Wed 27.2. 8 pm — Der Schuh des Manitu

From de.wikipedia.org: Der Schuh des Manitu, eine 2001 entstandene Parodie der Karl-May-Verfilmungen der 1960er Jahre, gilt mit 11,7 Millionen Besuchern und 65 Millionen Euro Umsatz an den Kinokassen als einer der erfolgreichsten deutschen Filme seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

This is not actually a parody if America nor a parody of Native Americans. It’s parody of German stereotypes of America and Native Americans as they were portrayed by Mark May. His depictions may not have been very accurate, but they were most influential to the German imagination. This imagination spawned the Winetou films from the 1960s. Now these are, what the parody is about.

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Lunar Eclipse

A small group from the German House made the trip to Observatory hill tonight to take a look through the telescope. They didn’t even point the telescope at the moon, because you could only see a small fraction of its surface through it. They had a portable one for the eclipse. What we could see through the main telescope, though, was the Omega-Nebular and, the thing that impressed me most, the planet Saturn and its rings. Cool!

Tue 19.2. 8 pm — Game Night

Join us at the German House for an evening of “German Games” and German conversation. Even if you know little or no German, come to see the house, we’ll translate. Meet the residents and have some fun! The Max Kade foundation will provide free soft drinks and snaks.

Tue 12.2. 8 pm — Metropolis

From en.wikipedia.org: Metropolis is a silent science fiction film created by the famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang. It was produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios and released in 1927 during the height of the Weimar Republic. In addition, it was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark (equivalent to around $200 million in 2005) to make.

The screenplay was written in 1924 by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and examines a common science fiction theme of the day: the social crisis between labour and management in capitalism.

The film features special effects and set design that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact—the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism, though the architecture as portrayed in the film appears based on contemporary Modernism and Art Deco. The latter, a brand-new style in Europe at the time, had not reached mass production yet and was considered an emblem of the bourgeois class, and similarly associated with the ruling class in the film.

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Wed 6.2. 8 pm — Game Night

Join us at the German House for an evening of “German Games” and German conversation. Even if you know little or no German, come to see the house, we’ll translate. Meet the residents and have some fun! The Max Kade foundation will provide free soft drinks and snaks.