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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FALL 2010

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Dr. Bertram von Moltke

Head, Cultural Department, German Embassy

Ulrich Braess,

Director, Goethe-Institut Washington

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E Welcome to the Fall 2010 edition of our German cultural events calendar, Kultur-vergnügen (cultural enjoyment). We are happy to be part of Washington’s dy-namic, diverse arts scene, and invite you to take part in our cultural exchange and dialogue.

This fall is a special time in Germany’s history – in October we celebrate twenty years of German unity. The artistic expression that occurred in Germany during its division and following its reunification is showcased in the Goethe-Institut’s film series Made in West/East Germany and in Edison Place Gallery’s Break-through! exhibition.

Coincidentally, the Goethe-Institut Washington opened its doors for the first time twenty years ago this fall. The institute commemorates this milestone with several events, includ-ing a design competition to unify and freshen the Institute’s façade.

Modern-day Germany is presented through events such as the film series Afrodeutsche: Afro-Germans in Film and discussions of green living and design. Our FotoGaler-ie, home to contemporary German photography, features two distinct shows this season, both opening with the artists.

Whether you speak German well or are just beginning, the Goethe-Institut has a lan-guage course at your level. For further practice, take part in the monthly Deutsch am Mittag. Please consider joining Friends of the Goethe-Institut to support our important work.

The German Embassy welcomes the music groups The Arirang Quintet and the Young Westphalian Baroque Ensemble to its auditorium this fall. A plethora of additional Ger-man music events takes place around the city.

A stunning exhibition, German Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 to 1900, continues through the fall at the National Gallery of Art. Don’t miss this extraordinary show!

The 200th anniversary of composer Robert Schumann’s birth is commemorated during a four-day conference at the University of Maryland. An array of seasonal events with a German flair is slated for the fall and winter.

Visit www.goethe.de/washington and www.germany.info/dcevents for updates and addi-tional offerings.

Viel Vergnügen! Enjoy!


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Cover: Black on White © Eyeworks TV

Revenants © Oskar Schmidt

Axe of Wandsbek © DEFA Film Library

Frank Rodel, Bald Eagle II, 2008 (Detail)

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter © picture-alliance/dpa

Kirill Golovchenko, from the series The Ukraini-an Breakthrough, 2008, pig-ment prints.

Goethe-Institut 4 - 21 German Embassy 24 - 30Events at a Glance 22 - 23

Goethe-Institut EventsFilms Afrodeutsche: Afro-Germans in Film 4 – 5 Deutschland eilig Vaterland 6 Made in West/East Germany 7 – 9 Film Festivals 10

Exhibitions Breakthrough! 20 Years After German Unification 11 Revenants: Photographs by Oskar Schmidt 12 Documentary Photography 07/08: Wüstenrot Foundation Award Winners 13

Discussions Architecture Week: SuperGreen 14 Green Living Series 14 Cultural Life: A European-American Dialogue 15 Hear Now! 15

German-American Heritage Walking Tours 16

Reading and Book Presentation The Poet’s Cookbook 17

Language Deutsch am Mittag 18

Kids Euro Festival 18Twenty Years Goethe-Institut Washington 19

American Goethe Society 20

German Embassy Events Music 24 – 26 Lectures 26 – 27 Film 27 Exhibitions 28 Special Events 29 – 30

Language Classes 21, 32Friends of the Goethe-Institut 33Electronic Newsletter 40Addresses 41 About Us 43

CALENDAR OF EVENTS FALL 2010 4

n Monday, September 13, 6:30 pm

LeroyGermany, 2007, 89 min., DVD, Director: Armin Völck-ers, Cast: Alain Morel, Anna Hausburg, Constantin von Jascheroff, Afrob, Günther Kaufmann, Eva Mannschott

Introduction by Yvonne Poser, Associate Professor German, World Languages and Cultures, Howard University

17-year-old Leroy, an Afro-German teenager, en-joys reading Goethe and playing cello. He and

Eva fall in love. But Eva’s father is a politician in an extreme right-winged party, and her brothers are known neo-Nazis. Leroy finds himself stuck in an identity crisis as he attempts to become friends with the family.

Born in 1963, Armin Völckers grew up in Brazil. Leroy, the winner of a 2008 German Film Prize, is Völckers’ feature film debut, expanding upon the same theme which he covered in the short movie Leroy Cleans Up (Leroy räumt auf, 2005).

FILM SERIES

n September 13 – October 25, 2010Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Afrodeutsche: Afro-Germans in Film500,000 Germans have African or African-American roots and generally refer to themselves as Afro-deutsche (Afro-Germans). They are an often-overlooked minority in today’s Germany and still struggle to be accepted as German by a society that most often equates being German with being 100% Cau-casian.

The New Black Movement and accompanying black organizations were established in both Germanies in the early 1980s. These organizations work to give black Germans a voice and to rediscover and tell the rich history of these people.

Where did they come from? They can be the children or grandchildren of Africans who emigrated from former German colonies in the early 20th century. Or exchange students and workers who came to the former East Germany from then-communist countries such as Mozambique. Others are the offspring of African-American soldiers in Germany during the post-World War II occupation and the Cold War. Or they can simply be immigrants from Africa and their descendants.

This series of films by and about Afro-Germans reflects issues from different perspectives and de-cades.

Leroy ©Filmportal


Valley of the Innocent© teamWorx

Tickets see page 10


Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen)Germany, 2003, 85 min., BETACam SP, Director: Branwen Okpako, Cast: Nisma Cherrat, Angelica Domröse, Kirsten Block, Florian Panzer

Introduction by Janice Mitchell, Professor of German and Intercultural and International Education, Gallaudet University

Afro-German police inspector Eva Meyer is trans-ferred from her department in Frankfurt am Main to her home town of Dresden – a place she has been avoiding for 22 years. Having grown up in several East German orphanages, Eva never met her parents. She begins searching for her roots and finds the truth in a Stasi file.

Branwen Okpako (b. 1969 in Lagos, Nigeria) has produced several award-winning short films. Valley of the Innocent is Okpako’s first feature film.


ToxiGermany, 1952, 88 min., 35mm, Director: Robert A. Stemmle, Cast: Elfie Fiegert, Paul Bildt, Johanna Hofer, Ingeborg Körner

Introduction by Katrin Sieg, Associate Professor of German, Georgetown University

After World War II, five-year-old Toxi – an Afro-German child whose father was part of the Occu-pation forces – is taken in by her grandparents. Friends and relatives are full of resentment and prejudice, but nobody can resist the charming lit-tle girl who is waiting for her father.

Robert A. Stemmle (b. 1903) began his career as a teacher, but soon moved to Berlin and co-found-ed the famous cabaret Die Katakombe. He wrote stage plays that were performed at the legendary Volksbühne Berlin. In his satirical comedies he of-ten criticizes social grievances.

n Monday, October 18, 6:30 pm

Black on White (Günter Wallraff: Schwarz auf Weiß)Germany, 2009, 82 min., DigiBeta, Directors: Pagonis Pagonakis, Susanne Jäger, Cast: Günter Wallraff


In this documentary, German writer and undercov-er journalist Günter Wallraff took on the fictional identity of Kwami Ogonno, a black man from So-malia, to expose latent and explicit racism within German society. The film led to a wide controver-sy among black and white Germans.

