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e As spring brings forth beauty and promise all around us, we invite you to engage with us in a new season of cultural events.

Kicking off April 10, Forging the Future is an art initiative with funding from the Elysee Fund for German-French cultural programs abroad which addresses ways we can all shape a better, more sustainable future ahead of the December 2015 Conference of the Parties on Climate Change in Paris. The FuturePerfect platform (www.goethe.de/futureperfectproject) and exhibition collect stories of novel tactics individuals and organizations around the globe are employing to tackle some of our most pressing shared challenges.

Inspired by an approach to life in harmony with nature, Take It Right Back is an exhibition of graphics and sculptural works German artist Paula Doepfner will create on-site at the Goethe-Institut. The exhibit and accompanying film and discussion series run May 5 to July 3.

Celebrate Europe Day on May 9 as the German and French embassies take part in the 9th annual EU Open House—this time at the newly renovated German Embassy. Throughout May—the European Month of Culture—a large variety of cultural events, from concerts by German artists at the Phillips Collection, to a lecture on Hip-Hop in East Germany during the Cold War at the Library of Congress, will enliven the scene.

On May 6, Martin Mosebach, winner of Germany’s prestigious Büchner Prize, reads at the Library of Congress from What Was Before, hailed as the first great social novel of the twenty-first century. On May 20, the Goethe-Institut will host a reading of Before/After, a play drawn from more than 300 interviews conducted with individuals in East-Central Europe who played roles in their region’s transformation.

A film and discussion on May 12 will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of German-Israeli diplomatic relations on that day in 1965. Further events marking this anniversary are planned for the fall.

Summer vacation gets a cultural boost with Imagination Stage’s production of Double Trouble—the classic tale of twin sisters reunited at summer camp, presented in cooperation with the German Embassy as part of its series commemorating Erich Kästner.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? A new session of German courses for learners at all levels begins at the Goethe-Institut in early June; the monthly Deutsch am Mittag series provides an opportunity to practice with contemporary topics.

Visit our websites, www.goethe.de/washington and www.germany.info/dcevents, for details on these and other programs!


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Exhibitionsn Future Perfect Project 4 n Take It Right Back: Works by Paula Doepfner 5n Justine Otto: hyder flares 18

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Musicn Forward Festival 9n Sound Scene 9 n Sunday Concerts at the Phillips Collection 10

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Literaturen Martin Mosebach: What Was Before 12

Discussionn 50 Years German-Israeli Dialogue 12

Special Eventn EU Open House 20 - 21

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FORGING THE FUTURE

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May 5 – July 3, 2015Goethe-Institut, Language Department foyer

Future Perfect Project | Photography Documentation

The world is in need of ideas for a better, more sustainable future, but ideas are not enough. Future Perfect, an international and multilingual internet platform, tells the stories of indivi-duals, initiatives, organizations, and businesses that have moved from ideas to action.

To facilitate an exchange of ideas and to inform and inspire a broad diversity of experiments with a sustainable future, Future Perfect will feature stories from around the world. A selec-tion of these stories from around the world, which are being published as Creative Commons articles to encourage broad distribution and sharing, will be on display at the Goethe-Institut.

Website launch to be announced: www.goethe.de/futureperfectproject

Climate change exacerbates established global economic and environmental social inequalities. Addressing this global catastrophe requires political, technological, social and cultural change in our relationship with nature.

Organized by the Goethe-Institut and the Alliance Française Washington in relation to the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change in December 2015 in Paris, this series of events aims to contribute to innovative discourses for a better global future. Exhibitions, workshops, film programs and a website will highlight possibilities for a global culture of sustainability.

Forging the Future is supported by a generous contribution from the Elysée-Fonds for German-French cultural programs abroad.

The Tiger at the entrance to Szakácsi. Photo © Márton Botond - Sziget Festival.


