CompLit PhD student Sneha Chowdhury received summer research grants from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Joukowsky Institute, and the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia to visit libraries and archives in Germany this past summer! Here are some photos from her travels across Berlin, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Munich, Prague, Zurich and Paris, where she met characters that have inspired her research and saw places she had longed to visit.
Comparative Literature
Date
September 30, 2024
Comp Lit PhD student spends summer doing research in Germany
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The statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels at the Marx-Engels Forum, Berlin
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The Charles Bridge viewed from the Kafka Museum, Prague
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Muhammad Iqbal’s poem ‘Gruss a den Neckar’ on a plaque at the Iqbal-Ufer in Heidelberg. Iqbal stayed in Heidelberg ca. 1907
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The famous Heidelberg Castle, preserved as a ruin.
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Goethe’s bust in the castle garden, memorializing his coming and going…
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Hegel’s house in Stuttgart
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What would have been Hölderlin’s view from the tower in Tübingen
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Paul Celan’s poem ‘Tübingen, Jänner’ with the date, his notes and marginalia, Hölderlintürm, Tübingen.
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Installation at the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart
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Watching surfers at the Eisbachwelle, Englischer Garten, Munich.
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Finally meeting Alberto Giacometti’s ‘Le Chien’ at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, once read about in a class on ‘Philosophizing Dogs’ at the German department.
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Rodin’s sculpture ‘Iris, the messenger of Gods’ ironically without eyes and head, Kunsthaus, Zurich.
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Rodin’s ‘Gates of Hell’ inspired by Dante’s Inferno and later Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal with the famous ‘Thinker’ on top, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
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Monet’s water lilies, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris.
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Sneha at the Munich Residence.