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welcome
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 graduate 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, offering 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 classical 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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Klaus Brodersen
Dr. Bertram von Moltke
Director, Goethe-Institut Washington
Head, Cultural Department, German Embassy
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Goethe-Institut Events
Films
Cracks in the Shell © Bavaria Film International
Film|Neu: New Films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland 4 – 9 A Deeper Look
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Best of INPUT 2011
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PhotoFilm!
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Christoph Schlingensief16
Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke
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Environmental Film Festival 18
Exhibitions
gute aussichten: young german photography
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On the Lakeshore…and Other Stories
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Discussions
Milena © Iris Janke
Hear Now Listening Events
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Language
Zeitgeist DC: Contemporary Voices
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Deutsch am Mittag
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Time Shadows: Music
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International Conversation Club
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German Games Evening
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American Goethe Society 26
Max Raabe and Palast Orchester
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German Embassy Events
Music28-33
Exhibitions28
Films
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Special Events32
Language Classes
Munich’s Lord Mayor Christian Ude dancing
in the streets during Fasching (Mardi Gras)
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Table of Contents
If Not Us, Who © Goethe-Institut
Goethe-Institut
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German Embassy 28 – 33
Events at a Glance 22 – 23
Friends of the Goethe-Institut
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Electronic Newsletter
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Addresses41
About Us
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Cover: Photo: Sara-Lena Maierhofer, Dear Clark, www.guteaussichten.org
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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 descriptions yields, side by side, movies about relationships, experiments in narrative genre cinema, 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 spotlight with exciting new filmmaking voices.
And that, in the end, is what Film|Neu is all about: exploring the evolution of filmmaking, discovering new talent and enjoying a glimpse of these worlds from the comforts of the Landmark 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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Stopped on Track © Rommel Film, Foto Andreas Dresen
If Not Us, Who © Goethe-Institut
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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.
Friday, January 20, 7 and 9:30 pm
Westwind
Germany, 2011, color, 90 mins., German with English subtitles
Director: 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 impetuously accept a ride from West German teen
Arne (Franz Dinda) and his mates, the resulting attraction between Doreen and Arne
threatens the girls’ family bond and competitive 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 am
Sunday, January 22, 8 pm
Stopped on Track
(Halt auf freier Strecke)
Germany, 2011, color, 110 mins., German with subtitles
Director: Andreas Dresen Screenplay: Andreas Dresen, Cooky
Ziesche Cast: Milan Peschel, Steffi Kühnert, Talisa Lilli Lemke,
Mika Nilson Seidel, Ursula Werner
Saturday, January 21, 1:30 pm
Monday, January 23, 9 pm
If Not Us, Who (Wer wenn nicht wir)
Germany, 2011, color, 126 minutes,
German with English subtitles
Director/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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As the blunt but brave Stopped on Track
opens, middle-aged Frank Lange (Milan
Pescel), accompanied by wife Simone (Dresen
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).
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Cracks in the Shell © Bavaria Film International Bastard © Gifted Films
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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 subtitles
Director: Christian Schwochow Cast: Stine Fischer Christensen, 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 graduation film was November Child
(Novemberkind, 2007).
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Sunday, January 22, 5:30 pm
Bastard
German with English subtitles
Director/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.
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Sleeping Sickness © Goethe-Institut
As a viral video makes chillingly clear, a nineyear-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 confident 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 BadenWürttemberg Film Academy from 2001-2007
and attended The Hollywood Perspective
masterclass at UCLA. Bastard is his feature
debut.
Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit)
French, German and Dutch with English subtitles
Director/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) discovers 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).
Dreileben - Don’t Follow Me Around © Bavaria Film International Dreileben - One Minute of Darkness © Bavaria Film Intl.
Sunday, January 22, 11:30 am
Dreileben Part 2: Don’t Follow Me
Around
(Dreileben—Komm mir nicht nach)
Dreileben Part 1: Beats Being Dead
(Dreileben—Etwas besseres als den Tod)
German, English and Bosnian with English subtitles
Director/Screenplay: Christian Petzold Cast: Jacob
Matschenz, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Vijessna Ferkic, Rainer Bock
Though Dreileben is conceived as an experiment in linked narrative, each film can be
enjoyed independently of the others; nevertheless, as with Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy
of Blue, White and Red, their interlocking structures 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.