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May 5 – July 3, 2015Goethe-Institut, FotoGalerie

Take It Right BackWorks by Paula Doepfner

In her graphic and sculptural pieces, Berlin-based artist Paula Doepfner works with natural shapes, materials and products such as flowers and ice, alongside iron and glass, as material ways of conveying stories, processes, feelings, and utopias. Her often ephemeral works, such as sculptures from melting ice and flowers, allude to universal stories of fragility and transience, violence and resistance. Doepfner uses natural materials gently in precise processes that may denote decay, damage or corrosion, but lead to beautiful transformation. Renewal is possible; destroyed or frozen plants regrow.

Exhibition opening Tuesday, May 5, 6 – 8 pm

with artist Paula Doepfner (artist-in-residence from Berlin), Kirsten Weiss (Berlin-based curator of this exhibition) and Chanel Compton (Prince George’s African American Museum workshop curator).

RSVP at www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com

Made possible with support from Elysée-Fonds and Friends of the Goethe-Institut.

For you I have been absent in the spring, 2012, Ice, thistles, bush, glass, ink on paper, metal, ice: 100 x 60 x 40 cm, form: 230 x 160 x 15 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

Top right: Hour long, may we two stand when we’re dead, between these lands the sun set, 2014, ink on gampi paper, dried plants, 115 x 95 cm, 138 x 118 cm, framed. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin


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Monday, April 20, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Divine Location (Göttliche Lage) Germany, 2014, 100 min., Directors: Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken

Until April 2001, Dortmund was one of the most important locations for heavy industry in the world. On the enormous site of the former Phoenix-Ost steelworks a luxury housing development has now been constructed around a newly created, artificial lake: Lake Phoenix. But how should one proceed when the surrounding working-class neighborhood has become a ghetto, decimated by unemploy-ment because of the closure of the steelworks?

Ulrike Franke (b. 1970, Dortmund) works as an author, director and producer of various television and feature films.

After working as a sound mixer on several documentaries and fiction films for TV and cinema, Michael Loeken (b. 1954, Neviges) is now an author, director and producer.

Monday, April 27, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

The Farmer and His Prince (Der Bauer und sein Prinz)Germany, 2014, 80 min., Director: Bertram Verhaag

This film depicts Prince Charles, who has a vision to feed the world with organic agriculture and to heal damaged nature. Alongside his charismatic farm manager David Wilson, he has been pursuing this goal for 30 years. Through poetically impressive images, this unique collaboration portrays how organic agriculture works, and the benefits that emanate from it.

Over more than thirty years of documentary filmmaking, Bertram Verhaag has focused on scientific, environmental and social subjects. The Farmer and His Prince received the Horst Stern Award for the Best Nature Film and was nominated for the 2014 German Nature Film Award.

Tickets see page 31.

Monday, May 4, 8 pmAvalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW

After Winter, SpringUSA/France, 2013, 75 min., French and English with English subtitles, Director: Judith Lit

Discussion with filmmaker Judith Lit follows the screening.

Seen through the eyes of family farmers in southwest France, the internationally award-winning After Winter, Spring is an intimate portrait of an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial agriculture.

Judith Lit is co-author with Jane Weiner of Les Abeilles de Vézelay, a documentary in production with Arte France about a village in Burgundy struggling to restore its biodiversity and to eliminate the use of pesticides.

Tickets at www.theavalon.org

Friday, May 29, 7 pmAlliance Française, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW

Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (Nos enfants nous accuseront)France, 2009, 112 min., Director: Jean-Paul Jaud

Food Beware follows an experiment in a small village in France, where the town’s mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic, with much of it grown locally. Featuring interviews with children, parents, teachers, health care workers, journalists, farmers, elected officials, scientists and researchers, we learn about challenges and rewards of their stand - both the abuses of industry as well as the practical solutions at hand.

Tickets: $7/$4


Each year the Federal Ministry of Economy presents the German Business Film Prize to films underscoring innovation in the economy and special business achievements. Five short films which received the 2013 and 2014 German Business Film Prize highlight individuals and the diversity of thinking that contribute to this success.