Black on White is a typical Wallraff-style documen-tary. Günter Wallraff created a fictitious person in order to highlight social injustices and how so-ciety functions. His earlier projects included an ex-posé of the German tabloid Bild Zeitung. He has also authored a book about suspect research meth-ods and severe journalistic lapses. Wallraff has of-ten come under fire for his methods.

n Monday, October 25, 6:30 pm

Return to Go! (Zurück auf Los!)Germany, 2000, 90 min., 35mm, Director: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Cast: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Matthias Freihof, Dieter Bach, Bart Klein


Afro-German bohemian Sam grew up in East Ber-lin during the 1970s and 80s. In reunified Germa-ny, the 30-year-old’s attempt to make money by re-cording old East German hits fails, and he is forced to live on welfare. A tragicomic take on love, HIV, friendship, death, disability and racism with an ex-traordinary lightness. Despite all the setbacks, life goes on in Return to Go!

Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss has held the leading role in several award-winning theater and TV productions. Return to Go! appeared at the Berlinale (the Inter-national Berlin Film Festival) in 2000, and at more than 60 other international festivals.


This year, Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of its reunification. The documentary Deutschland eilig Vaterland is dedicated to the period between the

fall of the Berlin Wall and the official reunification on October 3, 1990.

n Tuesday, October 5, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Deutschland eilig VaterlandGermany, 2010, 60 min., DVD, Directors: Carl-Ludwig Paeschke, Uli Weidenbach

This documentary focuses on the 329 days between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 3rd of October, 1990. It juxtaposes interviews with the most important figures in the political process from both Ger-manies and the former Allied powers with accounts of everyday citizens who found themselves at least as surprised by the fall of the Wall as the politicians themselves.

Discussion with invited panelists follows the screening.

No charge. RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 172 or [email protected]

View of the German-German unification treaty, signed in Bonn, Germany, 24 September 1990.

Copyright: picture-alliance/ dpa


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FILM SERIES

SuBjECT: WORLD WAR II

n Monday, November 14 pm The Bridge (Die Brücke)6:30 pm The Adventures of Werner Holt (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt)

n Monday, November 84 pm The Adventures of Werner Holt (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt)6:45 pm The Bridge (Die Brücke) Discussion follows with Peter Rollberg, Asso-ciate Professor of Slavic Languages, Film Stud-ies and International Affairs, George Washing-ton University.

The Bridge (Die Brücke)West Germany, 1960, 103 min., 35 mm, Director: Bern-hard Wicki, Cast: Folker Bohnet, Albert Mutz, Walter Forst

April 1945: During the final days of World War II, seven under-aged boys receive the pointless mili-tary order to protect a bridge in a small Bavari-an town against the approaching US troops. Left alone with this instruction, the schoolboys must face the cruel reality of a war they had only ob-served from a distance.

Bernhard Wicki’s international breakthrough, The Bridge was nominated for an Academy Award.

The Adventures of Werner Holt (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt)East Germany, 1965, 158 min., DVD Director: Joachim Kunert, Cast: Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge

Private Werner Holt fights on the collapsing East-ern Front in the last months of World War II. Re-flecting on his militant Nazi participation and an SS massacre he observed, Holt starts having seri-ous doubts about his ideals…

November 1, 2010 – january 10, 2011Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

MADE IN WEST/EAST GERMANyScript writers and directors from West and East Germany, although divided after World War II, were inspired by similar subjects: the war, guilt about it, and the division of their country. Their productions on these topics, however, varied greatly.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of German unification, the Goethe-Institut con-trasts West and East German productions and their handling of these subjects. Similarities, traditions and connections between the two film cultures, existing in distinctly different social systems during the Cold War, will be highlighted. Many of the East German films were produced by DEFA (Deutsche Film Ak-tiengesellschaft), the state-run East German film studios where films were made from 1946 to 1990.

Each screening compares one film from the East with one from the West; discussion of the films and the topics will take place after the film screenings on the second evening of each pairing.

Films in this series come from the DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Film Archives of the Goethe-Institut.

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A Berlin Romance © DEFA Film Library


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Produced in the DEFA studios, Hans-Joachim Kunert’s The Adventures of Werner Holt re-ceived the 1965 Grand Prix at the Moscow In-ternational Film Festival.

SuBjECT: GuILT AFTER THE WAR

n Monday, November 154 pm yesterday’s Tomorrow (Zwischengleis)6:30 pm The Second Track (Das zweite Gleis)n Monday, November 224 pm The Second Track (Das zweite Gleis)6:30 pm yesterday’s Tomorrow (Zwischengleis)

Discussion follows with Antje Passenheim, DPA/WDR

yesterday’s Tomorrow (Zwischengleis)West Germany, 1978, 109 min., DVD, Director: Wolfgang Staudte, Cast: Mel Ferrer, Pola Kinski, Martin Lüttge, Han-nelore Schroth

Following World War II, Anna Eichmayr’s life is infused with guilt: on a refugee train a terrible ac-cident occurred…

Working at the East German studios DEFA after 1945, Wolfgang Staudte became widely known for the first German postwar feature film, The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind un-ter uns, 1946).

The Second Track (Das zweite Gleis)East Germany, 1962, 80 min., 35mm, Director: Joachim Kunert, Cast: Albert Hetterle, Annekathrin Bürger

When Station Inspector Brock is witness to a rob-bery, he experiences flashbacks of his failure to take a stand against Nazi persecutions years ago. The Second Track is the only East German film which explores the theme of former Nazis lead-ing normal lives in East Germany.

Joachim Kunert belonged to the so-called “second generation” of DEFA filmmakers, characterized by a worldview primarily shaped by the East German experience. The Second Track gained no recogni-tion until its recent critical rediscovery.

SuBjECT: DIVIDED GERMANy

n Monday, November 29 4 pm yesterday Girl (Abschied von Gestern) 6:30 pm Divided Heaven (Der geteilte Himmel) n Monday, December 6 4 pm Divided Heaven (Der geteilte Himmel) 6:30 pm yesterday Girl (Abschied von Gestern) Discussion follows with Gregor Peter Schmitz, US Correspondent, Spiegel|Spiegel online.

yesterday Girl (Abschied von Gestern)West Germany, 1965, 88 min., DVD, Director: Alexander Kluge, Cast: Alexandra Kluge, Hans Korte, Edith Kuntze-Peloggio

Born to Jewish parents in 1937, Anita G. flees from East Germany to West Germany. Suitcase in hand, she discovers an unknown country: the Federal Re-public of Germany in 1966.

Alexander Kluge was one of the initiators of the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962, calling for a new form of German film.

Divided Heaven (Der geteilte Himmel)East Germany, 1964, 116 min., DVD, Director: Konrad Wolf, Cast: Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hilmar Thate

Rita Seidel’s relationship with Manfred, a chemist ten years her senior, is tenuous – he feels his best career move is to relocate to West Berlin, and she cannot envision following him there.

