Conferences

• Austrian Writers Confront the Past, 1945-2000
  An International Conference
  April 12-14, 2002
• Euroland and Eastern Europe: Assessing the New Integration Processes
  An International Conference
  March 22, 2002

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)
  

• 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.