Panel discussion “What Does Future-Oriented Action Mean to Business?” follows with participants from German businesses (TBD), moderated by Thomas Zielke (President, Representative of German Industry and Trade).

Organized by the Representative of German Industry and Trade (RGIT), Washington DC.

1st Place 2014: Filmed Presentation, Student or Young ProfessionalGlimpses of Light (Lichtblicke)Germany, 2014, 2 min., Director: Dorian Lebherz, Commissioned by the Initiative against Product and Brand Piracy

2nd Place 2014: Filmed Presentation, Student or Young ProfessionalSartorialeGermany, 2014, 3:09 min., /Director: Konstantinos Sampanis, Commissioned by Cove GmbH & Co. KG

1st Place 2014: Films from BusinessEveryday HeroesGermany, 2014, 9:38 min., Director: Viviane Blumenschein, Commissioned by Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA

2nd Place 2014: Films from BusinessDeclaring Love on Erfurt’s Kraemer Bridge - A Short Film Series about a Magic Place (Liebeserklärung an die Krämerbrücke in Erfurt - Eine Kurzfilmserie über einen magischen Ort)Germany, 2014, 5:55 min., Director: Joachim Köhler, Commissioned by Thüringer Tourismus GmbH

1st Place 2013: Films from BusinessOur Values – A Global Journey (Unsere Werte – eine Weltreise)Germany, 2013, 12:45 min., Directors: Sybille Mican, Peter Schels, Thomas Müller, Commissioned by Knauf Insulation Sprl

No charge. RSVP at www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com

FORGING THE FUTURE

Prince Charles and David Wilson © Barnsteiner Film After Winter, Spring © Terra Productions, LLC

Monday, May 18, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

German Companies Are Working Towards the Future



Wednesday, May 6, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

This Ain’t No Mouse Music!The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie RecordsUSA, 2013, 92 min., Directors: Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling

Discussion follows with Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz, filmmaker Maureen Gosling and archivist and curator Jeff Place (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage).

Roots music icon Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music—music that is the antithesis of the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, bringing Cajun music out of Louisiana, Tex-Mex out of Texas, blues out of the country—and into the living rooms of Middle America. He also brought rural musicians to Europe, introducing wildly enthusiastic audiences to the rhythms of bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins, Zydeco king Clifton Chenier and others.

Born a German count, Strachwitz fled his homeland after WWII at age sixteen. In the United States, he discovered, and pursued,

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a musical landscape that most Americans missed. He takes his audience on a hip-shaking stomp from Texas to New Orleans, Cajun country to Appalachia, as he continues his passionate quest for the musical soul of America.

This Ain’t No Mouse Music! had its world premiere at the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX and has since won a number of prizes and awards. Director/producers Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling met thirty years ago while working with world-renowned documentarian Les Blank.

A reception follows the screening.

Organized with the German Historical Institute Washington DC as part of their project on German immigrant entrepreneurs.


Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb and Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz, 1964. From This Ain’t No Mouse Music!© Sage Blossom Productions

Cedric Watson and jon Bertrand of the Cajun band The Pine Leaf Boys prepare for a gig. From This Ain’t No Mouse Music! © Sage Blossom Productions


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Thursday, May 14, 7 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

The GiftGermany, 2015, 40 min., Director: AYBEE

The 8th annual Forward Festival, a celebra-tion of electronic creative culture, takes place throughout Washington May 13-17. Inspired by this year’s theme, “Infinity,” the Forward Festival presents The Gift, the story of the appearance of a mysterious radio and its journey through intersecting lives. Shot in Berlin, this silent film follows the radio across the city, discovering its power and influence on all that cross the radio’s path.

Scored live by Berlin-based music producer AYBEE (Armon Bazile), creating an inter-active A/V performance.

