FEBRuaRy 2013 - Dallas Goethe Center

FEBRuary
2013
February:
*Friday
Mon.- Fri.
Feb. 1
Feb.1-Mar. 31
Sat. - Sun.
6:00 p.m.
9:30 a.m. –
5:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. –
5:00 pm
Stammtisch Zentrum meets at the Embassy Suites, 3880 W. Northwest Highway, Dallas, 75220. 214-357-04500. Please sign up at www.meetup.com/Dallas-Goethe-Center/
Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album. Photos from the Frank family photo albums
1926 until the family went into hiding in 1942. Many images have never before been
shown to the public. The exhibit offers an intimate view into Anne Frank’s life. An
award-winning documentary film accompanies the exhibit. Dallas Holocaust Museum,
211 North Record St., Dallas, TX 75202. For information, call 214-741-7500 or go to
www.dallasholocaustmuseum.org.
Saturday
Feb. 2
2:00 p.m.
Performance
12:30 p.m.
Lobby Activities
The Dallas Opera Family Concert. A parade of opera’s greatest hits. From Mozart to
Puccini and Bizet to Jake Heggie, there is something for opera fans of all ages. AT&T
Performing Arts Center: Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Contact www.attpac.org or 214-954-9925.
Monday
Feb. 4
8:00 p.m.
Dallas Chamber Music Concertante. Concertante has established itself as a chamber ensemble that combines world class virtuosity and an adventurous willingness to
enhance contemporary and classical chamber music repertoire. Elgar: Serenade in E
minor, Bridge: Sextet in E flat, Brahms: G Major Sextet, Op. 36 at Caruth Auditorium,
SMU Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd, Dallas, TX 75275. Contact [email protected]
Tuesday
Feb. 5
Feb.12
Feb.19
Feb. 26
8:00 p.m.
Tuesday Classical Open Mic Night at Buzzbrews Kitchen! Come on Tuesday nights
for Classical Open Mic Night where professionals and amateurs share the stage in
performing classical music. Buzzbrews Kitchen, 4334 Lemmon Ave, Dallas TX 75219,
214-521-4334 / www.openclassical.org
Thursday
Feb. 7
7:30 p.m.
Wesleyan Wind Ensemble Concert under the direction of Christine Beasin at Texas
Wesleyan University, Martin Hall, 1201 Wesleyan Street, Fort Worth, TX 76105
Contact 817-531-4992.
Saturday
Feb. 9
2:00 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth presents Amernet String quartet performing
Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”, Shostakovich Quartet No. 4 in D
Major, Opus 83, Dvorak Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Opus 96, “American” at the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell Street, Ft. Worth, TX 76107.
Contact 817-877-3003.
Saturday
Feb. 9
7:00 p.m.
German American Club - Fasching time again. “Karneval am Rhein”; a full buffet
will be served. If purchased in advance the cost is: members $10.00; non-members
$25.00; at the door $30.00 for everyone! Knights of Columbus, 10110 Shoreview
Road, Dallas, TX 75238. 214-348-7940.
Saturday
Feb. 9
8:00 p.m.
Chamber Music International: Concert #4. Enter the Russian world of Jewish folk
music, saunter through a romanticized Hungary, and experience one of the greatest
German piano trios of the 19th century No. 1 in B Major, D. 898, by Franz Schubert at
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church, 1220 West Belt Line Road, Richardson, TX 75080.
Contact 972-235-2000
* Monday
Feb. 11
7:00 p.m. –
9:00 p.m.
Church Music in the Former East Germany and its Situation Today –
Cristoph Krummacher, Director of the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut of the
Musikhochschule, Leipzig, Germany begins a week of lectures at SMU’s Master of
Sacred Music Program. Lecture at Prothro Hall (room TBA), RSVP to www.meetup.
com/Dallas-Goethe-Center/ required to attend reception sponsored by DGC.
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Tuesday
Feb. 12
3:50 p.m.–
5:30 p.m.
Music and Theologians I: Martin Luther – Church Music Colloquium lecture
and discussion by Prof. Dr Christoph Krummacher (Leipzig) at Southern Methodist
University in Kirby Hall 100.
Tuesday
Feb. 12
8:00 p.m.
American Guild of Organists Dallas Chapter – Lynne Davis Organ Recital. St.
Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 6306 Kenwood Avenue, Dallas, 75214. Contact
www.dallasago.org or 214-821-3360.
Wednesday
Feb. 13
7:30 p.m.
Die Gruppe Dallas – For any further information, please contact Joysanna Rutledge at
[email protected] or 214-912-6219.
Wednesday
Feb. 13
7:00 p.m.
Church Music Practicum Service (Ash Wednesday) – Christopher Hoyt at the Church
of the Holy Communion, 17405 Muirfield Drive, Dallas 75287. Contact 972-248-6505.
Thursday
Feb. 14
3:30 p.m. –
5:30 p.m.
Music and Theologians II: Friedrich Schleiermacher – Church Music Colloquium
lecture and discussion by Prof. Dr. Christoph Krummacher (Leipzig) at Southern
Methodist University in Kirby Hall 100.
Thursday
Feb. 14
5:30 pm
Meadows Museum Organ Demonstration – Kristofer Kiesel.
Thursday
Feb. 14
7:00 p.m.
J. S. Bach’s chorale-based organ works and the liturgical role of the organ in the
liturgy of his day – Location to be announced
Thursday
Saturday
Feb. 14
Feb. 16
7:30 p.m.
