AFM Book and Article Prizes
The American Friends of Marbach are excited to announce the launch of two new prizes—both an article and book prize—for work that draws substantially on the holdings of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. The awards will be announced at the annual banquet of the German Studies Association (GSA) offered on a biannual basis. Read more about the prizes and how to apply through the GSA’s website.
About AFM Fellowships
The American Friends of Marbach, with the generous support of the Max Kade Foundation, are able to award summer dissertation fellowships of $4,000 each to Ph.D. candidates from American universities doing research in the field of German Studies at the DLA. In addition, we encourage applications from Ph.D. candidates working on digital humanities projects that would benefit from time spent at the DLA.
These grants are meant to be taken over the summer break. All grantees benefit from the excellent services that the DLA provides to researchers. Researchers can also participate in a weekly “Stipendiaten-Café,” where international stipend-holders and fellow humanists have the opportunity to network and present their work to one another. Depending on availability, the well-appointed Collegienhaus on the grounds of the DLA offers an excellent option for lodging.
For questions, please contact Prof. Lynn Wolff (Michigan State University, lwolff@msu.edu). The DLA Marbach also offers a number of fellowships, which can be found at: http://www.dla-marbach.de/service/stipendienprogramm.
How to Apply
Please submit a 1-2 page project description which should include a brief statement about the relevance of the holdings at the DLA for the project, a current C.V. and arrange for one letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor to be sent to Prof. Lynn Wolff (lwolff@msu.edu) by February 15, 2026.
The AFM Awards Committee will review all submissions received by the deadline and decisions will be announced by March 1.
Current Fellows
Luetzeler Postdoctoral Research Grant
- Sally Simpson, Re/Sounding Modernity: Alternative Soundscapes in German and Austrian Literature of the Early 20th Century (Department of German, Georgetown University)
Max Kade Summer Research Grants
- Nicholas Andes, A Volatile Terrain: Geo-Catastrophism and the Return of Myth in German Modernism (Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
- Nadja von Bossel, High Mobility: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck’s Literary Networks (Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University)
- Xiaoyao Guo, Contested Assemblage: Remapping the Genealogy of Modern Landscape (Department of German, Princeton University)
Fellowship Sponsors
AFM Fellowships are made possible by the generous support of the Max Kade Foundation in New York, David Detjen, the American Friends of Marbach, and the generous donations of the following individuals to the Egon Schwarz Grant fund.