german cultural events winter 2014

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Guten Rutsch! (Happy New Year!) As you form your New Year’s resolutions, we hope that one of them will be to avail yourself of the diverse array of German cultural events in our community.

As 2014 gets underway, the Goethe-Institut brings together artists and experts from around the world for dialogue on issues of importance to us all.

Our climate and our future are addressed in Future Perfect, a collection of stories high-lighting individual and societal initiatives around the world. The exhibition Post-Oil City and accompanying discussion deal with innovative architectural solutions that consider the limits of fossil fuel. The Uranium Film Festival will highlight nuclear and radioactive issues, while German films screening during the citywide Environmental Film Festival respond to a number of pressing issues.

Alienation and otherness are featured in art and film in Afrofuturism: Artists on Three Continents Explore “Black to the Future”. A concert with Tony award-winning playwright Stew complements the opening.

Contemporary German literature is featured in our Zeitgeist series. Award-winning author Abbas Khider will read from his novel The Village Indian, detailing his experiences as a political prisoner and refugee. Media artist Tobias Rosenberger will discuss his filmed performance of The Secret Race. A Play About the NSA., which addresses issues of monitoring and spying.

In conjunction with the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum exhibition Damage Control, we present Indestructible, two evenings of short films. The film series German Expressionism complements the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection.

A drowning expresso machine, vanishing landscapes, people scarred from their existence on the margin of society: gute aussichten, featuring winners of the annual competition for contemporary German photography, returns to our FotoGalerie in early March.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? The Goethe-Institut is the place to refresh your German language, and offers courses at all levels. A monthly Deutsch am Mittag and Toastmasters auf Deutsch! provide further opportunities to practice.

Get ready to have your ears—and brain—tickled when “Astrotainer” Paul Hombach brings his unique program of Sounds from Space to the Planetarium at Montgomery College in early January. Stars of another sort arrive shortly thereafter in the form of Maybebop—a captivating quartet whose alluring songs and stage presence have made them one of the hottest constellations in Germany’s a capella universe.

Classical music devotees enjoy a plentiful selection of concerts, including performances of Schubert and Hindemith by the esteemed German baritone Matthias Goerne at the Kennedy Center; all six Brandenburg Concerti by J.S. Bach performed by the much-lauded Freiburg Baroque Orchestra at the Library of Congress; and a concert by the eight-member Scharoun Ensemble Berlin—one of Germany’s most prominent chamber music formations—at Shriver Hall in Baltimore in March.

The lasting influence of the Bauhaus school, known for its emphasis on functionality and simplicity in architecture and design, will be illuminated in a lecture of the German Language Society. Meanwhile, a new exhibition opening at the German-American Heritage Museum examines the roots of German Karneval—a holiday given to flamboyant costumes and colorful celebration, where sobriety is strictly prohibited! Join in the fun at the Washington Sängerbund’s annual Faschingsball, held on March 1 in Fairfax, Virginia!

Visit our websites, www.goethe.de/washington and www.germany.info, for updates and additional offerings. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Goethe-Institut Events

Films n Uranium Film Festival 6n Environmental Film Festival 7 n Wagner 200 9n In Dialogue with “Damage Control” 13 n German Expressionism 14 – 15n Encountering Script Films 18n In Face of the Crime 19n Washington Jewish Film Festival 20

Discussionsn The Green Party 8n Wagner 200 9

Exhibitionsn Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future 5n Afrofuturism: Artists on Three Continents Explore “Black to the Future” 10 – 11

n Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection 14n gute aussichten: young german photographers 2013/2014 16 – 17n Linger On! 17

Languagen Zeitgeist DC: Tobias Rosenberger 12n Zeitgeist DC: Abbas Khider 12n Deutsch am Mittag 21n Spielenachmittag 21

American Goethe Society 24

German Embassy Events

n Music 26 – 29n Lecture 29 – 30n Film 33n Exhibitions 31n Special Events 32

Friends of the Goethe-Institut 25Language Classes 33, 43Addresses 40Tickets and Electronic Newsletter 41Rentals 41About Us 43

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Cover: Marian Luft, Funtasies, from Back2Politics, 2013 ©www.guteaussichten.org

Venice Syndrome © Andreas Pichler

Olusha A. Cole © Anne Boisvert

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra © Freiburger Barockorchester

Aspekte © Velvet Mediadesign

Lioba Keuck, Couve e Coragem, 2012, © www.guteaussichten.org


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People around the world are searching for ways to create a better life for themselves and their children. Future Perfect is a collection of stories highlighting initiatives which are already underway. Individuals, groups, and companies around the world are finding practical ways to implement social and environmen-tal goals, whether it be through cooperatives, com-munity gardens, or businesses which choose to stay small and local. Future Perfect relates some of these stories.

Future Perfect internationalizes the idea of Futurzwei, a German nonprofit foundation. According to its director, Harald Welzer, Futurzwei “reveals the history of success – that first, reality is never the only alternative, second, people who use the options at their disposal can have an astonishing impact, and third, that the knowledge needed to create a sustainable society for future generations is already being developed, tested and expanded.”

www.future-perfect-project.orgwww.futurzwei.org

Masdar Umbrellas © LAVA

Taiwan Strait © CHORA

Masdar Traffic © Foster + Partners Curitiba bus system © Jaime Lerner


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January 30 – March 1, 2014University of the District of Columbia, Architectural Research Institute, 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW

Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future

More than half of the world’s population is living in cities. Post-Oil City is an international planning and landscape architecture exhibit which origi-nated in Germany. Innovative projects in Asia, Africa, and America address urgent questions: How will the transition from fossil fuels to renew-able energy affect the process of urban planning and the city? How will the use of renewable en-ergies affect urban metabolism and the politics of sustainability and mobility?

The exhibition’s subtitle – ‘The History of the City’s Future’ – indicates that visions for the future are connected with experiences from the past. Nine paradigms of traditional climate-sensitive con-struction from the past are on display alongside models, computer animations and video clips from 11 current projects in the field of sustainable urban planning.

Exhibition hours: M-F 9:30-7; Sat 9:30-3

Presented by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa/Germany), Goethe-Institut Washington D.C., and the University of the District of Columbia.

Thursday, January 30, 5 – 7 pm

Exhibition Opening

Opening remarks: Ursula Seiler-Albring, President, ifaKarlfried Bergner, Minister, German Embassy

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Friday, January 31, 10 am – 1 pm

Post-Oil City – in Dialogue with the Sustainable DC PlanVisions for the Cities of Tomorrow

Topics: Mobility and Alternative Energy

Urban planning provides a laboratory for social as well as ecological change. Experiments featured in the exhibition will be discussed. In cooperation with “Sustainable DC”, which intends to transform Washington, DC over the next 20 years into the healthiest, greenest, and most livable city in the United States.

In addition, a public workshop is planned for Saturday, February 1, 9:30 am to 3 pm.