Orchestra of New Spain – Cupid’s New Weapons of Love (Las nuevas armas de amor)
A Modern World Premiere Staged in the 18th century style of popular Spanish comedy,
this zarzuela of Sebastion Duron on a libretto of Jose de Canizares marks a unique
theatrical event. City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora Street, Dallas Arts District, Dallas,
TX 75201. For info 214-750-3440 or www.OrchestraOfNewSpain.org
Friday
Feb. 15
12:30 p.m.
Lay Family Organ Concert recital given by Mary Preston, resident organist with the
Dallas Symphony Orchestra: 30 minutes with a free one hour tour of the Meyerson
Symphony Center, 2301 Floral Street, Dallas, TX 75201. Contact 214-670-3331.
Friday
Feb. 15
1:00 p.m. –
2:00 p.m.
Organ Studio Class (French Classic, North German) – at Southern Methodist University in Caruth Auditorium. Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd, Dallas, TX 75275
*Saturday
Feb. 16
7:30 p.m.
Stammtisch Nord meets at Houlihans at 5225 Belt Line Road #220, Dallas, TX 75254.
Please Sign up at www.meetup.com/Dallas-Goethe-Center/
Saturday
Feb. 16
8:00 p.m.
Dallas Bach Society presents: Ava Pine sings Handel Opera. Ava Pine brings her
glorious soprano voice back to Dallas for a program of favorites from the Handel
repertoire, with the Dallas Bach Orchestra under Artistic Director James Richman.
Church of the Incarnation, 3966 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, TX 75204.
Contact www.dallasbach.org or 214-320-8700.
Sunday
Feb. 17
7:00 p.m.
Basically Brass Quintet The Fine Arts / Concert Series, is pleased to welcome
back this local brass quintet which will perform a variety of music from baroque to
contemporary. Frank Reed and Fred Bernhardt will play trumpet, Charlie Cudney will
play trombone, Maria Rohr will play French horn, and James Oldham will be featured
on tuba. Lord of Life Lutheran Church, 3601 West 115th Street, Plano, TX 75075.
Contact 972-867-5588 or [email protected].
Sunday
Feb. 17
8:00 p.m.
Brahms: Love Songs with the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas – Celebrate
love with songs of romance and friendship inspired by the music of the most famous
composer of the Romantic Period Johannes Brahms. Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301
Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201. Contact 1-800-838-3006 to order.
Sunday
Feb. 17
4:00 p.m.
First Concert Series presents the Dallas Chamber Orchestra – As part of the First
Presbyterian Church’s continued partnership with the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, this
event is presented free of charge in conjunction with the second annual First Concert
Series, 1835 Young Street, Dallas, TX 75201 214-748-8051.
Thursday
Feb. 21
10:30 a.m.
Genealogy Databases presented by Plano Public Library System – Haggard Library
Class on how to search in Ancestory.com, Fold3.com and FamilySearch.org. Haggard
Library, 2501 Coit Road, Plano, TX 75075. Contact 972-769-4250.
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Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Feb. 21
Feb. 22
Feb. 23
Feb. 24
8:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Beethoven and Strauss. Jaap van Zweden, conductor and Anton Nel, piano. Wagner
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2,
Stucky, Elegy, R. Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier at the Meyerson, 7301 Flora
Street, Dallas, 75201. Contact 214-670-3600 or www.dallassymphony.com.
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Feb. 22
Feb. 23
Feb. 24
7:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Mozart and Enigma Variations – The sweet, haunting sound of the oboe gets
the spotlight as Bass principal oboist plays Mozart “Enigma Variations”. Elgar’s
masterpiece, paints vivid musical portraits of the composer’s closest friends, with an
intriguing mystery at the heart of it all. Bass Performance Hall, 330 E 4th Street, Suite
300, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Contact 817-665-6000 to order.
*Saturday
Feb. 23
3:30 pm
Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album Special talk for DGC members. An awardwinning documentary film accompanies the exhibit. Dallas Holocaust Museum, 211
North Record Street, Dallas, TX 75202. RSVP to www.meetup.com/Dallas-GoetheCenter/ required to attend event.
Thursday
Feb 28
7:00 p.m.
Patrik Schumacher, Studio of Zaha Hadid to give an architectural talk. Prof.
Schumacher is a tenured professor at Innsbruck University and has studied at the
Universities of Stuttgart, Bonn, London and Klagenfurt. His firm has worked on
projects in Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and China, amongst many other projects around
the world. Presented by the Dallas Architecture Forum at the Magnolia Theater, 3699
McKinney Ave., Suite 100, Dallas, TX 75204. Call 214-764-2406 to order.
Thursday
Feb. 28
7:30 p.m.
American Guild of Organists Dallas Chapter. Members’ Recital Charlene Dorsey,
Organist Emeritus, St. Albans Episcopal Church, 911 South Davis Drive, Arlington, TX
76013 Contact www.dallasago.org
Thursday
Feb. 28
7:30 p.m.
The German Language Group of Allen and Plano meets for German conversation
on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Bavarian Grill, 221 West Parker Road,
Plano, TX 75023. For further information contact Michael Korrie at mjkorrie@yahoo.
com. Please sign up at www.meet.com/German-language-group-of-Allen-and-Plano.
Thursday
Feb. 28
8:00 p.m.
Mahler’s Mighty 6th Jaap van Zweden, conductor and Erik Bosgraaf, recorder.
Vivaldi Recorder Concertos in C major: RV443 and RV444; Mahler Symphony No. 6
at the Meyerson Symphony, 7301 Flora Street, Dallas, 75201. Contact 214-670-3600 or
www.dallassymphony.com.
*Friday
Mar. 1
6:00 p.m.
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Mar. 1
Mar. 2
Mar. 3
7:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Monday
Mar. 4
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Mar. 5
Mar.12
Mar.19
Mar. 26
Mar. 8
8:00 p.m.
