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Dr. Bertram von Moltke

Head, Cultural Department, German Embassy

Klaus Brodersen

Director, Goethe-Institut Washington

As 2012 begins, settle in with the Goethe-Institut Washington and the cultural department at the German Embassy for programs to stimulate the mind and warm the spirit.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Film|Neu, the Goethe-Institut’s annual festival of the newest in German-language cinema. Opening January 20 at Landmark’s E Street Cinema with Robert Thalheim’s Westwind, the festival includes a number of films and special events. For the full program and details, along with the festival trailer, visit www.filmneu.org and www.facebook.com/filmneu.

The Goethe-Institut hosts a number of film screenings, including Best of INPUT (provocative public television from around the world) and PhotoFilm!, a series of films focusing on still photography, organized in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art. German films also appear during the city’s Environmental Film Festival.

Contemporary German photography is featured in the FotoGalerie with this year’s early arrival of gute aussichten, winning works in the annual competition for gradu-ate photography students.

Zeitgeist DC, presenting contemporary German literature in translation, brings three successful contemporary novelists to Washington in February.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? The Goethe-Institut is the place for German language, offer-ing courses for all levels.

Local cultural institutions will offer a rich selection of musical programs featuring German artists in the first quarter of 2012. Well-known German orchestras will give guest performances in Maryland, and Virginia. Highlights include the Max Raabe & Palast Orchester and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Several German classi-cal vocalists will debut with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Carnival fans should not pass up the chance to attend the traditional Carnival Ball of the Washington Sängerbund.

Two ongoing exhibitions are dedicated to the work of German photographer Candida Höfer and German-Americans in the U.S. Congress.

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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Film|Neu: New Films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland 4 – 9

A Deeper Look 10

Best of INPUT 2011 11

PhotoFilm! 12 - 16

Christoph Schlingensief 16

Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke 17

Environmental Film Festival 18

Exhibitions

gute aussichten: young german photography 19

On the Lakeshore…and Other Stories 20

Discussions

Hear Now Listening Events 25

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Zeitgeist DC: Contemporary Voices 21

Deutsch am Mittag 24

Time Shadows: Music 24

International Conversation Club 24

German Games Evening 25

American Goethe Society 26

German Embassy Events

Music 28-33

Exhibitions 28

Films 32

Special Events 32

Language Classes 27, 35

Friends of the Goethe-Institut 40

Electronic Newsletter 40

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January 20-26, 2012

Landmark E Street Cinema | 555 11th Street NW | Washington DC 20004

(Metro: Metro Center)

www.filmneu.org

The occasion of preparing a 20th anniversary edition of Film|Neu led inevitably to thoughts of the changes to the German-language film industries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland over the last two decades.

Sidestepping the more technical and business-oriented answers, two simple, interrelated facts emerged that can explain their successes: funding support and diverse stories.

Germany, Austria and Switzerland stand behind their filmmakers as they do all their artists: with open minds and open wallets. As for diverse stories, a read through these plot descrip-tions yields, side by side, movies about relationships, experiments in narrative genre cine-ma, German history, Swiss folklore and Austrian social awareness.

Seen from another angle, the program certainly took on the air of an anniversary during its preparation, with new films from old friends and past festival participants sharing the spot-light with exciting new filmmaking voices.

And that, in the end, is what Film|Neu is all about: exploring the evolution of filmmaking, dis-covering new talent and enjoying a glimpse of these worlds from the comforts of the Land-mark Theatre.

Thank you, the Washington audiences, for the support that made and continues to make the program possible. And for those of you who have been on this trip from the beginning, as well as those just discovering the program, happy anniversary and best wishes for the future. —Eddie Cockrell

Eddie Cockrell is an independent film critic and consulting programmer who was born in Washington, D.C. and currently lives in Sydney, Australia.


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Friday, January 20, 7 and 9:30 pm

WestwindGermany, 2011, color, 90 mins., German with English subtitlesDirector: Robert Thalheim Cast: Friederike Becht, Luise Heyer, Franz Dinda, Volker Bruch

Discussion with actor Franz Dinda follows the first screening.

In 1988, inseparable 17-year-old twins Doreen and Isabel Zimmermann (Friederike Becht, Luise Heyer) travel from their East German town of Saxony to Hungary’s Lake Balaton to train for an upcoming rowing competition. When they miss a connecting bus and impetu-ously accept a ride from West German teen Arne (Franz Dinda) and his mates, the result-ing attraction between Doreen and Arne threatens the girls’ family bond and competi-tive status.

Robert Thalheim publishes the cultural periodical Plotzki, has written a book on Polish director Andrzej Wajda and directs his own work for the theater. His films include Netto (2005) and And Along Come Tourists (2007), the latter of which was featured in Film|Neu 2008.

Saturday, January 21, 11:30 amSunday, January 22, 8 pm

Stopped on Track (Halt auf freier Strecke)Germany, 2011, color, 110 mins., German with subtitlesDirector: Andreas Dresen Screenplay: Andreas Dresen, Cooky Ziesche Cast: Milan Peschel, Steffi Kühnert, Talisa Lilli Lemke, Mika Nilson Seidel, Ursula Werner

As the blunt but brave Stopped on Track opens, middle-aged Frank Lange (Milan Pescel), accompanied by wife Simone (Dresen

regular Steffi Kühnert) is being told by a doctor his brain tumor is inoperable. Given only months to live, Frank begins confiding in his smartphone, even as the patience and resolve of his loving wife and two children are tested.

Andreas Dresen apprenticed at the DEFA Studios in the former German Democratic Republic and studied filmmaking at Potsdam’s Konrad Wolf Academy of Film & Television. His acclaimed filmography includes Summer in Berlin (2005), Cloud 9 (2008) and Whisky with Vodka (2009).


Saturday, January 21, 1:30 pmMonday, January 23, 9 pm

If Not Us, Who (Wer wenn nicht wir)Germany, 2011, color, 126 minutes, German with English subtitlesDirector/Screenplay: Andres Veiel Cast: Michael Wittenborn, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Thomas Thieme, Susanne Lothar, August Diehl

After taking a back seat to more notorious 1970s Red Army Faction figures in such recent German features as Christopher Roth’s Baader and Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex, radical left firebrand Gudrun Ensslin—who predated Ulrike Meinhof as Andreas Baader’s partner in Marxist revolutionary crime—comes to the fore in this propulsive drama. Winner of the Alfred Bauer Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the German Film Awards’ Film Award in Bronze, If Not Us, Who expands the scope of big-screen drama from this chaotic period in German history.

Andres Veiel’s award-winning feature-length documentaries include the acclaimed Black Box Germany (2001)-see page 10 and Addicted to Acting (2004).

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Stopped on Track © Rommel Film, Foto Andreas Dresen If Not Us, Who © Goethe-Institut


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Saturday, January 21, 4 and 11:15 pm

Cracks in the Shell (Die Unsichtbare)Germany, 2011, color, 113 mins., German and Danish with English subtitlesDirector: Christian Schwochow Cast: Stine Fischer Chris-tensen, Ulrich Noethen, Anna Maria Mühe

Recently returned to Germany after being raised by her father in Denmark, timid Fine (Stine Fischer Christensen) enrolls in drama school to escape the demands of life with her mother and mentally challenged sister. Improbably selected by the notoriously demanding director Kaspar Friedmann (Ulrich Noethen) for an extroverted star turn, the actress begins to grow into her character. Christensen’s performance earned her acting awards at the Karlovy Vary and Hamptons festivals, its resonance underscoring the rich irony of the film’s original German title: The Invisible Person.

Christian Schwochow studied directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy; his gradu-ation film was November Child (Novemberkind, 2007).

