In honor of Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart
The Goethe-Institut, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the DAAD Alumni Association are pleased to present
New German Film in New York: From the 60s to the 90s, an evening in honor of longtime Goethe-Institut film programmer and DAADAA 2018 Award for International Exchange recipient
Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart.
After World War II the newly established Goethe House New York emerged as a cultural mediator between a defeated Germany and the United States, starting a transatlantic cultural dialogue that would lead to a new mutual understanding. In the 1960s, the Goethe-Institut started introducing to New Yorkers a new generation of German filmmakers who sought to confront the country’s Nazi past and build a new civil society: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, and Wim Wenders, to name just a few. To present these filmmakers to a wider audience, Scheib-Rothbart forged long-lasting ties with major New York cultural organizations including the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, local universities, and many others.
PROGRAM
7:00pm
Welcome and introductions by Georg Blochmann, Executive Director, Goethe-Institut New York; and
Eric Haratsch, President, DAADAA USA
7:15pm
Conversation with
Kathinka Dittrich van Weringh, former Program Director, Goethe-Institut New York;
Laurence Kardish, former Senior Curator, Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art; and
Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart. Moderated by
Mechthild Schmidt Feist, New York University
8:15pm
Q&A session
8:30pm
Reception
New German Cinema in New York: From the 60s to the 90s is made possible with generous funding from the DAAD. The event is co-produced by Georg Blochmann and Sara Stevenson (Goethe-Institut New York) with Rosmarie Morewedge and Mechthild Schmidt Feist (DAADAA USA), and is presented in collaboration with Deutsches Haus at NYU.
Back