Stammtisch Zentrum meets at the Embassy Suites, 3880 W. Northwest Hwy, Dallas
TX 75220. 214-357-4500. Please sign up at www.meetup.com/Dallas-Goethe-Center/
Mahler’s Mighty 6th Jaap van Zweden, conductor and Erik Bosgraaf, recorder.
Vivaldi Recorder Concertos in C major: RV443 and RV444; Mahler Symphony No. 6
at the Meyerson Symphony, 7301 Flora Street, Dallas, 75201. Contact 214-670-3600
or www.dallassymphony.com.
Keyboard Conversations – Schubert in the Age of the Sound Bite – If you’re a
newcomer to classical music, you’ll be captivated to hear pianist Jeffrey Siegel talk
about the great composers’ lives and illustrate musical themes from each featured
work. If you’re a seasoned listener, you’ll delight in Siegel’s fresh and intriguing
insights into the music and be thrilled by his virtuoso performances. Eisemann Center,
2351 Performance Drive, Richardson, TX 75082 Call 972-744-4650 to order.
Tuesday Classical Open Mic Night at Buzzbrews Kitchen! Come on Tuesday
nights for Classical Open Mic Night where professionals and amateurs share the stage
in performing classical music. Buzzbrews Kitchen, 4334 Lemmon Ave., Dallas TX
75219, 214-521-4334 / www.openclassical.org
Ars Lyrica – Acis & Galatea – Austin. A new production of Handel’s pastoral
masterpiece Acis and Galatea, directed by Tara Faircloth and featuring soprano Blair
Doerge, countertenor Ryland Angel, tenors Derek Chester and Michael Kelly, and
bass-baritone Timothy Jones. First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive, Austin,
Texas. www.arslyricahouston.org
March:
Friday
8:00 p.m.
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Chamber Music International: Concert #5 – Take a journey through the beautiful
Classicism of Austria and Germany with one of the top young artists of her generation,
Clara-Jumi Kang – violin. Sonata for piano and violin in G major, K. 301, Wolfgang A.
Mozart, Sonata for piano and violin in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2, Ludwig van Beethoven,
Fantaisie brillante on Bizets Carmen, Op. 3, No. 3, Jeno Hubay. City Performance
Hall, 2520 Flora Street, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX 75201. Contact 214-671-1450
or www.chambermusicinternational.org
Die Gruppe Dallas – Will meet at the home of Fay Osborn. For more information,
please contact Joysanna Rutledge at [email protected] or 214-912-6219.
Sunday
Mar. 10
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
Mar. 13
7:30 p.m.
*Saturday
Mar. 16
7:30 p.m.
Stammtisch Nord meets at Houlihans at 5225 Belt Line Road #220, Dallas, TX 75254.
Please Sign up at www.meetup.com/Dallas-Goethe-Center/
Saturday
Mar. 16
8:00 p.m.
Saturday
Mar. 16
2:00 p.m.
Saturday
Mar. 23
3:00 p.m.
Thursday
Mar. 28
7:30 p.m.
Handel’s La Resurezzione at the Church of the Incarnation, 3966 McKinney Ave.,
Dallas, TX 75204. Celebrate the Season with George Frederic Handel’s amazing La
Resurezzione. Featuring Rebecca Choate Beasley as the Angel and David Grogan as
Lucifer, Dallas Bach Society. Contact www.dallasbach.org or 214-320-8700.
Texas Camerata - 'Germany II' - Fort Worth. An afternoon of cantatas and
instrumental music from the German High Baroque featuring David Grogan, bass,
singing J.S. Bach's Ich habe genug and Paul Leenhouts, Director of the University of
North Texas Early Music program. 2:00 pm, Modern Art Museum, 3200 Darnell Street,
Fort Worth, Texas. www.texascamerata.org
94 Strings, 20 Fingers and 4 Feet – Harpists Laura Logan and Jeff Walters present an
exciting new duo featuring original arrangements and transcriptions for two harps by
Haydn, Brahms, and Mendelssohn and the fiery music of De Falla, along with a little
Ellington and Joplin. Bancroft Family Concert with the Fine Arts Chamber Players at
the Dallas Museum of Art in the Horchow Auditorium, 1717 North Harwood, Dallas,
TX 75201.
The German Language Group of Allen and Plano meets for German conversation
on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Bavarian Grill, 221 West Parker Rd.,
Plano, TX 75023. For more info contact Michael Korrie at [email protected].
Please sign up at www.meet.com/German-language-group-of-Allen-and-Plano.
Stammtische
IMPORTANT — NEW IN 2013
Attend one or BOTH of our Stammtische. Meet, greet and
leisurely chat in German! Stammtisch Zentrum meets on the first
Friday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel on
Northwest Highway just east of the Lemmon / Marsh intersection.
Stammtisch Nord meets on the third Saturday of each month at
7:30 p.m. at Hoolihans at 5225 Belt Line Road #220, Dallas, TX
75254. Stammtisch Nord is “all German - all the time” regardless
of your level of proficiency! Both events can be found on the
Meetup web site. www.meetup.com/Dallas-Goethe-Center/
Beginning January 1, 2013, all DGC events with a
reception will be listed on the DGC meet-up site.
Members need to RSVP to the meet-up, or producer
of the event, no later than one week prior so we
can estimate food and drink needs. Non-DGC
members are welcome to attend for a charge per
person and per child to be determined depending
on the event. Please check the newsletter. The
Stammtisch Zentrum and Nord will continue at no
cost to DGC Members and Guest(s), as it serves
as a recruitment tool for new members. We want
to continue to offer the best in programming and
thank you for your cooperation.
www.meetup.com/Dallas-Goethe-Center/
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Upcoming Events
Christoph Krummacher
Reception, Monday, February 11 at 9:00 pm
Dr. Christoph Krummacher, born in 1949 in Berlin, is an Evangelical theologian and church
musician. Krummacher, is the son of Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher.