Tickets: $10

Friday, May 15, 6 – 9 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum and FotoGalerie

Daniel Bell Daniel Bell debuts an intimate new sound-scape performance. The show relates strongly to those who helped inspire his aesthetic, namely Steve Reich and Terry

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Saturday, May 16, 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm Goethe-Institut

Sound Scene VIII: Play Along

The DC Listening Lounge is excited to announce the 2015 edition of Sound Scene, our annual interactive audio exploration. This year we invite you to play along – as a listener, or with sounds of your own. The audio extravaganza will feature live music, interactive audio exhibits, community-noise-making, found sounds, and headphone listening stations.

Made possible with support from Friends of the Goethe-Institut.

All ages are welcome and encouraged! Suggested donation of $12 at the door.

More and online tickets: www.dclisteninglounge.org

Riley. It’s an exploration of loops, layers and counterpoints with a hint of house music. Tickets: $15

www.forwarddc.com

The Gift courtesy Forward Festival

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May 17 – 24, 2015 The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW

As part of the European Month of Culture programming, The Phillips Collection presents two concerts featuring German performers during its spring Sunday Concerts.

Sunday, May 17, 4 pm

Nicolas Altstaedt and Jose Gallardo, Cello and Piano

German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is a versatile musician whose penetrating insights into new music led him to give the German premiere of Nico Muhly’s Cello Concerto in February 2014. He has also performed the music of Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann, and Matthias Pintscher

Altstaedt and Argentinian pianist José Gallardo perform Heinz Holliger’s Romancendres, a multilayered work in homage to the last turbulent years of Robert Schumann’s life.

Sunday, May 24, 4 pm

Alexander Schimpf, Piano

Alexander Schimpf rose to prominence in 2011 when he became the first German pianist to win the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Schimpf makes his Washington, DC, debut performing the Piano Pieces, Op. 76 by Brahms, Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64, White Mass, and the apotheosis of the 18th-century piano sonata, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, Hammerklavier.

Tickets are $30 / $15 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included.

Alexander Schimpf © Balazs Borocz

Nicolas Altstaedt © Marco Borggreve


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July 6 – 20, 2015Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Blochin - The Living and the DeadGermany, 2015, 360 min., Director: Matthias Glasner

After the success of Dominik Graf’s In Face of the Crime (Im Angesicht des Verbrechens) at the Goethe-Institut Washington in 2014, a gripping new TV series appears. It made its debut at the 2015 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival.

Blochin is a kaleidoscope of the city of Berlin and its people. It is the story of the policemen of Homicide Division 7 and their families, friends and enemies. A confusing reality full of snares and shallows, where the underworld is as inseparably connected with the social elite as personal destiny is with political reality. In between stands a man who can’t escape his past. Starring Jürgen Vogel.

Monday, July 6, 6:30 – 8 pm

Blochin - The Living and the Dead: Episode 1

Monday, July 13, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

Blochin - The Living and the Dead: Episode 2, 3 and 4

Monday, July 20, 6:30 - 8 pm

Blochin - The Living and the Dead: Finale

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June 8 – June 29, 2015Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Music Films

Following the annual electronic music Forward Festival in May, this film combines scenes with sounds. Additional music films during the month of June can be found at www.goethe.de/washington.

Monday, June 8, 6:30 pm

VillalobosGermany, 2009, 110 min., Director: Romuald Karmakar

How does Ricardo Villalobos, one of the most acclaimed DJs of electronic music, think? How does he hear? How do Herbert von Karajan and Mussorgsky’s horns end up in the studio of this Chilean musician from Darmstadt, Germany? What happens inside his machines and modules long after they are switched off? How do people react to his art of DJ-ing at Berlin’s famous club Berghain, the temple of techno? What do people expect for their money when they go to the international stages of Ibiza? And how do we handle the power of our luck?

