German Program
Calendar of Events
Upcoming Events
German Cultural Events Fall Semester 2009
Regular events (once a month):
Stammtisch at Legend’s
Kaffeestunde at La Fortune lower level (Click here for pictures of past Kaffestunde's)
Wednesday, October 7, 6:00-9:00pm
Okdomerfest at Legend’s!
Enjoy traditional German food and dancing with a live Oom-Pah Band.
Monday, October 12 and Tuesday, October 13, 2009.
Campus visit of Dr. Horst Teltschik, National Security Advisor to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; and J.D. Bindenagel, former American ambassador and 28-year veteran of the U.S. diplomatic corps, J.D. previously served in the U.S. Army, the State Department and in U.S. Embassies in Germany in various capacities from 1972 to 2003
Monday, October 12, 4:00 pm
Panel Discussion
Monday October 12, 8:00 pm
Lecture by Dr. Horst Teltschik, National Security Advisor to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
November 12, 7:00 pm in the Browning Cinema, Debartolo Performing Arts Center
Film “To Be or Not To Be” (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942).
A satirical comedy/propaganda film about a Polish theater troupe bent on resisting Nazi occupation, designed to exhort the USA to join the war against fascism.
Part of the Nanovic Film Series AY 2009/10 – “European Shakespeare”
November 22 – December 21: Exhibit "Ikonen einer Grenzanlage"
Produced by media students at the University of Paderborn assigned with finding the remaining vestiges of the Berlin Wall. The exhibit is intended as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. It will be housed in the CSLC.
Additional events during the semester, dates and times to be announced
Past Events
Tuesday, September 22nd, 4:00pm, 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Lecture: "Aesthetic Totalitarianism: From Sonderweg to Universal Catastrophe in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus" by Todd Kontje
February 8 - March 1, 2009
A Multi-Media Exhibit on the Theme of War (Writing Against War Ingeborg Bachmann)
Hesburgh Library, Mezzanine Level (2nd floor)
Opening Reception 5:00pm Thursday, February 12th with a Reading by
Professor Peter Filkins, Bard College
April 2008
Faust at Notre Dame in April (http://www.nd.edu/~faust/events.html)
Theater Production: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Opera: Faust 1859
Film: Bedazzled (1967)
Film: Mephisto (1981)
Learn More > http://performingarts.nd.edu
February 24 - March 23
Snite Museum Exhibit - The Lure of Italy in the Time of Goethe
Monday, March 24
"wordmusic"
A sound performance of percussion and poetry in German and English.
Sunday, March 23
Film: Ein Kleid aus Warschau ( A Dress from Warsaw) in German and Polish with English subtitles
