Recordings of Past Events

Authors in Conversation: Emma Braslavsky and Agnieszka Pilat

Discussion with two artists who have thought about the future of humanity and how Man and Machine will coexist. March 31, 2022.

Emma Braslavsky and Agnieszka Pilat © Emma Braslavsky©Stefan Klüter_EVm / Angnieszka Pilat©priva Emma Braslavsky and Agnieszka Pilat

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All That We Have Is a Voice

Writers from Ukraine Speaking to Writers in Boston, on zoom and in person at the Goethe-Institut Boston, March 24, 2022.

All That We Have Is a Voice © ©Goethe-Institut Boston All That We Have Is a Voice

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What Makes A Monument?

Taking a closer look at the process behind conceptualizing and building new monuments with perspectives from Germany and the US. How democratic is the process? March 22, 2022

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Authors in Conversation: Maike Wetzel & Adrian Figueroa, Proll!

Discussion with director Adrian Figueroa and screenwriter Maike Wetzel about their short film Proll!, which won the German Short Film Award 2021. February 3,2022.

Adrian Figueroa, Maike Wetzel © Adrian Figueroa@GrazDiez / Maike Wetzel©Andreas Potthoff Adrian Figueroa, Maike Wetzel

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Kati Marton "The Chancellor"

Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton in conversation with Sabine von Mering, Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University on Marton’s new biography, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel on December 7, 2021.

In Conversation with composer Jörg Widmann

Andris Nelsons conducts the American premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI) for trumpet and orchestra featuring Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 18-20, 2021 at Symphony Hall, Boston MA.

Authors in Conversation: Rachael Cerrotti and Julie Lindahl

Two storytellers turn to their own family’s history to explore how their grandparents survived the Nazi Regime. Online Conversation, October 25, 2021.

Cerrotti/Lindahl © Julie Lindahl©Kajsa Göransson/Rachael Cerrotti©private Cerrotti/Lindahl

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Authors in Conversation: Ulla Lenze and Marshall Yarbrough

German author Ulla Lenze and her translator, Marshall Yarbrough about Lenze's first publication in English, The Radio Operator.
Online conversation, October 21, 2021

Ulla Lenze/Marshall Yarbrough © Ulla Lenze©Julien Menand/Marshall Yarbrough (c) Sal Robinson Ulla Lenze/Marshall Yarbrough

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Authors in Conversation: Sharon Dodua Otoo and Jon Cho-Polizzi

Bachmann-prize winning author Sharon Dodua Otoo and translator Jon Cho-Polizzi about Otoo’s debut novel Ada's Realm.
Online conversation, October 19, 2021

Sharon Dodua Otoo/Jon Cho-Polizzi © Sharon Dodua Otoo © Ralf Steinberger/Jon Cho-Polizzi©privat Sharon Dodua Otoo/Jon Cho-Polizzi

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The State of the Arts: Movie Theatres

Mark Anastasio, Programmer at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and Wiebke and Johannes Thomsen, owners of Kino Lodderbast in Hannover, Germany, in conversation about cinemas during the pandemic. May 5th, 2021

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Authors in Conversation: Anja Kampmann & Amy Brady

EarthDay@Goethe presents: "High as the Waters Rise" by Anja Kampmann and "Climate Fiction" by Amy Brady.
Online Conversation, April 22, 2021.

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Together Apart

A new choreography by the Boston Dance Theater conceived for video

Together Apart keyvisual © ©BDT Together Apart keyvisual

Commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston Dance Theater creates a new choreography which translates themes of division, polarization, reunification and coming together into the language of contemporary dance. The work plays hommage to three decades of German reunification and at the same time reflects the current state of American society. The pandemic lends the theme additional timeliness.
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Q&A with Burhan Qurbani

Conversation with the director of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Burhan Qurbani and Roy Grundmann, Professor of Film at Boston University.

Qurbani/Grundmann © Burhan Qurbani©Malik Vitthal/Roy Grundmann©Mark Hennessey Qurbani/Grundmann

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Discussing Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz"

Fassbinder experts Peter Jealvich and Johannes Binotto examine Fassbinder's 1980 miniseries.

Binotto/Jelavich © Johannes Binotto©privat/Jelavich©priva Binotto/Jelavich

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Film and Discussion : Masel Tov Cocktail

Discussion with filmmaker Arkadij Khaet

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March: The War of the Worlds ( 1938)

In 2024, the radio play celebrates its 100th anniversary in Germany. Tracing its rich and varied history, we present an outstanding example of German radio history as “Radio Play of the Month” in German.
With friendly permission of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

One of the most spectacular events in radio history was triggered by director Orson Welles on the eve of Halloween 1938 with his live broadcast "The War of the Worlds": Numerous American listeners believed in an invasion by Martians from outer space. New version of the English-language radio play classic with German commentary. | By Orson Welles | New version: Jochen Rack | With Walter Kreye, Ursula Illert | Directed by Orson Welles | CBS Radio 1938/RB 1998. In English and German. 76 min.

