Rethinking Weimar Cinema (17-19 June 2026, Worcester College, Oxford)

The GSSN is delighted to announce that registration for the “Rethinking Weimar Cinema” conference is now open! Please visit the registration portal to secure your place! Full programme can be found at the bottom of this page and further information can be found on the conference website. The centennial years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) have seen a rise in academic engagement with and public interest in this period of … Read more

UK screening tour of prize-winning German documentary Das deutsche Volk [The German People]

The UK screening tour of the acclaimed new German documentary film, Das deutsche Volk [The German People] (dir. Marcin Wierzchowski, 2025) will be taking place next week. All screenings will be fully subtitled in English and followed by a Q&A with the director.  The film is a prize-winning documentary about the aftermath of the terror attack carried out by a right-wing extremist in Hanau in 2020 and marks an important intervention in contemporary public memory debates. The film … Read more

Austro Cinema Showcase (April 2026, St. Andrews)

The University of St. Andrews’ OeAD-Lektorin, Verena Latschbacher, is organising a wonderful showcase of Austrian cinema in St Andrews, offering audiences a valuable opportunity to experience contemporary and classic films from Austria. A particular highlight of the showcase will be the Scottish premiere of Ruth Beckermann’s Favoriten! Stay tuned into GSSN social media for further information and reminders! All the screenings are generously supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum.

FOKUS: Film from Germany

The 10th edition of **Goethe-Institut’s Fokus: Films from Germany festival provided a rich and thought-provoking celebration of German cinema across Scotland. Running from January to February 2026, the festival marked its anniversary with a curated programme titled “Women: Words and Worlds”, which explored over a century of filmmaking through representations of women and their changing roles in society.  Bringing together films from the silent era to the present day, the programme … Read more

Anthea Bell Teacher Day: Teaching German Through Film KS3 Film Workshop for Teachers

A one-day CPD event for teachers of German, led by The Queen’s College Translation Exchange and the German Screen Studies Network  On Monday 9 March 2026, the GSSN and Queen’s College Translation Exchange hosted a free professional development event in Oxford for secondary school teachers to explore how film can be used as a dynamic tool for teaching German, deepening cultural understanding, and sparking critical thinking in learners in KS3 and above.  Focusing on the 1931 adaptation of Emil und die Detektive by … Read more

Films in the Museum: Dead Birds Flying High (Sönje Storm 2022) at the Bell Pettigrew (University of St Andrews!

Join us at the Bell Pettigrew Museum for a special screening of a film about photography, taxidermy and one man’s passion for the natural world. In a northern German attic, Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt (1882-1940) collected boxes of pinned butterflies, carefully hand-coloured photographs of the local flora and fauna, and hundreds of stuffed and dusty birds. His collections echo a present that doesn’t exist anymore, and yet all signs of an … Read more

Teacher Workshop- Teaching German Through Film and Television: Language, Culture, and Context (4th October 2025, University of Warwick)

Teaching German Through Film and Television: Language, Culture, and Context  A one-day CPD event for teachers of German October 4, 2025, University of Warwick This full-day, interactive professional development event invites secondary school teachers to explore how film and television can be used as dynamic tools for teaching German, deepening cultural understanding, and sparking critical thinking in learners at all levels. The day will feature hands-on workshops, collaborative lesson planning, … Read more

CFP: Rethinking Weimar Cinema Conference (University of Oxford, 17 – 19 June 2026)

CfP: Rethinking Weimar Cinema (University of Oxford, 17 – 19 June 2026) Keynote Speakers: Dr Paul Dobryden (Virginia) Dr Sara F. Hall (Illinois-Chicago) Dr Qinna Shen (Bryn Mawr) Organizers: Dr Lawrence Alexander (Ruskin School of Art, Oxford) Dr Molly Harrabin (St. Andrews/Warwick). Deadline for submitting proposals: 31 October 2025 The centennial years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) have seen a rise in academic engagement with and public interest in this … Read more

‘In Focus: Pia Frankenberg’

The GSSN was delighted to hear about the ‘In Focus: Pia Frankenberg’ retrospective of the films of Pia Frankenberg, taking place 19–23 September 2025 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Pia Frankenberg started writing and directing films soon after assisting on Ulrike Ottinger’s Freak Orlando (1981). Over the next eleven years, before leaving Germany for America and authoring novels, she made three features and two shorts. Her films are animated by … Read more

New Publication: Charting Asian German Film History, ed. by Qinna Shen, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick and Qingyang Freya Zhou

An exciting new edited collection, Charting Asian German Film History: Imagination, Collaboration and Diasporic Representation, by Qinna Shen, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick and Qingyang Freya Zhou, has just been released with Camden House! Here, Zach reflects on how the book was conceptualised and provides an insight into the contents of the book! BACKSTORY:During the pandemic, I found other colleagues in the sub-field of “Asian German studies” who were interested in researching … Read more

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