{"id":206,"date":"2026-02-13T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/?p=206"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:55:10","slug":"2026-oxford-german-olympiad-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/2026\/02\/13\/2026-oxford-german-olympiad-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Oxford German Olympiad &#8211; ROUND 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do Rainer Maria Rilke, the Wuppertal suspension railway and Paula Modersohn-Becker have in common, you may ask yourself.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>They all open the doors to a very exciting project<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" style=\"width: 669px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-209\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/02\/rillyrilkes-300x96.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/02\/rillyrilkes-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/02\/rillyrilkes-250x80.png 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/02\/rillyrilkes.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Modersohn-Becker, Wuppertaler Schwebebahn<br \/>Rainer Maria Rilke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Round 2 of the Oxford German Olympiad is now open for entries. There are 3 exciting tasks for pupils in years 8 to 12, and our prestigious Camden House Book Proposal for postgraduates and early-career researchers at a UK university. Please note the deadline is 26 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"anchor-921c4356-7932-308c-18ca-5e7816104114\" title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.ogn.ox.ac.uk\/content\/oxford-german-olympiad-2026-round-2__;!!CF15FET90Tp8!HngwSIx45dhhSj01D-urhXiffMs5Aj-G27vvzB7w3fzD580rb4R_41d1nsNgex0lg9WHxQbzKFOvIMyRlY4v6IeQrBGi3x-a2hXW$\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.ogn.ox.ac.uk\/content\/oxford-german-olympiad-2026-round-2__;!!CF15FET90Tp8!HngwSIx45dhhSj01D-urhXiffMs5Aj-G27vvzB7w3fzD580rb4R_41d1nsNgex0lg9WHxQbzKFOvIMyRlY4v6IeQrBGi3x-a2hXW$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Oxford German Network | Oxford German Olympiad 2026: Round 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact our Olympiad Coordinator Eva Wechselberger <a title=\"mailto:olympiad@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk\" href=\"mailto:olympiad@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk\" data-linkindex=\"1\">olympiad@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What do Rainer Maria Rilke, the Wuppertal suspension railway and Paula Modersohn-Becker have in common, you may ask yourself. They all open the doors to a very exciting project Round 2 of the Oxford German Olympiad is now open for entries. There are 3 exciting tasks for pupils in years 8 to 12, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/2026\/02\/13\/2026-oxford-german-olympiad-round-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2026 Oxford German Olympiad &#8211; ROUND 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,46,41,40,45,48,43,42,44],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-language-competition","tag-language-in-uk-german-competition","tag-olympiad-2026","tag-oxford-german","tag-paula-modersohn-becker","tag-prize-in-oxford","tag-rilke","tag-round-2-german","tag-wuppertal-schwebebahn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}