After the films 196 BPM (Berlinale, 2003) and Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea (Locarno 2006), Villalobos is the last part of a trilogy about aspects of electronic music and club culture in the first decade of our new century. Romuald Karmakar is a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts.

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Tuesday, May 12, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut

50 Years German-Israeli Dialogue

German-Israeli diplomatic relations commenced on May 12, 1965. Marking the 50th anniversary, this event looks at the ways the past affects the lives of young Israelis and Germans today. The screening of An Apartment in Berlin will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Alice Agneskirchner and young German and Jewish American volunteers.

An Apartment in Berlin (Ein Apartment in Berlin)Germany, 2013, 84 min., Director: Alice Agneskirchner

More and more young Israelis are going to Berlin – an estimated 20,000 have moved to Germany’s capital. They are mostly attracted by its cosmopolitan and international atmos-phere, the low cost of living and the good infrastructure, all of which make life fairly easy. But Berlin was also the place from which the Nazis planned the systematic extermination of the Jews. Three generations after the Holocaust, does this fact matter to young Israelis? How does it affect their lives today?

Alice Agneskirchner received a 2010 Gerd Ruge research grant for her writing and directing work on An Apartment in Berlin.

No charge. RSVP to www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com

Organized by Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Germany Close Up and the Goethe-Institut.

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Wednesday, May 6, 1 – 2:30 pmLibrary of Congress, Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., SE

Martin Mosebach: What Was Before (Was davor geschah)

Born in 1951, Martin Mosebach lives in his native Frankfurt.

In awarding him the Georg Büchner Prize, Germany’s most important literature prize, the jury described him as an author “who combines stylistic splendor with pure storytelling pleasure, and in the process demonstrates a comic awareness of history that extends far beyond Europe’s cultural borders.” He is a “narrator with a horizon as big as the world who has created a vibrant new composition by bringing together classical and modern traditions of the novel,” one of “contemporary literature’s most humo-rous and background-rich depicters of humanity” and one of “its most illustrious stylists.”

Hailed in Germany as the first great social novel of the twenty-first century, What Was Before (Was davor geschah) is described “social satire at its best” (World Literature Today). A couple has only been together for a short time when the woman asks a dangerous question which sounds quite innocent but carries the seed of jealousy: what was your life like before we met?


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Supported by the Delegation of the Euro-pean Union to the United States in conjunction with the European Month of Culture.

No charge; RSVP at www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com

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Wednesday, May 20, 7 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Before/AfterA New Play by John Feffer

Before/After is a 90-minute multi-media portrait of the transformation of East-Central Europe told by the people who made it happen. Drawn from interviews with people from the region, the reading will be per-formed by 12 actors. Directed by Natalia Gleason.

John Feffer is a journalist, playwright, and performer based in Washington, DC. His plays have appeared in the Capital Fringe Festival, the New York Fringe Festival, the One Man Talking Festival, and the upcoming United Solo Festival. Before/After is drawn from the 300 interviews he conducted as an Open Society Foundation fellow in 2012-3.

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June 1 – 5, 2015various venues

EuroAsiaShortsShort Films from Europe, Asia and the United States

Five nights. Nine cultures. One theme: Food for Thought

A program to enhance mutual understanding and familiarity among different cultures. Following each evening’s screening, a discus-sion with several panelists looks at how the topic has been addressed in the films.

Monday, June 1, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut Washington, 812 Seventh St. NW

China-Germany

Tuesday, June 2, 6:30 pmAlliance Française, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW

France-Philippines

Wednesday, June 3, 6:30 pmJapan Information and Culture Center, 1150 18th St. NW

Japan-Italy

Thursday, June 4, 6:30 pmKorean Embassy’s KORUS House, 2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Korea-Spain

Friday, June 5, 6:30 pmItalian Embassy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW

All countries

No charge; reservations requested. Seating is limited. More: www.euroasiashorts.com

Partners: Alliance Française, Asian American Pacific Film Festival, the Confucius Institute at George Mason University, Goethe-Institut Washington, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Japan Information and Culture Center, the Korean Embassy’s KORUS House, the Embassy of the

Philippines, Reel Plan and the Embassy of Spain.

