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Was nützt die Ferne in Gedanken? Edgar Reitz’ Filmepos „Die andere Heimat. Chronik einer Sehnsucht“
2016-03-18 12:30 (America/Toronto) | ML - Modern Languages Room 245 Canada
Edgar Reitz’ Rückkehr ins Kino löste 2013 bei den Filmfestspielen
von Venedig Begeisterung aus. Die internationale Filmkritik war sich
einig: Mit der „Anderen Heimat“ habe der Regisseur einen
fulminanten Schlusspunkt für seine gefeierte „Heimat“-Reihe
geliefert.

Film screening: Die andere Heimat (dir. Edgar Reitz)
2016-03-16 18:30 - 23:00 | ECH - East Campus Hall Room 1220 Canada
Come watch the concluding film (which is also a prequel) to Edgar
Reitz magnum opus _Heimat_! Released in 2013 to great acclaim, _Die
andere Heimat_ returns to the village of Schabbach, but this time it
is the middle of the 19th century.

This is a long film - 263 minutes! - so pizza will be provided! The
film is in German with English subtitles. For the most up-to-date
event description, click on the link below to the Department of
Germanic & Slavic Studies' events page.

Recreating Nature: German Romantic Landscapes as Cultural Ecology
2014-11-18 19:00 | HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities 200 University Avenue West Room 1102 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Be it the depictions of castles and seductive sirens along the Rhine
River in the poetry and prose of Brentano, Eichendorff, and Heine, the
paintings of artists like Runge and Friedrich, or the fairy tales told
by the Brothers Grimm, the German Romantics created landscapes whose
images continue to resonate in the popular imagination.

Bertha von Suttner, A Life of Peace - Concert and Exhibit
2014-05-20 00:00 - 2014-08-15 00:00 | CGR - Conrad Grebel University 140 Westmount Road North Chapel and Gallery Waterloo ON N2L 3G6 Canada
Bertha von Suttner, born in 1843, was in many ways ahead of her times.
As an avid pacifist, this remarkable woman was the figurehead of a
world-wide peace movement. She relentlessly fought nationalist
fanaticism, aggressive militarism, anti-Semitism and recognized the
dangers of hate breeding. As a writer and lecturer, she inspired her
friend and benefactor Alfred Nobel to create a Peace Prize. She was
the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for her most
famous novel “Lay Down your Arms”.

Schiller Excursion - Maria Stuart
2007-10-04 00:00
Sponsored by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS), on Oct. 4,
nineteen students and faculty travelled to Toronto to see the
Soulpepper theatre company's rendition of Schiller's great tragedy
Maria Stuart (1801) in English translation.

Faust: Shadow Puppets and Live
2008-10-15 00:00
A Tragedy and Spectacle of Human Striving and Remorse featuring Faust,
Scholar and Necromancer, and The Devil Himself!

Rilke als Heimatdichter
2010-03-23 13:30 | ML - Modern Languages 200 University Avenue West Room 354 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
POSTER: Rilke als Heimatdichter Poster (PDF)
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Bridge Markland: Faust in the Box
2012-03-27 00:00 - 2012-03-28 00:00 | UW Theatre of the Arts Canada
POSTER: Faust in the Box Poster (PDF)
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Richard Wagners Theorie-Theater
2014-02-07 20:00 | HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities 200 University Avenue West Room 1104 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Poster: Jochen Horisch Wagner University of Waterloo (PDF)
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