Event

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

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

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

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

+ More

Cookie preferences