The Turkish-German director Fatih Akin's new film has been given a poetic English title for its UK release, but the German original, Auf der Anderen Seite, "On the Other Side", is better. This is an intriguing, complex, beautifully acted and directed piece of work, partly a realist drama of elaborate coincidences, near-misses and near-hits, further tangled with shifts in the timeline - and partly an almost dreamlike meditation with visual symmetries and narrative rhymes...
The University of Arizona Center for Exploratory Students will once again host a Meet Your Major Fair. This is an opportunity for students to learn more about the programs of study available on campus. The Department of German Students will have a table there, so feel free to stop by and chat with faculty, if you have any questions about majoring, minoring, or studying aborad with German Studies.
The purpose of Fisch out of Water is to encourage speakers of foreign and second languages (whether ASL, French, Navajo, German, Klingon, or classical Greek) to use their own voices in non-native ways, in the company of their peers. Concretely, Fisch out of Water invites language learners to read / perform a poem or short prose text in the language(s) they...
In 1943, the major Turkish author Sabahattin Ali published his novel "The Madonna in the Fur Coat," about a chance meeting in Weimar Berlin between a Turkish student named Raif and a German Jewish cabaret singer and painter, Maria Puder. Their tragic love affair takes them through the palace of Sansouci, the winter forests around the Wannsee Lake, debaucherous post-War New Year's bashes at Berlin's lavish dancehalls, and the dark back streets around the Tiergarten park. And...
On Wednesday, September 26, the renowned Austrian novelist, dramatist, and essayist Josef Haslinger will be on the University of Arizona campus for a public reading in English and German. Haslinger's works include the political thriller Opera Ball (1995) and the collection Tsunami: A Report from Phi Phi Island (2007). An engaged spokesperson on the relationship between creative writing, literary culture, and public affairs, Dr. Haslinger teaches currently at the University of Leipzig...
