Celebrate Beethoven’s Birthday! |
Authority and Alterity in East German Movies2020 Summer Film Institute |
The Founder's Fundfor Student Researchers |
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2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. An untiring compositional innovator, Beethoven was a crucial figure in the transition from the classical to the romantic era in classical music. |
Apply by March 1, 2020, for the weeklong institute on Authority and Alterity in East German Movies: Political Experiments, Rebel Youth and Civil Unrest, May 31 - June 7. Co-directed by Mariana Ivanova (UMass Amherst) and Seth Howes (Univ. of Missouri). |
The Founder’s Fund, established in honor of retired founding director Barton Byg, aims to support the work of student researchers interested in East German cinema and DEFA Film Library collections. Application guidelines now posted! |
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Dusk: 1950s East Berlin Bohemia
Berlin in the 1950s: divided, but not yet walled. Young artists, at the start of their careers and seeking a new lifestyle, frequented the East Berlin cafés and bars that were meeting places for intellectuals, as well as...
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Ottokar, the World Reformer
Fifth-grader Ottokar is always getting into trouble for trying to fix what he perceives as injustice. He gets revenge on his teacher Mr. Kunz, who gives preferential treatment to girls and humiliates poor students. He fights...