Konrad Wolf and his family left Germany for Moscow when the Nazis took power in 1933. He

The Bridge © Film Archives of the Goethe-Institut

Yesterday’s Tomorrow © Film Archives of the Goethe-Institut

Yesterday Girl © © Film Archives of the Goethe-Institut

Divided Heaven © DEFA Film Library Axe of Wandsbek © DEFA Film Library



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helped found DEFA, and became international-ly known for his films. He served as president of the East German Academy of Arts from 1965 un-til his death in 1982.

SuBjECT: ONE BOOk, TWO FILMS

n Monday, December 13 4 pm The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek) (West German version, 1981) 6:30 pm The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek) (East German version, 1951)

n Wednesday, December 15 4 pm The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek)(East German version, 1951) 6:30 pm The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek) (West German version, 1981)

Discussion follows with Katrin Sieg, associate professor, German Department, Georgetown University.

The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek)West Germany, 1981, 149 min., DVD, Director: Hein-rich Breloer, Horst Königstein, Cast: Angelika Thomas, Dietmar Mues, Hildegard Schmahl, Roland Schäfer

The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek)East Germany, 1951, 110 min., BETACAM, Director: Falk Harnack, Cast: Erwin Geschonneck, Käthe Braun, Gefion Helmke, Willy A. Kleinau. Both films are based on the novel of the same title by Arnold Zweig.

Hamburg 1934. Butcher Albert Teetjen joins the Nazi party, and is soon offered a new job: in prep-aration for an upcoming visit by Hitler, four com-munist prisoners are to be executed. Teetjen agrees to replace the sick hangman as long as his deed re-mains a secret.

Heinrich Breloer directed the Emmy-award win-ning The Manns – Novel of a Century (Die Manns. Ein Jahrhundertroman, 2001). His works are main-ly about modern German history and are charac-terized by the alteration between authentic film documents and staged scenes.

Falk Harnack was a director, script writer and resistance fighter during the Nazi regime. The Axe of Wandsbek was his directorial debut. Ini-tially praised by critics, it was later banned for what was deemed a sympathetic portrayal of a Nazi executioner.

SuBjECT: BEFORE THE WALL: EAST/WEST GERMANy IN THE 50S

n Monday, january 3 4 pm Sky Without Stars (Himmel ohne Sterne) 6:30 pm A Berlin Romance (Eine Berliner Romanze) n Monday, january 10 4 pm A Berlin Romance (Eine Berliner Romanze) 6:30 pm Sky Without Stars (Himmel ohne Sterne)

Sky Without Stars (Himmel ohne Sterne) West Germany, 1955, 109 min., DVD, Director: Helmut Käutner, Cast: Erik Schumann, Eva Kotthaus, Georg Tho-malla, Horst Buchholz

Anna enlists the help of Bavarian police officer Carl Altmann to bring her child to see her in the East, but the border is becoming less passable ev-ery day.

A director, actor, and screenwriter, Helmut Käut-ner refused to serve the Nazi regime and produced his best films during precisely that period of time. In the post-war era, Käutner created masterpieces in German film of the late forties and fifties.

A Berlin Romance (Eine Berliner Romanze)East Germany, 1956, 81 min., DVD, Director: Gerhard Klein, Cast: Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrich Thein, Uwe-Jens Pape, Erika Dunkelmann

The bright shop windows in West Berlin are much more appealing to seventeen-year-old Uschi than the plain gray buildings in the East, so she leaves her parents’ house for the West. Together with her, the audience takes a glance behind the façade of the West German “economic miracle.”

The frank images of the dreams and longings of Berlin youth in this work by Gerhard Klein and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase found little sup-port in the East German Ministry of Film. A Berlin Romance and Klein and Kohlhaase’s later film Ber-lin – Schönhauser Corner (Berlin – Ecke Schön-hauser, 1957) are now considered the best and most precise portrayals of the East Berlin youth scene during the Cold War.

Tickets see page 10



n October 7 – October 16, 2010various venues

11th Annual DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival Information: www.apafilm.org

n October 14 – 23, 2010various venues

Reel Affirmations 20,Washington DC’s International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Information: 202-286-1119 or www.reelaffirmations.org

n November 2010various venues

23rd Annual European union Film ShowcaseInformation: 301-495-6720, 202-833-2348 or www.afi.com/silver

n December 2 – 12, 2010various venues

21st Washington jewish Film FestivalAn exhibition of international cinema – 11 days of award-winning and new films and filmmakers with discussions, workshops and special events at venues in DC and Maryland.Information: 202-777-3248 or www.wjff.org

n january 21 – 27, 2011Landmark’s E Street Cinema

Film|NeuThe newest in German, Austrian, and Swiss film-making.Information: www.filmneu.org

uPCOMING FILM FESTIVALS WITH GERMAN-LANGuAGE FILMS

812 Seventh St., NW, Washington, DC

www.goethe.de/washington 202-289-1200

tickets For Films at the Goethe-Institut

General Admission: $7 Friends of the Goethe-Institut, seniors and students with ID: $4

Tickets: can be purchased right before the screenings, or during the Goethe-Institut’s office hours Monday-Thursday 10 am-5 pm and Friday 10 am-3 pm

www.boxof ficetickets.com/goethe (service charges apply)

or online at:

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n September 19 – October 8, 2010

Breakthrough! 20 years After German unification – Critical Perspectives of Berlin Artists

Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery, 702 8th Street NW

The artists whose works are featured in this exhibition all lived in and created their art during the communist regime in East Berlin, behind the Wall. Many of them were political prisoners or fled to West Germany in order to freely express themselves as artists. Today, the artists live and work in a reunited Berlin. Through their exhibited art and resulting dialogue, the artists address the costs and benefits of freedom of expression and share perspectives on their hopes, aspirations, and realities

more than 20 years after the fall of the Wall.

Artists include Gerald Adam Hahn, Harald Hauswald, Peter Herrmann, Thomas Klingenstein, Wolfgang Petrick, Frank Rödel, Hans Scheib, Inge H. Schmidt, Reinhard Stangl, and Robert Weber.

More information on this project and the Breakthrough Art Organization can be found at www.breakthroughart.org.

n Sunday, September 19, 3 – 6 pm

Opening reception at Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery with several featured artists

n Tuesday, October 5, 12 – 1:15 pm A discussion (in German) at Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery with several of the

exhibiting Berlin artists about their work and its context. RSVP to [email protected]

ExHIBITION AND DISCuSSION

www.goethe.de/washington 202-289-1200

Frank Rodel, Bald Eagle II, 2008 (Detail) Reinhard Stangl, Gorlitz Train Station, 1995 (Detail)


ExHIBITIONn September 16 – October 29, 2010Goethe-Institut, FotoGalerie

Revenants (Wiedergängerinnen) Photographs by Oskar Schmidt

Opening reception Thursday, September 16, 6 – 8 pmwith photographer Oskar Schmidt

RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 161 or [email protected]

Bare, sparsely furnished rooms and introverted women and girls, barely present to their surround-ings—the starkly reduced photographs of Oskar Schmidt are both portraits and interiors. Like pa-per cut-outs, the silhouettes of their bodies con-trast against the bleak walls – as mute as the ob-jects in a still-life. The people and spaces seem fa-miliar, but they remain mysterious and slightly beyond reach. The women and girls portrayed are revenants, characters appropriated from the histo-ry of art and brought back to life in a new medi-um: photography.

