Deutsches Haus "Projekt Toleranz" - Part I
Panel Discussion: "Immigration, Integration and Assimilation- Gains and Losses of a New Identity."

Moderator: Robert L. Pollock, Senior editorial page writer at the Wall Street Journal

List of Distinguished Panelists:
Mr. Robert Pollock (Senior Editorial Page Writer of the Wall Street Journal). Mr. Pollock will moderate the event
Mr. Erhan Emre (Actor, Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Faruk Sen (Institute for the Study of Migration, Intercultual Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, University Essen)
Mr. Kadir Soezen (Producer, Berlin)
Special Guests:

Prof. Dr. Florence Schorske Wald (Former Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing, Founder of US Hospice movement)
Prof. Dr. Carl E. Schorkse (Prof. Emeritus Princeton, Recipient of Pulitzer Price in 1981 for ¡§Fin-de-Siecle Vienna¡¨

Co-sponsored by Deutsches Haus and the Consortium of the Ruhr Universities

Please note that the Panel Discussion will take place at the Sculpture Court of the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. Due to limited seating, please RSVP to 212.998.8663 or nora.reitemeyer@nyu.edu by September 1, 2005.

Special Film Screening: Zeit der Wunsche
Directed by: Rolf Schubel, 2005.180 min.
In German w/ English subtitles
Event Concept: Erkan Emre

In the early 1960s, life in Turkey changes dramatically for three friends, Melike, Mustafa and Kadir, when Germany with its "Wirtschaftswunder" in full swing, opens its doors to the so-called "guest workers." Mustafa and Kadir leave their small village, Melike remains behind. Her heartfelt wish, to marry Mustafa, cannot come true and can only be hung on a tree. But the years pass and eventually she marries Yasar, one of the few young men who have remained behind. When Mustafa returns, he realizes that it is too late for him and Melike and he heads back to Cologne. After five years of an unhappy marriage, Melike also decides to leave and moves to Germany, where she meets Mustafa again. The two begin a passionate love affair. But when Yasar arrives with their two children, worlds are set to collide...

Deutsches Haus is proud to support the 10th International Business Forum:
Business and the Millennium Development Goals:
An Active Role for Globally Responsible Companies
Location: Helen & Martin Kimmel Center at NYU

The Consulate General of Switzerland presents
Hansjörg Schertenleib (Author)
Reading, followed by book signing

Der Literarische Verein ladt ein Tina Fruhauf (CUNY Graduate Center) Lecture: "Die deutsch-judische Orgelkultur: Ein Paradigma fur die sich wandelnde Indentitat im modernen Judentum" In German and English

Symposium: "The Intellectual and the Popular: Reading Rainald Goetz"

Rainald Goetz's texts explore the scope and potential of an intellectual engagement with the sphere of the popular: To which extent does the Anglo-American phenomenon 'pop' translate in contemporary German discourses and practices? What kind of texts emerge at the interface of literature and the multimedia world of popular culture? This one day symposium brings together scholars from Germany and the US to discuss Goetz's work.

Participants: Ulrich Baer (NYU), Jörg Kreienbrock (Emory University), Sibylle Peters (FU, Berlin), Ulrich Plass (Wesleyan University), Martin Schäfer (Paderborn/NYU), Eckhard Schumacher (LMU Munich) Elke Siegel (Yale University), Elisabeth Strowick (Basel/Johns Hopkins University), Thomas Weitin (Münster/Johns Hopkins University)

Symposium Program (PDF)

Armin von Bogdandy (Global Law Faculty of NYU)
Lecture: "The Prospect of a European Republic: What European Citizens Are Voting On

Anne-Katrin Titze (FordhamUniversity)
Lecture: "German Comedies, Are You Kidding? Lubitsch to Wilder and Beyond"
In conjunction with the Deutsches Haus Film Series, A German Sense of Humor?!

Deutsches Haus would like to invite you to the 7^th Annual NY Turkish Film Festival, which will be presented at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at2^nd Street) between September 24 -October 2, 2005. This year thirteen feature films, two documentaries and twelve short films will be presented. The festival will include two Turkish-German productions: Fatih Akin's awarded film "Head-on" and Anno Saul's "Kebap Connection."

For tickets and information please visit www.moonandstarsproject.org or call 212.229.1207

Pigor and Eichhorn (Germany)

"Pigor singt Benedikt Eichhorn muss begleiten"

Experience the "winners of the Deutsche Kleinkunstpreis in New York. With their musical program which has been specially adapted to an English speaking audience, they present a most exciting, astonishing and very funny example of contemporary Berlin Cabaret."

Pigor and Eichhorn - a musical cabaret duo from Berlin, Germany - recipients of the coveted National German Chamber Arts Award for brilliant shows performed in Jazz, Pop, and Hip Hop.

Chock full of irony, their irreverent topical reflections on contemporary German culture have won them a notorious reputation as "Berlin's Revolutionaries." Sharp dialogues sizzle along at a furious pace, interspersed with catchy tunes full of wit and double meaning - all perfectly orchestrated to keep an audience eagerly hanging on every word.

