German prize winners 2017
German prize winners 2017
Congratulations to our prize winners 2017: Amy Wright, Thomas Markham and Alice Scott.
Amy Wright won the Syd Donald Personal Achievement Award for the best across-the-board performance of a Single Honours German student. Amy's achievements include her excellent Final-Year Project on autobiographies and literary fiction written by female members of the 68 student movement ("Nazi-Väter und rebellische Töchter: Die NS-Vergangenheit in der Literatur der 68erinnen")
Thomas Markham (Chinese & German) won the Richard Byrn Prize for the best performance in German language in final year.
Alice Scott (German & History) won the Outstanding Performance in German Prize, awarded for the best performance on a research-led final-year module. This was in particular recognition of Alice's research essay on the Borders and Border-Crossings module, in which she explored the concept and significance of 'liminal spaces' in contemporary representations of the German-Polish border regions in the novel Katzenberge (2012) and the film Am Ende kommen Touristen (2007).
Congratulations also go to students of German who won prizes in their other subject: James Sparrow (Portuguese), Hannah Crittenden (Spanish) and Thomas Markham (Chinese).
Earlier in the year, students won the following prizes:
Hannah Crittenden and Dominic Werth were awarded the German Year Abroad Prize for Academic Excellence
Zeinab Drabu won the Year Abroad Photo Competition
Zeinab Drabu and Alex Barnes won the German Business Student of the Year prizes.