UK premiere of Chamisso's Shadow Ulrike Ottinger's film was inspired by the writings of Adelbert von Chamisso (1781 – 1838), a true renaissance man, a famed poet and botanist, who in 1815 joined the Russian ship Rurikfor an expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Part 1: July 20th, 7pm – Alaska and the Aleutian Islands (193 min) Part 2.1: July 21st, 2.15pm – Chukotka (192 min) Part 2.2: ... Read more
Film Screening: Käthe Kollwitz: Images of a Life With an Introduction by Dr Elizabeth Ward, University of Hull and GSSN Committee member Learn more about the artist Käthe Kollwitz through this biopic film about her life and art, which was made in East Germany (German Democratic Republic), where Kollwitz was a political and artistic hero. German with English subtitles. Suitable for age 15+ Places are limited. Please book your ticket(s) here. Käthe ... Read more
This two-day symposium explores and celebrates the work and legacy of Lotte Eisner, author of the seminal text on Weimar silent film The Haunted Screen (orig.1952). A film critic, journalist and, for over thirty years, archivist at the Cinémathèque Française, Eisner, was born in Berlin in 1896 as the daughter of a wealthy assimilated Jewish family. She died in Paris in 1983, having fled there in 1933 and where she remained for ... Read more
Watch this space for news about our forthcoming events. In the meantime here is a date for your diary: BAFTSS 7th Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, 25- 27 April 2019, ‘Intersecting Identities: Race, Sex, Nation.’
ZUMA Film Festival Workshop Archives of Creativity, Abuja, Nigeria: Dec 5-6 2018 In December 2018, Erica Carter was invited by Prof Vinzenz Hediger, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, to join a German delegation to the Nigerian Film Commission’s annual ZUMA Film Festival in Abuja, Nigeria. Prof Carter’s paper, ‘Circulating archives and public histories,’ presented first insights from Circulating Cinema to an audience of filmmakers and other film industry professionals as well as archivists, ... Read more
The Personal is Political – The Films of Margarethe von Trotta is part of Celebrating Women in Global Cinema, a year-long programme of films and special events highlighting and celebrating women in film from across the world. This panel is chaired by Jackie Stacey, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Manchester. Panelists include the GSSN's Erica Carter, Professor of German and Film at King’s College London; Cathy Gelbin, Professor ... Read more
The Personal is Political – The Films of Margarethe von Trotta is part of Celebrating Women in Global Cinema, a year-long programme of films and special events highlighting and celebrating women in film from across the world. HOME is screening von Trotta's film The Second Awakening of Christa Klages on Monday, 10 January 2019 at 18:40. The screening will be accompanied with an introduction by Erica Carter, professor of German and Film at ... Read more
Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax is screening Paul Wegener's Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam on 1 February 2019 at 19:30. The screening will be accompanied by a live score from The Harmonie band. The film will be introduced by the GSSN's Dr Elizabeth Ward from the University of Hull. Tickets and details can be accessed here.
The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet The complete retrospective of the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub opens at the ICA on 1 March with the UK premiere of their adaptation of Schoenberg’s comic opera Von heute auf morgen (From Today until Tomorrow, 1996). The screening will be preceded by L'arrotino (The Knife Sharpener, 2001). Martin Brady, Reader in German and Film Studies at King's College London and GSSN member, will introduce the ... Read more
The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet This workshop will look in detail at short films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet which use prose (Heinrich Böll, Marguerite Duras, Franz Kafka) and poetry (Stephane Mallarmé) as their source material. Martin Brady, Helen Hughes, Roland-François Lack and Nikolaj Lübecker will introduce and discuss the films to explore why literary texts, in the words of Danièle Huillet, “are still necessary to ... Read more
The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet The work of Bertolt Brecht has played a key role in the development of radical cinema, including the oeuvre of Straub and Huillet. The BFI Southbank welcomes academics Martin Brady, Ian Christie, Nicolas Helm-Grovas and Laura Mulvey for a roundtable discussion hosted by Erica Carter. “History Lessons” explores how Brecht's texts and concepts influenced both Straub & Huillet’s films and British cinema ... Read more
Translating the Archive: The Letters of Lotte Eisner In April 2019, German Studies students at the University of Hull were invited to a one-day event funded by the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education and the German Screen Studies Network. The event, ‘Translating the Archive: The Letters of Lotte Eisner’, was organised by Dr. Elizabeth Ward and Julia Eisner. Over the course of the day, students analysed archival correspondence between ... Read more