He studied theology and church music in Dresden and Leipzig and received his Doctorate of
Theology from the University of Rostock. Already as the cathedral organist in Brandenburg
(Havel) and as university organist at the University of Rostock, Krummacher was considered to
be one of the most important organists of the DDR. Numerous international concert journeys led
him across Europe.
Since 1992, Dr. Krummacher has been Professor of Church Music and Director of the
Kirchenmusikalisches Institut (Church Music Institute) of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater,
an institution rich in tradition and founded on the initiative of Felix Mendelssohn. From 1997
until 2003, he served as Rector of the Hochschule, and at various times as University Organist at
the University of Leipzig.
Dr. Krummacher has made numerous recordings and CD’s of organ music and has been a member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and
President of the Sächsisches Musikrat (Saxon
State Music Committee). He studied theology at
the University of Rostock and pursued private
study with Ewald Kooiman, Piet Kee, and
Daniel Roth among others. He is an active organ
recitalist throughout Europe and the Far East,
with residencies and master classes in Germany
and beyond. He is the author and editor of several
monographs and many articles on the organ, its
performance practice, as well as the history and
theology of church music. Most notably, he has
recently served as co-editor of the monumental
four-volume Geschichte der Kirchenmusik
(History of Church Music, Laaber 2011 ff.)
As a theologian and musician, his scholarly
interests lie particularly with points of historical
intersection between theology and music.
During the week of February 11, 2013, Professor
Krummacher will serve a week-long residency
at Southern Methodist University as a guest of the Perkins School of Theology’s Master of Sacred Music program. The residency is an
important step in a developing collaborative relationship between the MSM program and the Leipzig Church Music Institute.
Lectures and classes are free and open to the public. Please RSVP to [email protected] for the class sessions on Tuesday and Thursday
afternoon. Prof. Krummacher will speak in German, with running translations by Prof. Anderson. SMU would greatly appreciate participation
by the DGC, the German community of Greater DFW and, of course, all music lovers.
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GERMAN
EATERY REVIEW
The Bavarian Bakery
and Café
by Simone de Santiago Ramos
Tucked away in a small strip
shopping mall between Fort
Worth and Arlington in Forest
Hill on I-20 one can find the
Bavarian Bakery and Café,
3000 S.E. Loop 820, Fort
Worth, TX, 817-551-1150. It
is run by Stephan and Melitta Bueschel who are originally from Bamberg, Franken. The
business hours are Monday to Saturday from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. Lunch is served from
10:30 am to 4:00 pm. Dinner is served only on Fridays and Saturdays from 5:30 pm to
9:00 pm.
Anne Frank:
A Private Photo Album
Dallas Holocaust Museum Center,
February 23, 3:30 p.m.
More than 70 rare and intimate
photographs from Otto Frank’s private
family photo album – including many
images of Anne Frank – are included in
a special exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust
Museum/Center for Education and
Tolerance, opening December 1, 2012.
A special viewing for members of the
Dallas Goethe Center will be held on
Saturday, February 23 at 3:30 p.m. The
details are, as follows:
The bakery offers simple wholesome pastries,
cookies, coffee cakes and homemade Stollen
during the holiday season. If you are looking for a
traditional American wedding cake, look no further,
the Bavarian Bakery has you covered; several
are on display in the bakery. The lunch menu
recommends several traditional German dishes:
the Bratwurst plate, Schnitzel, or a variety of
sandwiches. Strammer Max, Goulash, and of course
the Jägerschnitzel, were sampled. All portions were
ample and came with authentic side dishes. The
Leberkaes was a thick slice, moist and warm inside,
topped with the traditional Spiegelei. The Goulash
was served with Spaetzle and well flavored. The
Jägerschnitzel held the breading but the meat was
a little tough. All three dishes were served with inhouse baked dinner rolls, which unfortunately were
not fresh. The dinner menu offers a larger variety of German dishes, including Sauerbraten, Rindsrouladen and Bayrischer Wurstteller.
Although a child’s menu is available, no vegetarian dishes are offered.
— Welcome and introduction by Dr.
Sara Abosch, or Dr. Charlotte
Decoster
— 30 minute documentary film narrated
by Jeremy Irons and produced
by the Anne Frank House. It
contains the only video footage of
Anne Frank. This video is highly
recommended, because it gives a
brief but detailed description of the
Holocaust in the Netherlands and
the life of the Frank family.
— 15 minute discussion/lecture on the
Anne Frank exhibit by Dr. Abosch
or Dr. Decoster
— Visit of the Anne Frank: A Private
Photo Album exhibit and/or the
permanent exhibit at the DHM/
CET with audio guide.
AFS/AFF, Amsterdam/Basel
Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album was
developed by the Anne Frank House and is
sponsored in North America by the Anne
Frank Center USA.
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The Bavarian Bakery has two dining rooms; the first one is attached to the store and bakery
front, while the second one is in a separate area. Once you enter you get the authentic
Bavarian “Stube” feeling. Wall paintings and the largest handcrafted cuckoo clock
imported from St. Georgen can be found in the Bavarian Bakery. Punctual on the hour
the cuckoo shows his face and the clock plays a little melody. Missing unfortunately from
the bakery’s menu are German pastries and baked goods like Apfelstrudel or Bretzeln.
