Judith Vonberg

Judith Vonberg is a freelance journalist and PhD student at the University of East Anglia. Her thesis surveys the depictions of Britons and Germans in popular culture between 1945 and 1965. She graduated from Oxford University in 2011 with a degree in English and Modern Languages and received her MA from Queen Mary, University of London, in 2013. As a journalist, she writes on European culture, migration and national identity. You can read her blog here: https://judithvonberg.wordpress.com

2015, Literary trends across Europe

Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic: A sexed-up parable of modernity

by Judith Vonberg • August 31, 2015

As the actors took their bows, I applauded loudly, marvelling at the performance of Rory Kinnear as Josef K., a banker who is woken on his thirty-fifth birthday with the news of his arrest on unspecified charges and thus plunged into a nightmare of senseless, humiliating and ultimately futile judicial proceedings. Yet navigating the subterranean…

An inside view of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations

by Judith Vonberg • June 29, 2015

Renowned across Europe as a unique and progressive institution, the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) at Queen Mary, University of London, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Its innovative MA programme, ambitious cultural events schedule and two journals stand testament to the German Embassy’s description of the Centre as ‘an important platform for intellectual debate…