For more details, see www.goethe.de/washington and www.udc.edu/causes.

Masdar Aerial View © Foster + Partners


in over 32 years, followed by the 6 pm screen-ing of Yellow Cake: The Dirt Behind Uranium, a German documentary about a major clean-up operation in Wismut, the world’s third-largest uranium mine, located in the former East Germany.

A reception will take place at 5:30 pm, following the first screening.

Tuesday, February 11, 6:30 pm

Atom Bombs & Nuclear War

Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1 is an American documentary about the “Secret Project”, which conducted 67 U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands in the 1950’s. The film illustrates the incredible effects of radiation on humans and shows how savagery reaches new levels with the advent of advanced technology. Screening alongside three international short films.

Wednesday, February 12, 6:30 pm

Fukushima & Nuclear Power Plant Risks

This program focuses particularly on the effects of the disaster in Fukushima, and includes the Japanese documentary Forbidden Ground Fukushima. The evening closes with the Yellow Oscar-winning Indian production High Power, a documentary about the Tarapur Nuclear Power Project, India’s first civil nuclear establishment.

No charge. RSVP to www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com

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February 10 - 12, 2014Goethe-Institut Washington, GoetheForum

Uranium Film FestivalThe world’s growing and increasingly urban-ized population, with its demands for an easy lifestyle, is driving the global demand for energy. What are the best energy sources? Oil and shale gas have their downsides. Isn’t nuclear energy, with no carbon footprint, the best solution?

The International Uranium Film Festival is the first annual film festival to highlight nuclear and radioactive issues. Each evening’s screening of award-winning films will be accompanied by thematic discussions with curators Norbert Suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliveira, in con-versation with filmmakers and internationally-renowned nuclear experts either in person or via Skype. For details on all films and speakers, see www.goethe.de/washington.

In cooperation with the Uranium Film Festival Team and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Monday, February 10, 4 pm

Uranium Mining

The program will open with The Atomic States of America, an American documentary about the first new nuclear power plant construction

Images courtesy Uranium Film Festival


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March 18 - 30, 2014various venues

Environmental Film FestivalThe Environmental Film Festival, now in its 22nd year, offers fresh perspectives on issues around the world and has become the leading showcase for environmental films in the United States. Celebrating the beauty and importance of the environment and the diverse world around us, the festival presents a variety of national and international films.

The Goethe-Institut will present several German films during the festival. No tickets or reserva-tions necessary. Arrive early as seating is limited. All films have English subtitles.

For more information: 202-342-2564 orwww.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org

Tuesday, March 25, 6 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Tokyo’s Belly (Der Bauch von Tokyo)Germany, 2013, 70 min, Director: Reinhild Dettmer-Finke

A film guide to understanding Japan – before and after the atomic catastrophe of Fukushima. For two years the filmmaker lived in Tokyo, collecting stories about the people who fill “Tokyo’s belly”. In July 2012, she went back to visit the same people. The result is a film about how this city of superlatives is supplied, at the same time delivering insight into the disaster of Fukushima and its aftermath. A film about

the loss of trust in the technical and political elite and about the “anger in the belly“ of many Japanese.

7:30 pm

The Venice Syndrome Germany/Austria/Italy, 2012, 80 min, Andreas Pichler

Venice is pure romance: that which all Europeans yearn for, the dream of all Americans, the wish of all Japanese. But the world’s most beautiful city turns into a ghost town at nightfall. Entire quarters, long since abandoned by their inhab-itants, stand empty, their structures merely providing a myth to serve business interests. Twenty million foreigners visited the city last year. But there are only 48,000 inhabitants, for the city is becoming uninhabitable. Venice’s own urban life has almost collapsed; it scarcely still exists.

Wednesday, March 26, 6 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Ecopia Germany, 25 min each, Producer: Deutsche Welle

These television productions feature intelligent building and sustainable living, and recently won awards at three European film festivals.

Ecopia: Eco-Cities: Hamburg’s HafenCity and Tianjin’s Eco-city in China were conceived as model cities for sustainable, environment-friendly building.

Tokyo’s Belly © Reinhild Dettmer-Finke Venice Syndrome © Andreas Pichler


Ecopia: The Sky’s the Limit: Never before have so many skyscrapers been under construction all over the world at the same time. A new generation of modern skyscrapers has been designed to help revive city centers, spare the climate and check urban sprawl.

7:15 pm

Food Savers (Essenretter)Germany, 2013, 60 min, Director: Valentin Thurn

“Eat your broccoli!”, “I want to see an empty plate”, “Finish your food”: no matter what the phrase, we encourage children not to waste food and yet, today, half of it is still thrown away. Food Savers is the story of people who are fighting for a different approach to one of life’s essentials. At a different point in the supply, production and consumption chain. What they all share is the desire to bring about a new appreciation of food, replacing the one that, bit by bit, has been lost in recent years.

Screening followed by a discussion.

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Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

The Green Party - From a Social Movement to Political Mainstream

The German Green Party has come a long way from being an opposition party to a strong government force capable of forming effective governments with various coalition partners. This event will highlight some of the aspects making this political transition possible in Germany and identify parallels to the US envi-ronmental movement.

Panelists: Arne Jungjohann, a political scientist and strong voice for a clean economy on both sides of the AtlanticSteve Milder, professor at Duke University and historian on the environmental movements in Western Europe and the United States


The Sky’s the Limit © Deutsche Welle Arne Jungjohann

Steve Milder


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Sunday, January 12, 7:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Wagner’s JewsUSA, 2013, 60 mins., Coproducers: WDR/ARTE, Director: Hilan Warshaw

The German opera composer Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on the Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But there is another, lesser-known side to this story. For years, many of Wagner’s closest associates were Jews— young musicians who became personally devoted to him, and provided crucial help to his work and career.

This film focuses on Wagner’s complex personal relationships with Jews, telling these remark-able stories through archival sources, visual re-enactments, interviews, and performances of original musical works by Wagner’s Jewish colleagues. The film also explores the ongoing controversy over performing Wagner’s music in Israel. The questions dividing Wagner’s Jewish acquaintances still resonate today: Is it possible to separate artworks from the hatreds of their creator? Can art transcend prejudice and bigot-ry, and the weight of history?

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Thursday, March 13, 7:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Wagner and Rousseau: The Ring Cycle as Romantic Creation Myth

Paul Cantor, Professor of English at the Univer-sity of Virginia, will speak to the role Wagner’s

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Saturday, January 25, 4 pmNational Gallery of Art, East Building

The Wagner FamilyGreat Britain, 2011, 106 min., HDCam, Director: Tony Palmer

Introduced by Tony Palmer.

The operatic festival founded by Richard Wagner in 1876 remains one of the world’s premiere cultural events. Today, the running of Bayreuth is entirely the business of Wagner’s descendents. The Wagner Family boldly narrates the history of Bayreuth and the Wagner clan from its rela-tionship with Hitler to the recent wrangling over leadership.

