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, 2024.

The AFM Awards Committee will review all submissions received by the deadline and decisions will be announced by March 1.

Current Fellows

AFM Dissertation Summer Grant 

  • Alexander Braunegg, Co-Opting Ernst Jünger: The Literary Metapolitics of the German New Right (New York University)

Max Kade Summer Research Grants

  • Isabel Avens (Choinowski), Subversive Visualities and Physiognomic Play: Puppets and Photography in the Work of Dadaist Hannah Höch (Cornell University)   
  • Varol Kahveci, Rethinking Heimat: The Poetics and Politics of Heimat between 19th Century Orientalism and Contemporary Literature of Migration (Columbia University)
  • Theresa Kauder, Post-romanticism in Peter Handke and Wim Wenders (Yale 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.

Past AFM Fellows