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Saturday, January 21, 6:30 pmSunday, January 22, 5:30 pm

BastardGermany, 2011, color, 126 mins., German with English subtitlesDirector/Screenplay: Carsten Unger Producer: Reza Bahar, Nicole Ringhut Cast: Martina Gedeck, Markus Krojer, Antonia Lingemann, Hanns Zischler

Discussion with director Carsten Unger and producer Reza Bahar follows both screenings.

As a viral video makes chillingly clear, a nine-year-old boy is being held against his will in a cavernous concrete basement. Criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert (Martina Gedeck) makes inquiries, finding inconsistencies in his parents’ stories. Bastard is a supremely confi-dent and profoundly disconcerting feature film debut by 33-year-old Carsten Unger, who has made a confrontational, thought-provoking thriller in the vein of Roman Polanski and Michael Haneke.

Carsten Unger studied at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy from 2001-2007 and attended The Hollywood Perspective masterclass at UCLA. Bastard is his feature debut.

Saturday, January 21, 9:15 pmSunday, January 22, 10 pm

Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit)Germany, 2011, color, 92 mins., French, German and Dutch with English subtitlesDirector/Screenplay: Ulrich Köhler Cast: Jenny Schily, Hippolyte Girardot, Sava Lolov, Maria Elise Miller, Francis Noukiatchom, Ali Mvondo Roland

In his ambitious and much-anticipated third film, Köhler ups the ante considerably by telling the provocative story of Dutch-born doctor Ebbo (Pierre Bokma), who is apparently so dedicated to his work combating the title disease in Africa he refuses to accompany his loving wife and daughter back home to Europe. Years later, Parisian-born Congolese physician Alex (Jean-Christopher Folly) discov-ers Ebbo in Cameroon. Bold in structure and unerring in execution, the film won Köhler the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival .

Ulrich Köhler’s feature films include Bungalow (2002) and Windows on Monday (2006).

Cracks in the Shell © Bavaria Film International Bastard © Gifted Films Sleeping Sickness © Goethe-Institut



Sunday, January 22, 11:30 am

Dreileben Part 1: Beats Being Dead (Dreileben—Etwas besseres als den Tod)Germany, 2011, color, 88 mins., German, English and Bosnian with English subtitlesDirector/Screenplay: Christian Petzold Cast: Jacob Matschenz, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Vijessna Ferkic, Rainer Bock

Though Dreileben is conceived as an experi-ment in linked narrative, each film can be enjoyed independently of the others; neverthe-less, as with Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy of Blue, White and Red, their interlocking struc-tures and overlapping character references reward sequential—and attentive—viewing.

In the thick Thuringian woods surrounding a picture postcard German town, sex offender and convicted murderer Frank Molesch (Stefan Kurt) eludes the authorities. Meanwhile, rudderless hospital orderly Johannes (Jacob Matschenz) initiates a hesitant relationship with unhappy Bosnian chambermaid Ana (Luna Zimic Miljovic). So absorbed are they in the intricate minutiae of love that the manhunt swirling around them goes entirely unnoticed. This is consistent with director Christian Petzold’s overarching interest in the delicate balance between life and death, and the resulting sense of foreboding and dread is Hitchcockian in its cumulative intensity.

Christian Petzold is amongst the leading lights of contemporary German cinema. His films, a number of which have been featured in Film|Neu, include Ghosts (2005), Yella (2007) and Jerichow, which screened at Film|Neu 2009.

Sunday, January 22, 1:30 pm

Dreileben Part 2: Don’t Follow Me Around (Dreileben—Komm mir nicht nach)Germany, 2011, color, 89 mins., German with English subtitlesDirector: Dominik Graf Cast: Jeanette Hain, Susanne Wolff, Misel Maticevic, Lisa Kreuzer, Rüdiger Vogler, Jacob Matschenz, Luna Zimic Mijovic

As Frank Molesch (Stefan Kurt) continues to elude capture, police psychologist Johana (Jeanette Hain) is summoned to assist. As she grapples with clues that suggest possible police malfeasance, she simultaneously discov-ers the old friend with whom she’s staying dated the same man at the same time when they first met.

Dominik Graf received the Bavarian Film Prize for his debut feature Der kostbare Gast (1979), which was his graduation film at Munich’s University of Television & Film. Since then he has made more than 50 films for cinema and television, and teaches directing at the inter-national film school in Cologne

Sunday, January 22, 3:30 pm

Dreileben Part 3: One Minute of Dark-ness (Dreileben—Eine Minute Dunkel)Germany, 2011, color, 89 mins., German with English subtitlesDirector: Christoph Hochhäusler Screenplay: Christoph Hoch-häusler, Peer Klehmet Cast: Stefan Kurt, Eberhard Kirchberg, Imogen Kogge, Timo Jacobs

Since it was director Christoph Hochhäusler who documented the email exchanges that lead to the creation of Dreileben, it seems only fitting that the climactic and most genre-specific episode in the trilogy should fall to him. Once more the narrative focus has shifted, and is now squarely on sex murderer

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Dreileben - Don’t Follow Me Around © Bavaria Film International Dreileben - One Minute of Darkness © Bavaria Film Intl.


Frank Molesch (Stefan Kurt) and the circum-stances that led to his fugitive ordeal. On the heels of sold-out theatrical engagements at festivals in Berlin, Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Paris, Dreileben comes to Washington for a single consecutive showing of each part.

Christoph Hochhäusler studied directing at Munich’s Film and Television School. He is the founder and publisher of the film magazine Revolver. His films include This Very Moment (Milchwald, 2003), Low Profile (2005) and The City Below (2010).


Monday, January 23, 6:30 pm

Joschka & Mr. Fischer (Joschka und Herr Fischer)Germany/Switzerland, 2011, color and black and white, 138 minutes, German with English subtitlesDirector/Screenplay: Pepe Danquart Cast: Joschka Fischer, Hans Koschnick, Katharina Thalbach, Peter Grohmann

The eventful, controversial and polarizing story of now-retired but once immensely popular 63-year-old German politican Joseph Martin “Joschka” Fischer is, possibly, a story of Germany itself from the 1960s to today. This profile of Fischer allows the politican free reign to reflect, with film clips and remem-brances by colleagues, on a life that led him from Frankfurt taxi driver to left-wing radical to Green Party pioneer and beyond. A single screening of a singular life.

Pepe Danquart won an Oscar for the acclaimed live-action short Black Rider (1993). His extensive filmography in both documen-tary and fiction filmmaking includes Home Game (2000), Hell on Wheels (2004), C(r)ook (2004) and To the Limit (2007).


Tuesday, January 24, 7 and 9:15 pm

Black Brown WhiteAustria, 2011, color, 106 mins., German, English, Spanish and French with English subtitlesDirector: Erwin Wagenhofer Cast: Fritz Karl, Clare Hope Ashitey, Theo Caleb Chapman, Wotan Wilke Möhring

Reception with Austrian treats between the two screenings.

The easygoing and savvy Peter (Fritz Karl) is a Vienna-based long-haul trucker who runs an honest business but isn’t above smuggling refugees for profit. Jackie (Clare-Hope Ashitey) is a strong-willed Ghanaian on her way to Geneva to confront the United Nations official with whom she has a son. Together, they navigate the tangled and often contradictory terrain of contemporary Europe in this satisfy-ing slice of contemporary social realism.

Erwin Wagenhofer’s feature-length documen-taries include the award-winning We Feed the World (2005) and Let’s Make Money (2008). Black Brown White is his first dramatic feature.


Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 and 9:15 pm

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the AlpsSwitzerland, 2010, color, 110 mins., Swiss-German with English subtitlesDirector: Michael Steiner Cast: Roxanne Mesquida, Nicholas Ofczarek, Andrea Zogg, Carlos Leal, Joel Basman

Discussion with Carlos Leal follows the first screening. Reception with Swiss treats between the two screenings.

In a remote mountain village in the spectacular Swiss Alps, the town’s lone policeman, Sebastian

Joschka & Mr. Fischer © Filmladen Filmverleih Black Brown White © Alllegro Film - Petro Domenigg


Reusch (Nicolas Ofczarek), has things under control. But when the sudden and mysterious appearance in 1975 of a beautiful mute woman (Roxane Mesquida) coincides with the hanging death of a priest, the townspeople turn hostile. Part police procedural, part supernatural thriller and all white knuckle shocker, Sennentuntschi opened the Zürich Film Festival.

Michael Steiner has worked as a journalist, press photographer and commercial director. His films include My Name is Eugen (2005), Grounding: The Last Days of Swissair (2006) - see page 10 and the TV series Stunthero (2010).

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Thursday, January 26, 7 and 9:30 pm

Men in the City II (Männerherzen… und die ganz ganz große Liebe)Germany, 2011, color, 112 mins., German with English subtitlesDirector/Screenplay: Simon Verhoeven Cast: Til Schweiger, Florian David Fitz, Najda Uhl, Christian Ulmen, Justus von Dohnányi, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Maxim Mehmet

In 2009, the romantic comedy Men in the City—literally, “men’s hearts” in German—drew over a million admissions to a domestic box office enamored by the genre. In this much-anticipated and equally breezy sequel to a story of six men and their interconnect-ing professional adventures and love lives, each man sees retreats and advances. The film’s instant success late in a banner year for local films proves that German comedy is here to stay.

Simon Verhoeven studied film directing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His previous features include 100 Pro (2001) and Men in the City (2009)-see page 10.

Men in the City II © Wiedemann & Berg Film GmbH & Co. KG 2011Sennentuntschi © Pascal Walder

Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut in Washington, the Austrian Embassy and the Embassy of Switzerland

With support from german films

TicketsTickets$11, $9 for Students and Friends of the Goethe-Institut, $8 for Seniors

Opening Night 7 pm Screening followed by “Berliner Party” with DJ at Goethe-Institut: $25

Closing Night Screening and Reception: $15

Featuring complimentary beer from Gordon Biersch, German wine, and food provided by the Embassy of Switzerland, Old Europe Restaurant, Cafe Mozart, Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe, Whole Foods Market, and the Swiss Bakery and Pastry Shop

For information call 202-452-7672 or

visit www.landmarktheatres.com

Tickets can be purchased at the theater

or in advance through Moviefone at

202-333-FILM (Code #781) or

www.moviefone.com


F I L M S E R I E S

January 30 – February 13, 2012

A Deeper Look | Showcasing “Film|Neu” Directors

Film|Neu presents a selection of the best new films from German-speaking countries January 20 – 26 at Landmark’s E Street Cinema. Some of the directors and actors step back into the spotlight here at the Goethe-Institut, presenting more of their artistic talents.

All films are in German with English subtitles.


Men in the City (Männerherzen)Germany, 2009, 35mm, 107 min., Director: Simon Verhoeven, Cast: Til Schweiger, Christian Ulmen, Florian David Fitz, Nadja Uhl, Wotan Wilke Möring, Justus von Dohnányi

Five men in search of love and happiness in a time when men aren’t really sure anymore what it means to be a man, and what women expect of them. From their “home base” at a Berlin gym, they swarm out into the big city to talk up, seduce, betray, leave and, maybe, reunite with the women who enter their orbit.

Written and directed by Simon Verhoeven, this romantic comedy was one of the most successful films in Germany in 2009 and has won several film awards, including the Bavarian Film Award for Best Script. His follow-up to this film, Men in the City II (Männerherzen…und die ganz ganz große Liebe) is part of the Film|Neu festival (see page 9).

Monday, February 6, 6:30 pm

Grounding: The Last Days of Swissair (Grounding - Die letzten Tage der Swissair)Switzerland, 2006, DVD, 120 min., Director: Michael Steiner, Cast: Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, László I. Kish, Michael Neuenschwander, Gilles Tschudi

The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland’s economy and to the country’s morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when the airline’s fleet was grounded

on October 2, 2001. Set during the last days of the doomed airline, Grounding: The Last Days of Swissair tells the story of manager Mario A. Corti’s unhappy fate as the last, unlucky CEO at the traditional airline company, as well as of the fate of all those nameless people who lost almost everything in the maelstrom of Swissair’s downfall: their jobs, their homes and their belief in Switzerland.

Swiss director Michael Steiner’s film Sennen-tunschi is part of the Film|Neu festival (see page 8).

Monday, February 13, 6:30 pm

Black Box Germany (Black Box BRD)Germany, 2001, 35mm, 107 min., Director: Andres Veiel

The Federal Republic of Germany in the 70s and 80s: Constantly on the brink of civil war, the country is polarized due to the power struggle between the German state and the Red Army Faction (RAF). The life stories of both Wolfgang Grams and Alfred Herrhausen are tragically linked to this era. While Grams is the one who takes up arms for moral rigor, Herrhausen seizes power and dies when powerful. Andres Veiel won the 2002 German Film Award for Best Documentary and the European Film Award for Black Box Germany, which succeeds in leading the viewer through oppos-ing worlds whose inhabitants even today fail to speak with or understand one another. His film If Not Us, Who (Wer wenn nicht wir) is part of the Film|Neu festival (see page 9).

Tickets see page 39

Men in the City @Wiedemann & Berg Film GmbH & Co. KG Grounding @ C-FILMS AG Black Box Germany © Goethe-Institut


Sunday, January 29, 3 pmLa Maison Française, 4101 Reservoir Road NW

Moloch TropicalFrance, 106 min., drama, director: Raoul PeckReservations: www.la-maison-francaise.org

Monday, January 30, 5:30 pmSilverdocs/American Film Institute, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD

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Tuesday, January 31, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut

Unusual Programming from Germany and Switzerland

20x Brandenburg – Warriors without Enemies (Krieger ohne Feind)Germany, 15’, television piece, Director: Burhan Qurbani

Either Broder. On Safari in Germany (Entweder Broder)Germany, 30’, television-specific episode, writer/directors: Joachim Schröder & Tobias Streck

Low Cost (Claude Jutra)Switzerland, 60’, fiction, director: Lionel Baier

Wednesday, February 1, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut

Home Key (Chave da Casa)Brazil, 60 min., documentary, directors: Paschoal Samora, Stela Grisotti

Presented by the Embassy of Brazil

Thursday, February 2, 7 pmThe Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon PapersUSA, 81’, documentary, directors: Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith

Thursday, February 2, 8 pmWHUT Broadcast Event

NoraUSA, 35’, dance documentary, directors: Alla Kovgan & David Hinton

T E L E V I S I O N

January 29 – February 4, 2012

Best of Input: Television Out of the Box

Selections from the world’s most innovative and provocative productions by public broadcast-ers appear at venues around Washington during Best of INPUT.INPUT, the International Public Television Conference, is an annual producers’ screening and discussion showcase. Held in cities around the world since 1978, the conference reviews sub-missions from over sixty countries. A number of the international jury-selected finalists from the May 2011 conference in Seoul will be screened and discussed.