Director: 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 discovers 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 international film school in Cologne
Dreileben Part 3: One Minute of Darkness (Dreileben—Eine Minute Dunkel)
Director: Christoph Hochhäusler Screenplay: Christoph Hochhäusler, 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 genrespecific 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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Joschka & Mr. Fischer © Filmladen Filmverleih
Black Brown White © Alllegro Film - Petro Domenigg
Frank Molesch (Stefan Kurt) and the circumstances 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 subtitles
Director/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 remembrances 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 documentary and fiction filmmaking includes Home
Game (2000), Hell on Wheels (2004), C(r)ook
(2004) and To the Limit (2007).
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Tuesday, January 24, 7 and 9:15 pm
Black Brown White
Austria, 2011, color, 106 mins.,
German, English, Spanish and French with English subtitles
Director: 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 satisfying slice of contemporary social realism.
Erwin Wagenhofer’s feature-length documentaries 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 Alps
Switzerland, 2010, color, 110 mins.,
Swiss-German with English subtitles
Director: 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
Sennentuntschi © Pascal Walder
Men in the City II © Wiedemann & Berg Film GmbH & Co. KG 2011
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).
I nternational P remiere
Thursday, January 26, 7 and 9:30 pm
Men in the City II (Männerherzen… und
die ganz ganz große Liebe)
Director/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 interconnecting 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.
Co-presented by the
Goethe-Institut in Washington, the Austrian
Embassy and the Embassy of Switzerland
With support from german films
Tickets
Tickets
$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
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Men in the City
@Wiedemann & Berg Film GmbH & Co. KG
Grounding @ C-FILMS AG
Black Box Germany © Goethe-Institut
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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
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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 Sennentunschi is part of the Film|Neu festival (see page 8).
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 opposing 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
Moloch Tropicaal courtesy Velvet Film
T elevision
Either Broder courtesy Preview
Production
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 broadcasters 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 submissions 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
La Maison Française, 4101 Reservoir Road NW
Moloch Tropical
France, 106 min., drama, director: Raoul Peck
Reservations: www.la-maison-francaise.org
Silverdocs/American Film Institute,
8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD
Low Cost (Claude Jutra)
Switzerland, 60’, fiction, director: Lionel Baier
Wednesday, February 1, 6:30 pm
Goethe-Institut
Home Key (Chave da Casa)
Brazil, 60 min., documentary,
directors: Paschoal Samora, Stela Grisotti
Presented by the Embassy of Brazil
Program t.b.a.
Thursday, February 2, 7 pm
Tuesday, January 31, 6:30 pm
Goethe-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
The Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital,
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
The Most Dangerous Man in America:
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon
Papers
USA, 81’, documentary,
directors: Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith
Thursday, February 2, 8 pm
WHUT Broadcast Event
Nora
USA, 35’, dance documentary,
directors: Alla Kovgan & David Hinton
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
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La Jetée, Courtesy of New Yorker Films
F ilm S eries
February 25 – March 12, 2012
various venues
PhotoFilm!
“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.
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 pm
National Gallery of Art
1 – How Much Movement Does an
Image Need?
The appearance of a still photograph in a cinematographic context arouses an element of
surprise for the viewer. This program presents 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
fishing village under the dictatorship of Salazar in
1964. Mau and Fichte are aware of the shortcomings 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.
The film reveals the everyday life in a Portuguese
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Le Sphinx (Courtesy of Thierry Knauff)
Ulysse (Courtesy of Agnès Varda)
Sunday, February 26, 4:30 pm
2 – Recall and Memory
“That-has-been,” wrote Roland Barthes: photography stands for something that has happened. Film, in contrast, always unfolds in
the here and now. Both can be seen as a container for memory. This program investigates these functions in the context of personal 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)
Die Anprobe (1938)
(Courtesy of Franz Winzentsen)
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 commissioned 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, Ariella 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.
