The program in Germanic Languages and Tuesday July 12 (cont) Wednesday July 20 Literatures at UMass Amherst 7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, 2:30 p.m. Academy of Music. Smith College. En garde together with the National Endowment for Downfall Ayse Polat, Germany the Humanities Germany, Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004. 156 mins. 2004. 94 mins. 35 mm. present Charting the last 10 days of Hitlerʹs life, from his Sixteen‐year‐old Alice, 56th birthday on April 20th, 1945 to his suicide isolated by her extreme on April 30th, this controversial film uses Changing Worlds, multiple characters, including Hitler’s secretary sense of hearing, and Traudl Junge, to show the chaos of a country Berivan, a Kurdish girl Shifting Narratives coming apart at the seams. waiting for a residence permit, meet at a Catholic girls’ school. A moving story about two girls’ Films from Europe Wednesday July 13 friendship, dreams, and their favorite sport: 7 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, fencing. En garde was awarded the Silver http://www.umass.edu/ Smith College Too Early, Too Late Leopard at the 57th Festival Internationale di germanic/neh2005 Locarno. U.S. Premiere! France/Egypt, Danièle Huillet and Jean‐Marie

Straub, 1981. 100 mins. 16 mm. A politically Public Lecture and Film Series: Thursday July 21 charged experimental documentary that Free and open to the public! 7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, compares the French revolution and Egyptʹs Smith College Film screenings all in German with English political state in the late 1980s. “Perhaps the The Empty Center subtitles except Germanin (see July 25). greatest of all landscape films!” (Jonathan Germany, Hito Steyerl, 1998. 64 mins. DVD. For films screened at Academy of Music, please Rosenbaum). Focusing on Potsdam Square, this visual essay

consider a donation of $10 to support this closely follows the processes of urban 8:45 pm. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall historic film theater. restructuring in the center of Berlin over the last O logischer Garten FRG, Ingo Kratisch & Jutta Sartory, 1988. 85 eight years, tracing global power shifts, and the Friday July 8 minutes. 16 mm. Experimental film exploring simultaneous dismantling and reconstruction of 2:45 p.m. Berlin as a city in which the past always borders. Academy of Music manifests itself both spiritually and physically in Head‐on the present. Monday July 25 Germany, Fatih Akin, 7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, 2004. 121 mins. 35 mm. Thursday July 14 Smith College In order to escape her family, Sibel asks Cahit to 1:00 p.m. Graham Auditorium, Smith College Germanin – Die Geschichte einer marry her on the condition that she have Death is My Trade kolonialen Tat absolute freedom. This unconventional love FRG, Theodor Kotulla, 1977. 145 mins. VHS. Max von Kimmich , Germany , 1943. story is also a complex urban ballad, providing a Theodor Kotulla’s biography of the concentration German language ‐ No subtitles . depiction of two Turkish Germans that Roger camp commandant Rudolf Höß: “Even though 94 mins. VHS. Ebert says “not only includes a car crash, but has one might find Kotullaʹs low‐key production One of the most infamous Nazi propaganda the fascination of one.” Winner of the 2004 Berlin rather didactic nowadays, Death is my Trade is films, Germanin features Black German actor Film Festival Golden Bear Award. still one of the best films about a fascist Louis Brody and hundreds of unpaid Black character.”(Rudolf Worschech) extras from German and Italian POW camps Sunday July 10 whose fate after the production of the film is still 7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Special Pre Release Screening! unknown to historians. Germanin glorifies the Smith College 7:30 p.m. Graham Auditorium, Smith College. achievements of German tropical medicine and The Woman Patriot Verdict on Auschwitz. the discovery of “Germanin” by depicting Africa The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963‐65 FRG, Alexander Kluge, 1979. 121 mins. 16 mm. as a disease‐ridden continent. Germany, Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner. 2004. Gabi Teichert reflects on air‐raids, the Social DVD . 60 mins. The December 1963 Frankfurt Tuesday July 26 Democratic Party, convention, the history of Auschwitz trial brought to light like no other 2:30 p.m. Academy of Music bodies, “comes into conflict with her superiors trial the horrific reality of the Nazi extermination Nobi and into contact with fairy tales, examines the machinery. Bickel and Wagner use original tape GDR. Günter Rätz, 1963. Animation. 35 mins. 35 relation of a love story to history” (Kluge). recordings of the testimony in conjunction with mm. East‐German DEFA animation‐short about Acclaimed director Kluge’s funny and self‐ contemporary film and photo documents to a young African boy who fights slave‐traders reflexive New German Cinema classic. reconstruct the investigations in Frankfurt. who threaten his village. Its humanist and