Full schedule and updates: www.centerforsocialmedia.org

Partners: Goethe-Institut, La Maison Française, Silverdocs/American Film Institute, Embassy of Brazil, the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, American University’s Center for Social Media, WHUT/Howard University Television, Women in Film and Video, in cooperation with INPUT, and the International Public Television Screening Conference

The next INPUT Conference will be held May 7-11, 2012 in Sydney, Australia, hosted by Australian public broadcasters, ABC-TV and SBS. More information at: www.inputsydney.com

Moloch Tropicaal courtesy Velvet Film Either Broder courtesy Preview Production


Saturday, February 25, 2:30 pmNational Gallery of Art

1 – How Much Movement Does an Image Need?The appearance of a still photograph in a cine- matographic context arouses an element of surprise for the viewer. This program pres-ents films that question the nature of the moving image and our sense of perception. (95 minutes)

La Jetée (The Jetty) France, 1962, 35mm, 28 min, Director: Chris Marker

After a nuclear war, survivors living in the cellars of Paris use a prisoner for their experiments in time travel. Through his memory of a particularly strong mental image, a woman’s face, the prisoner manages to travel into the past and meet her.

Der Fischmarkt und die Fische (The Fishmarket and the Fish)Germany, 1968, Beta SP, 9 min, Directors: Leonore Mau and Hubert Fichte

The film reveals the everyday life in a Portuguese

“Photofilms” are moving pictures comprised of still photographs. PhotoFilm!, the series, broadly explores the uses of still photography within the cinematic context, attempting to expand a dialogue between the two art forms that has existed since the beginnings of the motion picture. The works run the gamut from classics such as Chris Marker’s La Jetée to new experimental films such as Shelly Silver’s What I’m Looking For.

The series is presented jointly with the National Gallery of Art, supported by German Films, Ag Kurzfilm, Swedish Filminstitut, and organized by the CNS e.V. Berlin.

Curators Gusztáv Hámos and Thomas Tode will be present for discussion at the first three screenings.

All films will be shown in English or with English subtitles or voice over.

fishing village under the dictatorship of Salazar in 1964. Mau and Fichte are aware of the shortcom-ings of their media: The language and photographic media never permit a whole story, only extracts and fragments.

Bezhin lug (Bezhin Meadow)Soviet Union/USA, 1935/67, 35mm, 30 min, Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Bezhin lug only exists involuntarily as a photo film. Stalin’s film minister Boris Shumyatsky had the work on the film stopped and then the negative was destroyed during World War II. Only stills and single frames remained.

Fremdkörper (Transposed Bodies) Germany, 2002, 35mm, 28 min,Directors: Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hámos

The film recounts the story of two inseparable friends, Jan and Jon, and their shared love of Marie. Inspired by the affinity and alienation of film and photo images, the film draws a line between the inside and the outside of bodies, between medical imaging techniques and photography.

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35 Fotos – Bilder aus einem Familienalbum (Pictures from a Family Album) GDR, 1984/85, 35mm, 3 min, Director: Helke Misselwitz

The film shows the life of a female GDR citizen born in 1949, the year the republic was founded. Thirty-five photos in chronological order, one for each year of her life. The authorities who commis-sioned the film did not immediately permit the finished product to be screened.

Fiasko – Fragmente nach dem Roman von Imre Kertész (Fiasco – Fragments based on the novel by Imre Kertész)Germany, 2010, 35mm, 32 min, Director: Janet Riedel, Katja Pratschke, Gusztáv Hámos, Narrators: Patrick von Blume, Ari-ella Hirshfeld, Andreas Mannkopff, Peter Pagel, Lars Rudolph

The Hungarian Jewish Köves comes upon an eerily strange but oddly familiar place, and experiences déjà vu as he encounters the vortex of the opaque system of Stalin’s Hungary, as depicted through split-screen photographs.

Monday, February 27, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut

3 – The Dancing Photo on FilmIn its essence, photography is static and si-lent. It subtracts sound and movement from everything it captures. But in photofilms, the editing process adds sound, music and lan-guage to the photographs; the static images begin to move, even to dance. This program reveals how illusions of movement are cre-ated: From stasis to movement, from rhythm to animation. (85 minutes)

Hybrid and Superimposition Germany, 1997/98, 16mm, 6 min, Director: Sabine Höpfner

Sabine Höpfner not only works with photos and x-ray images, but also with the photogram, which is created without a camera by exposing sensitive material to light. An homage to white shadows.

Sunday, February 26, 4:30 pmNational Gallery of Art

2 – Recall and Memory“That-has-been,” wrote Roland Barthes: pho-tography stands for something that has hap-pened. Film, in contrast, always unfolds in the here and now. Both can be seen as a con-tainer for memory. This program investi-gates these functions in the context of per-sonal and historical memory. (93 minutes)

Le Sphinx (The Sphinx) Belgium/France, 1985, 35mm, 12 min, Director: Thierry Knauff.

A sonorous voice reads from Jean Genet’s text about the massacre of Palestinians in the Shatila refugee camp, accompanied by portraits of people taken in a Brussels park in front of a sphinx statue – far from Palestine.

Ulysse (Ulysses)France, 1982, 35mm, 22 min, Director: Agnès Varda

Varda reflects on a photo she took in 1954. Twenty-eight years later, she manages to find her models in order to highlight with their bodies and their speech (or lack of it) the difference to what has been, the everlasting and immemorial aspects of a photography.

Die Anprobe (1938) (The Fitting 1938)Germany, 1985, DVD, 14 min, Director: Franz Winzentsen

An egg cell is permitted a glimpse into its future world and finds itself in the Nazi era. This presents itself as an ironic collage of the everyday, the private and the familiar. In a (nightmarish) dream, everything gets mixed up.

Powszedni dzién gestapowca Schmidta (Gestapoman Schmidt)Poland, 1964, 35mm, 10 min, Director: Jerzy Ziarnik

From a photo album left behind in Warsaw by Gestapo officer Schmidt, 129 images have been selected, which are only elaborated by Schmidt’s appallingly matter-of-fact photo comments – the location, time, and name of the victims.

Le Sphinx (Courtesy of Thierry Knauff) Ulysse (Courtesy of Agnès Varda) Die Anprobe (1938) (Courtesy of Franz Winzentsen)

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De Tuin (The Garden) Netherlands, 1999, Beta Sp, 11 min, Director: Dan Geesin and Esther Rots

The film reveals minor incidents in the style of a satirical soap opera. Every scene consists of two phase images that, edited rhythmically back and forth, create a minimal but tense sense of flinching.

Sunday, March 4, 4:30 pmNational Gallery of Art

4 – The Filmic PhotographicThis program focuses on the image, the pro-cess of finding and conceiving it, the act of shooting, and then describing it. Film re-quires the linear sequencing of photographs, which these filmmakers use to develop an analytical discourse. (90 minutes)

Die Gefühle der Augen (The Feelings of the Eyes)Germany, 1985/87, 16mm, silent, 16 min, Director: Silke Grossmann

This experiment places filmic images of movement next to photographs with dynamic image composi-tions as a comparison.

What I’m Looking For USA, 2004, Mini DV, 15 min, Director: Shelly Silver

Silver heads off to Lower Manhattan to meet some “blind dates,” with a clear mutual understanding: They show her what they have always wanted to reveal and she photographs it. A film about desire.

Zonen (The Zone)Sweden, 2003, 35mm, 10 min, Director: Esaias Baitel

A story about French Hells Angels and Nazi symbols, about sex, drugs, hatred and violence. Baitel spent four years, from 1977-81, photographing racist and anti-Semitic street gangs in the suburbs of Paris. They didn’t know that he was a child of Holocaust survivors.

At One View Netherlands, 2005, 16mm, 7 min, Director and Cast: Paul de Nooijer and Menno de Nooijer

Two men are sitting on chairs facing the camera. Photographic portraits of them alternate on their faces like masks, in a state of permanent transfor-mation, with the photo as an object being crumpled up and unfolded again.