Works by Oskar Schmidt (b. 1977) have been shown in numerous solo and group shows in such cities as Berlin, Barcelona, London, Peking and Zu-rich. This series was selected for inclusion in the “Talents” series by C|O Berlin, the International Forum for Visual Dialogues.

More: www.co-berlin.com

Revenants © Oskar Schmidt


ExHIBITIONn November 10, 2010 – january 28, 2011Goethe-Institut, FotoGalerie

Documentary Photography 07/08Wüstenrot Foundation Award Winners

Opening reception onWednesday, November 10, 6 – 8 pm

with curator Kristina Hasenpflugand photographers Andrea Diefenbach,Aymeric Fouquez, Kirill Golovchenko

and Margret Hoppe

RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext 162 or [email protected]

Since its invention, photography has assumed a leading role in communication, overtaking the power of the written word to convey information and sway emotions. Through photos, the present is given meaning and past events are preserved as a memory. The four winners of the 2007/2008 Wüstenroth Foundation documentary photography competition concentrate on this tension between the present and the past. Confronting their own origins, they focus particularly on the former Ger-man Democratic Republic and on Eastern European countries. What are the consequences of changes, abandonment, progress and reinvention?

The Wüstenrot Foundation sponsors the bienni-al Documentary Photography competition, which awards its winners a monetary prize, the produc-tion of a catalog and exhibition of the works at the Museum Folkwang in Germany, and exhibitions

in other cities and abroad.

In association with Fotoweek DC 2010, an annual weeklong celebration of photography in

Washington, DC.

www.fotoweekdc.org

Kirill Golovchenko, from the series The Ukrainian Breakthrough, 2008, pigment prints.

Andrea Diefenbach, from the series Country Without Parents, 2007, C-prints


LECTuREn Tuesday, September 14, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Architecture Week 2010SuperGreen: Lecture by Christoph IngenhovenGerman architecture firm ingenhoven architects, founded in 1985, is one of the world’s leading ar-chitecture firms in sustainable design. Christoph Ingenhoven, principal of ingenhoven architects, presents an overview of his company’s focus on green design: supergreen buildings for the future. The company’s philosophy holds that contempo-rary architecture should respond positively to the natural and built environment.

ingenhoven architects lays claim to designing one of the world’s first high-rise buildings with an ecolog-ical focus, the headquarters of RWE (early 1990s), in which they utilized innovative double façade technology. Additional low-energy projects in in-genhoven’s portfolio include Lufthansa Aviation Center at Frankfurt Airport (it requires only one-third of the energy of a conventional office build-ing); the main train station in Stuttgart, (it will be carbon-free and zero energy, and has been award-ed with the Global Holcim Award Gold for its sus-tainable design), and Sydney, Australia’s skyscrap-er 1 Bligh (recipient of Australia’s World Leader-ship 6 Star rating).

No charge. RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 163 or [email protected]

More on Architecture Week 2010, the 12th series of public events that celebrates architecture in Washington, DC: www.aiadc.com.

DISCuSSIONGreen Living SeriesOur world is confronted with a major crisis: grow-ing greenhouse gas emissions that lead to disas-trous climate change. Global reserves of clean air, fresh water, and fertile soil are polluted or becom-ing scarce and over utilized. This series focuses on how we can find a more sustainable lifestyle and benefit from it at the same time.

n Wednesday, September 29, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Between Currywurst and Tofu: How Good Food Makes a Difference Discussion with invited panelists

Is what we eat still something we decide our-selves? Some argue that the food industry has con-trol over what will end up on our plates and what we are allowed to know about our food. This ses-sion will discuss some of the questionable prom-ises the food industry makes about its products, what a balanced and sustainable diet looks like, and ways for consumers to keep having the last word about food.


n Tuesday, November 9, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Energy Autonomy: The 4th Revolution Discussion with Ralf Fücks, President, Heinrich Böll Foundation, and n.n.

Energy entirely from renewable sources, accessi-ble to everyone, affordable and clean. Utopia? Not quite. A new system of energy autonomy is under-way to increase the world’s energy independence. Similar to the agricultural, industrial and informa-tion revolutions, an energy revolution would re-shape the world.

Organized in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation.


Images courtesy ingenhoven architects



LISTENING EVENTDISCuSSIONn Wednesday, November 10, 12 – 2 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum and FotoGalerie

Cultural Life: A European-American Dialogue on Public-Private Partnership

With Kristina Hasenpflug, Curator, Wüstenrot Foundation, Ludwigsburg, Germany

and a representative of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities


How cultural life should be supported and financed is an ongoing question for both American and Eu-ropean policy-makers. Given our differing cultural traditions, what can Germans and Americans learn from each other about the nature of public-private partnerships in support of a vibrant cultural life for all our citizens? Join us for a discussion and a chance to enter the conversation yourself.

Light refreshments will be served.

The Wüstenrot Foundation (www.wuestenrot-stif-tung.de) is active in many areas of German cultur-al life, especially in the arts and humanities, edu-cation, and historic preservation. Kristina Hasen-pflug serves as a curator of photographic competi-tions at the foundation.

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (www.pcah.gov) advances the White House’s arts and humanities objectives by working directly with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Human-ities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Li-brary Services (IMLS).

n Tuesday, October 26, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Hear Now presents an October SurpriseAnother listening event with the local audio col-lective, Hear Now. Stay tuned for details.

Presented in cooperation with Hear Now!, a col-lective of radio and audio producers.


n Tuesday, November 16, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Third Coast International Audio Festivalwith special guest Julie Shapiro, Artistic Director

“Against all odds, radio is alive and thriving these days!” says Third Coast International Audio Festival Artistic Director Julie Shapiro, who will prove the point in this audio event. Her presentation includes outstanding radio documentaries from around the world, including a sneak listen to the “best of the best” – winners from the Festival’s tenth annu-al Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, plus choice selections from the Third Coast Film-less Festival (an annual radio celebration that hap-pens in the dark).

www.thirdcoastfestival.org


Presented in cooperation with Hear Now!, a col-lective of radio and audio producers.

www.hearnowradio.org.


n Saturday, September 11, 11 am – 5 pmVarious venues

Goethe-Institut at the 18th Annual Arts on Foot Festival

Participate with us in the Pennsylvania Quar-ter Neighborhood’s Arts on Foot festival! Take the Goethe-Institut’s quiz challenge at our table on F Street. Join our walking tour

of the Old Downtown (see below).

Experience Arts on Foot – theater demonstra-tions, art gallery open houses, musical performanc-es, restaurant food samplings, arts and crafts, chil-dren’s activities, and more.