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
Goethe-Institut
3 – The Dancing Photo on Film
In its essence, photography is static and silent. It subtracts sound and movement from
everything it captures. But in photofilms, the
editing process adds sound, music and language to the photographs; the static images
begin to move, even to dance. This program
reveals how illusions of movement are created: 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.
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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.
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Salut les Cubains (Courtesy of Agnès Varda)
Very Nice, Very Nice
(Courtesy of National Film Board of Canada)
At One View
Omokage (Courtesy of Maki Satake)
De Tuin (The Garden)
Netherlands, 2005, 16mm, 7 min,
Director and Cast: Paul de Nooijer and Menno de Nooijer
Netherlands, 1999, Beta Sp, 11 min,
Director: Dan Geesin and Esther Rots
Two men are sitting on chairs facing the camera.
Photographic portraits of them alternate on their
faces like masks, in a state of permanent transformation, with the photo as an object being crumpled
up and unfolded again.
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.
Salut les Cubains (Hi There, Cubans)
France, 1963, 35mm, 30 min, Director and Photography:
Agnès Varda Narrator: Michel Piccoli
Sunday, March 4, 4:30 pm
Varda assembled 3,000 photos she took during a
trip to Cuba into an extremely joyous travel tale.
“An educational documentary made like a divertimento.”
4 – The Filmic Photographic
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 counterpoints 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 photograph 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.
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This program focuses on the image, the process of finding and conceiving it, the act of
shooting, and then describing it. Film requires 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 compositions 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.
Die Gefühle der Augen
(Courtesy of Silke Grossmann)
Rien ne va plus
(Courtesy of Gusztáv Hámos)
(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 direction of advertising.
Monday, March 5, 6:30 pm
Colloque de Chiens (Courtesy of Raul Ruiz)
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 Mary
Germany, 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).
Goethe-Institut
5 – Photo Novel
The narrative photo films (compiled here)
are time crystals in which different worlds
appear next to or even mirrored in one another. A multilayered dialogue develops between the spoken word and the image. This
program is dedicated to photo films that experiment with narrative forms.
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, simultaneously arousing a sense of fate and eternal
recurrence.
(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 See
6 – The Plasticity of the Moment
And nowadays we often record a multitude
of photos in a single moment. This permits us
to observe the moment from different perspectives. This film program brings together
films that appraise the surface of the photographic image, circling the moment and even
entering it. (92 minutes)
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Netherlands, 1991, 16mm, 3 min,
Directors: Paul de Nooijer and Menno de Nooijer
Goethe-Institut
A photographer loads the camera and closes it.
2012
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Netherlands, 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, buildings, rooms and corridors, past situations that
co-exist in this one moment.
F ilm S eries
Until January 9, 2012
Goethe-Institut
Homage to
Christoph
Schlingensief
As a film, theater, and
opera director, Christoph Schlingensief
(1960-2010) was among
the most renowned and
creative perso-nalities on the German cultural
scene. His radical works provocatively challenged politics and society, and created a permanent state of in- security by blurring borders 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
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 Sand
Great 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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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 hospital 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 featurelength film evoked controversial reactions and
protests. The director himself considered it his
best film.
Tickets see page 39.
Christoph Schlingensief © Filmgalerie 451
Transformation by Holding Time – Artist
and his Muse
The System © Kulbach-Frisbeefilms Dorte Franke © Goethe-Institut
Last to Know © Goethe-Institut
Marc Bauder © Goethe-Institut
F ilm S eries
March 26 – April 16, 2012
Goethe-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 ramifications 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 feature film in this series highlight the lasting legacy of this period in German history.
All films will be shown in German with English subtitles.
Last to Know
(Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem)
Germany, 2006, 72 min., DVD
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.
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.
Monday, April 16, 6:30 pm
Last to Know premiered in the Panorama
section of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, and
was nominated for the 2007 German Film
Critics Award.
Discussion follows with filmmakers
Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke.
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
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
Twenty-year-old Mike, an attractive and intelligent 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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Under Control © Credo Film
F ilm F estival
March 13-25, 2012
various venues
Environmental Film Festival
The Environmental Film Festival, now in its 20th year, offers fresh perspectives on environmental 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 diverse world around us with a variety of national and international films at various locations.
