The Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language) in Mannheim, Germany, has awarded TGDP member Margo Blevins a fellowship to attend its 55th Annual Conference on “Deutsch in Sozialen Medien” (German in Social Media) in Mannheim, Germany. Margo is one of ten doctoral students from around the world and the only one from the Americas to receive this fellowship in order to network with other Germanic Linguists for a week in March of 2019 in Mannheim (announced Nov. 18, 2018).
Walter Buenger (UT Austin) and Walter Kamphoefner (TAMU) present and read from their latest book “Preserving Texas German Identity,” dealing with the life of William A. Trenckmann, who was a teacher, journalist, and publisher who successfully combined his German heritage with a new, distinctly Texan identity. Trenckmann, a graduate of Texas A&M University, served on the college’s board of directors and was even offered the presidency. From 1907 to 1909, he represented Austin County in the Texas legislature. Trenckmann’s lasting contribution to Texas history, however, was the creation of “Das Wochenblatt”, a German-language weekly newspaper that he edited and published for over forty years. (Nov. 15, 2018, 4-5 pm, RLP 1.302D, UT Austin)