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26.09. 2025

Newsletter October 2025

Lights, Camera, Babelsberg! A Special GOETHE FILMS Edition Awaits

Could this be the funnest (and most informative) GOETHE FILMS @ TIFF Lightbox special edition we've ever brought you? Together with TIFF Cinematheque and Cinespace Studios x Studio Babelsberg, we are celebrating the art and industry of international studio production, with "Wes Anderson, Made in Babelsberg". Tickets at TIFF. If "sold out," check back about 48hrs before screening for newly released tickets!

More film in our own Goethe Space: Drop by to see Frankfurt-Toronto artist Oliver Husain's pink re-imagining of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer. Always free, runs till 17 Oct. We'll contextualize the show with two new events: A CineZeit free community film screening with original Bauhaus works and a Media Mingle with a listening lounge with sound designer Matt Smith. Check our web site and Instagram for full annoucements in early October.

Aktuelles
Grand Budapest Hotel

© Searchlight Pictures

Oct 2 + 15 + 21, 2025

GOETHE FILMS: Wes Anderson, Made in Babelsberg

Presented by the Goethe-Institut, TIFF Cinematheque &Cinespace Studios x Studio Babelsberg

Hollywood, made in Germany: Discover how legendary Studio Babelsberg has been bringing Wes Anderson's meticulous vision to life.Through three of his most iconic films, the series reveals why the American cult director —with his fifth Babelsberg collaboration The Phoenician Schemein cinemas— keeps returning to this centre of excellence just outside of Berlin to harness the highest production value to build his universe.This is also the success story of Cinespace Studios, just voted best global Studio of the Year, acquiring one of Europe's largest and oldest film production houses in 2022. “Wes Anderson, Made in Babelsberg”celebrates the master director as well as Studio Babelsberg’s uniqueart department with some of the world’s best trained craftspeople, creatives and innovators, nowcontributing to Cinespace’s international reputation.

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Pink Schlemmer by Oliver Husain

Pink Schlemmer © O Husain

Fri, 09/12 –Fri, 10/17/2025

Pink Schlemmer

Commissioned & world premiered by the Goethe-Institut Toronto

In 2024, an old 16mm print of "Man and Mask: Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage" surfaced from storage at the Goethe-Institut Toronto. The 1969 dance film is an interpretation of Oskar Schlemmer's choreographies conceived at the Bauhaus University in Dessau around 1925. Through chemical deterioration of the aging print, the film is now awash in vibrant pink and magenta hues. Curator Jutta Brendemühl offered Frankfurt-born Toronto artist and filmmaker Oliver Husain the 16mm material for a carte blanche treatment.
Wes Anderson Reading Room

© Photo: Jutta Brendemuehl

Mon, 09/22 –Thu, 10/23/2025 | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, EST

Wes Anderson Salon

Presented by the Goethe-Institut, TIFF Cinematheque & Cinespace Studios x Studio Babelsberg

Step into our specially curated Reading Room, where the celebrated artistry and vision of Wes Anderson meets the lasting legacyof Germany’s Studio Babelsberg, where Anderson is working on his films with their famed Art Department.
Das Sonnenei

© Foto: Sophia Baunach/ Buch-Cover: Urachhaus / Illustration: Elsa Beskow

Sun, 10/26/2025 | 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Read Aloud & Crafting for Children: "Das Sonnenei"

One day, a large orange ball lies in the moss. Which bird lays such big golden glowing eggs? When the little forest fairy looks at the sun, she knows the answer: It's a sun egg! All the friends in the forest must see this! And soon they realize that the orange ball, while not a sun egg, is still a sun fruit with the most delicious juice that no one can get enough of.
A touching story about the longing for summer and the dream of a journey to the land of the sun, as only told in the north. A charmingly light, humorous event that is thanks to a lost orange in the forest...
PA Day Camp

©GettyImages

Fri, 10/10/2025 | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Goethe goes "trashy"

Looking for an exciting and educational PA-Day Camp? Look no further: Camp Go Goethe! is a German language and culture day camp hosted by the Goethe-Institut Toronto. The camp program is designed for ages 7-11 and is offered on several PA-days from 9 am to 4 pm. Before and aftercare is also available with drop off starting at 8 am and pick up concluding at 5 pm.

CAMP GO GOETHE!: Goethe goes "trashy"!

During our first PA-Day Camp in the new school year, we will focus on the topic of "trash". We have come up with questions that we will explore together, such as "What happens to garbage when it is recycled?" or "Which garbage materials are particularly harmful?" And of course, "What can each of us do?"

Events

Book Talks by Gegenüber
NY Gegenüber Talks

Paul Reitter © Emory Klann | Paul North © Linda Lindroth

Wed, 10/01/2025 | 7:00 PM, EDT

Karl Marx's "Capital" with Paul Reitter & Paul North

The GEGENÜBER magazine of the Goethe-Institut in North America presents a series of online conversations with contemporary German-language authors and translators.

Contribution from the Goethe-Institut New York

Paul Reitter, translator of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press) and Paul North, editor, present an engaging discussion about the context and legacy of this fundamental work of German political economy and philosophy.

Partner
Joseph Houston

© Camille Blake

September / October 2025

Joseph Houston in Canada

Pianist Joseph Houston makes a special visit to Canada this year with a captivating solo recital that explores the boundaries of contemporary piano music, and holds a series of composition masterclasses, workshops and talks along the way.
Eliot Quartett

Photo: Kaupo Kikkas © Eliot Quartett

Thu, 09/25 –Fri, 10/03/2025

Eliot Quartett across Canada 

Supported by the Goethe-Institut

Germany's Eliot Quartett is returning to British Columbia and Ontario after two years. The Quartett was founded in 2014 and has become one of the most engaging string quartets of itsgeneration. Hailing from Canada, Germany and Russia, the quartet’s members formed the group inFrankfurt am Main and have since gone on to win prizes at major national and international musiccompetitions, including second prize at both the Mozart International Competition in Salzburg and theMelbourne International Chamber Music Competition and the Prize of the German Music Competition.

Contact

Goethe-Institut Toronto
In the form of a local corporation
100 University Ave., North Tower,
Second Floor, mailbox #136
Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1V6
Canada
info-toronto@goethe.de

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