Although the website (www.bavarianbakeryandcafe.com) has a section with nice pictures
of Brötchen, Bretzeln, and assorted breads, none were displayed. The sweets offered were
also hit or miss. While the coffeecakes were seriously yummy, the Danishes were stale
and at least a day or two old. Although the restaurant was not busy during lunch, the
server was overwhelmed by the few orders; they were served slow and without service.
Soft drinks are self-serve, but most flavor choices were “currently empty”. Furthermore
the server was dressed in jogging shoes and pants, not what one would expect in a German
restaurant. Yet the place was clean and can be recommended.
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Continuing Series: DGC Board Members Presented
Meet our DGC Board Member
Lothar Heller
Meet our DGC Program Committee Co-Chair,
Christian S. Kelso, Esq.
Christian S. Kelso, Esq. is the
Dallas Goethe Center’s Program
Committee Co-Chair and also
a member of the Board of
Directors. A Native Dallasite,
Christian is a member of the
St. Mark’s School of Texas
Twelve Year Club. Indeed it
was during his time at St. Mark’s
that Christian developed an
interest for German language
and culture.
Born in former East Germany
(GDR), I grew up in Schleswig
Holstein (BRD), West Germany.
After school I made a few
apprenticeships before being
drafted into the German Air
Force:
• Electrician
• Radio and TV Technician
• Assistant in Retail Business
• Technical School
My military training was in the fields of radar mechanic/technician
and occupational/environmental safety. I also was a trainer for
soccer and gymnastics.
In the summer after his 9th grade
year, with only 2 years of German study behind him, Christian
participated in an informal exchange with a German family in the
Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech, about 45 minutes west of
Munich. Christian enjoyed the experience so much he returned
almost every year for the next ten years and continues to keep
in touch with his host family today. In fact, his German guest
brother was a member of Christian’s wedding party in 2011.
Hobbies:
• German teacher last 9 years
• Ham radio operator
• Member and active volunteer with the
Pantego Lions Club
• Member of Pantego Community Relations Board
• Board member at large of the Dallas Goethe Center
• Member of the Arlington Gruppe
(German Conversation)
I enjoy traveling with my wife. Our most recent adventures
include driving a camper through southern Europe, taking an
eco-tour through Costa Rica, and of course our regular visits to
Germany to reconnect with friends and family (my daughter and
three grandsons). In between our travels, I stay busy with daily
walks with our 2 dogs, Sandy and Cleo.
Christian credits his time in Bavaria for his in-depth understanding
of Oberbayrisch, love of both Weißwurst as well as Leberkäse
(preferably “mit Ochsenaugen”), devotion to crazy king Ludwig
II and taste for German hardrock and punk bands such as Die
Toten Hosen and Die Ärtzte.
A devout believer in the Rheinheitsgebot of 1516, Christian took
up homebrewing shortly after college because, as he says, “You
just can’t get the good stuff here Stateside, so I have to make
it myself.” Under the Rheinheitsgebot, or German purity law,
brewers may only use water, hops, malted barley and yeast in
their recipes. This tradition is largely lost in modern, mainstream,
American brewing culture which frequently uses rice, corn and
other, so-called ‘adjunct’ ingredients.
Christian received his Bachelor of Arts in Germanic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Included in his credentials is a year spent
studying toward that degree at the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, in Salzburg Austria.
After college, Christian attended law school at Southern Methodist University, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (general law degree) and
Master of Laws (graduate law degree) in taxation. Christian has been a member of the State Bar of Texas since 2008 and practices tax and
estate planning as well as corporate transactional work. Christian has a number of clients who are either German themselves, or who do
business in Germany or with German companies.
Christian lives with his wife, Bethany, and son, Preston in Dallas. All three are regular attendees of Dallas Goethe Center events.
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DR. EIDT’S LYRIKECKE
Dr. Eidt’s Lyrikecke is a monthly feature of the Dallas Goethe Center newsletter that seeks to focus on the world of German Lyric poetry and
on the German language in general. A new German language poem will be highlighted and discussed each month. Reader requests, question,
and comments are encouraged at [email protected]. Dr. Jacob-Ivan Eidt is a professor of German Literature at the University of Dallas and
director of the Dallas Goethe Center Film Series.
Kleine Aster
Little Aster
Ein ersoffener Bierfahrer wurde auf den Tisch gestemmt.
Irgendeiner hatte ihm eine dunkelhelllila Aster
zwischen die Zähne geklemmt
A drowned beer truck driver was heaved onto the table.
Someone had wedged a dark lilac aster
between his teeth.
Als ich von der Brust aus
unter der Haut
mit einem langen Messer
Zunge und Gaumen herausschnitt,
muss ich sie angestoßen haben, denn sie glitt
in das nebenliegende Gehirn.
Ich packte sie ihm in die Brusthöhle
zwischen die Holzwolle,
als man zunähte.
Trinke dich satt in deiner Vase!
Ruhe sanft,
kleine Aster!
Starting from the chest,
under the skin,
with a long knife,
as I was cutting out the tongue and gums,
I must have bumped it, because it slid
into the nearby brain.
I packed it into the chest cavity
amongst the sawdust,
as he was sewn shut.
Drink your fill in your vase!
Rest peacefully,
Little aster
Gottfried Benn ca. 1951; sketch by Tobias Falberg.
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Like Schiller, Büchner, and Schnitzler, Gottfried Benn (18861956) was by profession and training a medical doctor. However,
unlike his predecessors, Benn incorporated his medical perspective
into his poetry in a most unconventional way. “Little Aster” was
published as part of a cycle in 1912 under the title Morgue and
Other Poems. They reflect Benn’s experience working as an
assistant pathologist in Berlin’s Westend-Klinik in Charlottenburg.