Salut les Cubains (Hi There, Cubans) France, 1963, 35mm, 30 min, Director and Photography: Agnès Varda Narrator: Michel Piccoli

Varda assembled 3,000 photos she took during a trip to Cuba into an extremely joyous travel tale. “An educational documentary made like a diverti-mento.”

Very Nice, Very Nice Canada, 1961, 16mm, 7 min, Director: Arthur Lipsett

Lipsett arouses his audience out of its frozen state: drumbeats, snippets of text, jazz music. As counter-points to this, he assembles images from the mass media: Gagarin, Nixon, Monroe, the boy from the Warsaw Ghetto, the detonation of the H bomb. Can we still be saved?

Capitalism: Child Labor USA, 2006, 16 mm, 14 min, Director: Ken Jacobs

Jacobs digitally animates a stereoscopic photo-graph of a 19th century factory floor crowded with machinery and child workers. Space appears to fold in on itself as Jacobs activates the stereograph.

Omokage (Remains)Japan, 2010, HD, 6 min, Director: Maki Satake

Satake’s grandfather left behind a series of photos upon his death. Travelling to the places where they were taken, she reconstructs the viewpoints of the photos and begins an animated, reflective dialogue.

Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko (No Rest for Billy Brakko)France, 1983, 35mm, 4 min, Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

This film assembles cartoons, film quotes, and moving image sequences like shorthand symbols, while simultaneously removing the movement from it all through fast-paced narrative and editing. All that remains are iconographic impressions.

Salut les Cubains (Courtesy of Agnès Varda) Very Nice, Very Nice (Courtesy of National Film Board of Canada)

Omokage (Courtesy of Maki Satake)

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From this moment on, the viewer is situated inside the dark body of the camera and only sees composed events at the moment the photographer presses the shutter.

Der Tag eines unständigen Hafenarbeiters (A Day in the Life of a Casual Dock Worker)Germany, 1966, 13 min, Directors: Leonore Mau and Hubert Fichte

The film describes the daily routine of a blue-collar casual dock worker who finds himself near the bottom of the labor hierarchy. The photographs and words provide an analytical view of capitalist working conditions.

Execution. A Study of MaryGermany, 1979, 16mm, 28 min, Director: Elfi Mikesch

The film is a study of Mary Queen of Scots, with her life and death reenacted in photographs. ”I compressed the information into images of passion, power, love, pain and death.” (Mikesch).

Colloque de Chiens (Symposium of Dogs)France, 1979, 35mm, 18 min, Director: Raul Ruiz,

This parody of a South American fotonovela explores the ambiguous nature of image and language; complete sentences and gestures repeat themselves and take on different meanings, simul-taneously arousing a sense of fate and eternal recurrence.

Monday, March 12, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut

6 – The Plasticity of the MomentAnd nowadays we often record a multitude of photos in a single moment. This permits us to observe the moment from different per-spectives. This film program brings together films that appraise the surface of the photo-graphic image, circling the moment and even entering it. (92 minutes)

(nostalgia) USA, 1971, 16mm, 36 min, Director: Hollis Frampton

Thirteen photos from 1958-66. A voice describes the content, backgrounds and memories of each image, while the photo being shown gradually burns up on a hotplate and is transformed into ashes. A tectonic shifting simultaneously occurs between commentary and image.

Casio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars Germany/USA, 2005, DVD, 13 min, Director: Sean Snyder

This film examines conventions for producing and consuming war images from Iraq. Snyder not only comments on the informative status of media images and the “rules of journalism,” but also points out the shifting of information in the direc-tion of advertising.


5 – Photo NovelThe narrative photo films (compiled here) are time crystals in which different worlds appear next to or even mirrored in one an-other. A multilayered dialogue develops bet-ween the spoken word and the image. This program is dedicated to photo films that ex-periment with narrative forms. (92 minutes)

Rien ne va plus Germany, 2005, 35mm, 30 min, Directors: Katja Pratschke and Guzstáv Hámos

Everything is going in a circle in Rien ne va plus. And the protagonists are only able to break out of this circle by making great efforts, by changing their destiny slightly. An homage to two films: Rashomon by Kurosawa and L’année dernière à Marienbad by Resnais.

I Should SeeNetherlands, 1991, 16mm, 3 min, Directors: Paul de Nooijer and Menno de Nooijer

A photographer loads the camera and closes it.

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Until January 9, 2012Goethe-Institut

Homage to Christoph Schlingensief

As a film, theater, and opera director, Chris-toph Schlingensief (1960-2010) was among the most renowned and

creative perso-nalities on the German cultural scene. His radical works provocatively chal-lenged politics and society, and created a per-manent state of in- security by blurring bor-ders between reality and fiction, art and offense, intention and action.

Films will be shown in German with English subtitles.

Tuesday, January 3, 6:30 pm

Egomania – Island Without Hope (Egomania – Insel ohne Hoffnung)Germany, 1986, 83 min., HD, Cast: Udo Kier, Tilda Swinton, Uwe Fellensiek, Anna Fechter, Anastasia Kudelka

Egomania is a visually stunning melodrama about love, jealousy, greed, lust, and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants, and the distant thunder of the boiling sea.


Menu Total West Germany, 1985/86, 81 min., HD, Cast: Helge Schneider, Volker Bertzky, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Alfred Edel, Joe Bausch

A young boy is transferred to a mental hospi-tal where a doctor is vomiting incessantly and another person runs around in a Nazi uniform. Shown during the 1986 Berlin International Film Festival, Schlingensief’s second feature-length film evoked controversial reactions and protests. The director himself considered it his best film.

Tickets see page 39.

Transformation by Holding Time – Artist and his MuseNetherlands, 1976, 16mm, 4 min, Director: Paul de Nooijer

We see a photographer taking Polaroid shots of his nude model on a sofa. He progressively attaches the Polaroids onto an invisible pane of glass right in front of the camera, until in the end, only this newly created photographic “mosaic” of the woman can be seen.

Les Photos d’Alix France, 1980, 16mm, 18 min, Director: Jean Eustache

Photographer Alix Cléo Roubaud shows her photos to a young man, talking about them as they look at them together. Each of the photos appears as a countershot. Yet after awhile, doubts emerge: We are not seeing what is being described.

Ferment Great Britain, 1999, 35mm, 5 min, Director: Tim Macmillan

The film begins with a moving image: A man has a heart attack and falls off a bench. Time and people come to a standstill. The camera glides away from this place, across the city, through streets, build-ings, rooms and corridors, past situations that co-exist in this one moment.

Kurashi Ato (Vestige of Life)Japan, 2009, HD, 12 min, Director: Maki Satake

Satake visits her grandparents’ abandoned house. In the empty rooms she holds up photos of earlier visits and family get-togethers. The “image within an image” speaks of happiness and childhood, desire and memory, revealing the voracious time for what it actually was.

Nijuman no Borei (200,000 Phantoms)France, 2007, 35mm, 10 min, Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot

The film commemorates Hiroshima by following the changes in a single spot in the city throughout the 20th century: the Genbaku Dome Peace Memorial. In b&w and color, with constantly changing formats and angles, the film reveals the before and after of an unalterable moment.

The Writing in the SandGreat Britain, 1991, 16mm, 43 min, Director: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

The film collects snapshots on the beaches in North England, taken over a ten-year period. The camera, constantly in motion, tracks down the surface of the image without ever reaching to the edge of the photograph. A moment of happiness elongated.

More comprehensive information about the films and the series is at www.goethe.de/washington

Tickets for films at the Goethe-Institut: see page 39.

