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

“Translating German Film History”

“Queering the quotidian: Queer phenomenological approaches to ‘lowbrow’ entertainment“ The latest issue of the Frames Cinema Journal features the dossier “Translating German Film History” in collaboration with the GSSN. As it states in the Editor’s intro: “GSSN co-director Paul Flaig offers his very own translation of a short text by the Dadaist artist Raoul Hausmann, titled Filmdämmerung/Twilight of Film (1929), alongside an introduction serving to situate Hausmann’s work alongside those of his fellow avant-gardists, … Read more

Byre World: FINSTERWORLD

Film Screening + Q&A Wednesday 16 November 2022, 5.15 pm (Free tickets) Join Dora Osborne (Department of German) for a screening of FINSTERWORLD (2013) (Cert: 12) followed by a Q&A with director Frauke Finsterwalder, and author Christian Kracht, who co-wrote the screenplay with Finsterwalder. The event is run in association with the German Screen Studies Network. The tragicomic fairytale film FINSTERWORLD (2013) dives into questions of German identity. It explores … Read more

New German Cinema Series, The Garden Cinema (London, 14/9 – 15/11/22)

Don’t miss the New German Cinema series presented by The Garden Cinema (London) from 14 September to 15 November 2022 in partnership with the German Screen Studies Network. The series explores West German cinema of the 1960s and 1970s along the example of eight key films realised between 1972 and 1979. The programme features films by Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff, all … Read more