The publication of the cycle caused a scandal in no small part
due to its shocking themes, often gruesome contexts, and its
disturbingly modern style. Benn performed some 197 autopsies
in Berlin, which no doubt not only helped perfect his talent for
objectively precise and vivid descriptions, but also provided a
distinctly grim modernist context from which to view the human
condition. Benn’s early work is associated with the Expressionist
movement and he was often noted for his cynicism and nihilistic
tendencies in his aesthetic outlook. His work spans the last
years of Wilhelminian Germany, the First World War, the social
instability of the Weimar Republic, the rise of National Socialism,
the Second World War, reconstruction, and finally the early years
of the Federal Republic and the economic miracle of the 1950s.
In his work one can see the influence of his turbulent times, from
Nietzsche and decadence to disillusionment and aesthetic escape.
Despite Benn’s seemingly macabre and almost sadistic treatment
of themes he is recognized as one of the most important German
lyric poets of the 20th century alongside Rilke, Brecht, and Celan.
“Little Aster” is typical of Benn’s pre-war poems and demonstrative
February 2013 of his focus on the aesthetics of the ugly. Clearly the perspective
of the poem comes from the dissecting eye of the pathologist.
The human subject of the autopsy is treated with cold indifference
and objectified almost irreverently. Concerning the deceased we
know only that he drove a beer truck and that he has drowned.
His profession is stated as if to affirm that he is no one of any
importance. What could be more mundane that a truck driver?
A beer truck driver? We also know that the dead driver was
corpulent given the way in which he is heaved onto the coroner’s
table like a sack of potatoes. To add insult to injury, someone has
stuck a little aster flower between his teeth. Our pathologist offers
no comments as to why. Was it a joke? Did one of the orderlies do
this out of boredom, malice, or sick humor? A pale, fat, drowned
German beer truck driver with a lovely little lilac flower between
his teeth, made to mimic an erotic gesture? – a grotesque image
and in itself an irreverent juxtaposition of stylized beauty and
unapologetic ugliness. But our pathologist takes no notice of the
joke. He goes about his work with cold and impassive precision.
Benn describes the gruesome task with careful sophistication and
simplicity of style. Once the procedure is complete our detached
doctor suddenly slips out from behind his impassionate mask to
wax eloquently upon the sight of the little flower. One is almost
tempted to think of Goethe’s famous flower poem “Gefunden”
(Found) or of the romantic quest for the blue flower of the century
past.
The doctor ignores the dead man, who has ceased to be a human
being at all for him. It is the aster that holds his attention. It is a
beautiful thing and therefore overshadows the ugliness of reality.
It first slides into the brain, once the seat of reason and thought.
Wishing to somehow preserve it, the doctor oddly places it into
the chest cavity where the heart once beat. He closes up the
cadaver after filling it up with sawdust and sees the dead man
not as a man at all, but as the final resting place of this beautiful
thing made beautiful by his subjective gaze. The ugly grotesque
beer truck driver is now a vase, his remaining fluids are given
up to nourish the beauty of the aster, the coarse material body as
tomb of the beautiful. Instead of laying flowers at the grave of
the dead we witness the reverse. The doctor offers not the man
but the flower a final benediction. His tenderness, thoughtfulness,
reverence, and humanity are reserved for the aesthetic experience
and not for the ugly transient material lying dissected on his table.
The object is made alive, whole, and beautiful, the individual
dead, fragmented, and ugly. Here Benn’s aestheticized nihilism
shines forth like the little purple flower. In a very Nietzschian
vein we understand that the only meaning in life can be aesthetic
meaning. Not even traditional moral meaning holds sway in the
coming age. This was to be a fateful outlook that would haunt a
whole generation. Benn supported the Nazis in the early years of
the regime only to find his brand of expressionistic poetry labeled
degenerate and his own cynicism about life’s possible meaning
grow like a little flower encased in a hollow carcass. J.I.E.
Event Report
New Year’s Eve with the Dallas
Symphony Orchestra
With Vienna’s seven decades tradition of
celebrating New Year’s with concerts, guest
conductor, Ward Stare helped to ring in the New
Year at the DSO. The wonderful evening of music
included An Overture to Der Zigeunerbaron, Op.
314, An der schoenen blauen Donau and Polka
Op. 332 by Johann Strauss II, along with Johannes
Brahms’ Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, and 10, Pablo
de Saraste’s Zigeunerweisen and Franz Lehar’s
Overture to Die Lustige Witwe.
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Event Reports
Dallas Goethe Center German Language School
Holiday Party
On Saturday morning, Dec. 15, DGCGLS held their annual
Holiday Party at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Dallas.
The room had been decorated beautifully. Thanks to Lothar Heller
for faithfully bringing a Christmas tree, for his many ideas and for
finalizing the order of events!
The teachers and students had prepared a wonderful program with
German Christmas songs, poems, and small plays. Even Nikolaus
(the German Santa), in cooperation with the “Christkind” made
a highly anticipated appearance and, thankfully, had goodie bags
for all children in attendance. More than 100 people enjoyed the
morning. Everyone was treated to holiday delicacies afterwards.
A heartfelt ovation went to Gisela de Marco, who has been
director of the Language School since its inception more than 22
years ago. Without her tireless leadership and the ensuing growth
of the school, this event would not have been possible.
