The German Castle: From Fortress to Museum and Youth Hostel
10:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Dr. Beverley Eddy will trace the history, architecture, and evolving romance of the German castle. While she will concentrate on the castles of the Rhine river valley, she will also discuss Germany’s two best-known castles: Burg Eltz and Neuschwanstein.

Beverley Driver Eddy has a Ph.D. in German from Indiana University, studied for two years at the Freie Universität Berlin, worked for a time as a bi-lingual tour guide at a German castle, and taught at Middlebury and Dickinson colleges (she is currently professor emerita at Dickinson). She specializes in German and Scandinavian literary relations, but has a strong secondary interest in German folklore, and has published on the folk history of the Rhine river valley and on the historical Dracula. She is presently writing a biography of “Bambi” author Felix Salten.