For more information: www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org or 202-342-2564.
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 perspective 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.
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Goethe-Institut
Taste the Waste
Germany, 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.
Johannes Post, Inform, www.guteaussichten.org
E x hibition
February 2 – April 29, 2012
Goethe-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 conceptual approaches, providing an insight into the multifaceted themes that form the focus of young
artists’ interests today.
More: www.guteaussichten.org
www.guteaussichten.org
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In Pursuit © Sara J. Winston
Snared © Kaitlin Jencso
Milena © Iris Janke
E x hibition
Until January 27, 2012
Goethe-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 photographs, the different approaches initiate conversation and reflection.
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R eading and D iscussion
Tuesday, February 14, 7:30 pm
Austrian Embassy, 3524 International Court NW
Contemporary Voices: Erwin Uhrmann, Inka Parei, Catalin Dorian Florescu
© Heike Angerer
© Henry Mex
© Catalin D. 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.
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
L ecture
Saturday, March 24, 10 am – 5:30 pm
Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum
Meistersinger Seminar | With lecturer Saul Lilienstein
A carefully focused study of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - for many opera lovers, the greatest 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, development of character and more.
Organized by the Wagner Society of Washington, DC
To purchase tickets and for further information: www.wagner-dc.org
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D iscussion
( in G erman )
Deutsch am Mittag
Sprechen 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 pm
Jeremiah Riemer, author of Unwilling
Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate
Deutschlands Rolle in Europas
Schuldenkrise
N eighborhood
P oetr y C ollaboration
Thursday, February 23, 6:30 pm
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, focusing in 2012 on the topic “Music”.
February 14, 12 – 1:15 pm
Brigitte Fessenden, former city planner,
City of Baltimore
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.
March 13, 12 – 1:15 pm
Ines Prodoehl, research fellow, German
Historical Institute
In cooperation with the Chinatown Community
Cultural Center, the Confucius Institute at
George Mason University, and the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Public Library.
Denkmalschutz - Konfliktfeld zwischen
Geschichte und moderner Architektur
In jedem Wohnzimmer ein Brockhaus?:
Enzyklopädien, Verleger und ihre
Geschichte
April 10, 12 – 1:15 pm
Uwe 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].
RSVP to [email protected]
G erman L anguage
Friday, February 17, time TBD
Alliance 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.
Sponsored by Friends of the Goethe-Institut
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L istening E vents
Hear Now: The Best Radio Documentaries from Prix Europa 2011
Tuesday, January 10, 6:30 - 8 pm
Presented by Bill Gilcher in cooperation with Prix Europa and Hear
Now!, a collective of radio and
audio producers.
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.
RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 166 or
[email protected]
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
RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 167 or
[email protected]
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
G ames N ights
Friday, February 17, 6 – 9 pm
Goethe-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.
Friday, March 23, 6 – 9 pm
Goethe-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.
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.
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Goethe
Society
Art Lecture
(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
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American
Music
Lecture
(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 symphonies 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
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.
www.americangoethesociety.org
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German photographer
Candida Höfer at home
© picture-alliance / dpa/
dpaweb
EXHIBITS
Until Sunday, February 26
Baltimore Museum of Art,
10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD
Poster showing the United States Capitol
© picture-alliance / Mary Evans Picture Library
the current 112th Congress (2011-2013). A
second exhibit will focus on GermanAmericans in the U.S. Congress in the 19th and
20th century.
Candida Höfer – Interior Worlds
For information: 202-467-5000 or
www.gahfusa.org
Thirteen works by the internationally
acclaimed contemporary German photographer Candida Höfer showing the George
Peabody Library and the Walters Art Museum
are presented in this exhibition.
MUSIC
www.artbma.org
Until Wednesday, February 26
German-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
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Thursday, January 26, 7:30 pm
The 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 extensively on the opera stage and in recital in
Europe and America.
Organized by Vocal Arts DC.