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Wednesday Afternoon Organ Recital
On January 9 we had the pleasure of listening to wonderful music
kick off the New Year 2013 with Benjamin Kolodziej playing:
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 by J.S. Bach
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist,
das alte Jahr vergangen ist,
wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ,
dass du uns in so grosser G’fahr
so gnädiglich behüt dies Jahr,
so gnädiglich behüt dies Jahr,
“Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern”, known by German
The old year now hath passed away,
Lutherans as the “Queen of Chorales”, followed. Benjamin
The old year now hath passed away,
Kolodziej recounted some history, theology, and musical practices
We thank Thee, O our God today
behind this hymn. He also played a set of fascinating variations for
That Thou hast kept us through the year,
harpsichord by Domenico Zipoli, a Jesuit composer. The concert
When danger and distress were near,
concluded with two pieces, based on flowers, by American
When danger and distress were near,
composer Dan Gawthrop.
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Other organizations’ Events
Die Deutsche Gruppe Dallas
Die Deutsche Gruppe Dallas offers Spielplatztreffen in and around
Plano, a men’s and women’s Stammtisch, Campingwochenende,
as well as special celebrations for children and families. For
further information, contact Brigitte Weisser at brigitte-weisser@
verizon.net or go to the web site:
www.brigitte-weisser.com/germangroup/index.html.
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Die Gruppe in Arlington
Die Gruppe Arlington meets monthly for German conversation
and socializing at a member’s home. Visitors seeking further
information can contact Lothar Heller at heller.leach@sbcglobal.
net or 817.501.6485.
Karneval am Rhein in Dallas
The German American Club invites you to the Karneval am
Rhein on Fasching Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 7:00 p.m.
to midnight at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 10110 Shoreview,
Dallas (near Northwest Highway and Ferndale). Enjoy a buffet
dinner, cash bar and music by the Alpenmusikanten. Advance
purchase ticket prices are $10 for members, $25 non-members or
$30 at the door.
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Die Gruppe in Dallas
Die Gruppe normally meets for German conversation on the second
Wednesday of each month at 7:45 p.m. usually in a member’s
home. Unless the meeting is held at a restaurant, participants
typically bring food or drink to share. For information contact
Joysanna Rutledge at [email protected] or 214.912.6219.
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From AATG: Mavs Night with Dirk Nowitzki
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On Saturday, January 12th over 800 German students from
around the area met at the American Airlines Center in Dallas to
watch the Mavericks and to chat with Dirk Nowitzki after the
game. This is a wonderful opportunity for our German students
to hear and use the language. It is also a great advertising tool for
German programs in the region. Please take advantage of these
opportunities and make our presence visible in North Texas!
German Language Group of Allen and Plano
The Group meets for German conversation on the fourth
Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Bavarian Grill, 221
West Parker Road, Plano, TX 75023. For further information
contact Michael Korrie at [email protected]. Please sign up at
www.meetup.com/German-language-group-of-Allen-and-Plano.
From AATG: Honoring Local German Educators
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Französisch-deutsch-österreichische Koproduktion
„Liebe“ auf Oscar-Kurs
We all know how much work it is to sustain a healthy German
program. Good press is helpful not only to our individual
programs, but to programs in local districts, around the state and
around the country as well. Please consider nominating your
colleagues for honors such as those found on the following sites:
• TFLA German Teacher of the Year at
www.tfla.info/scholarships-awards/
• Intercultural Student Experiences (ISE) Language
Matters Award at www.aatg.org/ise
• German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award at
www.aatg.org/embassy-award
• Goethe-Institut/AATG Certificate of Merit at
www.aatg.org/gi-com
• AATG Outstanding German Educator Award at
www.aatg.org/oge
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Die Anwärter auf den
wichtigsten Filmpreis der
Welt für 2013 stehen fest: Das
deutschsprachige Altersdrama
„Liebe“ des Filmemachers
Michael Haneke ist in gleich
fünf Kategorien nominiert, unter
anderem für den besten Film. Das Historien-Drama „Lincoln“
von Steven Spielberg geht mit gleich 12 Nominierungen ins
Rennen um die goldene Trophäe. Verliehen werden die Academy
Awards am 24. Februar in Los Angeles.
February 2013 Berliner Buchstaben Museum
Das Buchstabenmuseum hat seinen Sitz in einem Einkaufszentrum
beim Berliner Alexanderplatz - zwischen Discountern und
Läden mit ostalgischem Krimskrams. „Ja, es ist ein kurioser
Ort“, meint Museumsleiterin Barbara Dechant lachend. Als
Dechant der Platz für ihre wachsende Privat-Sammlung alter
Schilder ausging, gründeten sie zusammen mit Anja Schulze vor
sieben Jahren das Buchstabenmuseum. Als Designerin wusste
Dechant die Geschichte jeder einzelnen Letter zu schätzen.
Aus den unterschiedlichen Formen und Ausgestaltungen zog
sie ihre Inspiration und wenn ein Geschäft dicht machte, hatte
sie diesen Impuls, die Schilder zu retten und deren Geschichte
aufzubewahren.
Anfangs waren es hauptsächlich Grafikkünstler und -designer
aus dem Ausland, die die Ausstellung besuchten, aber heute
kommen immer mehr Menschen aus Berlin, berichtet Dechant.
Es seien auch schon einige Schildermacher gekommen, um ihre
früheren Werke zu sehen, etwa „Zierfische”, eines der wohl am
besten dokumentierten Stücke der Sammlung. Hinter den blauen
Schreibschriftbuchstaben schwimmt ein niedlicher gelber Fisch
mit Luftblasen. Das Schild wurde bei der Geschäftsaufgabe einer
Tierhandlung in Berlin-Friedrichshain gerettet. Dechant und
Schulze machten den Originalentwurf ausfindig und interviewten
den Schildermacher, der ihnen Geschichten darüber erzählte, wie
er in der damaligen DDR die Teile und das Metall für sein Schild
zusammengesucht hatte.
Früher sahen Schilder meist individueller, einzigartiger aus.