Tony Palmer (b. 1941) is a British director and editor. He has worked on highly acclaimed films and biographies about many famous compos-ers, musicians and artists such as Richard Wagner or Igor Strawinski for over 50 years.

In cooperation with the National Gallery of Art.

Steve Milder

Wagner’s Jews © First Run Features Wagner Family © isolde Films

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Alberich plays in setting mankind on the road to life. Although he is best-known for his work on Shakespeare and on American popular cul-ture, Cantor has also published widely on Roman-ticism and lectured on Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

No charge. RSVP to 703-370-1923, www.wagner-dc.org

Organized by the Wagner Society.


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February 3 – 28, 2014Goethe-Institut

Afrofuturism: Artists on Three Continents Explore “Black to the Future”

Three artists - from Germany, Ghana and the United States - use the lens of fiction to address issues of alienation and otherness. They travel through space and time to explore identity and reexamine the past.

Afrofuturism, a term coined in the early 1990s, addresses themes and concerns of the African diaspora using elements of science fiction and magic realism to critique the loss and disinheri-tance of the past while exploring aspirations for the future. While this artistic phenomenon, which is present in both Europe and the United States, expresses “black” culture in a discourse with the “white” world, Afrofuturism holds po-tential to bring the minority experience in general to life in new ways.

Daniel Kojo Schrade (b. 1967) is a German-born artist and associate professor of art at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

His painting series Afronauts features dislo-cated characters who create and control their own image spaces, where they claim the power to define themselves.

Bernard Akoi-Jackson (b. 1979) is a Ghanaian artist and. His work tracks the development of contemporary art and visual culture in Ghana and Africa. His photography series Cos 90 ≠ 0: From Absurdity into Nihilism and Back: Something is Definitely Gained alludes to the lost wax process used in textile and indigenous brass casting industries. Playfully interrogating ideas of loss and disinheritance, he argues that “something may be lost in one culture and/but be gained in another.”

Adejoke Tugbiyele (b. 1977) is an American artist. Her sculptural pieces, made of items such as per-forated metal drains and palm stems repurposed from West African brooms, seek to understand the origins, present state and the future of the war between body and spirit. One of her films from “AfroOdyssey”, a series of short films that look at art and spirituality from a futuristic perspective by experimenting with light, sound and movement through dance, will also be on display.

Gallery hours: M-Th 9-5; F 9-3

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Cos 90 ≠ 0 © Bernard Akoi-Jackson Afronauts © Daniel Kojo Schrade


Monday, February 3, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Afrofuturism in Short Films

A variety of films, including Pumzi, a Kenyan science-fiction piece by Wanuri Kahiu, and Simon Rittmeier’s Drexciya, about European refugees to Africa, will be screened.

Panelists will include Keith D. Leonard, Associate Professor, Department of Literature, American University, artist Daniel Kojo Schrade and others.


Tuesday, February 4, 6 – 8:30 pmGoethe-Institut, FotoGalerie and GoetheForum

Opening of “Afrofuturism”

Reception with artist Daniel Kojo Schrade, per-forming artist Shola Cole, and New York-based composer and musician Stew.

Shola Cole is a performing artist based in Baltimore. Her creative journey has been

enriched with classical training and influenced by renowned artists such as house dance legend Marjory Smarth, West African dancer and drummer Aly Tatchol Camarar, vocalist Bobby McFerrin, and hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris.

Followed by a concert with Tony award-winning playwright Stew and Heidi Rodewald, whose comedy-drama rock musical Passing Strange appeared on Broadway in 2008 and was made into a film by Spike Lee. The story is about a young African American’s artistic journey of self-discovery in Europe.


This program has been prepared in conjunction with Georgetown University’s interdisciplinary conference “Performing Blackness in the Trans-atlantic World: Germany, Race, Intermediality”, taking place at the Goethe-Institut February 27-March 1. The conference features lectures, roundtables, public screenings, and perfor-mances with guests including Daniel Kojo Schrade and filmmaker Branwen Okpako.

Made possible with support of Friends of the Goethe-Institut


Bent Over © Adejoke Tugbiyele Olusha A. Cole © Anne Boisvert

Stew © Jeff Fasano


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Tuesday, March 4, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Contemporary Voices: Abbas Khider reads from The Village Indian (Der falsche Inder)

Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author’s experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee.

Translated by Donal McLaughlin, The Village Indian provides what every good translation should: a literary looking glass between two cultures, between two places, between East and West.

Abbas Khider (b. 1973) grew up in Baghdad, where, at 19, he was arrested for “political reasons”. Having served two years in prison, he fled Iraq in 1999. He has lived in Germany since 2000, where he studied literature and philosophy in Munich and Potsdam. After many poetry titles appeared in Arabic, he wrote his first novel, Der falsche Inder (Nautilus, 2008; The Village Indian, Seagull, 2013), in German, for which he received the Alfred Döblin Stipend of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Khider became a German citizen in 2007.

Excerpts will be read in both German and English; discussion will be in English.

Moderated by Wilfried Eckstein.


Part of Zeitgeist DC, presenting contemporary German literature in translation.

www.zeitgeistdc.org

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Thursday, February 20, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

The Secret Race. A Play about the NSA.Germany, 2013, 27 min., Director: Tobias Rosenberger, Cast: Malte Scholz (from Pullach, Germany, headquarters of the intel-ligence agency of the German government) as Tyler Hamilton, “Schmitt” + “The NSA” as Lance Armstrong, “The Chinese” as Team Festina and “Other Fuckers” as Other Fuckers

Discussion follows the screening with director Tobias Rosenberger

Based on Tyler Hamilton’s autobiography The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs, this filmed performance is an artistic ex-periment about monitoring and spying. It indi-rectly raises questions such as: What may actu-ally be at stake in the 21st century? How do we define truth today? And: who reads the follow-ing words, and how do they interpret them?

Nowadays, anyone who wants to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must over-come at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when it is suppressed everywhere; the wisdom to recognize it, although it is concealed everywhere; the skill to use it as a weapon; the judgment to choose those in whose hands it will be effective; and the cunning to spread the truth among such people. (Bertoldt Brecht)

Tobias Rosenberger (b. 1980) is a German media artist who works at the crossroads of media art, visual arts, and performance. He has produced art works in Yemen, Spain, Mexico, India, and Ukraine. Since 2012 he has been based in China, where he teaches at the College of New Media Art, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art.


Abbas Khider © Abbas KhiderTobias Rosenberger


Monday, January 13, 7 pmHirshhorn Museum, 700 Independence Ave SW

Film Program: Indestructible IIntroduced by Christiane Büchner, Cologne-based filmmaker and member of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival program com-mission since 2001.

