Professor Aleida Assmann, professor emeritus of English literature and literary studies at the University of Konstanz, and Professor Jan Assmann, honorary professor at the University of Konstanz and ...

Aleida Assmann, a professor at the University of Konstanz, analyzed the forms and functions of forgetting during a lecture on Wednesday. The lecture, Forms of Forgetting, was co-sponsored by the ...

The German academic duo have been selected for cultural writings that have promoted "sustainable peace and understanding among the peoples of the world." They will be receiving the award at the ...

Aleida and Jan Assmann rejected the AfD's recent attempts to downplay Germany's Nazi past and Alexander Gauland's 'bird shit' remark. The pair said that 'not every dissenting opinion deserves respect.

Not every opinion deserves the same respect, with those undermining freedom of expression deserving none, the winners of the German book trade’s Peace Prize said as they received the prestigious award ...

Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse corresponded with each other for decades: Mann appreciated Hesse’s Steppenwolf and regarded The Glass Bead Game as being related to his own novel Doctor Faustus. In his ...