University of British Columbia, Canada, May 31 – June 3, 2019
TIFF 18 marks the return of Christian Petzold after his PHOENIX success two years ago with the refugee drama TRANSIT, starring Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer, straight from the Berlinale. Sven Taddicken has his world premiere in Toronto with THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLE.
Visit the Waterloo Region Museum's exhibition "Canada and Germany: Partners from Immigration to Innovation"and share a picture or memory with WCGS for your chance to win!
WCGS recently interviewed Waterloo Region Museum Curator, Adèle Hempel, about the ongoing exhibition "Canada and Germany: Partners from Immigration to Innovation."
Read the full interview here.
WCGS's Annual Report for 2017-2018 is now available.
Read it here.
German Studies Panel Title: Culture, Cultivation, Inculcation: The Subjects and Its Environments in 18th-Century German Literature and Aesthetics.
Submissions due 30 Sept 2018
What: CABARET (USA 1972, 124 min) musical drama directed by Bob Fosse, with Liza Minelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, and others.
Synopis: " 'Bye Bye Germany' is a deeply felt, often wry look at a group of Jewish friends — all Nazi-era survivors — who, in 1946 Frankfurt, unite to sell high-end linens to raise the funds to emigrate to America.
Faust: German"Krautrock” pioneers & present-day avant-provocateursPresented by Wavelength with Burn Down the Capital & Goethe-Institut Toronto
22 June 2018 @6pm
A German comedyby Swiss filmmaker Dani Levy that deals with modern Jewish identity in present-day Germany. It can be seen as part of the "Ossi-Wessi" (east-west) confrontation within Germany.