N.N.Germany, 2009, 11 min, BluRay, Director: Michel Klöfkorn

It Must be a Piece of Hitler (Es muss ein Stück von Hitler sein)Germany, 1963, 11 min, 35mm, b/w, Director: Walter Krüttner

Sweet Nightingale (Solovushka)Russia, 2005, 7 min, BluRay, no dialogue, Director: Viktor Alimpiev

Once Upon A TimeGermany, 2005, 25 min, BluRay, no dialogue, Director: Corinna Schnitt

Flickering (Flimmern)Germany, 2001, 3 min, BluRay, no dialogue, Director: Ted Geier and Deborah Schamoni

Replacement (Ersatz)Switzerland/France, 2011, 4 min, BluRay, Director: Elodie Pong

Cigaretta Mon Amour – Portrait of My Father (Cigaretta Mon Amour – Portrait meines Vaters)Germany, 2006, 6 min, BluRay, b/w, no dialogue, Director: Rosa Hannah Ziegler

September 11Germany, 2002, 6 min, BluRay, Director: Claudia Avarena

The Artist United Kingdom, 2010, 10 min, BluRay, Director: Laure Prouvost

Song of the Youth (Gesang der Jünglinge)Germany, 2009, 14 min, BluRay, Director: Andree Korpys and Markus Löffler

Monday, January 27, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Film Program: Indestructible IIFascinating Doll House (Faszinierendes Puppenhaus)Germany, 1987, 9 min, 35mm, Director: Uli Versum

Sounding GlassGermany, 2011, 10 min, BluRay, b/w, no dialogue, Director: Sylvia Schedelbauer

ContinuityGermany, 2012, 41 min, DCP, Director: Omer Fast

The Button (Knopka)USSR, 1990, 8 min, 35mm, Director: Robert Saakjanz

Madame & Little BoySweden, 2009, 28 min, BluRay, Director: Magnus Bärtås


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January 13 and 27, 2014Various venues

Film Program in Dialogue with “Damage Control”

While destruction as a theme can be traced throughout art history, starting in the early Atomic Age it evolved into a pervasive cultural element. The Hirshhorn Museum reflects this in its current exhibition, Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950 (on display through May 26, 2014).

In cooperation with the Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Goethe-Institut presents two film programs in response to Damage Control.

Scenes of overwhelming media and poses of collective shock, but also the incidental, non-malicious destruction, the promised and yet unrealized destruction. Disruption of lan-guage and image. Smashed televisions and ruined lungs. Nothing is ruined all by itself.

All films are either in English or have English subtitles.

Flickering © Short Film Festival Oberhausen


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March 31 - April 14, 2014Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

German Expressionism

Like hardly any other art movement, German Expressionism yielded a couple of extraordinary artists whose works were so eminently autobio-graphical that they could be described as the focus of an epoch. The emotional and psychological effects of World War I are visible and palpable in almost every painting of leading artists from that time, such as Max Beckmann and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. German painter Gerhard Richter’s works reflect very modern and advanced ele-ments of Abstract Expressionism, which emerged after World War II.

Accompanying the exhibit Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collectionat the National Gallery of Art, three films about these extraordinary artists will illuminate their life and work, which were often melded into their paintings.

All films are in German with English subtitles.

In cooperation with the National Gallery of Art.


February 23 – June 29, 2014National Gallery of Art, Washington

Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection

Ruth Kainen’s love for German expressionism, first revealed at the Gallery in the exhibition German Expressionist Prints from the Collection of Ruth and Jacob Kainen (1985), will be cele-brated with 100 works recently donated to the Gallery through her bequest as well as a few of her earlier gifts.

Watercolors, drawings, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs by Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and especially Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among others, reflect Ruth Kainen’s refined connoisseurship and keen collector’s eye. The exhibition will include some of the prece-dents for the expressionists, such as Max Klinger and Edvard Munch, in addition to related artists like Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, Paul Gangolf, Walter Gramatté, and Ludwig Meidner.

Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Emil Nolde, Candle Dancer, 1913, color lithograph with watercolor additions by the artist, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Self-Portrait with Crystal Ball 1936 by Max Beckmann © Mayen Beckmann.


Monday, March 31, 6:30 pm

Draw Til You Drop – The Painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Zeichnen bis zur Raserei – Der Maler Ernst Ludwig Kirchner)Germany, 2001, 86 min., 35mm, Director: Michael Trabitzsch

As one of the most famous and influential artists of German Expressionism, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is an excellent subject for a film about the beginning of the 20th century. No one has succumbed to the city as fully as he did: enamored, lonely, lost, disillusioned, fascinated. His streetscapes of Berlin serve as a backdrop in our mind’s eye when we seek to capture big-city life in the first half of the 20th century. The span of tension in Kirchner’s life and work makes for suspense-filled drama and yields an intense film portrayal.

Michael Trabitzsch (b. 1954) has worked as a free-lance journalist and author for radio features, documentaries, books and periodicals. In 1992, he founded his own film production company, Prounen Film in Berlin.

Monday, April 7, 6:30 pm

Max Beckmann – Departure (Max Beckmann – Der Maler)Germany, 2013, 93 min., 35mm, Director: Michael Trabitzsch

Enigmatic paintings, a life impacted by two world wars, and continual travels throughout Europe and the United States – this fascinating docu-mentary about Max Beckmann (1884-1950), one

Gerhard Richter Painting © Goethe-Institut

of the 20th century’s greatest painters, tells the story of the German artist’s complex life and work. The film focuses primarily on his paintings, which from the beginning were a mixture of Realism, Im-pressionism and Expressionism. Beckmann’s famous triptychs are knowledgeably decrypted by international art historians, but also through Beck-mann’s own words found in his letters and diaries.

Monday, April 14, 6:30 pm

Gerhard Richter Painting2009-2011, 101 min., 35mm, Director: Corinna Belz

In his “Hahnwald” studio in Cologne, painter Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is grappling with a fiddly tripod. He then sets up the camera, focusing on one work which has been painted over in grey. He refines a second painting with a palette knife. It’s clear that the creative process behind Richter’s works, which all seem so spontaneous, is actually the result of a lengthy process of searching and ex-perimentation. This unique documentary illus-trates the creative process of one of the most important contemporary painters, who the Süddeutsche Zeitung claimed “saved painting in the 21st century”.

Corinna Belz (b. 1955) has been involved in numerous film and TV productions as a writer, director and producer. Her first film about Gerhard Richter, Das Kölner Domfenster, re-ceived the “World Media Gold Award – Art Documentaries”.

Tickets see page 41

© Prounen Film



March 6 – April 25, 2014 Goethe-Institut: FotoGalerie

gute aussichten:young german photographers 2013-2014

Nine award winners and a first look at their works: Nothing is what it seems, but it is real.