Tickets: $45
For tickets and information: 800-444-1324;
202-467-4600 or www.kennedy-center.org
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
Saturday, February 18, 8 pm
Thursday, March 1, 8 pm
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue,
600 I Street NW, Washington, DC
The Strathmore Music Center,
5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Julia Fischer, violin/ Milana
Chernyavska, piano
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester
German violinist Julia Fischer and Ukrainian
pianist Milana Chernyavska, who both hold
professorships for music at German universities, 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: $40
For tickets and information: 202-785-9727
or www.wpas.org
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 pm
George 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
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German singer Ute Lemper © picture-alliance / dpa
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
Thursday, March 8, 7 pm
Saturday, March 10, 8 pm
The Kennedy Center, Concert Hall,
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/
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.
Tickets: $50
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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-$85
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
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
chansons and the classical works they influenced.
Tickets: $60
Thursday, April 5, 7 pm
Friday, April 6, 1:30 pm
Saturday, April 7, 8 pm
The 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-$85
Sunday, April 15, 4 pm
The Kennedy Center, Concert Hall,
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-$75
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
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German Director Philipp Stölzl at the Premiere of
“Young Goethe in Love” in Berlin © picture-alliance / dpa
FILMS
Friday, January 27, Time TBD
Landmark’s E Street Cinema,
555 11th Street, Washington, DC
Young Goethe in Love (Goethe!)
Germany, 2010, 100 min., Director: Philipp Stölzl
Scene from the film “The Wave” (Die Welle)
by German Director Dennis Gansel
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
After 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: www.jccnvarts.org
www.landmarktheatres.com
Gertrude’s, Baltimore Museum of Art,
10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD
Sunday, March 25, Time TBD
Rave Fairfax Corner 14,
11900 Palace Way, Fairfax, VA
SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, January 13, 6-9 pm
Saturday, January 14, 6-9 pm
Krautfest 2012
The Wave (Die Welle)
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.
A high school teacher wants to prove to his
students that a dictatorship could be
Tickets: $35
For information: 410-889-3399
Germany, 2008, 107 min., Director: Dennis Gansel
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Munich’s Lord Mayor Christian Ude dancing in the
streets during Fasching (Mardi Gras)
Saturday, February 18, 7 pm - midnight
German conductor Jun Märkl © picture-alliance/ZB
Kena Ballroom, 9001 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax, VA
Kena Ballroom, 9001 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax, VA
2012 Faschingsball/Mardi Gras
Washington Sängerbund:
Spring Concert
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
For information: www.saengerbund.org
Thursday, April 26, 8 pm
The Music Center at Strathmore,
5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Friday, April 27, 8 pm
PREVIEW
Friday, April 20, 8 pm
Library 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
Joseph 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
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GERMAN HISTORIC AL INSTITUTE
PUBLIC EVENTS | JANUARY-MAY
Thursday, January 12
GHI Lecture Series
German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History
Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia:
Creating the Color Line and the National Line
Eric Weitz (University of Minnesota)
Thursday, January 26
Does the German Colonial Empire Strike Back?
The Afterlives of German Colonialism
The GHI is an independent
institute dedicated to the
promotion of historical
research in the United States
and the Federal Republic
of Germany and to the
dissemination of historical
knowledge.
We support and advise
American and German historians and political scientists
and encourage cooperation
between them.
We also reach out to the
general public.
Lecture and Panel Discussion
Lecture: 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 26
Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture
The Path to German Unity 1989-90
Gerhard 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 Germany
James Retallack (University of Toronto)
Thursday, May 3
Americanizing the Electoral Process?
Elections in the Federal Republic of Germany
Frank Bösch (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam)
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-387-3355
Fax: 202-387-6437
Email: [email protected]
www.ghi-dc.org
Thursday, May 31
American Campaign Mobilization in the Age of New Media
Kate 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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n Invitations to a regular Deutsch am Mittag
n Discounts at selected cultural events in the city
n Discounts at restaurants near the Goethe-Institut
Renate G Pawlik
n Exclusive members-only events and private tours of German-related exhibitions in Washington
Tracey Trautman
n Additional benefits for Inner Circle members
Visit and join Friends of Goethe at www.goethe.de/washington
or email [email protected] to request a membership application.
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