This event will take place at Cantor Film Center
38 East 8th Street (between Broadway and University Place)
Part of German-American friendship month for more info, please visit www.germanparadenyc.org

Meet our teachers, take a placement exam, register for classes and ask questions about our Language and Cultural Programs.

Directed by Michael Blume (German Filmmaker)
In German with English Subtitles

Rudolf Hoberg (Technische Universität Darmstadt/GfdS)
Co-sponsored by the Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache
In German

Nicolaus Schmidt (Artist, Berlin)
Breakdance performance by: TSA-Dancers (NYC)

On view from September 15 - October 11, 2009
Sponsored by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) More Information
Press Release

Michael Werz (GMF International Fellow/Georgetown University)

Lecture: “To be German is to Recycle: What it Means to Think and Talk about the Environment”
Judith Pajo (Pace University)
Seating is limited. RSVP required by Monday, September 21 to rsvp.deutsches.haus@nyu.edu

Workshop participants: Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zurich), Achim Geisenhanslüke (Regensburg University), Hans-Christian von Herrmann (University of Jena), Martin von Koppenfels (Bielefeld University), Inka Mülder-Bach (Ludwig-Maximilians-University/Munich), Avital Ronell (NYU), Slavoj Zizek (NYU/Ljubljana)
Sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Department at NYU Schedule

Free and open to the public. There will be no tickets.
“First come, first serve”. Doors open at 5:45pm.
Screening Location: Cantor Film Center
38 East 8th Street
Directed and produced by Angelo Colagrossi.
96 Minutes. IN GERMAN.

Sherko Fatah (Deutsches Haus Writer in Residence)

A strolling informal discussion by Rick Landman (son of Holocaust Survivors) on why he become a German citizen.

Meet at the Washington Square Park Arch.
RSVP: rsvp.deutsches.haus@nyu.edu
Read more at the Infotrue.com website.
Part of German-American Friendship Month
Co-sponsored by the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace

Stefan Börnchen (University of Luxembourg)
In collaboration with the NYU German Department
Location: 19 University Place Great Room

A. Wess Mitchell (Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington, DC)

Lecture: "Murder, Mystery and Egon Schiele's Dead City: The Fate of Fritz Grunbaum's Art Collection"
Raymond J. Dowd (Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP)
Seating is limited. RSVP required by Monday, October 5 to rsvp.deutsches.haus@nyu.edu

Presenting 7 emerging filmmakers based in New York City
Guest Curator: Anja Marquardt
Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening

Henry (Zvi) Lothane (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

The series organized by the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in collaboration with The Wende Museum commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Four documentaries from the series depict a world from the punk and glam rock music scene in East Germany in 1988 (Dieter Schumann’s whisper & SHOUT), to the Leipzig demonstrations of fall 1989 (Gerd Kroske and Andreas Voigt’s Leipzig in the Fall), to the ensuing dismantling of the Berlin Wall and a country’s way of life (Jürgen Böttcher’s The Wall, 1989/90, and Eduard Schreiber’s Eastern Landscape, 1991). NYU Press Release

East Germany, 1988, 120 min., color
Director: Dieter Schumann
In the WENDE FLICKS Film Series
©DEFA Film Library. All rights reserved.

Lecture with Vera Lutter Space is limited. RSVP required by Wednesday, October 14 to rsvp.deutsches.haus@nyu.edu

Joachim Radkau (Bielefeld University)
Co-sponsored by Deutsches Haus and the Max Weber Chair at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU

“One Germany – a re-united nation?”

A keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan
(Co-Founder of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance and former President of Viadrina University Frankfurt (Oder))

Introduction by and discussion with Frederick Kempe (President and CEO of the Atlantic Council)

Columbia University
Altschul Auditorium
420 W. 118th Street
Thursday, October 22, 7pm

Prof. Schwan’s keynote speech is the opening of a one day symposium, Friday, October 23, 2009 on “The Fall of the Wall: A Prism for looking at Germany’s recent past and future.” Program

The event is a partnership project between Columbia University and NYU.
With generous support from the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany

Symposium, “The Fall of the Wall: A Prism for looking at Germany’s recent past and future” continues. Program

The event is a partnership project between Columbia University and NYU.
With generous support from the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany

"On the Medium of Poetry"
Zachary Sng (Brown University)
Space is limited. RSVP required by Monday, October 19 to rsvp.deutsches.haus@nyu.edu

Eva Horstick-Schmitt (Artist, Germany)
On view from October 23 - November 20, 2009
Artist Website
Announcement

Inka Muelder-Bach (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich/DAAD Sponsored Visiting Scholar)
In German

Arno Böhler & Susanne Granzer (GRENZ-film)
Introduced by Fred Ulfers (NYU) Details

by Philip Scheffner 2007, 87 minutes, video.
In English and German with English subtitles.
Playing at Anthology Film Archives
Program Flyer

Presentation of the new Audio Book
"Jurek Becker -Vernarrtsein in Worte, Verliebtsein in Sprache" by Christine Becker.
Titel-magazin Review
In German and English

Johann Legner, Lausitzer Rundschau/ Schweriner Volkszeitung/ Brandenburger Nordkurier
Linda Teuteberg, Member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg (FDP)

Space is limited. RSVP required by Monday, November 2 to rsvp.deutsches.haus@nyu.edu
In cooperation with the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

©DEFA Film Library. All rights reserved.

Leipzig in the Fall – Leipzig im Herbst East Germany, 1989, 50 min., b/w
Directors: Gerd Kroske, Andreas Voigt

Followed by:

Eastern Landscape – Östliche Landschaft
Germany, 1991, 15 min., color
Director: Eduard Schreiber

4:45pm:
Lantern making at Deutsches Haus
Registration Required. Participation is free, lanterns and art supplies provided, but limited to 50 children.

The lantern making portion of this event has reached capacity. Please join us for the parade!

6:00pm:
Parade with horse around Washington Square Park.
Meet outside Deutsches Haus starting at 5.30pm. No registration necessary.

Children must be accompanied and supervised by a parent/guardian.

This event is sponsored by Deutsche Telekom.

Location:
The Bronfman Center for Jewish Living
7 East 10th Street – 2nd floor

In commemoration of the 71st Anniversary of Kristallnacht, NYU will be conducting its annual inclusive candle-lighting ceremony to memorialize the victims of the Nazis.

In co-sponsorship with:
The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU, The Deutsches Haus at NYU, The Henry and Lucy Moses Center for Students with Disabilities NYU Office of LGBT Student Services, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah

Artist Mechthild Schmidt
On view from November 10 - November 24
Reception on November 24, 6-8pm

Participants: Peter Andreas (Brown University), Thomas Burns (Emory University), Anna Schwarz (European University Viadrina), Peter Button(East Asian Studies Dept, NYU)
Moderator: Michael Minkenberg (Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at NYU)

Co-sponsored by Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Max Weber Chair at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU
NYU Press Release
Please note new start time: 6pm

©DEFA Film Library. All rights reserved.

The Wall – Die Mauer East Germany, 1989/90, 98 min., color & b/w
Director: Jürgen Böttcher

Boris Groys (NYU)

Artist Mechthild Schmidt
On view from November 10 - November 24

On view from December 1, 2009 – January 8, 2010.

Book Launch and Reading from Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist With Peter Wortsman (translator)

Book a booth and sell your gently used/new items or simply browse through the selection to find the special gift or item you have been looking for.

Items we accept for sale – the profit goes to you – are gently used or new:

Baked goods
Children’s clothes
German books
Toys and Crafts
and “alles rund ums Baby und Kind”

Deutsches Haus will sell Glühwein and give out free hot chocolate for the kids.

To book a booth, please contact Ms. Jasmin Mooney at 212.998.8660 by November 30, 2009. The fee per booth is $5.00. You will be assigned a space upon payment. All tables will be furnished with a green paper tablecloth. You are responsible for any further decoration. Flyer

Joerg Albrecht (Deutsches Haus Writer in Residence)

Lecture: TBA
Harald H. Vogt (Scent Marketing Institute)
Space is limited. RSVP required by Monday, December 7 to rsvp.deutsches.haus@nyu.edu

Read by the author Marlen Gabriel.
The Christmas stories were produced by Ohrenbaer rbb and broadcast by German radio stations rbb, WDR5 and NDR.
Recommended age: 5-8 years old and up.
Children must be accompanied by parent or guardian.