The Fall of the Wall, Berlin, 10 November 1989 © Barbara Klemm


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May 2 – June 6, 2015various venues

Heinz Emigholz: Architectural Record

For more than thirty years, German avant-garde filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (b. 1948) has been documenting the work of architects and designers, most notably Louis Sullivan, Rudolph Schindler, Adolf Loos, Bruce Goff, and a few other visionaries: “I look at archi-tectural spaces that I believe have been sorely neglected by architectural history.”

Fundamental to Emigholz’s practice is a careful methodology (he usually films in 35 mm, for example, and several works in the series are screened in this format) that finds a rapport between moving images and architecture. This series is organized by the National Gallery of Art.

More about it and the additional films screening at other venues: www.nga.gov

Monday, May 11, 6:30 pmGoethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Loos OrnamentalGermany, 2008, 35mm, 72 min., Director: Heinz Emigholz

Loos Ornamental documents twenty-seven structures (and their interiors) designed by architect Adolf Loos (1870 – 1933). A leading pioneer of European modernism whose theoretical writings have had a lasting influence, Loos was known for the austerity of his designs and his divisive shift away from exterior ornamentation.

Following the screening, Heinz Emigholz will discuss his distinctive ideas on filming architecture.


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Thursday, May 21, 12 - 1:30 pmMeet at Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, 1201 17th St. NW (Metro: Farragut North)

Saving DC—The Post-Civil War Transformation of Our Nation’s Capital

For nearly three-quarters of a century, Washington, DC was little more than a magnificent dream on paper.

This tour will show how, in the decades following the Civil War, developer Alexander (Boss) Shepard, master architect Adolf Cluss, a host of other German and German-American architects and builders, and the Army Corps of Engineers together wrested a modern city out of DC’s muck.

The tour will start at the 1872 Charles Sumner School - a Cluss architectural masterpiece, and one of the District’s earliest schools for African Americans – and then explore how the greater Dupont Circle area took shape in the Gilded Age. It will end at the ‘Brewmaster’s Castle,’ built for DC beer magnate Christian Heurich in 1892-94 (1307 New Hampshire Ave NW, 1 block from Dupont Circle Metro).

Led by local historian and tour guide Elizabeth Sherman.

Organized in conjunction with the European Month of Culture.


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August 17 – 31, 2015Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

Summer Comedies

These comedies ensure a refreshing breeze throughout the month of August. See www.goethe.de/washington for the full lineup.

Monday, August 17, 6:30 pm

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Fack ju GöhteGermany, 2013, 118 min., Director: Bora Dagtekin

Director and screenwriter Bora Dagtekin launches another attack on laughing muscles and against the smugness in German teachers’ lounges. Fack ju Göhte tells the story of swamped teachers and disturbed pupils, adding spice to this school comedy with crude dialogue.

Prim teacher trainee Lisi has never before witnessed an assistant teacher like Zeki Müller: He is good-looking, has a bigger mouth than his students and controls the chaos of Class 10B with his gruff teaching methods. Who the heck is this guy? “By the time Lisi discovers his secret, she is already under the spell of Zeki’s rough charm.

Bora Dagtekin is an award-winning Turkish-German author and screen writer of mostly comedic film and TV screenplays. He became known to a bigger audience with his direc-torial debut film Turkish for Beginners (Türkisch für Anfänger).


Coming InGermany, 2014, 104 min., Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner

When notoriously hip celebrity hair dresser Tom Herzner, THE hair stylist for men in Berlin, plans his first hair-product line, the cosmetic company rep gets jittery: he feels that just targeting men is too restrictive. What about women? To get an idea of what women want, Tom is forced to work incognito at a hair salon-cum-barber-shop somewhere in an edgy Berlin neighborhood run by the sassy, gut-honest Heidi, with whom he falls in love. But there’s one problem: Tom is gay.

