German Program Faculty
Nele Hempel-Lamer
Professor of German
Undergraduate Advisor
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998
20th century German Literature and Culture; Contemporary Austrian Studies; Feminism; Service Learning/Community Engagement.
Before teaching at CSULB, Nele Hempel-Lamer was an Associate Professor of German and the director of Women’s Studies at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching interests lie in twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and culture, interdisciplinary feminism and discourses of memory and commemoration.
Favorite seminars include survey courses in twentieth-century drama, post-1945 courses with a special emphasis on works by Gruppe 47 authors, and the special topics course “The Mother Figure in twentieth-century German Literature and Culture.” Professor Hempel-Lamer was recognized for her teaching with distinguished teaching awards both at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at the University of Memphis.
nele.hempel-lamer@csulb.edu (E-mail contact preferred)
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Jeffrey High 
Professor of German
Program Director
Graduate Advisor
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2001
18th century German Literature, Revolution, Aesthetic Theory, and Moral Philosophy.
Before teaching at CSULB, Jeff High held lectureships at the University of Massachusetts, the Universität Heidelberg and the University of Minnesota, and continues to teach as Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico’s German Summer School. His teaching focuses on the “Age of Schiller” as well as literary, philosophical and theoretical texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Professor High’s seminars – “Friedrich Schiller,” “The ‘German’ Novella from Boccaccio to Stephen King,” “Drama of the Late Enlightement,” and “Witch Persecutions in German-speaking Europe” – teach interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of literature, philosophy, critical theory and politics in German, European and American culture. Professor High has received numerous awards for teaching, service and scholarship at the Universities of Massachusetts and Minnesota, and at CSULB.
jeffrey.high@csulb.edu (E-mail contact preferred)
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Visiting Lecturer
Harald Friedl
Email: hf@haraldfriedl.com
Harald Friedl has served as Lecturer at the University of Kingston upon Hull, researcher at the “Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften” at the University of Salzburg, Directot of the Salzburg House of Literature, Max-Kade-Artist in Residence at Case Western Reserve University, and frequent Guest Professor at the German Summer School of New Mexico. Harald Friedl is the author and editor of numerous books and literary publications; as a musician he has released many CDs with his bands and collaborators. As a film maker, Harald Friedl’s work includes over a dozen feature-length fiilm and television documentaries and has earned him, among other awards, “Best International Documentary” at the Calgary International Film Festival, Competition Winner at the Cleveland International Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Teaching Associates
Adeline Bauder
Teaching Associate of German
Email: lina.bauder@googlemail.com
Sophia Clark
Teaching Associate of German
Email: sophia.clark@student.csulb.edu
Wyatt Fry
Teaching Associate of German
Email: wyattfry@gmail.com
Rebecca Hermann
Teaching Associate of German
Email: rebeccahermann86@gmail.com
Tara Rensch
Teaching Associate of German
Email: trensch@gmail.com
Matthew Straus
Teaching Associate of German
Email: mstrauscsulb@gmail.com
Sarah Williamson
Teaching Associate of German
Email: brumbysaw@aol.com