Pigor - charmer, curmudgeon and phrase-turning genious - plays with the language as it he were a dolphin with a ball in tossing waves. Benedikt Eichhorn - Pigor's accompanist - is a keyboard acrobat, enticing oceans of emotion and charm from his grand piano

More Information

If you cannot catch Pigor and Eichhorn at Deutsches Haus, there will be a second performance at the Goethe Institut New York on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 7:30pm. Please visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/ver/mus/tip/enindex.htm for pricing and location.

Deutsches Haus Film Series:
A German sense of Humor?!
German-Speaking Comedies

"There were years when I would have thought the words 'German comedy' were oxymoronic. Italian comedy, French comedy, British comedy--I could easily imagine all of those, but German?"

Despite the generally skeptical perception, the genre comedy has been the bread and butter of the German film industry throughout its history. Drawing from funny contributions during the Weimar Republic, hilarious short films by Karl Valentin, exceptional performances by Heinz Rühmann and Heinz Erhardt and the wonderfully sophisticated oeuvre of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, Germany and other German speaking countries have experienced a strong revival of humor in popular cinema in the recent past.

With "A German sense of Humor," Deutsches Haus, in conjunction with the Consulate General of Switzerland, offers a small sample of films that have put smiles on people's faces over the past five years.

Enjoy and have fun.

"Faces of DEFA - A Photo Exhibit"
Exhibition Preview 7:00pm - 9:00pm, Members and Press
Exhibition Opening 9:00pm - 10:30pm, General Public

Portraits by Sandra Bergemann and interviews by Christoph Lemke.

Meet twelve East German actors in this intimate black and white photography exhibit. Each subject appears in close up as well as in a setting where he or she feels most at home. The images are accompanied by interviews with the artists, who speak candidly about their personal and professional lives.

Supported by the DEFA-Stiftung Berlin and the Filmmuseum Potsdam.

This exhibition will be on display from October 6-October 31, 2005 and is presented in tandem with the film series Rebels with a Cause – The Cinema of East Germany at the Museum of Modern Art, October 7 - 23, 2005.

Photos: Jörg Schüttauf © Sandra Bergemann

Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Honorarprofessor Universität Göttingen)
Lecture: "Die Gruppe 47"

Conference: Image and Imagination
During the last few decades, the growing importance of images has triggered intensive public debate. Following the "linguistic turn" of the humanities during the 20th century, an "iconic turn" could lead to an equally fundamental reconstitution not only of the humanities but also of our ways of communication. The conference will bring together experts from theUSA andEurope who will address issues of the individual and collective imagination in creating and understanding images.

Please note that the Keynote Speech will take place at Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center Rm. 101, 32 Waverly Place

Peter Sloterdijk: “Image and Imagination”

Please note that the Special Lecture will take place at the Silver Center, Rm. 405, 32 Waverly Place

Participants: Morana Alac (University of California, San Diego), Hans Belting (Karlsruhe/Wien), Gottfried Boehm (Bern), Marvin Carlson (CUNY), Lisa Cartwright (UC San Diego), Erika Fisher-Lichte (FU, Berlin), Gunter Gebauer (FU, Berlin), Claude Ghez (Columbia Univeristy), Bernd Hüppauf (NYU), Gertrud Koch (FU, Berlin), Karlheinz Kohl (Frankfurt), Klaus Krueger (Columbia University ), Gabriele Leidloff (Berlin), Dieter Mersch (Potsdam), W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago), Marie-José Mondzain (Paris), Anthony Movshon (New York), Ludwig Pfeiffer (Siegen), David Poeppel (U of Maryland, College Park), Martin Puchner (New York), Joseph Roach (Yale University), Britta Schinzel (Freiburg), Rebecca Schneider (Brown University), Lutger Schwarte (FU, Berlin), , Michael Taussig (Columbia University), Christoph Wulf (FU, Berlin)

Sponsored by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdients (DAAD); The Humanities Council; Department of German; Deutsches Haus at NYU; The Center for European Studies; Sonderforschungsbereich “Kulturen des Performativen”, Freie Universität, Berlin.

All panels on Thursday, October 13, 2005 take place at the Center for European Studies. All Panels on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15, 2005 take place at Deutsches Haus. For a complete conference schedule, please visit www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus/imageimagination.

Panel Discussion: "Schiller's Theater"
Opening lecture by Jeffrey Sammons (Yale University): "Schiller the Realist"
Participants: Walter Hinderer (Princeton), Ernst Osterkamp (Humboldt Universität zuBerlin), Jeffrey Sammons (Yale University), Liliane Weissberg (University ofPennsylvania)
Co-sponsored by Deutsches Haus and Humboldt Universität zuBerlin

A German Sense of Humor?!
Film 2: Im Juli (in July)
Directed by: Fatih Akin, 2000. 99 min.
German / Turkish / Bulgarian / Serbo-Croatian w/ English subtitles
Daniel is a young teacher in-spe, who in contrast to everyone else plans to stay in Hamburg for the summer. Juli, a girl at the flea-market, wants to get to know Daniel and sells him a Mayan ring with a sun on it, foretelling him that he will meet a girl with an identical sun motif, which indicates that she will be ‘the one’. One day later Daniel is already on his way across Europe in search of his destiny. It seems the prophecy comes true somehow.

