Movie Night: “Goodbye Lenin”

The German House invites you to join us for our first Movie Night this semester. On Tuesday, Jan. 20th, at 8 pm, we will be showing the movie “Goodbye Lenin”.

About the movie: In 1989, Christiane Kerner has lost her husband and is completely devoted to the Socialist East German state. A heart attack leaves her in a coma, and when she awakens eight months later, the Berlin Wall has fallen and it’s a whole new world. To protect her from shock, her son Alex hatches a plan to keep her in the dark. It’s easy … all he has to do is turn back the hands of time.

Dinner with the new applicants!

This sunday, the German House held a dinner for the new applicants for the 2009-10 school year. In a relaxed atmosphere, new and old residents met and chatted and rounded out the day with tea and cake.

Keinohrhasen

Showing on Wednesday, Dec 3rd at 8:30pm

About the movie: Ludo is a textbook yellow press reporter: Easy-going and ruthless, bold and devoid of a moral conscience. Together with photographer Moritz he chases stars and starlets and even fabricates stories if the real ones are not interesting enough. But when he is sentenced in court to do 300 hours of community service in a day nursery, he has to bear the consequences of his behaviour. At the day nursery Ludo has to face tough Anna who knew him already as a child – and already hated him back then.

Warning: This movie contains nudity, sexual content and harsh language.

Ice-skating!

Last friday night, the German house went ice-skating in the Charlottesville Ice Park. Everybody had so much fun that we stayed on the ice for two whole hours – and then warmed up with some hot dumplings. Hmm!

Bewirb dich jetzt! Apply now for 2009-10!

Now is the time to get in your applications for living in the German House in the year 2009-10. The application deadline is November 17th.

Living in the German House means speaking German on an everyday basis, thus improving your language skills and picking up the language as people in Germany really speak it. Additionally, as a German House resident you will participate in cultural events such as movie nights, game nights, the Oktoberfest and Karneval parties, dinners and house trips (for example apple picking, tubing, ice-skating). And soon to come, German House SingStar parties, a favourite pastime of the German people!

Application forms for living in the German house can be found on this website – just hand them in at the German Department office.

Also, bewirb dich jetzt! Das Deutsche Haus freut sich auf dich!

Das Experiment

Showing on Wednesday, Nov 19th at 8 pm.

About the movie: Based on a chilling true story, Das Experiment is an intense, high-energy thriller about a human behavior study in a controlled environment that gets wildly and horribly out of control.

An undercover reporter (Moritz Bleibtreu of Lola rennt) signs up to be a paid volunteer in a two-week scientific research project designed to test the psychological effects of prison life. Joining a group of eleven volunteer “prisoners” in a makeshift prison, the inmates are monitored by eight volunteer “guards” and an elaborate system of surveillance cameras. Now, the watched and the watchers find themselves drawn into a twisted nightmare where vulnerability is weakness, power is intoxicating and the experiment becomes a terrifying reality that will change their lives forever.

Warning: This movie contains heavy violence.

Bandits – Wed, Nov 12th, 8 pm

About the movie:

Emma, Luna, Angel und Marie – alle vier haben eine Strafe im Gefängnis abzusitzen. Was sie aber wirklich verbindet, ist ihre Liebe zur Musik. Sie gründen eine eigene Band – die BANDITS – und finden durch ihre Lieder ein Ventil für ihre Probleme. Anlässlich des Polizeiballs erhalten sie die Chance zum ersten öffentlichen Auftritt. Noch auf der Fahrt dorthin ergibt sich für die Band die Möglichkeit zu entkommen. Ihre Flucht wird zu einem Ereignis der Gegensätze: Einerseits ist ihnen die Polizei auf den Fersen, andererseits setzen die vier mit ihren Songs eine Welle der Begeisterung in Bewegung …

Four women behind bars with nothing in common except their love for rock music form a jailhouse band as part of their rehabilitation. On the night of their first gig at a police banquet, the women overpower a sadistic guard and escape into the night. An agent, who had originally rejected their demo, launches their tape onto the public and overnight, they become media sensations. As the rebels become more successful than their wildest dreams, the police step up their hot pursuit.

Oktoberfest Review

 

Thank you all for coming over to the Oktoberfest on Friday night!

We sure had a great time, with about 130 guests attending, approximately 100 Bratwürste and 70 Brezeln being eaten, and many people participating in the quizzes and games or cheering for our live band “Arctic Rose” with the German House’s very own Rebecca Stewart on the bass.

If you couldn’t make it, check out some photos below:

Live Band “Arctic Rose”

Britta and Siggi

Grad students having some fun

People indulged in German food…

Played German Taboo

took the Germany quiz

 

 

 

 

 

Oktoberfest! Friday, Oct. 17th at 6 pm

Oktoberfest is coming!

The German House invites you to celebrate Oktoberfest with us on October 17th, 6 – 9 pm, in the Bice House Lounge.

There will be German Food (think Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, Apfelkuchen), German Games, German Music (and Live Music!) and lots of Germans to meet and talk to.

Come on over and have some fun!

Apple Picking!

On a beautiful, sunny Sunday, the German House went on an apple-picking trip to Carter Mountain. Strolling through the rows of apple trees on the slopes of the mountain, we picked our way through the abundance of red, green, and yellow, sweet, sour, and juicy apples, and then indulged in some apple donuts and cider – hm! A perfect way to spend the day!