Speakers included Per Urlaub, Global Languages Director; Dagmar Jaeger, Senior Lecturer in German; Kurt Fendt, Senior Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies; Justin Leahey, MIT-Germany; and special guests Sonja Kreibich, Consul General of Germany; and Jörg Süßenbach, Director of the Goethe Institute Boston.

This year, there were 37 submissions for the prize. The first prize winner won a round-trip ticket to Germany.  Additional prizes were awarded as well (full list below). This year’s prize is sponsored by Global Languages, MIT-Germany, and the Consulate General of Germany, Boston.

First Prize

Sherry Nyeo, ’23, for her essay “Die Einsamkeit des Schachspiels” written for 21G.420 Visual Histories

Special Prize

Stefan Damchevski, ’23, for continued outstanding work in German

Second Prize

Lili Wilson, ’25
Sofia Haug, ’25
Elizaveta Tremsina, G
Alexis Zitzmann, ’24
Liane Makatura, G
Vin Armelin, ’23
Lucia Padilla, ’23
Sophia Sonnert, ’23

Third Prize

Inoela Vital, ’23
Loreta Arzumanyan, ’26
Elmar Cruz, ’23
Haris Imanovic, ’26
Laura Schmidt-Hong, ’23
Tamara Hinderman, ’25
Paul Portmann, ’23
Willow Huang, ’25