For more information: 202-482-7271 or www.artsonfoot.org.

n Saturday, September 11, 11 am – 12:30 pmMeet at the Goethe-Institut

Sacred Art and Architecture in Historic Downtown’s Places of WorshipWashington’s Old Downtown was the home for many immigrant groups: people of different eth-nicities, races and faiths. Fortunately today we can see many houses of worship that embody the his-tory of and some that still perpetuate those tradi-tions. This tour, led by Alice Stewart, historian and tour guide, will present the history and interpret the art and architecture of several of the remain-

ing places of worship, and we will try go inside at least a couple of them. The tour will walk past most of the following buildings: the Sixth & I His-toric Synagogue, the Chinese Community Church, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the original Adas Is-rael, Holy Rosary Catholic Church, and the First Trinity Lutheran Church.

No charge.

n Saturday, September 25, 1:30 – 3 pmMeet at the Goethe-Institut

Spotlight on Divided Countries: Germany, China and the uS

China and the United States both experienced Civ-il Wars; Germany was divided by the Allies after World War II. What is or was the impact of these divisions on artists and poets in those countries at the time? And what can we learn about the pro-cess of reuniting and reconciliation where that has occurred? This walking tour will include visits to the Chinatown Community Cultural Center, the Historical Society of Washington’s Kiplinger Library and the Breakthrough Art Exhibit at the Edison

Gallery. Led by Alice Stewart, his-torian and tour guide, the tour cov-ers less than one mile.

No charge as part of Walkingtown DC. www.walkingtowndc.org

WALkING TOuRS

Metropolitan Hook & Ladder Company #1 (1864), designed by German-American architect Adolf Cluss, image courtesy Wood Powell

Chinese Community Church, formerly Corinthian Baptist Church and Ohev Sholom, built 1906, image courtesy Wood Powell


READING AND BOOk PRESENTATION

C A K E

...Your mother taught you

on the mornings of holidays in Leipzig.

I have the worn leather book

which opens to this recipe,

written in her Old German script......Jenny D’Angelo

Cake (Kuchen) first appeared in Mother’s Day, Giraffe Press, Santa Cruz, CA./ Image courtesy Dan Murano

n Wednesday, November 17, 6:30 pm

The Poet’s Cookbook:Recipes from Germany, Poems by 33 American Poets with German Translations

He who doesn’t love wine, women, and songremains a fool his whole life long

– German proverb

With:Grace Cavalieri, editor, The Poet’s Cookbook

Sabine Meyers Pascarelli, editor and translator, The Poet’s CookbookLocal poets featured in the book

Cooking is a form of poetic expression. The essence of the German Kitchen is distilled into The Poet’s Cookbook, a literary adventure into simple, wholesome German recipes interspersed

with thirty-three poems about food. The poems, written by nationally acclaimed American writers (including a piece by Washington, DC’s poet laureate), with accompanying German

translations, convey the essence of food and its role as a form of dialogue. The Poet’s Cookbook provides sustenance for body and soul.

Light refreshments follow the event.


Copies of the book ($12) will be available for purchase during the event. Additional copies of the book, available in Fall 2010, can be purchased at the Goethe-Institut

or through Amazon online (ISBN 978-0-938572-52-7).

In cooperation with Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc.


F E S T I VA Ln October 15 – November 10, 2010various venues

kids Euro Festival 2010This fall Washington once again hosts one of the country’s largest performing arts festivals for chil-dren, with more than 150 free events around the city. The month-long event is geared to kids ages six through twelve, and features artists in almost every performing genre. A project of the 27 Washington-based European Union embassies and more than a dozen major local cultural institutions.

FILM AND WORkSHOPn Saturday, November 6, 2 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Hands Off Mississippi (Hände weg von Mississippi)Germany, 2007, 35mm, 96 min., German with English subtitles Director: Detlev Buck

Ten-year-old Emma is spending her vacation with Grandma Dolly in the countryside. This award-win-ning film is based on the novel by the popular Ger-man children’s author Cornelia Funke. Ages 6+.

THEATERn October 28 – 30 Location TBD

What Does Red Do on Thursday? (Was macht das Rot am Donnerstag?)A colorful story in seven parts featuring live painting to music by Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy

Can you let children take part in a voyage of dis-covery for a painter being guided by his inspira-tion? What stories emerge and fade away during the painting process? Approximately 40 minutes; ideal for ages 4+. www.thalias-kompagnons.de

Reservations and more information at kidseurofestival.org

n September 14, 12 – 1:15 pmDieter Dettke, board member, Friends of the Goethe-InstitutWo steht Deutschland nach der Sommerpause?

n October 19, 12 – 1:15 pmJan Logemann, visiting research fellow, German Historical InstituteDer untergang des kaufhauses

n November 9, 12 – 1:15 pmAlex Herold, proprietor, Old Europe restaurantDeutsche küche – viel besser als ihr Ruf

n December 14, 12 – 1:15 pmRüdiger Lentz, director, German-American Heritage MuseumDas neue Museum

Led by Irmgard Wagner (professor emerita of German, George Mason University).

Beverages and sweets are provided.

Tickets are $6 ($4 for members, seniors and students with ID). Beverages and sweets are provided.To ensure an accurate count, RSVP is preferred to Irmgard Wagner at [email protected] by Friends of the Goethe-Institut

DISCuSSION

Deutsch am MittagSprechen Sie Deutsch? All who wish to hear and speak German are invited to bring their lunch to our monthly presentation and dis-cussion. A topic of interest from German cul-ture, history, or contemporary affairs will be presented, in German, by a selected speak-er. Discussion on the topic will complete the Mittagstisch.


n Thursday, December 2, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

The Future of Dialogue: International Cultural and Educational PolicyWith invited experts from Germany and the United States


Who are we? And who are you? These were the questions that the Goethe-Institut posed some twenty years ago when the German Cultural Cen-ter was new in the capital of the United States. As we celebrate twenty years of activities here, the president of the Goethe-Institut will talk about the continuing relevance of such questions. What are the continuing themes and ways of working? What might be on the horizon? Why should we be here at all?

It’s been twenty eventful years since the Goethe-Institut Washington opened in Fall 1990. The Goethe-Institut, a non-profit, independent organi-zation headquartered in Munich, is comprised of 149 institutes in 92 countries around the world. The mission of the Goethe-Institut – to engage in a dialogue between Germany within the context of Europe and countries and cultures around the world – is an important part of Germany’s foreign cultural policy.

The Goethe-Institut Washington, originally based in an upper floor at the German Historical Insti-tute near Dupont Circle, now occupies a modern, artistic space in the midst of Downtown DC’s live-ly Chinatown neighborhood. Its program of films, discussions, language classes, and exhibitions con-tributes to Washington, DC’s arts scene and the sur-rounding community.

As we look into the future, we invite you to join us on the journey.

n until September 30, 2010

Façade Redesign CompetitionTo highlight the Institut’s location creatively and to make its function and purpose more visible, we wish to announce a competition to redesign the fa-çade of the building – the windows, awnings and outdoor banners. The design should present a com-pelling face to the community, expressing the de-signer’s thoughts on contemporary German and American culture.

Entries must be submitted by September 30, 2010 to project director Holly Wescott at [email protected].

A panel of Washington-area designers and archi-tects will judge the entries. The winning entrant will receive a $1,000 prize. The top five designs will be displayed during the Goethe-Institut’s 20th anniversary festivities.

