of Texas Germans.” the University of Texas at Austin (April 5, 2024)
Presentation by TGDP members and collaborators Barbara Berthold (UT Arlington), Jana Weiß (UT Austin), Margo Blevins (UT Austin), & Karen Pupp Spinassé (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) at the 48th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “Community-Engaged Teaching in German American Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on High Impact Practices.” University of Texas at Austin (April 6, 2024)
Presentation by Patrick Wolf-Farré (Vienna) and Margo Blevins (Austin) at the 48th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “Towards a Classification of German-Speaking Minorities in Latin America.” University of Texas at Austin (April 6, 2024)