Events

Poster: From Peaceful Revolution to German Unity Poster (PDF)

Poster: Voltaire & Frederick: A Life in Letters Poster (PDF)

On November 10th, the German Stage visited the University of Waterloo staging their play Voltaire & Frederick: A Life in Letters.

Poster: Marat-Sade-Bohnice Poster (PDF)

Poster for photo exhibition, Dictatorship and Democracy

Revealing a total of 190 rare photographs, newspaper clippings and political cartoons from different European archives, the exhibition "Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes" tells Europe's dramatic story of the 20th century – a past between freedom and tyranny, democracy and dictatorship.

Poster: title Fuehrerbunker in red Fraktur script, image of keyhole with light streaming through

Canadian composer Andrew Ager’s new chamber opera “Führerbunker” is receiving its premiere at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener.

Election battles were fought ferociously in pre-World War One Germany, when most middle-class Germans still opposed formal democracy. Anti-democrats deployed many exclusionary strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness.

Grimm 2017 Lecturer Timothy Snyder gives a lecture earlier this year.

Timothy Snyder, author of the widely successful book Black Earth, believes we have misunderstood the Holocaust and the essential lessons it should have taught us. If the Holocaust was indeed, as Snyder’s carefully constructed argument will demonstrate, a result of ecological panic and state destruction, then our misunderstanding of it has endangered our own future. The world of the early twenty-first century resembles the world of the early twentieth more than we realize—and some of our own sensibilities are closer to those of Europeans of the 1930s than we might like to think.

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From Peaceful Revolution to German Unity

Voltaire & Frederick: A Life in Letters

Film & discussion: Marat Sade Bohnice

Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes: Spotlights on the History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes: Spotlights on the History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

Führerbunker: An Experimental Chamber Opera by Andrew Ager

2016 Grimm Lecture: Democracy in Disappearing Ink: The Politics of Exclusion in Germany before Hitler

Grimm Lecture 2017 - Timothy Snyder : The Holocaust as History and Warning