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April: Adolf Eichmann on Trial (2021)

In 2024, the radio play celebrates its 100th anniversary in Germany. Tracing its rich and varied history, we present an outstanding example of German radio history as “Radio Play of the Month” in German.
With friendly permission of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

This picture went around the world: Adolf Eichmann, the main organizer of the murder of European Jews during the Nazi era, sits as a defendant at the Jerusalem District Court in 1961 in a glass cabin made of bulletproof glass. Witnesses from all European countries report on everyday persecution and extermination. For the first time in the reappraisal of Nazi crimes, the entire trial was broadcast live on the radio. A documentary radio play about a report that burned itself into the collective memory of Israelis. | By Noam Brusilovsky/Ofer Waldman | Director: Noam Brusilovsky | rbb/DLF 2021, 60 min.

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Listening to History: Sound, Space and Remembrance

A conversation between Louis Chude-Sokei and Emeka Ogboh
October 22, 2020
Presented as part of Shaping the Past.

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Listening to History: Revisiting Memory through Soundscape Compositions

A conversation between Yvette Janine Jackson and Jacek Smolicki
October 28, 2020
Presented as part of Shaping the Past.

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30 Years of German Unity: Sabine Rennefanz and John Goetz

Online Conversation, October 21, 2020

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May: Apparat Herz - Special program on passport issues (2001)

In 2024, the radio play celebrates its 100th anniversary in Germany. Tracing its rich and varied history, we present an outstanding example of German radio history as “Radio Play of the Month” in German.
With friendly permission of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

After the GDR built the Wall in 1963, a permit scheme was negotiated over Christmas and New Year to allow West Berliners to visit their relatives in East Berlin. The radio station in the American sector, RIAS, sets up a telephone advice center. The original sound collage of the call-in broadcasts of the time conveys a precise picture of the historical situation. | By Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel | DLF 2001. 59 min.

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June: Apollo Amerika (1969)

In 2024, the radio play celebrates its 100th anniversary in Germany. Tracing its rich and varied history, we present an outstanding example of German radio history as “Radio Play of the Month” in German.
With friendly permission of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

During the first moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin with Apollo 11, the radio play author Ferdinand Kriwet was in America with a tape recorder and documented the radio and television coverage as an audio collage. | By Ferdinand Kriwet | SWF/BR/WDR 1969. 30 min. In English.

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Authors in Conversation: Sheri Hagen and Ariana Cohen Halberstam

Online conversation, September 17, 2020.

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Authors in Conversation: Cornelia Funke and Kerstin Zilm

Online Conversation, September 3, 2020, organized by Goethe-Institut Boston and CGES online.

Cornelia Funke, Kerstin Zilm © Cornelia Funke © Thorsten Wulff (left), Kerstin Zilm © private (right) Cornelia funke, Kerstin Zilm

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Authors in Conversation: Nora Krug and Katja Petrowskaja

Online conversation, August 13, 2020.

Katja Petrowskaja, Nora Krug © Katja Petrowskaja©Heike Steinweg/Nora Krug©Nina Subin Katja Petrowskaja, Nora Krug

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Authors in Conversation: Esther Dischereit and Elizabeth Bradfield

Online conversation, July 16, 2020.

Esther Dischereit, Elizabeth Bradfield © Esther Dischereit © Bettina Straub/Elizabeth Bradfield @ Cotton Coulson Esther Dischereit, Elizabeth Bradfield

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Form & Landscape: Bauhaus in New England

Online Webinar organized by the Goethe-Institut Boston, June 25, 2020.

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July: Locomotion (1986)

In 2024, the radio play celebrates its 100th anniversary in Germany. Tracing its rich and varied history, we present an outstanding example of German radio history as “Radio Play of the Month” in German.
With friendly permission of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Loudspeaker announcements, a whistle, the train starts moving again. Change of location, change of place. An acoustic journey through four countries, four languages. From Berlin via Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Tangier, Casablanca to Marrakech. An acoustic film. | By Alfred Behrens/Norbert Jochum | hr/BR/SFB 1987. No language. 63 min.

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Authors in Conversation: Theresia Enzensberger and Elizabeth Otto

Online conversation, June 11, 2020, organized by Goethe-Institut Boston and CGES online.

Elizabeth Otto, Theresia Enzensberger © Elizabeth Otto©private, Theresia Enzensberger©Rosanna Graf Elizabeth Otto, Theresia Enzensberger

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