An espresso machine drowning in its own coffee, landscapes literally vanishing from the picture, people tanned, branded, and scarred by their existence on the margins of society or staged in such absurd poses that the viewer is left startled and puzzled. Gray concrete pictures of monochromatic simplicity and exuberant col-lages of picturesque beauty: Now in its tenth year, “gute aussichten 2013/2014” presents a wider spectrum of content, aesthetics, medium and form than new photography in Germany usually manages to achieve. It is a range of sur-prisingly diverse ideas, reflections and photo-graphic strategies, forms and media that not only depicts the current status quo but also in-spires.

The exhibition features the following works:

Nadja Bournonville: A Conversion Act (2012)Anna Domnick: Calm II (2013)Birte Kaufmann: The Travellers (2012)Lioba Keuck: Couve e Coragem (2012)

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Nadja Bournonville, A Conversion Act, 2012, © www.guteaussichten.org

Nadja Bournonville, A Conversion Act, 2012, © www.guteaussichten.org




Alwin Lay: Mod. CLASSIC (2010/2013)Marian Luft: Back2Politics (2013)Stephanie Steinkopf: Manhattan – “Street of Youth” (2012)Daniel Stubenvoll: Clean Work (Saubere Arbeit) (2013)Christina Werner: PIPAL (2012/2013)

www.guteaussichten.org

Gallery hours: M-Th 9-5; F 9-3

Thursday, March 6, 6 – 8 pm

Opening of the Exhibition

With curators Josefine Raab and Stefan Becht and a performance by contemporary German performing artist Marcel Sparmann. Sparmann (photo top right) studied theatre and performance art in Germany and the UK. He works as a per-former and teacher in solo and collaborative pro-jects all over Europe, and has been invited to the Houston International Performance Art Biennale 2014.

RSVP to www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com


Until January 31, 2014Goethe-Institut, FotoGalerie

Linger On! (Verweile doch)

Featuring photographs by Max Baumann, Iris Brosch, Reinhard Hentze, Carina Linge, Matthias Ritzmann, and Robert Schlotter

Linger awhile. You are so beautiful. “Verweile doch, du bist so schön!” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from Faust Part II

Linger on! (Verweile doch) – this is the impetus that continues to generate new photographers.

Capturing fleeting moments in time, these diverse works by six artists present extraordi-nary encounters with contemporary art. They range from documentary photography which enhances reality via the deft use of framing and lighting to precisely staged productions.

Made possible with the support of the Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation.

Marcel Sparmann in Air Condition III PALS Stockholm 2012 © Matthias Pick

Alwin Lay, Mod. CLASSIC, 2010/2013, © www.guteaussichten.org


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Monday, March 24, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Encountering Script Films (Schriftfilme)

Introduced by Christine Stenzel, curator, ZKM (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe)

Multiple digital possibilities have made script and image unmistakably mobile. We are witnes-sing a massive transformation in which script no longer only mediates information, but is also gaining an increasingly autonomous, aesthetic status.

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe recently opened a major international exhibition, “Script Films” (Schriftfilme), which showcased several hundred outstanding examples of script films, especially artistic script films, from twenty countries dating from 1895 to the present. This evening will present a selection of films and images from the interactive exhibition.

Tickets see page 41

Aspekte © Velvet Mediadesign

The Man With The Beautiful Eyes © Jonathan Hodgson

Metropolis © Velvet Mediadesign


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February 24 – March 17, 2014Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

In Face of the Crime (Im Angesicht des Verbrechens)Germany, 2010, 500 min., 10 episodes, Screenplay: Rolf Basedow, Director: Dominik Graf

German TV Miniseries in 10 Parts

Winner of the 2011 Grimme Award, one of Germany’s most prestigious awards for out-standing achievements in German television

In Face of the Crime is a depiction of Russian-Jewish culture, detailing the emotions and mindsets of various ethnic groups, their reli-gious roots, family life, traditions and celebra-tions. This multi-layered, rich and fast-paced crime drama reveals a panorama of diverse communities and journeys through an array of worlds, from a village in Ukraine to life in the urban sprawl of Berlin.

Set in Berlin’s Russian-Jewish enclave of “Charlottengrad,” this serial drama centers on Marek Gorsky, a cop who’s pulled in conflicting directions by duty, heritage and sibling loyalty while he strives to retain his own sense of self. A sister’s marriage to a mob boss and Gorsky’s entanglement with a Ukrainian prosti-tute are just the tip of the richly plotted

iceberg in director Dominik Graf’s idiosyncratic underworld epic.

Dominik Graf (b. 1952) studied Film at the University of Television and Film Munich from 1974 to 1980. He received the Bavarian Film Award for his first film, Der kostbare Gast, in 1978. Since then, Graf has made more than fifty films for cinema and television. He is also a pro-fessor for feature film directing at the International Filmschule Köln (ifs).

All episodes are in German with English subtitles.

Monday, February 24, 6:30 – 9:30 pmEpisode 1: Berlin is Paradise Episode 2: In the Thick of the ActionEpisode 3: The Raid

Monday, March 3, 6:30 – 8:30 pmEpisode 4: The BetrayalEpisode 5: Only Honorable Love is Worthy

Monday, March 10, 6:30 – 9:30 pmEpisode 6: Roses from Heaven Episode 7: If You Show Fear, You’ve LostEpisode 8: What Price Berlin?

Monday, March 17, 6:30 – 8:30 pmEpisode 9: You Get What You DeserveEpisode 10: Everything in its Time

Tickets see page 41

In Face of the Crime © Goethe-Institut In Face of the Crime © Goethe-Institut

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Films aT THe GOeTHe-insTiTuT

Saturday, March 1, 7:15 pm

Quality Balls: The David Steinberg StoryCanada, 2013, 80 min, Director: Dir. Barry Avrich

Russian Disco (Russendisko)Based on the bestseller by Wladimir Kaminer, Germany, 2012, 96 min, Narrative, Director: Oliver Ziegenbalg

Sunday, March 2, 12:45 pm

The Man Who Made Angels FlyPoland/UK/France, 2013, 68 min, Documentary, Director: Wiktoria Szymanska

Handa Handa 4Israel, 2013, 59 min, Documentary, Director: David Ofek and Neta Shoshani

NatanIreland, 2013, 66 min, Documentary, Director: David Cairns and Paul Duane

Monday, March 3, 7 pm

AltinaUSA, 2012, 79 min, Documentary, Director: Peter Sanders

Tuesday, March 4, 7 pm

Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover (Shorts Program)Israel/USA/Germany/South Africa, 2012-2013, 91 min, Various Directors

Wednesday, March 5, 7 pm

Women PioneersIsrael, 2013, 50 min, Documentary, Director: Michal Aviad

Thursday, March 6, 7 pm

ShtiselIsrael, 2013, 90 min, TV Narrative, Director: Alon Zingman

Saturday, March 8, 6:30 pm

Garden of EdenIsrael, 2013, 74 min, Documentary, Director: Ran Tal

My German FriendGermany/Argentina, 2013, 110 min, Narrative, Director: Jeanine Meerapfel

ADDITIONAL GERMAN FILM

Tuesday, March 4, 6:30 pmAvalon Theater, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW

Saturday, March 8, 4 pmDCJCC, 1529 16th St. NW Hanna’s Journey (Hannas Reise)Germany/Israel, 2014, 99 min, Narrative, Director: Julia von Heinz


March 1 – 8, 2014Various venues

Washington Jewish Film Festival

This exhibition of international cinema celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture and ex-perience through the moving image. It places Jewish themes in new contexts and challenges long-held assumptions.