Followed by panel discussion with Eva Brücker, socialist message, however, is flawed by the Monday July 11 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe; Sigrid stereotypical depiction of African life and an 7:00 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Bauschinger, UMass Amherst; Karen Remmler, Mt. only slightly disguised Eurocentric notion of Smith College Holyoke College and Katie Trumpener, Yale University. progress. Wittstock, Wittstock Moderated by Barton Byg, UMass Amherst. Germany, Volker Koepp, 1997. 117 mins. 16 mm. The Scout Friday July 15 This long term documentary project follows GDR, Konrad Petzold, 1983. 102 mins. 35 mm. 1:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, three women, Edith, Elsbeth and Renate, in a Wright Hall, Smith College Between 1966 and 1985 the East German DEFA small Brandenburg town. The film shows the Redupers studios co‐produced more than a dozen ʺIndian changes in the town with an unexpectedly light Helke Sander, FRG, 1978. 95 mins. 16 mm. Moviesʺ romanticizing Native Americans. This touch, exhibiting a constant tension between Writing and directing as well as starring in her was one the last films of the series and features sadness and comedy through incomparably first film (shot on a minimal budget), German the tremendously popular Yugoslavian‐born beautiful images. auteur Sander created a highly personal, actor Gojiko Mitic in a heroic fight against the

wonderfully observed tale of a West Berlin white settlers. 9:15 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, photographer trying to make sense of the walls Smith College Wednesday July 27 (physical and psychological) surrounding her as Grill Point 3:00 p.m. an artist and single mother in a divided Germany, Academy of Music Germany. Toxi Andreas Dresen, FRG, Robert Stemmle, 1952. 2002. 106 mins. 3:15 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, 88 mins. 35 mm. 16 mm. An Wright Hall, Smith College One evening, a well‐to‐do improvised The Hunger Years Hamburg family finds five‐ adventure featuring a small, intimate cast. Two Jutta Brückner, FRG, 1980. 113 mins. 16 mm. year old Toxi abandoned at couples in their thirties recognize the banality of Here “hunger” refers to loneliness, confusion, the door of its villa. Sheʹs the daughter of a their relationships. Their revolt against the and pain... Set during the years of Germany’s German woman (who died) and an African‐ mundane produces explosive events. A piece “economic miracle,” the country’s problems are American GI (who returned to the U.S.). German that possesses, in award winning filmmaker reflected in teenager Ursula’s discomfort with positions on race and racism are discussed with Andreas Dresen’s words, “a jam‐session her own body. Brückner’s autobiographical film remarkable honesty and candor. character [that] makes it a form of cineastic jazz.” makes a dialectical connection between

interpersonal relationships and the political Thursday July 28 Tuesday July 12 events of the Adenauer era. 7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium,

2:30 p.m. Academy of Music Wright Hall, Smith College Blind Spot: Tuesday, July 19 7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Everything Will Be Fine Hitlerʹs Secretary Wright Hall, Smith College Fatima El‐Tayeb and Angelina Maccarone, FRG Austria, André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer, Good Bye Lenin 1998. 88 mins. DVD. 2002. 90 mins. 35 mm. The astonishing true story Germany, Wolfgang Becker, 2003. 121 mins. Nabou, an anti‐establishment Afro‐German of Hitlerʹs private secretary, Traudl Junge, DVD. October 1989: Alexʹs mother falls into a slacker, finds a job as a housekeeper in order to coming to terms with working alongside coma in East Germany. Fearing the shock of the win back her punk rocker ex‐lover Katja. A unspeakable evil after remaining silent for nearly changes might kill her when she awakens eight refreshing romantic comedy with the ingredients sixty years. months later, Alex transforms the family of a classic lesbian feature: whimsical sexiness, apartment into an island of the past. A touching mistaken identity, and general madness and and comic story. mayhem. Audience awards at several festivals. NEH Summer Institute Public Lecture Series Wednesday July 6, 2:00 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College Cultural Dimensions of the Estrangement between the US and Europe Konrad Jarausch, UNC Chapel Hill and Center for Contemporary Historical Research Potsdam Monday July 11, 9:00 a.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College Rethinking German Film History Thursday July 14, 4 p.m. Katie Trumpener, Yale University Graham Auditorium, Smith College Visual Documents and the Holocaust Eva Brücker, Historian, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin

Friday July 22, 9:00 a.m. Sage 215, Smith College Feminism, Anti‐Racism and Migration Monday July 25, 9:00 a.m. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, University of Manchester. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College Be Real Black for Me: Black Germans and African Diaspora in Europe Tina Campt, Duke University Friday, July 29, 3:00 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College Panel: African‐American and Diaspora Studies in Europe Sabine Bröck, University of Bremen; Maria Diedrich, University of Monday, August 1, 9:00 a.m. Münster; Tracy D. Sharpley‐Whiting, Vanderbilt University Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College Europeanizing Zeitgeschichte in Europe – and in the U.S. Thomas Lindenberger, Center for Contemporary Historical Research Potsdam

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