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Last to Know (Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem)Germany, 2006, 72 min., DVD

It is estimated that the GDR took 250,000 political prisoners during its existence. This emotional documentary looks at the lives of three German families from the former GDR that had one or more members imprisoned, and considers the still-reverberating effects that that imprisonment caused.

Last to Know premiered in the Panorama section of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2007 German Film Critics Award.

Monday, April 2, 6:30 pm

After the Revolution (Nach der Revolution) Germany, 2010, 91 min., DVD

Autumn 1989: In the last days of the GDR, it was its dissidents who kept alive a Utopian idea: instead of mimicking the West German government, they wanted to create a new and better democracy. Using previously

unreleased footage, After the Revolution focuses on three activists who stood up for issues that were crucial in the period, with ramifications lasting to the present day.

Monday, April 16, 6:30 pm

The System (Das System - Alles verstehen heißt alles verzeihen) Germany, 2011, 85 min., 35 mm, Director: Marc Bauder Cast: Jacob Matschenz, Bernhard Schütz, Jenny Schily, Heinz Hoenig, Franziska Wulf

Discussion follows with filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke.

Twenty-year-old Mike, an attractive and intel-ligent dropout, becomes involved in a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret service agents who work together for economic advantage. His initial mistrust turns into curiosity and then admiration when he realizes that his own life is more closely connected with this network than he had previously believed.

The System premiered at the 2011 Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival.

Tickets see page 39.

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March 26 – April 16, 2012Goethe-Institut

The State and the Individual: Films by Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke

Although East and West Germany officially united more than twenty years ago, the ramifica-tions of the East German system are still being felt today in the expanded Federal Republic. The extensive spy network and the state’s repression of dissident thought continue to have tremendous effects on the cultural fabric of German society.

Filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke explore how systems like this one affect daily life, and how individuals behave within such social structures. The documentaries and fea-ture film in this series highlight the lasting legacy of this period in German history.

All films will be shown in German with English subtitles.

The System © Kulbach-Frisbeefilms Dorte Franke © Goethe-Institut Last to Know © Goethe-Institut Marc Bauder © Goethe-Institut



Under Control (Unter Kontrolle)Germany, 2011, DigiBeta, 98 min., Director: Volker Sattel

This documentary unfolds a panorama of atomic energy in Germany, its broad perspec-tive revealing the real challenges and enormous efforts that nuclear power demands from humankind. The control over the nuclear fission process is not depicted chronologically but rather as a prism of places and sites that not only refracts the stations of the German atomic age but also reflects beyond the current situation.

Volker Sattel studied at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and lectures at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and at the Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg Film and Television University. Under Control premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.


Taste the WasteGermany, 2011, DigiBeta, 88 min., Director: Valentin Thurn More than half of our food goes to waste. Most of it is already lost on its way from the field to the store before it ever even arrives on our tables. This film depicts the worldwide destruction of food, while at the same time asking the essential question: Why do we throw away so much and how can we stop this kind of waste?

Valentin Thurn has made a number of documentaries and films for television, and was nominated for the 2006 German Television Award for Best Feature. Taste the Waste was shown at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.

No charge or reservations necessary. Arrive early to ensure seating.

F I L M F E S T I V A L

March 13-25, 2012various venues

Environmental Film FestivalThe Environmental Film Festival, now in its 20th year, offers fresh perspectives on environ-mental 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 di-verse world around us with a variety of national and international films at various locations.

For more information: www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org or 202-342-2564.

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February 2 – April 29, 2012Goethe-Institut: FotoGalerie

gute aussichten: young german photography 2011/2012

Opening reception on Thursday, February 2, 6 – 8 pm with Curator Josefine Raab and Stefan Becht

RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 165 or [email protected]

“Germany’s most renowned competition for young photographers” - Spiegel

Works by seven winners of gute aussichten 2011/2012, the eighth annual German competition for graduate photography students, come to Washington on the exhibition’s worldwide tour. Featuring Sebastian Lang, Sara-Lena Maierhofer, Johannes Post, Luise Schröder, Miriam Schwedt, Julia Unkel and Franziska Zacharias.

gute aussichten presents a unique and far-ranging synopsis in terms of both the content and style of the works created by young photographers in Germany during the past 12 months. Individual image series are distinguished by their highly diverse aesthetic, formal and concep-tual approaches, providing an insight into the multifaceted themes that form the focus of young artists’ interests today.

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Until January 27, 2012Goethe-Institut, FotoGalerie

On the Lakeshore… and Other Stories Photographer Iris Janke in Dialogue with Corcoran School of Art + Design Fine Art Photography alumna Sara J. Winston and BFA Fine Art Photography candidate Kaitlin Jencso

The Goethe-Institut Washington and the Corcoran College of Art + Design bring together works by contemporary German photographer Iris Janke and two American counterparts, Sara J. Winston and Kaitlin Jencso, to dialogue on a common topic: self-identity.

Selected with input from Janke and C|O Berlin, the International Forum for Visual Dialogues, the American photographers’ approaches to a universal theme lend themselves well to an exchange with their German counterpart. Through the photo-graphs, the different approaches initiate conversation and reflection.

Snared © Kaitlin Jencso In Pursuit © Sara J. Winston

Milena © Iris Janke


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Tuesday, February 14, 7:30 pmAustrian Embassy, 3524 International Court NW

Contemporary Voices: Erwin Uhrmann, Inka Parei, Catalin Dorian Florescu

An evening dedicated to emerging authors in contemporary German literature.

Catalin Dorian Florescu will talk about his most recent novel, Jacob beschliesst zu lieben, which tells the adventurous life story of Jacob Obertin. Conjuring up a family epic that spans more than 300 years, the story touches on themes of love and friendship, escape and betrayal, and how one’s ability to love can prove to be a rescue.

Inka Parei will present her latest work, Die Kältezentrale. East Berlin provides the bleak landscape for this intriguing novel, in which the narrator’s ex-wife is in the hospital with cancer and the doctors can only treat her if the cause can be identified.

Erwin Uhrmann will read a passage from his literary debut, Der lange Nachkrieg, in which a young man finds himself entangled in the unresolved death of his great-aunt.

L E C T U R E

Saturday, March 24, 10 am – 5:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Meistersinger Seminar | With lecturer Saul Lilienstein

A carefully focused study of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - for many opera lovers, the great-est work in the Wagner repertoire. Die Meistersinger belongs with Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment as one of the finest “novels” of the 19th century – this many-layered musical novel is rich in characterization, comedy, drama, autobiography, German history, varied aspects of love and passion, and philosophic concepts of art, all created in beautiful sound and poetry. Every aspect of that music/dramatic masterpiece will be examined: from musical architecture and its relationship to the stage, to orchestration, leitmotifs, develop-ment of character and more.

Organized by the Wagner Society of Washington, DC

To purchase tickets and for further information: www.wagner-dc.org

Excerpts will be read in both German and English. The writers will introduce and discuss their work in English.

Moderated by Norbert Bärlocher, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Switzerland

Followed by a Valentine’s Day reception with Austrian, German, and Swiss delicacies.

RSVP to www.acfdc.org/events-registration

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

www.zeitgeistdc.org

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Thursday, February 23, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Time Shadows: Music American, Chinese, and German Poetry

Over the last 150 years, Washington, DC’s Chinatown has been home to many immigrant groups. Each has contributed to the vibrancy and diversity of our neighborhood and our city. Three cultures are highlighted in this annual celebration of poetry and voice, focus-ing in 2012 on the topic “Music”.

Additional readings will take place throughout the city during Spring and Summer 2012. The poems and translations, along with the full schedule of readings taking place throughout the area in Spring and Summer 2012, can be found at www.goethe.de/timeshadows.

