The Goethe-Institut London and its partners are pleased to present The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, the first complete UK retrospective of the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who have crafted one of the most influential and controversial oeuvre in modern cinema. Running from March until June 2019 across several London venues, the season will include Huillet and Straub’s long and short films directed between 1962 and 2006. The retrospective will also feature video works of…
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Alexandra Pirici (RO) brings the ongoing action Leaking Territories (2017) to London for the first time as part of Block Universe, London’s leading international performance art festival and commissioning body. Originally made for the decennial art exhibition Skulptur Projekte Münster / Munster Sculpture Projects 2017, the work took as its point of departure the historic town hall’s ‘Friedensaal’, where the Westphalian Peace Treaty was signed in 1684, marking the beginning of diplomatic solutions to large-scale conflicts and introducing key concepts…
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How does a novel become transformed into a film or stage play? How do dramaturgs, screenplay writers, and directors approach the adaptation of a novel for stage or screen? Which decisions do they have to make? And how does the novelist react to the end product? Taking Peter Stamm’s Agnes as an example, we will follow the journey which enables novels to transform into theatre and film productions. Agnes, the novel by Swiss author Peter Stamm, first appeared in 1998.…
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At the time of the Armenian genocide a blacksmith sets out to search for his daughters who were able to escape from killings. His epic journey leads him from Turkey to Syria, Lebanon, Cuba and the USA. Following his films Head-On and The Edge of Heaven, this is the third and final part of Fatih Akin’s trilogy “Love, Death, and the Devil”. Germany, France, Poland, Turkey, Canada, Russia, Italy 2014, 138 mins. With English subtitles. Director: Fatih Akin Presented as…
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German – the language of love! Learn more about the relationship between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert expressed through their letters, full of admiration and love, and why they wrote in German. German is the language of love – no-one would have agreed more than Queen Victoria when she fell head over heels with the Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In an exhibition at the Goethe-Institut London, you can find out more about their relationship through their letters, written…
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Willkommen am Goethe-Institut London! Learn your first German sentences in 25 minutes and see how easy and fun a new language can be. Find learning a new language hard? Join us for a fun 25 minutes and see how much German you already know but never knew. Lessons at the Goethe-Institut London are all about communication and culture, so we look forward to meeting you. Learn German with the market leader. This event is part of The Great Exhibition Road…
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Guten Tag, Goethe-Institut London! Our Online Group Courses give you the freedom to learn German whenever and wherever you want. Experience what online learning can be in 25 minutes. Learn German Online – anywhere, anytime and as part of a group! During this taster you can experience our online learning environment and learn your first German phrases. See how intuitive your first steps in a new language can be! Online learning gives you the freedom to align your studies with…
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Find the anonymous hacker! This game, inspired by escape rooms, will encourage you to use your German while boosting your detective and teamwork skills. Equipped with iPads, players will become agents on the hunt for an anonymous hacker. The main questions are: Who is the hacker and where is he now? To get to the bottom of this the players will need to discover hidden clues and solve riddles in the game. Communication and team work are the key to…
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