All films are in English or have English subtitles.

Tickets and information: www.wjff.org

My German Friend, image courtesy Washington Jewish Film Festival

Garden of Eden, image courtesy Washington Jewish Film Festival

Garden of Eden, image courtesy Washington Jewish Film Festival

Altina ,image courtesy

Washington Jewish Film Festival


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Deutsch am Mittag

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? All who wish to hear and speak German are invited to bring their lunch to our monthly presentation and discussion. A topic of interest from German culture, history, or con-temporary affairs will be presented, in German, by a selected speaker. Discussion on the topic will complete the Mittagstisch.

Tuesday, January 14, 12 – 1:15 pm

60. Jahre Kurzfilmfestival OberhausenSpeaker: Christiane Büchner, Cologne-based film-maker and member of the Oberhausen Interna- tional Short Film Festival program commission

Tuesday, February 11, 12 – 1:15 pm

Nuclear Power in den Massenmedien: Erfahrungen von atomaren Filmemach-ern und 4 Jahren Uranium Film FestivalSpeaker: Norbert G. Suchanek, General Director, Uranium Film Festival

Tuesday, March 11, 12 – 1:15 pm

Neuigkeiten in zeitgenössischer deutscher Fotografie (inkl. Tour der ausstellung)Speaker: Josefine Raab, Curator, gute aussichtenBeverages and sweets are provided.

Tickets $5/No charge for Friends of the Goethe-Institut. RSVP to www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com

Sponsored by Friends of the Goethe-Institut.

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Sunday, February 9, 3 – 6 pm Goethe-Institut

Spielenachmittag

Come enjoy German games and a glass of wine with us! Games by German designers are enjoy-ing increasing popularity outside their native country. This afternoon of board and card games will feature classics such as Bohnanza alongside newer favorites including Asara, Settlers of Catan, Lost Cities and Carcassonne. Participants are invited to bring their favorite games and friends for the fun. One room will be reserved for playing games in German.

In cooperation with Labyrinth Games and Puzzles.

Please note: arrival by 4 pm is suggested to ensure sufficient playing time.

Drinks and snacks will be offered. Tickets $5 RSVP to [email protected].

Deutsch am Mittag © Wolfgang Bellewinkel Meeples © www.colourbox.com.

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www.americangoethesociety.org

American SocietyGoethe

The American Goethe Society presents four public lectures and events annually on German literature, philosophy, art, or music. In addition, members are offered regular Saturday poetry

luncheons (“Lunch mit Lyrik”), held at DC cafes and restaurants, and monthly seminars covering classic German plays. The Society is the proud sponsor of the Goethe Prize, an award program which recognizes outstanding high school students of German in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

L I T E R A T U R E L E C T U R E (in English)

Wednesday, February 5, 6:45 pm

Paul Celan’s Lovers and Muses: Poetry and the BiographicalLecture by Dr. Peter U. Beicken, Professor and Chair, Department of Germanic Studies,

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park.

Paul Celan (1920-1970), generally considered the most influential European poet after WWII, is most famously known for his Holocaust/Shoa elegy “Todesfuge” (1945, “Death Fugue”).

Though a poet’s poet, Celan’s poetry is often erotic, veiling and revealing ardent and conflicted love affairs, notably with Ingeborg Bachmann and others. In Celan’s difficult,

even hermetic poems, the biographical acquires a ‘poetic murmur of the heart’, pulsating in the dialogic incantations that celebrate love above the abyss.

Followed by refreshments.

Free of charge but registration is required.RSVP: [email protected] or call 443.542.2263

Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, image courtesy Dr. Heinz Bachmann and Isolde Moser

For more information about the American Goethe Society, please visit and join us at


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special membership benefits include the following:

n Invitations to special Goethe-Institut events such as our Sommerfest

n Free or reduced admission to events by Goethe- Institut and its partner organizations

n Invitations to a regular Deutsch am Mittag

n Discounts at selected cultural events in the city

n Discounts at restaurants near the Goethe-Institut n Exclusive members-only events and private tours of German-related exhibitions in Washington

n Additional benefits for Inner Circle members

FoGIFriends of the Goethe-Institut

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FOGI would like to thank the following friends for their

especially generous support:

Member Highlight Lauren Covert and Erik Weber

Visit and join Friends of Goethe at www.goethe.de/washington or email [email protected] to request a membership application.

We’ve been attending events at the Goethe-Institut since we moved here in 2009, and joined Friends of the Goethe-Institut four years ago.

The greatest thing about the Goethe-Institut is that it’s such an open, welcoming place. If you’re inter-ested in German/Germany or not, it’s still the place for you. The opportunities to enjoy art, engage in a hot topic or learn something new are endless.

We really enjoy the Spielabend events! We love to practice our German and find that playing German

board games with German speakers and/or board game aficionados is great fun. It’s a very easy way to meet new people and try out new games. And we’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge our love for FilmNeu, and for watching die Nationalmannschaft in the big games with an authentic crowd!

By joining FoGI, you get early information and access to Goethe’s biggest events! The discounted movie tickets for Goethe in-house screenings, held in one of the nicest theaters in town, are a great perk of FoGI membership.


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Monday, January 6, 8 pmMontgomery College Planetarium, 7611 Fenton Street, Takoma Park, MD

Sounds from Space: An Evening with “Astrotainer” Paul Hombach

Does our solar system have the blues? Do pulsars have a groovier beat than any known jazz drummer? Paul Hombach, musician and space-enthusiast from Bonn, Germany, takes you on an unusual acoustic tour through the universe. Listen to beats generated by Venus transiting before the sun or find out what the Big Dipper sounds like. If nature is involved in the composition of music, the result can be very surprising…

seating at this free show is on a first-come, first-served basis.Information: 240-567-1463 or www.montgomery-college.edu/Departments/planet/

Wednesday, January 15, 7 pmDeutsche Schule Washington D.C., 8617 Chateau Drive, Potomac, MD

Thursday, January 16, 6 pmMillennium Stage, The Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

A Capella Sensation MAYBEBOP in Concert

Four good friends, ten successful years, one new album: that’s Maybebop. This band of vo-calists from northern Germany is Sebastian Schröder, Oliver Gies, Lukas Teske and Jan Bürger - four singers from counter-tenor to deep-low-bass, four stage personas, four communicative talents with a high fun factor. With 150 sold-out concerts each year, from Flensburg to Passau, from Saarbrücken to Berlin, and per-formances on national TV and radio shows, these masters of understated humor and co-quettish self-mockery exceed expectations with their pop music perfection.

