Deutscher Abend an der Uni
2011-2012 Schedule
Coordinator: Elena Pnevmonidou
Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 (7:30pm) Harry Hickman Building, 110
Yoko Tawada, “Adventures of Foreign Languages. Abenteuer der Fremdsprachen”
Internationally acclaimed transnational writer, Dr. Yoko Tawada, will present a multilingual reading of her work using a collage of poetic texts. The language of her talk is English, but examples will be provided in various languages. Born in Tokyo in 1960, Yoko Tawada has been living in Germany since 1982. She has received many honours, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (1996), the Tanizaki-Jun’ichirō Prize (2003), the Goethe Medal (2005), and the Tsubouchi Shōyō Taishō Award (2009).
Tuesday, 6 December, 2011 (7:30pm) David Strong Building, C112
Ein vorweihnachtliches Fest
Come celebrate the holiday season with us on Nicolaus Tag with music, student performances, and other surprises. Beverages and snacks will be provided.
Please note the date change!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 (7:30pm) Harry Hickman Building, 110
Angelika Arend, A reading from her novel Qualverwandt
A well-known active member of the Victoria German community, conductor of various choirs, Germanic Studies professor emerita, recipient of the Walter Bauer Prize, scholar and published poet, Dr. Angelika Arend will read from her most recent venture into the world of narrative fiction, her collection of short prose Qualverwandt. You can choose your friends, but not your family. Is that why they are so often at each other’s throats? Indeed as much about the grand themes of existence, life and death, as about the small, petty things?
Tuesday, 6 March, 2012 (7:30pm) Harry Hickman Building, 110
Marie Ulber, “Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Architektur - Stimmungsvolle Räume in öffentlichen Bauten in Deutschland”
In public buildings, such as libraries or museums, spaces with reduced functionality and purity in character are transforming into spaces of safety, almost sacred. There is, moreover, a growing interest in the perception of these spaces. What are they for? And how do people feel in these nearly empty rooms?
Marie Ulber graduated in architecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and worked in the Swiss studio Degelo Architekten. She also worked as Assistant Professor at the Chair for Design and Theory of Building Types in the Faculty of Architecture and is presently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar on the topic of landscape aesthetics.
Tuesday, 3 April, 2012 (7:30pm) Harry Hickman Building, 110
Peter Gölz, Chair of the Department, will be hosting a film evening. The film, yet to be determined, will be an entertaining way to conclude the Deutscher Abend 2011-2012.