In cooperation with the Chinatown Community Cultural Center, the Confucius Institute at George Mason University, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Public Library.

RSVP to [email protected]

G E R M A N L A N G U A G E

Friday, February 17, time TBDAlliance Française, 421 7th St. NW

International Conversation Club

An evening of opportunities to go from room to room and practice various European languages. Light refreshments will be served.

For tickets and more information: 202-234-7911 or www.francedc.org.

D I S C U S S I O N ( I N G E R M A N )

Deutsch am MittagSprechen 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 contemporary affairs will be presented, in German, by a selected speaker. Discussion on the topic will complete the Mittagstisch.

January 10, 12 – 1:15 pmJeremiah Riemer, author of Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen DebateDeutschlands Rolle in Europas Schuldenkrise

February 14, 12 – 1:15 pm Brigitte Fessenden, former city planner, City of BaltimoreDenkmalschutz - Konfliktfeld zwischen Geschichte und moderner Architektur

March 13, 12 – 1:15 pmInes Prodoehl, research fellow, German Historical Institute

In jedem Wohnzimmer ein Brockhaus?: Enzyklopädien, Verleger und ihre Geschichte

April 10, 12 – 1:15 pmUwe Spiekermann, deputy director, German Historical Institute

Expansion ohne Ende? Aldi und Trader Joe

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

Beverages and sweets are provided.

Tickets $5/No charge for Friends of the Goethe-Institut.

RSVP to [email protected].

Sponsored by Friends of the Goethe-Institut


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Hear Now: The Best Radio Documentaries from Prix Europa 2011Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Friday, February 17, 6 – 9 pmGoethe-Institut

Games Evening (Spieleabend)

Come enjoy German games and a glass of wine with us! Games by German designers are enjoying increasing popularity outside their native country. This evening of board and card games will feature classics such as Bohnanza alongside newer favorites including Asara, Settlers of Catan, Lost Cities and Carcassone. Participants are invited to bring their favorite games and friends for the fun.

In cooperation with Labyrinth Games and Puzzles.

Tuesday, January 10, 6:30 - 8 pm

Part 1: Delight in Sound - Features from Belgium, Austria, and Serbia Every October, the Prix Europa competition is held in Berlin’s Haus des Rundfunks, bringing together the best Europe has to offer in radio, television, and new media. Sound-rich radio features from the 2011 competition will be heard and discussed.


Tuesday, February 14, 6:30 - 8 pm

Part 2: Delight in Place - Features from the U.K., France, and Germany A second session of outstanding radio features from the 2011 Prix Europa competition, held in Berlin’s Haus des Rundfunks last October. This program focuses on productions with an especially strong sense of place


Presented by Bill Gilcher in cooper-ation with Prix Europa and Hear Now!, a collective of radio and audio producers. Tuesday, March 13, 6:30 - 8 pm

Hear Now: A Listening Evening with Deborah George Deborah George lives and works in Takoma Park, Maryland. She was on the staff of NPR News for more than 15 years, and since 1996 has edited the Radio Diaries series which airs on “All Things Considered.” Her career as a producer, editor, and reporter has taken her to Asia, Latin America, and Africa. George’s work has received many awards including four Silver Batons and a Gold Baton from the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards. RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext.168 or [email protected]

Presented in cooperation with Hear Now!, a collective of radio and audio producers. More: hearnowradio.org

Friday, March 23, 6 – 9 pmGoethe-Institut

Catan: Oil Springs

This variation of everyone’s favorite German board game (Settlers of Catan by Klaus Teuber) incorporates new

resources and new rules and in the process demonstrates the difficult realities of climate change politics. Learn the new rules and play the scenario with the designers, Erik Assadourian of the Worldwatch Institute and game designer Ty Hansen. For more on the scenario, rules, and downloadable components visit www.oilsprings.catan.com.

G A M E S N I G H T S

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

Please note: arrival by 7 pm is suggested to ensure sufficient playing time.


www.americangoethesociety.org

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(in English)

Wednesday, February 8, 6:45 pm

Dürer and the Idea of the Artist in the renaissance

Lecture by Lorena Baines, Ph.D., museum educator, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was one of the most self-aware artists in Europe at the turn of the sixteenth century. Through his prints, drawings, paintings, and writings, he strove to elevate his status as an artist by claiming parity with and yet setting himself apart from his counterparts in Italy and the Netherlands. Dr. Baines, an expert in sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish art, especially printmaking, will compare Dürer’s artwork and literary output with artists and writers active elsewhere in Europe to show how he carefully crafted a persona to demand a prominent place in the pantheon of Renaissance creators, which is still respected today. n

Both lectures will be given at the Goethe-Institut Washington, followed by refreshments, and are free of charge.

For more information about the American Goethe Society, please visit www.americangoethesociety.org or call 703-893-1670 for membership information.

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

(Lunch mit Lyrik) held at DC restaurants, and monthly seminars / dramatic readings covering classic German plays, held at the Goethe-Institut Washington and an area public library.

The American Goethe Society is the proud sponsor of the Goethe Prize, which recognizes outstanding high school students of German in the DC, Maryland and Virginia area.

M u s I c L e c t u r e (in English)

Wednesday, March 21, 6:45 pm

the Instrumental Genius of W.A. Mozart

Lecture by A. scott Wood, artistic and executive director of the Amadeus Concerts and conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra

Mr. Wood, who is also music director of the Arlington Philharmonic, the Washington Conservatory Orchestra, the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, and the National Cathedral and St. Albans School Orchestra, will illuminate the masterful innovations that made Mozart’s sympho-nies and instrumental concertos peerless. Mr. Wood brings a conductor’s insights to the voyage, combining sight, sound, and stories. The pinnacle of the composer’s work, his last three symphonies, were written within a few months’ time span, and will serve as our focus. n

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Until Sunday, February 26Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD

Candida Höfer – Interior Worlds

Thirteen works by the internationally acclaimed contemporary German photogra-pher Candida Höfer showing the George Peabody Library and the Walters Art Museum are presented in this exhibition.

For information: 443-573-1700 or www.artbma.org

Until Wednesday, February 26German-American Heritage Museum, 719 Sixth Street NW, Washington, DC

Helping Shape America: German-Americans in the U.S. Congress from 1789 to the Present

This exhibit tells the story of the Muhlenberg brothers in the first Congress (1789-1791) and the members of German ancestry who serve

the current 112th Congress (2011-2013). A second exhibit will focus on German-Americans in the U.S. Congress in the 19th and 20th century.

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

M U S I C

Thursday, January 26, 7:30 pmThe Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

Lydia Teuscher, soprano/ Graham Johnson, piano

Award-winning German soprano Lydia Teuscher studied vocals in Germany and the United Kingdom. She has performed exten-sively on the opera stage and in recital in Europe and America.

Organized by Vocal Arts DC.

Tickets: $45For tickets and information: 800-444-1324; 202-467-4600 or www.kennedy-center.org

German photographer Candida Höfer at home © picture-alliance / dpa/dpaweb

Poster showing the United States Capitol © picture-alliance / Mary Evans Picture Library


Saturday, February 18, 8 pmSixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I Street NW, Washington, DC

Julia Fischer, violin/ Milana Chernyavska, piano

German violinist Julia Fischer and Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska, who both hold professorships for music at German universi-ties, have performed solo and as a duo in venues around the world. The concert will feature selections from Mozart, Schubert, Debussy and Saint-Saëns. This concert is part of the Washington Performing Art Society’s Encore Series.