Both shows are free and do not require tickets

“Astrotainer” Paul Hombach © Tom Pfleger

A capella band Maybebop © Maybebop


Monday, January 27, 7:30 pmTerrace Theater, The Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Matthias Goerne, baritone & Christoph Eschenbach, piano: Die schöne Müllerin

Hailed for their performance of Schubert’s Winterreise in March 2012 as part of “The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna”, Goerne and Eschenbach come together again to perform Schubert’s vivid song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.

For tickets and information: 800-444-1324 or www.kennedy-center.org

Thursday, January 30 – Saturday, February 1National Symphony Orchestra, The Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

National Symphony Orchestra: Joshua Bell, violin, plays Mendelssohn; Matthias Goerne, baritone, & Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano, sing Hindemith

Joshua Bell - “the greatest American violinist active today” (Boston Herald) - plays

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. German bari-tone Matthias Goerne and American mezzo-so-prano Michelle DeYoung join with the Choral Arts Society of Washington for Hindemith’s When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d.

For tickets and information: 800-444-1324 or www.kennedy-center.org

Tuesday, February 4, 8 pmLibrary of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, 1st and Independence, SE, Washington, DC

Freiburger Barockorchester: The Com-plete Brandenburg Concerti by J.S. Bach

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, one of the world’s premiere period ensembles, will be performing all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti in a single evening. These works, which constitute a cornerstone of the Baroque repertoire, display Bach’s mastery of the orchestra. Bach originally described them as Concerts avec plusieurs instruments; three of the six works are firmly in the con-certo grosso tradition, but all possess unique features that have rendered them timeless.

For tickets and information: 202-707-5502 or www.loc.gov/concerts/

Baritone Matthias Goerne © 2008 Marco Borggreve for harmonia mundi

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra © Freiburger Barockorchester


Sunday, February 23, 3 pmNational Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave NW, Washington DC

Make Music – Make Friends: Concert Tour of the Leipzig Youth Symphony Orchestra

The Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Musik-schule Leipzig ‘Johann Sebastian Bach’, under the baton of Ron-Dirk Entleutner, will embark on a 10-day US tour in February 2014. Under the motto “Make Music – Make Friends,” the trip is a chance for the orchestra, prize winner in May 2012 for the third time in a row of the Germany-wide Orchestra Competition, to col-laborate with American choirs in Pennsylvania and Chicago, and to perform in Washington, DC. The repertoire includes works by American as well as Leipzig-based composers, from Samuel Barber to Ludwig van Beethoven to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Sponsored by the Goethe-Institut, the US General Consulate in Leipzig, and the Friends of the Youth Symphony Orchestra.

The concert is free and does not require tickets

Sunday, March 16, 5:30 pmShriver Hall, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

Scharoun Ensemble Berlin: The Mity Clarke Gann Memorial Concert

Founded in 1983 by members of the univer-sally acclaimed Berlin Philharmonic, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin is one of Germany’s leading chamber-music organizations. Innovative pro-gramming, a refined tonal culture, and spirited interpretations are hallmarks of the eight-per-son chamber group, which performs in a variety of instrumental combinations for its SHCS debut program culminating in Beethoven’s gor-geous Septet.

For tickets and information: 410-516-7164 or www.shriverconcerts.org

Leipzig Youth Symphony Orchestra © Jugendsinfonieorchester der Musikschule Leipzig


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Wednesday, April 9, 8 pmBlues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Florian Höfner: Solo Piano

The noted German jazz pianist and composer Florian Höfner returns to Washington for a one-night engagement at the legendary DC jazz club Blues Alley in Georgetown. Winner of mul-tiple prizes including the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, Höfner has toured exten-sively throughout Europe, the US, and Canada. His performances are featured on ten CD re-leases, including a collaboration with renowned guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. His latest album with the Florian Höfner Group, “Falling Up”, was released on OA2 Records in September 2013.

For tickets and information: 202-337-4141 or www.bluesalley.com

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Wednesday, January 22, 7 pmSixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I Street NW, Washington, DC

Book Presentation with Yascha Mounk

Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany is a moving account of a young man’s formative years in a country

still struggling with its past. Yascha Mounk ex-amines history, his family story, and his own childhood, showing that anti-Semitism and far-right extremism have long coexisted with self-conscious philo-Semitism in post-war Germany. Book signing to follow.

For tickets and information: 202-408-3100 or www.sixthandi.org

Scharoun Ensemble Berlin © Gantschi Jazz pianist Florian Höfner © Mike Meyer

Author Yascha Mounk presents Stranger in My Own Country © Farrar, Straus and Giroux


Saturday, March 8, 1 - 5 pmZion Church of the City of Baltimore, 400 E Lexington St., Baltimore, MD

Symposium: Celebrating Luther’s September Testament (1522): Looking at Biblical Scholarship in Baltimore

What is one of the few copies of the first trans-lations of the New Testament into the German language by Luther doing in Baltimore? This symposium in the historic Adlersaal will present the book itself as well as a panel dis-cussion examining the historical context and cultural impact of the translation. Panelists: Timothy Wengert, Luther and Melanchthon scholar of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia; Paul Espinosa, curator of the George Peabody Library of the Special Collections Department, Johns Hopkins University; Randall Donaldson, associate pro-fessor of German at Loyola University Maryland; and Holger Roggelin, pastor of Zion Church.

This event will introduce the Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund to benefit and support Luther research and scholarship. A light supper will be provided.

For information and to RSVP: 410-727-3939 or www.zionbaltimore.org

Thursday, January 30, 8 pm (in German)Embassy of Switzerland, 2900 Cathedral Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Das Bauhaus zwischen Faschismus und Kommunismus: der Kampf um eine demokratische Kunst, Gestaltung und Architektur unter Hannes Meyer

Dr. Erich Keel, former Head of Education at The Kreeger Museum, currently Curator at the Arts Club of Washington and independent lecturer on modern art and architecture, will speak about his research on the Bauhaus (1919-1933). Of the only three Bauhaus directors (Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Mies van der Rohe), relatively little attention has been devoted to Hannes Meyer, the distinguished Swiss architect, and his lasting influence. Illustrated with images of Bauhaus design.

Sponsored by the German Language Society in cooperation with the Embassy of Switzerland

For information and reservations: 202-239-0432 or [email protected]

The Bauhaus building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer © picture-alliance / ZB

Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532 © picture-alliance / Prisma Archivo


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Ongoing until January 31, 2014German-American Heritage Museum of the USATM, 719 Sixth NW, Washington DC

Berlins – Made in USA

This unprecedented exhibition about the many towns, villages, and communities throughout the United States named Berlin highlights the many achievements and contributions of German-Americans to the development and growth of the USA.