Judith Kuckart (Writer-in-Residence)
Reading, followed by book signing

Crescent Theatre Company presents
Brahms: Die schöne Magelone
Roberto Saccà (Tenor), Dietlinde Turban & Christopher Rothwell (Narrators) and Aya Ishihara (Piano)
Brahms' complete song-cycle "Die schöne Magelone" (sung in German), performed with a new narration in English that places the poems set by Brahms into the context of Ludwig Tieck's tale of medieval chivalry and romance between fair Magelone and Count Peter of Provence.
Please note that this event will take place at Casa Italiana Zerilli- Marimò, 24 West 12^th Street (between 5^th and 6^th Avenues)

Der Literarische Verein lädt ein:
Heike Stucke
Lecture: "Die Expressionistische Sprache: Die Künstlergruppe der Brücke: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluf, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Otto Mueller"
In German

Deutsches Haus invites you to attend "Elias Canetti: Centennial Symposium."
Please note this event will take place at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16 Street
Please contact centroprimolevi@cjh.org for details on admission, participants and program.

Dorothea von Mücke (Columbia University)
Lecture: "Sebald's After Nature"

A German sense of Humor?!
Film 3: Advertising Rules
Directed by: Lars Kraume, 2001. 108 min.
German w/ English subtitles
Eccentric, ambitious advertising student Viktor Vogel (Alexander Scheer) graduates right into his dream job. Little does he know that he is a pawn in a scheme to close an account for automobile manufacturer Opel which involves stealing his girlfriend's fantastic ideal for the campaign! This witty German film is a biting look at the extent one young man will go to in order to achieve his dreams.

Bastienne Schmidt (Artist,Germany)
"Schattenheimat - Shadowhome"
The exhibition will be on display from November 5 - December 1, 2005.

Alessandra Comini (Southern Methodist University)
Lecture: "Art Before the Abyss: From Façade to Psyche in Schiele's Vienna"

On Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 7:00 pm, a jointly sponsored program will take place at NYU's Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at 7 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003, in conjunction with NYU's Deutsches Haus, Office of LGBT Student Services, Moses Center for Students with Disabilities and Congregation Beth Simchat Torah's Lehrhaus. The Program will include a historical review and Memorial Service for those who died in the Holocaust through the eyes of Rick Landman, a son of a survivor of Kristallnacht. On that night his father Henry and grandfather Joseph were sent to Dachau. Last year on Kristallnacht he sent a Torah that survived the Holocaust back to Munich Germany to assist in the re-growth of liberal Judaism. The night will include a candle lighting service, slide presentation and put a personal face on to the night that escalated the Holocaust. For more information: www.infotrue.com/torah.html

Bio:
Rick Landman, Esq. has worked at NYU for the past 17 years as an administrator and adjunct professor. He started many GLBT organizations from the Gay Liberation Front in 1970 at his college to the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors in 1990. He was given a German Torah (that survived the Holocaust) by his grandfather in 1965 that is once again being used in Germany.

Otto and Ilse Mainzer Lecture Series presents:
Camille Paglia (University of the Arts)
Lecture: "Erich Neumann: Theorist of the Great Mother"
Please note that this event will take place in the Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU's Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY10012

Thomas Günther (Galerie aufZeit,Germany)
Lecture: "Audacity and the Break with Conventions"

Panel Discussion: "No problem?! How to conduct business efficiently across the Atlantic"
Participants: Harald Vogt (President, Vogt Communications) and Irmintraud Jost (Journalist, New York)

Der Literarische Verein lädt ein:
Brid Schenkl (DAAD)
Lecture: "Kleindeutschland as a Vibrant New York Community"
In German

Achim Geisenhanslueke (Universität Regensburg)
Lecture: "Verkehr mit Gespenstern. Briefliche Liebe bei Kleist, Flaubert und Kafka"
In German

Hent de Vries (JohnsHopkinsUniversity)
Lecture: "Dialectics, Deconstruction, and the 'Truth' or 'Moral' of Skepticism (Adorno, Derrida, Cavell)"

Paul Brodowsky (Writer-in-Residence)
Reading, followed by book signing

POSTPONED

This event has been postponed. Please check the Spring Calendar for updates.

Deutsches Haus in Collaboration with the Center for Architecture Presents
Panel Discussion: "Berlin - New York: Construction, Planning and Architecture NOW"
Special Guest: Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago).
Please note that this event will take place at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place

The Hochschule Konstanz and Deutsches Haus present the Exhibition, Publication, Documentary: "Jewish Youth in Germany 2005"
The exhibition will be on display from December 3 -January 28, 2006.

"From Bach to Messiaen: Chamber Music for Christmas"
Birgit Gruetzner (Piano) and Andreas Greger (Cello)
Please note that this event will take place in the Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU's Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
Suggested Donation: $5.00 per person
Please RSVP by December 1 to 212.998.8660 or nora.reitemeyer@nyu.edu