Founded in Berlin, 1980
Bridging Germany and Stanford for more than four decades.
The Stanford Club of Germany promotes the academic research and teaching of Stanford University, supporting projects that deepen scholarly exchange between Germany and the United States.
- 1980
- Year founded
- 1,250+
- Krupp interns placed
- 550+
- German host institutions
- 40%
- of Stanford undergrads study abroad
Our programs
For over forty years the Club has funded and sustained programs that bring Stanford and Germany closer together.
Krupp Internship Program
Since 1982, full-time paid internships in Germany for Stanford students — over 1,250 placed across more than 550 host institutions.
Learn more →Graduate Research & Internship Program (GRIP)
Summer internships and research visits in Germany for Stanford graduate students, funded by the Club and run with The Europe Center.
Learn more →Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship
A visiting professorship in German Studies at Stanford, supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation since 2009.
Learn more →Visiting Lectureship
Since 2003, the Club has brought Stanford Berlin faculty to California to teach German Studies, funded by the SCoG Endowment.
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A shared history
From the first book donations to the Freie Universität Berlin in the 1950s to Stanford’s historic Haus Cramer campus in Dahlem, our story spans seventy years of transatlantic partnership.
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Academic Prizes
Since 2007-2008, the Stanford Club of Germany has funded academic prizes to promote exemplary scholarship and interest in German Studies and the German…
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To Sing Beyond Mankind: The Turn to the Nonhuman in Paul Celan’s Atemkristall Cycle
In May 1965 the poet Paul Celan sent a letter to his wife, the graphic artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, from a mental institution in the western suburbs of…
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Feirefiz
Gleich zu Beginn der Parzival-Erzählung wird der Leser aufgefordert, eine verborgene Textaussage aus der Geschichte herauszulesen. Im Prolog formuliert…
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