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Conferences
Films
- German Film Series: Request
Night
The film most requested will round out the year's Filmabende. Send your
votes to schnader@sas.upenn.edu.
April 8, 9 p.m., Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
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German Film Series:
Sonnenallee
An entertaining look at life in the former East Berlin
Leander Haussmann. 1999. 101 min. In German.
March 25, 9 p.m. Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series:
Europa Europa.
A boy's attempt to conceal his Jewish identity in Nazi Germany.
Agnieszka Holland. 1990. 112 min. German with English subtitles.
February 25, 9 p.m., Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: Der
blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)
The seductive Marlene Dietrich as we approach Valentine's Day.
Josef von Sternberg. 1930. 99 min. German with English subtitles.
February 11, 9 p.m., Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
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German Film Series:
Loriot Night
Enjoy one of Germany's most-loved comedians.
In German.
January 28, 9 p.m. Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: Faust.
Classic adaptation of Goethe's masterpiece. F.W. Murnau. 1926. 116 min.
German with English subtitles.
January 14, 9 p.m., Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: Fassbinder
Request Night
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's work receiving the most requests will round
out this semester's Filmabende. Send your votes to: schnader@sas.upenn.edu.
December 10, 9:00 pm, Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: Jenseits
der Stille (Beyond Silence)
Internationally popular film of a young girl with mute parents. Caroline
Link. 1996. 109 min. German w/ Engl. subtitles.
November 26, 9:00 pm, Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: Comedy
Night
A diverse collection of short comedy classics. Helge Schneider, Tom
Gerhardt, Stefan Raab, Die fabulösen Thekenschlampen, Jürgen Becker,
Emil Steinberger and many others including Monty Python. 80 min. In
German.
November 12, 9:00 pm, Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- Kristallnacht Commemoration:
"Because of that War"
A film directed by Orna Ben-Dor Niv. Israel, 1988. 90 min.
An award winning documentary about the impact of the Holocaust on the
lives of second generation survivors: two popular Israeli Rock figures
Yehuda Poliker, singer, and Ya`kov Gilad, lyricist. It is a story of
a Sephardi and Ashkenazi - of the working-class and intellectuals. Poliker's
father, Jacko, is from Saloniki and was deported by the Nazis to an
extermination camp. Gilad's mother, Halina, is a writer and poet, from
Warsaw, whose memories haunt her work. The film interweaves interviews
with the parents and sons together with performances by Poliker of his
rock songs which deal with the memories.
Refreshments will be served.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, and Hillel's
Holocaust Education Committee
November 8, 7 p.m., Carolyn Hoff-Lynch Room, First Floor, Chemistry
Bldg., 231 S. 34th St.
- German Film Series: Das
Kabinett des Doktor Caligari
Some eerie German expressionism as we approach Halloween. Robert Wiene.
1920. 71 min. Germ. w/ Engl. subtitles.
October 29, 9:00 pm, Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: Schlafes
Bruder (Brother of Sleep)
Evokative filming of the bestseller. Joseph Vilsmaier. 1995. 127 min.
Germ. w/ Engl. subtitles.
October 15, 9:00 pm, Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: M
- Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Peter Lorre is sooo wierd. Fritz Lang. 1931. 99 min. Germ. w/ Engl.
subtitles.
October 1, 9:00 pm, Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
- German Film Series: Lola
rennt (Run Lola Run)
Kicking off the season again is Tykwer's contemporary hit. Tim Tykwer.
1998. 99 min. Germ. w/ Engl. subtitles.
September 17, 9:00 pm, Modern Languages (Gregory) College House Basement
Lectures/Colloquia
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Celebrate Queen's Day
with Rob Naborn, Dutch Lecturer, enjoy music by an authentic street
organ and "orange" refreshments!
April 30, 2002, early afternoon in front of Van Pelt Library
- Germanics Department
End-of-Year Meeting and Award Ceremony
April 24, 2002, 10 am - 12 noon, Max Kade Center, 3905 Spruce Street
- Roman Elegies Workshop
Goethe scholars Susanne Kord, Cyrus Hamlin, and Judith Ryan meet with
students to discuss Goethe's Roman Elegies.
April 20, 2002, 10 am - 5 pm, Max Kade Center, 3905 Spruce Street
- Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate
Student Colloquium
Dr. Don Ringe
Ilinca Iurescu
March 26, 5:15 p.m., Cherpack Lounge, 5th floor Williams
- Yiddish, Dutch, and Hebrew
Sing-Along
March 26, 12 noon, Hillel Main Auditorium
- Delta Phi Alpha Induction
Ceremony and Spring Lecture
Dr. Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College. Subject: tattooing in 19th century
Germany.
