2020-2021 Staff

Sami Anderson

General Director

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Sami is a junior at the University of Iowa studying German and Linguistics with an emphasis in TESL. They are very excited to be the current General Director of Das Blatt and working with the amazing and dedicated team to bring English and German stories to light on our campus, and hope that the continuation of this publication can bring more connection and education to our community!

Roman Ebert

Content Committee

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Roman Ebert is a senior studying both History and German as majors. He joined Das Blatt due to his interest in German politics and history as well as German literature. He is excited to be part of Das Blatt and to be able to meet so many lovely people interested in the German language.

Kyler Johnson

Content Committee

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Bursting with energy and ideas, Kyler Johnson has a goal to bridge the world together through the power of language. A writer, a linguist, and a hopeful future educator, he seeks bursts of adventure in a life of reflection and continuous learning. Spending a full year prior to college in Charleroi, Belgium, he hopes to continue traversing internationally, sharing his taste of the world with anybody who has the will to read or listen. Das Blatt, being a bilingual magazine full of people from one of his favorite communities on campus — German speakers — is just a perfect to do what he loves with people he loves.

Jennifer Lane-Murcia

Social Media Director

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Jennifer is a Junior at the University of Iowa studying Chemistry and German. She is the Social Media Director and is also a part of the content committee. For Jennifer, Das Blatt is a cool way to make German more prevalent in our community and allow students to more deeply engage with topics that they are already interested in.

Taylor Lewin

Outreach Director

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Taylor is a senior majoring in Psychology with a minor in German. She joined Das Blatt because she wanted to become more involved with the German Department, and to be able to use her German more often as well. She is excited for the 2020 publication and hopes that more students will share their works in the coming years.  

Allison Steger

Content Committee and Web Design

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Allison is a senior majoring in history with a minor in German and certificate in museum studies. Allison's studies focus on using museums/archival material to tell the social and political history of East Germany in the 1980s and the impact of German reunification on the former East. Some of the things Allison enjoys most about Das Blatt is seeing how creatively people express themselves through language and meeting new people who like German.

Shelby Tipling

Content Committee

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Shelby is a senior majoring Vocal Performance (with a focus in Opera and Classical training) and German. She joined Das Blatt because of her divine interest in German art and culture and to be more involved in the German department. She is excited to see this coming school year’s publication and to work with such wonderful, talented people that share her interests.

*Not Pictured: Frances Newman, Content Committee