Rainer Werner Fassbinder Season (April – June 2025, Prince Charles Cinema, London)

The Prince Charles Cinema in London will be running a season dedicated to the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 15 April – 25 June 2025! Beginning with Fassbinder’s feature debut, Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1969), the season includes German film classics such as Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (1972), Angst essen Seelen auf (1974) and Die Ehe von Maria Braun (1979). Full programme details and … Read more

Gundermann screening + discussion with director Andreas Dresen (15 April 2025, Limerick)

We are delighted to to invite you to an exciting afternoon and evening of intermedial, intercultural engagement in Limerick’s Belltable on April 15th 2025! As part of our ‘Promoting German Studies Networking Grant’ from the German Academic Exchange Service, acclaimed filmmaker Andreas Dresen will travel to Limerick for a screening of his film GUNDERMANN about East-German singer-songwriter and excavator operator Gerhard Gundermann. There will be a Q&A following the film … Read more

Es Brennt [It’s Burning]: Screening & Study Day (Goethe Institut & KCL, March/April 2025)

An exciting series of events around Erol Afşin’s 2023 film Es Brennt [It’s Burning] will be taking place in-person in London as well as online this March and April. This prize-winning film explores the consequences of racist abuse on a German-born family of Arab origin in contemporary Berlin. The Goethe-Institut will be screening the film online through its streaming platform, Goethe-on-Demand and will be available to view throughout the United … Read more

Facets of Kafka @ Goethe Institut London

The Goethe Institut London has organised a fantastic exhibition and series of accompanying events to mark the centennary of Franz Kafka’s death. Founding members of the German Screen Studies Network Helen Hughes and Martin Brady will be among those participating, introducing screenings of Hanns Zischler’s Kafka goes to the Movies and Straub-Huillet’s Class Relations!   FACETS OF KAFKA Marking the Centenary of the Death of Franz Kafka Until 9 December 2024 An … Read more

“Documenting Socialism”: New Volume on East German Documentary Cinema

GSSN is pleased to announce the publication of Documenting Socialism: East German Documentary Cinema (July 2024), the first comprehensive English-speaking volume on the history of East German documentary filmmaking edited by Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke. The GSSN supported the realisation of the volume through the workshop ‘Documenting Socialism’ at the University of St Andrews in May 2022. Written by 16 leading experts, this book shifts the focus from the … Read more

The Future of German Screen Studies Conference

19th-21st June, 2024, University of St Andrews Buchanan Building (School of Modern Languages), Union Street Organisers: Dora Osborne & Paul Flaig German Screen Studies Network Supported by DAAD Promoting German Studies Networking Grant The conference will delve into the future prospects of German Screen Studies amidst ongoing technological evolution, heightened cultural and political discord, and historical upheavals on national, European, and global levels. Exploring innovative methodologies and concepts, scholars and … Read more

Entrenched Narratives, Hidden Figures: Reappraising Representations of War Across German Screen Media

21–22 March 2024, A0.23 (Social Sciences Building), University of Warwick Organizers: Molly Harrabin (University of Warwick) and Dr. Lawrence Alexander (University of Oxford) The GSSN would like to promote the conference “Entrenched Narratives” that comes out of the GSSN’s scholarly interest group at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). In February 2022, German chancellor Olaf Scholz gave a speech to the German parliament in response to … Read more

FOKUS, Films from Germany in Scotland

Goethe-Institut Glasgow in collaboration with GSSN From 9-31 January 2024, the Goethe-Institut presents the eighth edition of “Fokus, Films from Germany” showcasing German cinema from contemporary films to DEFA classics in collaboration with the GSSN and festival partners all over Scotland. Films are screened free of charge and in German with English subtitles. The full Scotland-wide festival programme can be found here.  In collaboration with the St Andrews Film Society as … Read more

Screening Politics—Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

Two-day workshop organised by Carla Steinbrecher (University of St Andrews) and Anna McEwan (University of Glasgow) as part of the German Screen Studies Network University of St Andrews, Friday 10th November–Sunday 12th November 2023 In November 2023, the workshop “Screening Politics—Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War” organised with the GSSN and the financial support of the DAAD brought participants from the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Israel to St … Read more

Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image

International Conference at King’s College London, 22-23 June 2023 We are thrilled to announce the final programme of our conference on labour and film organised by Laura Lux (KCL) and Georgina Le Breuilly (KCL) in collaboration with the GSSN. The Images at Work conference takes its inspiration from this juncture of old and new. It builds on the long-established political history and theory around labour – especially that associated with German critical thought, such … Read more

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