Ongoing until February 22, 2014Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen

Visibility Machines explores the unique roles Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen play as me-ticulous observers of the global military indus-trial complex. Investigating forms of military surveillance, espionage, war-making, and weaponry, Farocki and Paglen each examine the deceptive and clandestine ways in which military projects have deeply transformed, and politicized, our relationship to images and the realities they seem to represent.

February 27 – April 12German-American Heritage Museum of the USATM, 719 Sixth NW, Washington DC

German Karneval – Then and Now

Explore the roots of German Karneval and how it is celebrated today in the USA. Marvel at the colorful costumes, uniforms, and much more. This exhibit is made possible with the kind support of the Kölner Karnevalsmuseum and the Festkomitee Kölner Karneval von 1823 as well as the German-American Mardi Gras Association (GAMGA).

New! Long nights at the museum: As of January 9, 2014, the German-American Heritage Museum will offer extended hours on Thursdays from 11 am to 9 pm.

Opening hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays from 11 am – 5 pm, Thursdays from 11 am – 9 pm; Saturdays 12 – 5 pm.

The museum is closed on Sundays and Mondays.

For information: 202-467-5000 or www.gahmusa.org

Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532 © picture-alliance / Prisma Archivo

Carnival in Düsseldorf © picture-alliance / dpa Washington Sängerbund Faschingsball © Washington Sängerbund


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Thursday, January 9, 6 pmThe Smithsonian Castle, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington, DC

Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book Evening

This unique and lively evening benefiting the Smithsonian Libraries’ rare book and preserva-tion programs will feature German food, wine and beer, and entertainment. Guests will have the opportunity to browse a trove of remark-able and historic volumes and learn more about the Libraries’ special collections and why they must be preserved. Each book featured will be available for “adoption”. Gifts will benefit the Libraries’ rare books and preservation programs.

For tickets and information: 202-633-2241 or library.si.edu/news-events

Saturday, March 1, 7 pm - midnightKena Ballroom, 9001 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax, VA

Washington Sängerbund Faschingsball

Dance to live music played by Mike Surrat and the Continentals at the Washington Sänger-bund’s traditional Costume Prize Masquerade

Ball. Delicious German food, beer, wine, cham-pagne, and other drinks are available for pur-chase.

Tickets: $25 advance sale; $30 at the door (checks please)For tickets and information: 202-310-4691 or www.saengerbund.org

Friday, March 7, 9 am – 12 pmDeutsche Schule Washington D.C., 8617 Chateau Drive, Potomac, MD

Open House at Preschool and School Entry Level of the German School Washington D.C.

This open house will give parents a chance to get to know the German School Washington D.C., which offers a challenging curriculum in a truly international environment. With its strong focus on science and languages, the school’s degree enables entrance to universities in Europe as well as the United States. Extended Care is available until 5 pm. If you cannot attend this Open House, please contact the school to set up your private tour.

For information: 301-767-3807 or www.dswashington.org, [email protected]

Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book Evening © Smithsonian Libraries

Open House at the German School Washington D.C. © German School Washington D.C.


Learn these skills and more in a sup-portive, self-paced, fun atmosphere: meetings are held alternately in English and German on the first and second Friday of the month. Visit us online for further information. Toastmasters International is a fee-based member-ship organization, but guests are always welcome so please drop in on us soon.

GOETHE-INSTITUT AND TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL-WHERE LEADERS ARE MADE

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AddressesThe German Historical Institute1607 New Hampshire Ave., NWWashington, DC 20009Phone: 202-387-3355Fax: 202-483-3430E-mail: [email protected] site: www.GHI-DC.org

The Institute holds a number of lecture series throughout the year.

The German Information Center2300 M Street, NW, Suite 300Washington, DC 20037Phone: 202-298-4000Fax: 202-471-5526Web site: www.Germany.info

Dedicated to fulfilling the public diplomacy mission at the German Embassy by offering Americans a window on modern Germany.

German national Tourist Office122 East 42nd Street, Suite 2000New York, NY 10168-0072Phone: 212-661-7200Fax: 212-661-7174E-mail: [email protected] site: www.germany.travelProviding German tourism infor-mation.

German Academic ExchangeService (DAAD)871 United Nations PlazaNew York, NY 10017-1814Phone: 212-758-3223Fax: 212-755-5780E-mail: [email protected] site: www.daad.org

A government-supportedorganization of colleges and uni-versities in the Federal Republic of Germany that promotes rela-tions with universities abroad through the exchange of students and scholars.

German School Washington, DC8617 Chateau Dr.Potomac, MD 20854Phone: 301-365-4400Fax: 301-365-3905E-mail: [email protected] site: www.dswashington.org

Kindergarten, elementary, and high school.

Deutsche Forschungsgemein-schaft (DFG) German Research Foundation1627 I Street NW, Suite 540Washington, DC 20006-4020Phone: 202-785-4206Fax: 202-785-4410E-mail: [email protected] site: www.dfg-usa.org

The main German funding organi-zation for scientific research.

German Book Office72 Spring Street, 11th FloorNew York, NY 10012Phone: 212-794-2851Fax: 212-794 2870E-mail: [email protected] site: www.gbo.org

The German-American Heritage Museum of the USA719 6th Street NWWashington, DC 20001Phone: 202-467-5000Fax: 202-467-5440E-mail: [email protected] site: www.gahmusa.org

Television and Radio in GermanFor news information on the Internet: www.ardmediathek.de or www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathekNote: There are two German lan-guage televisionchannels available by satellite to Dish Network subscribers in the US: the privately funded ProSiebenSat1Welt, a mix of German language shows of the channels ProSieben, Kabel 1, N24 and Sat1; and Deutsche Welle Television, programming that

alternates between English and German by the hour from Germany’s international broadcaster.Deutsche Welle’s program is also rebroadcast via local public televi-sion stations in select cities (check with your local provider).More information at www.dishnetwork. com.

German Lutheran ChurchWashington DC5500 Massachusetts Ave. NWWashington, DC 20816Phone/Fax: 301-365-2678E-mail: [email protected] site: www.glcwashington.org

The United Church +Die Vereinigte Kirche1920 G Street NWWashington, DC 20006-4303Phone: 202-331-1495Fax: 202-530-0406E-mail: [email protected] site: www.theunitedchurch.org

German Speaking Catholic Mission Washington, DCRectory: 6330 Linway Terrace, McLean, VA 22101Masses: Georgetown Preparatory School10900 Rockville PikeBethesda, MD 20852-3299Phone: 703-356-4473Fax: 703-356-4558E-mail: [email protected] site: www.kathde.org

Zion Church of the City of BaltimoreCity Hall Plaza400 East Lexington StreetBaltimore, MD 21202Phone: 410-727-3939Fax:: 410-468-0174E-mail: [email protected] site: www.zionbaltimore.org


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