Director Marco Kreuzpaintner made his breakthrough with Summer Storm, a coming-of-age and coming-out drama. In 2009, Kreuzpaintner’s fantasy film Krabat won three German Film Awards.

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August 20 – September 13, 2015Goethe-Institut, FotoGalerie

Justine Otto: hyder flares

Opening on Thursday, August 20, 6 – 8 pm with artist Justine OttoRSVP at www.goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com

Leading contemporary figurative painter Polish-born German artist Justine Otto (b. 1974) won the Phillips Collection’s second annual Emerging Artist Prize following Washington’s 2014 (e)merge art fair. Her representational pictures literally burn themselves into the viewer’s retina, simultaneously fascinating and disturbing.

Real and unreal elements are packed into Otto’s pictorial worlds, creating a disturbing atmosphere whose “temperature is on the verge of freezing” (Jean-Christophe Ammann). Even her voluptuously beautiful style of painting, which makes her works so unique, doesn’t succeed in dispersing a feeling of confusion. Otto drags the observer into fascinating, shocking visions, abandoning him in the midst of fundamental questions of human existence such as fear, sorry, and mortality. She depicts tension-filled encounters between nature and civilization. The motifs of this bizarre universe reference experiences the artist has had and the influence of stories by


Until April 30, 2015 Goethe-Institut, FotoGalerie

gute aussichten:new german photography 2014/2015

This year’s eight award winners in Germany’s annual graduate photography competition are hot on life’s heels. Death, migration, discrimination, loneliness, isolation and despe- ration are put face to face with happiness, cognizance, diversity and creative energy. The photographers challenge us and give us a taste of the shape that we’re in — individually and in society as a whole.

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authors such as T.C. Boyle. The images present a unique, poetic reality full of bleak loneliness and absurdity. – Dr. Susanne Pfleger

Justine Otto has received a number of stipends and other prizes, including the 2011 Lüneburg Region Culture Advancement Award and a 2013 Frankfurt Lions Club Prize.

Made possible with support from Friends of the Goethe-Institut.

forth corner, 130 x180 cm, öl auf leinwand, 2013


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I’ve been a member for more than ten years. I love the holiday party the Goethe-Institut throws for its members – the food and company are great! And I loved last year’s film series on Käthe Kollwitz. I have admired her drawings for many years, and visit the Kollwitz museum in Berlin each time I go there. Most of my mother’s side of the family lived through both WWI and WWII in Germany, so I relate to those images from my family history.

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June 24–August 9, 2015Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD

Double TroubleBased on Erich Kästner’s novel Lottie and Lisa (AKA The Parent Trap);

Adapted by David S. Craig; Music by Marc Schubring; Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer

Lottie and Lisa are ten-year-old twins who are being raised separately by their divorced parents. When the girls meet unexpectedly at summer camp, they discover their true relationship, and the high stakes, madcap adventure begins. Having switched places, the girls discover that their deception is hard to sustain. Will their parents be convinced that the sisters belong together?

Best for Ages 5+

Presented in cooperation with the German Embassy as part of an event series commemorating Erich Kästner

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June 18 - September 30, 2015German-American Heritage Museum of the USA, Washington, DC

1915 – 2015: 100 Years of Hollywood - The “Laemmle Effect”

While the influence of German immigrants on the Hollywood film industry in the 1920s and 1930s is well known, there is only little awareness of the fact that the earliest beginnings of the Hollywood film industry can also be traced back to German immigrants. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Universal Studios in Hollywood, which was opened on March 15, 1915 by German immigrant Carl Laemmle, this multi-media traveling exhibit explores the influence of German immigrants on the American film and entertainment industry from 1915 to today.

This project is sponsored by the Transatlantic Program of Germany with funds of the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi).

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