Dechant erzählt aus ihrer Jugend in den 1970er Jahren, als
Geschäftsleute, Friseure oder Lebensmittelhändler, ihre eigenen
Schilder entwarfen. „Heute haben die Geschäfte in den Städten
alle die gleichen Schriftzüge und Schriftarten. Es gibt keine
kulturspezifischen Schriftzüge mehr, die einem helfen könnten,
einen Ort vom anderen zu unterscheiden“, weiß Dechant.
Jeden Tag erreichen neue Schilder das Museum, manche
vorsichtig in Seidenpapier gewickelt, andere, schon seit Jahren
abgeschrieben, voller Staub und Spinnweben. Dechant und
Schulze freuen sich über jeden Buchstaben. Das einzige Problem,
das sie im Moment haben: Der Platz wird knapp.
www.buchstabenmuseum.de
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February 2013 Dallas Goethe Center Newsletter, No. 48/9
ZU GUTER LETZT
200th Anniversary of the Publication
of “Grimm’s Fairy Tale”
The Golden Goose (© dpa/picture alliance)
They were linguists and authors, legal scholars and librarians,
university professors and occasionally politicians – and they
are counted among the founders of German philology. But
multifaceted brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are worldfamous today above all for their collection of Children’s and
Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen). Two hundred years
ago, on December 20, 1812, the collection was published for the
first time. Today, the collection of fairy tales, more commonly
titled Grimm’s Fairy Tales in English, is one of the best-known
works of German literature.
Wunderhorn, a typical Romantic work, revered ordinary people’s
stories as a primitive form of poetry.
Jacob, born in 1785, and Wilhelm, born in 1786, were the oldest
of six children of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, a lawyer in the Hessian
town of Hanau. The elder Grimm died in 1796. Until her death in
1808, their mother, Dorothea had to raise the family without a
breadwinner. She found support in her older sister, a lady of the
court in Kassel, who not only ensured the livelihood of the family,
but also took on the educational costs of her nephews, who both
went on to study in the university town of Marburg after finishing
their schooling in Kassel.
As a result, the brothers published a veritable treasure trove of
works: the fairy tale collection, articles and books on minstrelsy,
ballads, and legends. In this period, Jacob was also working on
the later famous German Grammar, a comprehensive work that
captured all the Germanic languages, their inner workings and
their historical development. To earn their living, the brothers took
up a spate of varying employments, including work as librarians.
At the time, the brothers laid the groundwork for their future
careers as linguists and story collectors. They got to know the
Romantics Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim, discovered
their interest in folk poetry and began to collect stories. The
legendary Grimm collection already had a precursor in von
Arnim’s collection of folk songs, published in 1805: Des Knaben
The 50 contributors to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s were, however,
by no means ordinary. Most of the “storytellers” came from the
educated classes, such as Dorothea Viehmann, originating from
a Huguenot family; the poet Annete von Droste-Hülshoff; and
the pharmacist’s daughter Dorothea Wild, who married Wilhelm
in 1825. The brothers meticulously edited the texts for style and
adapted them to their ideal of popular poetry.
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The brothers were inseparable throughout their lives. For years,
they shared their home with their sister Charlotte, who ran the
home until her marriage in 1822. Even after Wilhelm had married
and had children together with Dorothea, Jacob continued to
cohabitate with his brother and sister-in-law. In 1829, Jacob and
Wilhelm together finally received an offer from the University
of Göttingen, where they worked until 1837. The brothers were
dismissed from civil service for participating in a protest with
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a group of professors against actions of the new
King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover. They then
returned to Kassel and began work on their
German Dictionary.
Not until 1840 did the brothers receive a steady
job again, when the new Prussian King Friedrich
Wilhelm IV called them to the Academy of
Sciences in Berlin. From then on, the Grimms
were a teaching fixture at the University of
Berlin. Politically, the brothers were still active in
working toward a liberal German nation state. In
1848, Jacob became a member of the Frankfurt
National Assembly. Their steady jobs in Berlin
also allowed the brothers to make further progress
on their German Dictionary. The brothers had
estimated that they could finish the magnum
opus in ten years, but they were a bit off. In their
lifetimes, the industrious Grimms only managed
to complete the entries from “A” to “fruit fly.”
Wilhelm Grimm died in 1859, his older brother
Jacob in 1863. The inseparable brothers are
together even in death; they are buried side-byside in the Alter St.-Matthäus Kirchhof cemetery
in Berlin. In 1961, 123 years after the start of their
work and some 100 years after the death of the
brothers, the final volume of their dictionary was
published.
Hansel and Gretel (© picture alliance / akg-images)
The Brothers Grimm Museum in Kassel (© picture-alliance / Uwe Zucchi)
WANTED: HOST FAMILY FOR GERMAN STUDENT
Timo Hertneck, 16, lives in Augsburg, Bavaria with his parents and his younger sister, Senta. Timo is very friendly and has a wide
range of interests. His mother, Britta, is friends with our own Sabine Dunn of the Dallas Goethe Center German Language School.
Ideally, Timo would spend the Fall 2013 semester at a school in Dallas and live with a host family in order to improve his English.
Timo’s parents would pay for his expenses. Alternatively, they would take in a child from the US host family at the same time. The
ideal family would have a child in the age range of 14 – 16, but this is not critical.
If you are interested in expanding the horizons of a fine young German gentleman by helping him to better his English, please contact
his mother, Britta Hertneck at [email protected]. This would also be a special opportunity to make a student exchange and have
your child’s German solidified, as well.
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Newsletter articles and photographs this month were made
possible by a whole host of contributors including: Dr. Jacob-Ivan
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and others. Your support is always appreciated!
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