Tickets: $40For tickets and information: 202-785-9727 or www.wpas.org

Thursday, March 1, 8 pmThe Strathmore Music Center, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester

Embodying the musical glory of the 1920s and 1930s, the charismatic Max Raabe and his 12-member band captivate listeners through their impressive repertoire that encompasses both German and American musical standards.

For tickets and information: 301-581-5100, [email protected] or www.strathmore.org

Sunday, March 4, 4 pmGeorge Mason University’s Center for the Arts, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA

Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Northwest German Philharmonic): Eugene Tzigane, conductor/ Amit Peled, cello

Based in Herford, Germany, this accomplished 80-member orchestra has earned an

German violinist Julia Fischer © picture-alliance / radio tele nord

Max Raabe and Palast Orchester © picture-alliance/dpa

Eugene Tzigane, Chief Conductor of the Northwest German Philharmonic © Peter Schaaf


international reputation. On the program: Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 in C minor and Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor.

Tickets: $25-$50, Phone orders at 888-945-2460 (charges apply)For information: http://cfa.gmu.edu/calendar/

Monday, March 5, 7:30 pmThe Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

Christoph Eschenbach, piano/ Matthias Goerne, baritone

Pianist Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director for the Kennedy Center, will renew his partnership with German baritone Matthias Goerne for Schubert’s magnificent song cycle Winterreise.


Thursday, March 8, 7 pmSaturday, March 10, 8 pmThe Kennedy Center, Concert Hall, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

National Symphony Orchestra: Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

The National Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Béla Bartók. German baritone Matthias Goerne and American mezzosprano Michelle Deyoung lend their voices to Bluebeard’s Castle and The Miraculous Mandarin.

Tickets: $20-$85For tickets and information: 800-444-1324; 202-467-4600 or www.kennedy-center.org

Monday, March 19, 7:30 pmThe Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

Ute Lemper with the Vogler Quartet: Berlin Nights/Paris Days

The Vogler Quartet, Ute Lemper, and pianist/clarinetist Stefan Malzew will embark on an exciting journey, bringing together Weimar

Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director of the NSO and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, at the White House in June 2011 © picture-alliance / dpa

German singer Ute Lemper © picture-alliance / dpa


chansons and the classical works they influ-enced.


Thursday, April 5, 7 pm Friday, April 6, 1:30 pm Saturday, April 7, 8 pmThe Kennedy Center, Concert Hall , 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

National Symphony Orchestra: Helmuth Rilling, conductor

German sacred music specialist Helmuth Rilling returns to the Kennedy Center to conduct Mendelssohn’s Elijah featuring NSO debut performances from soprano Marlis Petersen, mezzo-soprano Anke Vondung, and baritone Russell Braun, with tenor James Taylor and the University of Maryland Concert Choir.

Tickets: $20-$85For tickets and information: 800-444-1324; 202-467-4600 or www.kennedy-center.org

Sunday, April 15, 4 pmThe Kennedy Center, Concert Hall,2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

European Union youth Orchestra:Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor/Pinchas Zukerman, violin

The European Union Youth Orchestra unites Europe’s gifted young professional musicians under internationally renowned conductors. Under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy and joined by violinist Pinchas Zukerman, the orchestra will perform Copland’s An Outdoor Overture, Bruch’s Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, op. 26, and Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64.

Organized by the Washington Performing Arts Society.

Tickets: $40-$75For tickets and information: 800-444-1324; 202-467-4600 or www.kennedy-center.org http://www.kennedy-center.org/

German conductor Helmuth Rilling was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize in November 2011 © picture-alliance / dpa

European Union Youth Orchestra with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy © picture-alliance / akg-images / Kai Bienert


F I L M S

Friday, January 27, Time TBDLandmark’s E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street, Washington, DC

young Goethe in Love (Goethe!)Germany, 2010, 100 min., Director: Philipp StölzlAfter having failed his law exams, the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is sent by his father to the sleepy provincial town of Wetzlar. There, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man. Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther was inspired by these events.

For information: 202-452-7672 or www.landmarktheatres.com

Sunday, March 25, Time TBDRave Fairfax Corner 14, 11900 Palace Way, Fairfax, VA

The Wave (Die Welle)Germany, 2008, 107 min., Director: Dennis GanselA high school teacher wants to prove to his students that a dictatorship could be

established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to demonstrate how easily the masses can be manipulated.

This film is part of the 12th NoVA International Jewish Film Festival Sponsored by the German Embassy

For information: www.jccnvarts.org

S P E C I A L E V E N T S

Friday, January 13, 6-9 pmSaturday, January 14, 6-9 pmGertrude’s, Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD

Krautfest 2012

Celebrate the release of Gertrude’s 2012 sauerkraut at the 9th annual Krautfest! The event features dancing to live polka music by the Joy of Maryland and a buffet dinner.

Tickets: $35For information: 410-889-3399

German Director Philipp Stölzl at the Premiere of “young Goethe in Love” in Berlin © picture-alliance / dpa Scene from the film “The Wave” (Die Welle)

by German Director Dennis Gansel © picture-alliance / dpa


Saturday, February 18, 7 pm - midnightKena Ballroom, 9001 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax, VA

2012 Faschingsball/Mardi Gras

Enjoy great live dance music featuring a wide variety of tunes including Karneval, Latin and other ballroom dances. Delicious German food and drinks will be available. Prizes awarded for best costumes.

For information: www.saengerbund.org

P R E V I E W

Friday, April 20, 8 pmLibrary of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, Independence Ave. and 1st Street SE, Washington, DC

Bach & Italy: Concerto Köln with Jan Freiheit, guest cellist

For information: Library of Congress Concert Office 202-707-8432

Saturday, April 21, 7 pmKena Ballroom, 9001 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax, VA

Washington Sängerbund: Spring Concert

For information: www.saengerbund.org

Thursday, April 26, 8 pmThe Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD

Friday, April 27, 8 pm Saturday, April 28, 8 pmJoseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Jun Märkl, conductor/Arabella Steinbacher, violin

For tickets ($28-$88) and information for the Music Center at Strathmore: 301-581-5100, [email protected] and www.strathmore.org

For tickets ($28-$61) and information from the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall: 410-783-8000 or www.bsomusic.org

Munich’s Lord Mayor Christian Ude dancing in the streets during Fasching (Mardi Gras) © picture-alliance / dpa

German conductor Jun Märkl © picture-alliance/ZB


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PUBLIC EVENTS | JANUARY-MAY

thursday, January 12GHI LECTURE SERIES German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational HistoryGermany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia: creating the color Line and the National LineEric Weitz (University of Minnesota)

thursday, January 26Does the German colonial empire strike Back? the Afterlives of German colonialismLECTURE AND PANEL DISCUSSIONLECTURE: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)PANELISTS: Hartmut Berghoff (Chair, GHI), Martin Andjaba (Ambassador of Namibia, Washington, DC), Cyprian Fisiy (World Bank), Steve McDonald (Woodrow Wilson Center), Armin Owzar (University of California, San Diego)

thursday, April 26Gerald D. Feldman Memorial LECTUREthe Path to German unity 1989-90Gerhard A. Ritter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

GHI LECTURE SERIES | SPRING 2012 Get Out the Vote! Mobilization, Media, and Money thursday, March 22

Mobilizing the Nineteenth-century American electorate: the elections of 1828 and 1840 Michael Holt (University of Virginia)

thursday, April 12

Voters Without Democracy: elections in Imperial GermanyJames Retallack (University of Toronto)

thursday, May 3

Americanizing the electoral Process? elections in the Federal republic of GermanyFrank Bösch (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam)

thursday, May 31

American campaign Mobilization in the Age of New MediaKate Kenski (University of Arizona)

Lecture titles are provisional and subject to change. Please consult the GHI website for updates and information on other events.


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