More details can be viewed at www.goethe.de/washington

n Visions 20/20 To celebrate our 20th birthday, we’re offering a two-week trip to Germany to one lucky winner. Enter by being among the first 20 people to reg-ister for a fall language course at the Goethe-Institut. Details: see page 21.

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S c h u m a n n f e s t (in English)

Saturday, October 23, 10 – 11:30 am Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum “Du, meine Seele,” The Vocal Music of Robert Schumann

by Dr. Stan Engebretson, Professor of Music, George Mason University

with special guest artist, opera singer Patricia Miller, Chair of Vocal Studies, George Mason University Lieder and vocal chamber music by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) will be presented in honor of the master composer’s 200th anni-versary. Celebrated mezzo-soprano Patricia Miller and advanced students from George Mason University will perform. The event will continue at 2 pm with a screening of Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann, an operat-ic piece on the life-long love between Rob-ert and Clara Wieck Schumann filmed at Cov-ent Garden.. No charge. Refreshments at 9:30 am. For information and to RSVP: [email protected]

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Thursday, November 4, 6:45 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum Cultural Transformations: Berlin in the 20th Century

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Marion Deshmukh, Professor of History & Art History, George Mason University

As Prussia’s pro-vincial capital in the 19th centu-ry, Berlin had few

cultural attractions. Today, as capital of unit-ed Germany, Berlin’s cultural attractions rival those of Munich. Dr. Deshmukh will follow the course of these cultural developments throughout the 20th century to show how Berlin has become the international center that it is today. No charge. Refreshments to follow the lecture. For information and to RSVP: [email protected]

The American Goethe Society presents four lectures on Music, Literature, Art and Philosophy throughout the year, holds Saturday poetry luncheons (Lunch mit Lyrik) regu-larly at several DC restaurants, and monthly dramatic readings of classic German plays at an area public library. This fall’s drama is Arthur Schnitzler’s Liebelei. AGS sponsors the

Goethe Prize for outstanding students of German, and sends out a newsletter.

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n Monday, August 23, 7:30 pmPilgrim Lutheran Church, 5500 Massachusetts Avenue, Bethesda, MD

Boys’ Choir Wuppertaler kurrende The Wuppertaler Kurrende is part of the Protes-tant Church of the city of Wuppertal, Germany, and is recognized as one of the most renowned boys’ choirs in the North-Rhine region. It was founded in 1924 in the tradition of the Saxon boys’ choirs of the Bach era. The repertoire mainly consists of a-cappella music of the 16th to 20th centuries.

For information: 301-365-2678 or [email protected]

n Friday, September 3, 7 pmGerman Embassy, Carl Schurz Auditorium, 4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC

Arirang QuintetThe Arirang Quintet, a wind instrument quintet, was formed in 2002 and consists of members of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, a leading Ger-man orchestra of young international musicians. The quintet has been awarded numerous prizes in chamber music competitions.

Admission is free, but reservations are required. RSVP via email with the first and last names of all guests: [email protected]

n Wednesday, October 6, 7 pmGerman Embassy, Carl Schurz Auditorium, 4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC

young Westphalian Baroque EnsembleFounded in 2002, this ensemble includes young talents selected from the winners of major musi-cal competitions. They will perform works from the High Baroque period.

Admission is free, but reservations are required. RSVP via email with the first and last names of all guests: [email protected]

n Wednesday, October 20, 8 pmUniversity of Maryland, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD

Dichterliebe German tenor Christoph Genz and noted Roman-tic musicologist/pianist Charles Rosen recreate

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Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and Plácido Domingo, General Director of the Washington National Opera in Dresden 2009 © picture-alliance/ dpa

Arirang Quintet © Arirang Quintett


Schumann’s best-known song cycle in a unique, seldom-heard version of Dichterliebe.

Tickets: $42For tickets and information: 301-405-2787,[email protected] or http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu

n Wednesday, November 3, 8 pmKennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

Dresden StaatskapelleIn existence for over four and a half centuries, the Dresden Staatskapelle remains one of the lead-ing European orchestras. Led by Daniel Harding and joined by Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbind-er, the Dresden Staatskapelle will perform Schu-mann’s Manfred Overture, Op. 115 and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73.

This concert is organized by the Washington Performing Arts Society and is part of its Orchestra Series.

For tickets and information: 800-444-1324, 202-467-4600 or www.kennedy-center.org

n Saturday, November 6, 6 pmKena Ballroom, 9001 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax, VA

Von Lieb und Leid - On Love and SorrowThe Washington Sängerbund will give its annual fall concert under the guidance of Dr. David Mont-gomery. A reception with German food and bev-erages will follow the concert.

For tickets and information: 703-591-1640 or www.saengerbund.org

n Saturday, November 13, 8 pmKennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin“Watching Mutter play is a pleasure, . . . her tech-nique is effortless and natural; ...her tone is fa-mous for its creamy luxuriousness.” (Strings, May 2009). Mutter, who will celebrate the 30th anni-versary of her first U.S. appearance in 2010, will perform Brahms’ The Complete Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1, 2, 3).

This concert is organized by the Washington Performing Arts Society and is part of its Stars Series.

For tickets and information: 800-444-1324, 202-467-4600 or www.kennedy-center.org

n Saturday December 4, 7 and 8 pmHeurich House, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC (near Dupont Circle)

Christmas at the Brewmaster’s Castle with the Washington SängerbundThe Washington Sängerbund will perform Weih-nachtslieder and lead a sing-along with familiar Christmas carols at the Heurich Mansion, deco-rated for the occasion. Guided tours of the histor-ic Mansion will be offered.

Suggested donation for the support of the Mansion $10 (adults) and $5 (students with ID) For information: 202-310-4691 or www.saengerbund.org

Young Westphalian Baroque Ensemble © Junges Westfälisches Barockensemble

The Dresden Staatskapelle during a concert at the Semperoper, Dresden © picture-alliance/ dpa


n Thursday, September 16, 8 pm (in German)German Embassy, Carl Schurz Auditorium, 4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC

Deutsche Aussiedler im Nordwesten Amerikas: Geschichte und Lebensweise der Hutterischen BrüderThe Hutterite brethren derived from the 16th cen-tury Anabaptist movement. Formed in Moravia by religious refugees from South Tyrol, they fre-

n Friday, December 10 – Sunday, December 12 Time TBDGeorgetown University, Gaston Hall, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC

A Renaissance Christmas with the Augsburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir of Germany

The Augsburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir will join the Folger Consort for a performance of works by Byrd, Gibbons, Schütz, and Hassler.

In cooperation with the German Embassy and the Department of Performing Arts, Georgetown University

Tickets: $43For tickets and information: 202-544-7077 or www.folger.edu/consort

n Sunday, December 19, 3 pmUnited Church, 1929 G Street NW, Washington, DC

Christmas ConcertThe Washington Sängerbund will hold its tra-ditional Christmas concert. A reception will fol-low the concert.

A donation is requested for the less fortunate among us.For information: 202-310-4691 or www.saengerbund.org

LECTuRES

Augsburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir © Augsburger Domsingknaben


quently had to flee to different countries because of their religious beliefs. In the 1870s, they arrived in South Dakota. Today, they are the most success-ful Christian communal group in America. Speak-er Dr. Alfred Obernberger is Professor Emeritus of German at Georgetown University.

