The German Language Film Festival takes place in May and is a collection of three movies, one each from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany.
May 17 - Austria: “Stefan Zweig - A Farewell to Europe” (Vor der Morgenröte)
The German Language Film Festival takes place in May and is a collection of three movies, one each from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany.
May 17 - Austria: “Stefan Zweig - A Farewell to Europe” (Vor der Morgenröte)
The German Language Film Festival takes place in May and is a collection of three movies, one each from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany.
May 17 - Austria: “Stefan Zweig - A Farewell to Europe” (Vor der Morgenröte)
This semester, instead of the Centre stipulating the book, we're leaving it up to you! So, read whatever German-related book you'd like, be it written by a German/Swiss/Austria author in whatever language you can easily read, or a novel that really interests you that's been translated into
A lecture by Marcus Funck.
Women have far too often been forgotten, overlooked, and marginalised in Austria’s official historiography—a fact that lends all the more importance to this exhibition’s attempt to survey the past 200 years in light of the biographies of important Austrian women. Austrian women whose talents, willpower, and determined courage have helped shape and enrich their country.
In 1548 Burkard Waldis published his version of an Aesopian Fable collection. The title promises Aesopian fables “completely renewed” with a hundred “new fables” never published before. What the ‘new’ entails is never established by the author, but an analysis of the text shows that it challenges our modern understanding of the fable. Waldis presents tales that follow a typical fable format: short little stories with animals followed by a short sentence with a moral lesson.
Anna Magdalena Kokits - Coast to Coast Tour
Award-winning Austrian pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits will play the following selection of pieces as part of her coast-to-coast tour during Canada 150.
Die ersten Monate des Fremdsprachenunterrichts zu gestalten, stellt für Lehrende eine große Herausforderung dar. Mit dem Begriff des „Sprachnotstandsgebiets A“ hat Rösler (2013) all die Schwierigkeiten treffend charakterisiert, die sich gerade mit dieser Phase des Lernprozesses verbinden.
Join us at Open Sesame, downtown Kitchener's distinctive gift shop/gallery/book store, for a reading by Carl Skoggard, translator of the novel Georg by Siegfried Kracauer.