March 21, 5:00 p.m., Logan 402
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Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter,
University of Basel
"Reliquienberg und Stigma: Clemens Brentano und Anna Katharina Emmerick"
March 19, 12-2 p.m., 516 Williams Hall
- Dr. Gerhard Neumann,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich
"Glissando und Defiguration: E.T.A. Hoffmanns Capriccio 'Prinzessin
Brambilla' als Wahrnehmungsexperiment"
March 18, 4:30 p.m., Max Kade Center (3905 Spruce St.)
- "Variations on the Grotesque.
Some Thoughts on Holocaust Literature."
Walter Geerts, Prof. of Italian and Comparative Literature, University
of Antwerp; Visiting Peter Breughel Professor, University of Pennsylvania,
Spring 2002
Sponsored by the Dutch Studies Program
March 4, 5 p.m., Williams 421
- Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate
Student Colloquium
Prof. Karl Otto: "Some Thoughts on Seventeenth Century Occasional Poetry"
Mary Beth Wetli: "We ain't broke, so stop trying to fix us!" (medicalization
of transgenderism and sex-reassignment surgery as the cure)
February 26, 5:15 p.m., Max Kade Center, 3905 Spruce St.
- Abe Brumberg The
Yiddish poetry expert and Sovietologist reads new translations of Yiddish/English
poetry. Seating is limited, RSVP to wh@english.upenn.edu.
Hosted by Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein and co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies
Program, the Department of Slavic Languages, the Department of History,
and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Mr. Brumberg
appears at Penn as part of a collaboration with Gratz College.
February 25, 12 noon, Kelly Writers House
- Jack Zipes: "Past
and Contemporary Relevance of Folk and Fairy Tales"
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife, the Department
of German Languages and Literatures, and the Center for Folklore and
Ethnography
February 13, 3 p.m., Logan Hall 17
- Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate
Student Colloquium
Dr. Francis Brevart
Dr. Daniel Foster (Penn Humanities Forum postdoc Fellow)
January 22, 5:15 p.m., Cherpack Lounge (5th floor Williams Hall)
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Kaffeestunde
Practice your German in an informal, relaxed setting. Refreshments
provided.
Hosted by the German Department Graduate Students
December 5, 1:30-2:30 p.m., 733 Williams Hall
- Delta Phi Alpha Fall Event
(German Honor Society) Mignon as Allegory of the Poetic: Literature,
Theater, and the Art of Painting in German Romanticism, a lecture
by Dr. Cordula Grewe, Assistant Professor of Art History at Columbia
University and research fellow at the German Historical Institute in
Washington, D.C.
November 20, 5:30 pm, Meyerson B2.
- Marianne Schuller,
University of Hamburg
"Halbpart des Vergessens" zur Konstruktion von Geschichte bei Walter
Benjamin
Lecture and discussion in German.
Refreshments provided.
November 14, 5 p.m., Max Kade Center (3905 Spruce St.)
- Kaffeestunde
Practice your German in an informal, relaxed setting. Refreshments provided.
Hosted by the German Department Graduate Students
November 14, 1:30-2:30, 733 Williams Hall
- Kaffeestunde
Practice your German in an informal, relaxed setting. Refreshments provided.
Hosted by the German Department Graduate Students
November 7, 1:30-2:30, 733 Williams Hall
- Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate
Student Colloquium
Dr. Ellen Kennedy: "Seeing Enemies: political & constitional theory
in the works of Carl Schmitt"
Vance Byrd: "Mojo Club Dancefloor Jazz in the Hamburg Soundscape"
November 6, 5:15 p.m., Max Kade German Center (3905 Walnut Street)
- Yiddish Sing-along
Join us for an hour of singing traditional Yiddish songs. Led by Alexander
Botwinik, Yiddish Lecturer, and Kathryn Hellerstein, Senior Lecturer
in Yiddish.
Co-sponsored by Penn's Jewish Studies Program and Hillel.
October 25, 12-1 p.m., Hillel Main Lounge
- Rita Kuczynski, Writer
(Berlin)
Mauerblume: Eine Schriftstellerin balanciert Leben und Schreiben zwischen
Ost- und West- Berlin. Reading and discussion (in German).
September 25, 2001, 5:30 p.m., Max Kade Center, 3905 Spruce St.
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