Sponsored by the German Language Society

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

n Thursday, October 14, 8 pm (in German)German Embassy, Carl Schurz Auditorium, 4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) – Wege zu einem (beinahe) unbekannten BekanntenThe famous medical doctor of Lambarene, Ga-bon, Albert Schweitzer was also a pastor, profes-sor of theology, philosopher, musicologist, and or-gan builder and expert. “We can’t do anything but hope that the spirit of humanity, which we need, will rise again in our times,” he stated in 1951. The speaker is Rev. Dr. Martin Mencke of the Ger-man Lutheran Church, Washington, DC.

Sponsored by the German Language Society

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

FILM

n Tuesday, September 21, 7 pmn Tuesday, October 19, 7 pmGerman Embassy, Carl Schurz Auditorium, 4645 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC

Deutsche korrespondenten berichtenGerman correspondents will talk about their work and discuss their contributions in the fields of eco-nomics, politics, and culture.

Admission is free, but registration required. For registration and information: [email protected]

n Thursday, November 4 – Tuesday, November 23AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD

AFI-Eu Film Showcase

Now in its 23rd year, the EU Showcase features a first-class line-up of films from EU member states that includes U.S. premieres, film festival award winners, and box-office hits. Expect to see nation-al Oscar selections for Best Foreign Language Film and meet filmmakers from Europe.

For tickets and information: 301-495-6720 or www.afi.com

“German settlement in America” - Colored lithograph, unsigned © picture-alliance/ akg-images

World famous doctor and philosopher Albert Schweitzer © picture-alliance / KPA/TopFoto


lection will showcase major works from the 17th-century Baroque, the 18th-century Rococo, early 19th-century Romanticism, and late 19th-century Realism. It includes works by artists such as Ad-am Elsheimer, Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Cas-par David Friedrich, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Adolph Menzel, among many others.

Organized by the National Gallery of Art

Three concerts will be performed in honor of the exhibition.

Monday, September 27, 12:10 pm and 2 pmNational Gallery of Art, West Building, Seventh Street Lobbyjasmine Choi, flutistThe flutist plays excerpts from her repertoire of works by J.S. Bach, Siegfried Karg-Elert, and Georg Philip Telemann.

Wednesday, October 13, 12:10 pmNational Gallery of Art, West Garden CourtGesangverein HofbieberMathias Dickhut, conductorThe choir from Hofbieber, near Fulda, Germany, sings Renaissance and Baroque choral music.

Sunday, November 14, 6:30 pmNational Gallery of Art, West Garden CourtNational Gallery of Art OrchestraThe orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Stephen Simon and accompanied by pianist Sara Daneshpour, plays music by Karl Stamitz and oth-er composers of the Mannheim school.

Admission to exhibition and concerts: Free of chargeFor information: www.nga.gov

n until Sunday, November 28National Gallery of Art, West Building, 401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC

German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 to 1900This stunning exhibition of 120 of the finest Ger-man watercolors and drawings from the Ratjen Col-

ExHIBITSEt in Arcadia Ego, 1790/1800 by Johann Georg von Dillis (1759-1841) © National Gallery of Art, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection

Minerva and the Muses, © 1610 by Hans Rottenhammer © National Gallery of Art, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection


n Saturday, September 25, 7 – 9:30 pmZion Church, City Hall Plaza, 400 E Lexington St., Baltimore, MD

Wine Tasting EventVisitors can enjoy wines from different regions in Germany and Austria while listening to live music in a beautiful setting.

For reservations (required) and information: 410-727-3939, [email protected] or www.zionbaltimore.org

n Saturday, September 25, 11 am – 6 pmLovettsville, VA

OktoberfestFirst Oktoberfest of the season held with the partic-ipation of the Washington Sängerbund. The Sän-gerbund will serve delicious German food, includ-ing bratwurst, knockwurst, and sauerkraut.

For information: 202-310-4691 or www.saengerbund.org

n Saturday, October 2, 11 am – 6 pm2700 South Quince Road, Shirlington, VA

OktoberfestSecond Oktoberfest of the season held with the participation of the Washington Sängerbund. The Sängerbund will serve tasty German food to accompany the local brew. Live music and dancers in the plaza will entertain the visitors.

For information: 202-310-4691 or www.saengerbund. org

n Sunday, October 3, 5 pmZion Church, City Hall Plaza, 400 E Lexington St., Baltimore, MD

MichaelisFestive Ecumenical Vespers Service, celebrat-ing St. Michael and All Angels and giving thanks for the freedom to worship in all German-speak-ing countries. The reception following the service is co-sponsored by The German Society of Maryland.

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

n October 19-22University of Maryland, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD

Schumann Bicentennial Festival ConferenceTo celebrate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schu-mann’s birth, the University of Maryland, School

SPECIAL EVENTS

Zion Church, Baltimore, MD © German EmbassyHofbieber, Germany © picture-alliance/ dpa


of Music, will host a festival conference. The four-day commemoration will feature an array of con-certs, exhibits, panel discussions, paper sessions, and master classes.

For information: 301-405-7794 or [email protected]

n Wednesday, October 27, 4:30 – 7 pmn Thursday, October 28, 11 am – 2 pmZion Church, City Hall Plaza, 400 E Lexington St., Baltimore, MD

Sour Beef Dinner and LuncheonFor generations, Zion’s homemade sour beef dinners and luncheons have been packed events. As in past years, an authentic Bavarian beer hall will be set up (Wednesday and Thursday, 4 pm – 9 pm), serving Spaten beer imported from Munich.

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

n Sunday, November 7, 7 - 9 pmZion Church, City Hall Plaza, 400 E Lexington St., Baltimore, MD

LutherfestProf. Dr. Eric Gritsch, director of the Zion Forum of German Culture, will give a presentation after a hearty German supper of bratwurst, beer, cider, bread, and potatoes, and a dessert.

For tickets (required) and information: 410-727-3939, [email protected] or www.zionbaltimore.org

n Tuesday, November 16, 7 pmVenue TBD

“Sight and Sound”Color is sound, sound is color. While listening to pianist Evelyn Ulex’ highly expressive interpreta-tions, Ade Frey makes associations to the musi-cal structure, rhythmical movements, and sound. The paintings will be projected on a screen during the concert.

For information: [email protected]

n Saturday, November 27, 10 am – 4 pmn Sunday, November 28, 11 am – 4 pmZion Church, City Hall Plaza, 400 E Lexington St., Baltimore, MD

13th ChristkindlmarktVisitors can feast on authentic German food and stock their pantries with imported goodies. Local craftspeople display their wares. The holiday spirit is conveyed with a Christmas tree and live German music. Door prizes are awarded and guided tours of the Zion Church are available.

Co-sponsored by the Baltimore Kickers

For information: [email protected] or www.zionbaltimore.org

Pianist Evelyn Ulex © Ulex

Robert Schumann Monument in Zwickau, Saxony where Schumann was born © picture-alliance/ ZB


G E R M A N H I S TO R I C A L I N S T I T U T E

The GHI is an independent institute dedicated to the promotion of historical research in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany and to the dissemination of historical knowledge. We support and advise American and German histo-rians and political scientists and encourage cooperation between them. We also reach out to the general public.

