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Drawing of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Luther Year 2017: Did Luther Invent High German?

In 1517, Martin Luther published the Ninety-Five Theses, and 2017, "The Luther Year," celebrates the 500th anniversary of this beginning of the Reformation. Luther’s German translation of the Bible has remained influential to this day; his hymns are still sung; and many still use his proverbs. But does all this make him the inventor of High German?

Monday, May 15, 2017 2:00 pm - Wednesday, May 17, 2017 3:00 pm CEST (GMT +02:00)

Negotiating Understanding: Responding to Formulations in Interaction

Conversation Analysis Research Workshop 

“Formulations” in spoken interaction propose an understanding of some state of affairs — of what another person has been telling or doing. This workshop examines a broad range of such sequences in which an understanding is formulated in conversation and then accepted or rejected. Such sequences allow us to trace how shared meaning and understanding is constructed in everyday interaction. 

German Language Film Festival; flags from Switzerland, Germany, and Austria
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

German Language Film Festival Kitchener-Waterloo

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)

German Language Film Festival; flags from Switzerland, Germany, and Austria
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

German Language Film Festival Kitchener-Waterloo

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)

German Language Film Festival; flags from Switzerland, Germany, and Austria
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

German Language Film Festival Kitchener-Waterloo

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)

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00 am - Friday, October 6, 2017 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

CALLIOPE Austria

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.

Friday, September 29, 2017 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

New fables for a New World: Burkard Waldis’s Aesopian Fable Collection

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.

Photo of Austrian pianist Ann Magdalena Kokits in a black dress, sitting on the floor.
Friday, September 29, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Anna Magdalena Kokits - Coast to Coast Tour

Anna Magdalena Kokits - Coast to Coast Tour

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.

Black-and-white headshot of author Siegfried Krakauer smoking his pipe.
Monday, November 13, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Reading: Carl Skoggard Reads From his Translation of Siegfried Kracauer's "Georg"

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.