FACULTY AWARD: Hinderer to receive Golden Goethe Medal

By Staff on May 13, 2015, 11:06 a.m.

Walter Hinderer, professor of German emeritus, will receive the Golden Goethe Medal at a ceremony on May 28 at the National Theater of Weimar in Germany. The medal is the highest award of the Goethe Society, which was established in 1885. Hinderer has published widely on German literature, literary criticism and theory, and rhetoric and political literature from the 18th century to the present.

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