German Historical Institute1607 New Hampshire Ave, NWWashington, DC 20009

Phone: 202-387-3355Fax: 202-387-6437Email: [email protected]

PUBLIC EVENTS | AUGUST - DECEMBER

Monday, October 4, 2:00 – 4:00 pmHertie Lecture/German Unification Symposium“1990 - 2010: The Unfinished Business of Unifying Europe”Wolfgang Ischinger

Thursday, November 11, 5:00 – 7:00 pmTwenty-Fourth Annual Lecture of the GHIBarbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Universität Münster)

Friday, November 12, 11:00 am – 1:00 pmNineteenth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize

GHI LECTURE SERIES | FALL 2010 The Profitable Body: The Business of Beauty

September 23Jürgen Martschukat (Universität Erfurt), “Masculinity and Its Commercialization”

October 14Thomas Kühne (Clark University), “Struggling for Beauty: Body Aesthetics and Social Conflicts in Modern History”

October 28Tiffany M. Gill (University of Texas at Austin), “Beauty Shop Politics: African American Entrepreneurs and Activism in the 20th Century”

November 18Sander Gilman (Emory University), “From the Nose Job to Face Transplants: A History of the Authentic Face”

Lecture titles and dates are provisional and subject to change

Lectures begin at 6:30 pm; refreshments will be served beforehand from 6:00 to 6:30 pm.

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AnonymousDieter Dettke and Gale A. MattoxJorg and Lea RosenbohmDarlene SmucnyCarter Wood

FOGI would like to thank the following friendsfor their especially generous support:

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 Use of the Goethe-Institut’s DVD/video library

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

Enjoy German language and culture by becoming a member of Friends of the Goethe-Institut (FOGI)

Special membership benefits include the following:

Visit and join Friends of Goethe at

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Courses for Children & Teens (Saturday mornings only)Courses for learners of German as a foreign language Course #O1-O6 / (Orange)These courses are for learners of a new language. Text books for all courses will be used#O1: students should be in a Pre K-or K program #O2: students must be in 1st or 2nd grade #O3: students must be in 3rd or 4th grade #O4: students must be in 5th or 6th grade #O5: students must be in 7th or 8th grade (or up) #O6: students must be in 9th or 10th grade

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Courses for children speaking German as a first language (native speakers) Course #B1-B4 (blau)• Students must understand fluent German • Students must have a strong German vocabulary • Students must speak German on a regular basis at home Course #B1: K, 1st, 2nd grade students (students must be 5 years by September 1, 2008) Course #B2: for 3rd and 4th graders Course #B3: for 5th and 6th graders Course #B4: for 7th and 8th graders Course #B5: for 8th and 9th grader

Courses for the German Language DiplomaCourse # DSD-B1 and DSD-C1 (lila) Students must have strong German listening, reading, and writing skills. Assessment test is required before enrolling.#DSD-B1: students must be between 14 - 17 years old#DSD-C1: students must be between 16 - 21 years old

Courses for adults (green) Beginner Wednesdays: 7 - 9pm (Course #G6) Saturdays: 9:15 – 11:15am (Course #G1) This introduction to German emphasizes communication. The course is structured around everyday situations and activities. Introduction to basic grammar and sentence structures. Book: Berliner Platz 1

Intermediate Wednesdays: 7-9pm (Course #G7) Saturdays: 9:15 – 11:15am (Course #G2) If you finished Berliner Platz 1 or have prior knowledge of German, this is your course! Topics include family, enter-tainment, economy, environment, and much more. In order to carry out a simple conversation, the student will expand vocabulary and basic grammar. Book: Berliner Platz 2

Advanced Wednesdays: 7-9pm (Course #: G8) Saturdays: 9:15 – 11:15am (Course #: G3) This is the continuation of Berliner Platz 2, but everyone with a solid knowledge of German language can join. Topics include: The workplace, leisure time, community, politics, literature, and more. This course will also focus on specifics in grammar and syntax according to the participant’s needs and communication abilities. Book: Berliner Platz 3

Advanced plus Saturdays: 9:15 – 11:15am (Course #: G4) This is the continuation of G3/G8. The course will review specifics in grammar and expand the application of German by using authentic texts such as contemporary journal articles, short stories and other genres. Participants will work on independent projects and have the opportunity to attend German cultural events offered in the Washington DC area.

Conversation and more Saturdays: 9:15 – 11:15am (Course #: G5) This course is the continuation of G4, but invites all students with an advanced knowledge of German to join. The focus is the actual political, cultural, and social life in Germany. Every week newspaper articles will be read and discussed. It also focuses on a series of special chosen contempo-rary German short stories. This course enables students to deal with different subjects in German, it improves oral proficiency, expands vocab-ulary and reading skills. Together with the G4 class stu-dents will have the opportunity to attend German cultural events offered in the DC Metropolitan area.

Library membershipWe have extensive libraries for Children and adults with a large variety of German books, audio tapes, videos and DVDs.Please check the schedule and tuition fees for the up-coming school year 2010 by visiting our website at www.dswashington.org (click on German Language Courses)

NEW!! Panda courses for 3-year-olds!

Hours of InstructionsSaturday classes for children: 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.Saturday classes for adults: 9:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.Wednesday classes for adults: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Fall semester begins September 11, 2010

Contact German School Washington, D.C. German Language Courses 8617 Chateau Drive Potomac, MD 20854Director: Kerstin HopkinsPhone: (301)767-3824 Email: [email protected]: www.dswashington.org

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A ddr essesThe 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 Center4645 Reservoir Rd., NWWashington, DC 20007Phone: 202-298-4000Fax: 202-471-5526Web site: www.Germany.info

Dedicated to fulfilling the pub-lic diplomacy mission at the Ger-man Embassy by offering Amer-icans a window on modern Ger-many.

German National Tourist Office122 East 42nd Street, Suite 2000New York, NY 10168-0072Phone: 212-661-7200Fax: 212-661-7174E-mail: [email protected] site: www.ComeToGermany.com

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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 abroadthrough 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 schools; includes grades 12 and 13.

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 orga-nization for scientific research.

German Book Office1014 Fifth AvenueFourth FloorNew York, NY 10028Phone: 212-794-2851Fax: 212-794 2870E-mail: [email protected] site: www.gbo.org

Television and Radio in GermanNote: There are two German lan-guage television channels avail-able by satellite to Dish Net-work subscribers in the US: the privately funded ProSieben-Sat1Welt, a mix of Germanlanguage shows of the channels ProSieben, Kabel 1, N24 and Sat1; and Deutsche Welle Tele-vision, programming that alter-nates between English and Ger-man by the hour from Germany’s international broadcaster.Deutsche Welle’s program is also rebroadcast via local public tele-vision stations in select cities (check with your local provider).More information at www.dishnetwork.com.For news information on the In-ternet:www.ardmediathek.de or www.zdf.de/zDFmediathek

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: 703-356-4558Web site: www.kathde.org

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