2021
Boston
Together Apart
A new choreography by the Boston Dance Theater conceived for video
Commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston Dance Theater creates a new choreography which translates themes of division, polarization, reunification and coming together into the language of contemporary dance. The work plays hommage to three decades of German reunification and at the same time reflects the current state of American society. The pandemic lends the theme additional timeliness.
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Kati Marton "The Chancellor"
Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton in conversation with Sabine von Mering, Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University on Marton’s new biography, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel on December 7, 2021.
In Conversation with composer Jörg Widmann
Andris Nelsons conducts the American premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI) for trumpet and orchestra featuring Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 18-20, 2021 at Symphony Hall, Boston MA.
BEETHOVEN’S SEPTET GOES MODERN
Featuring commissions by composers Heather Stebbins and Diana Rodriguez, performed by Sound Icon and Winsor Music. November 17, 2021
Sound Icon Ensemble
Winsor Music
Diana M. Rodriguez
Heather Stebbins
Authors in Conversation: Rachael Cerrotti and Julie Lindahl
Two storytellers turn to their own family’s history to explore how their grandparents survived the Nazi Regime. Online Conversation, October 25, 2021.
Authors in Conversation: Ulla Lenze and Marshall Yarbrough
German author Ulla Lenze and her translator, Marshall Yarbrough about Lenze's first publication in English, The Radio Operator.
Online conversation, October 21, 2021
Authors in Conversation: Sharon Dodua Otoo and Jon Cho-Polizzi
Bachmann-prize winning author Sharon Dodua Otoo and translator Jon Cho-Polizzi about Otoo’s debut novel Ada's Realm.
Online conversation, October 19, 2021
Singer-Songwriter Antje Duvekot
EarthDay@Goethe presents: "Anwesenheit" by Antje Duvekot, commissioned in honor of Earth Day.
Live Performance: May 13, 2021
What better way to communicate the urgency of climate change and the need to restore our Earth than through a song. We asked award-winning singer songwriter Antje Duvekot to compose a song in German and English in honor of Earth Day. A native of Germany living in Somerville, Antje is known for ‘turning fear into resilience and isolation into community’ – listen to her song here!
Anwesenheit
by Antje Duvekot
Hey Coyote, are you out there
Can you lead me to my ancient self
Hey glitter on the water, I think I need help
I keep dry and I keep warm
Got all this shelter from the storm
I can turn summer into winter
and night into day with a swtich
We can turn less into more but we don't anymore understand which is which
Hey perfection of a dew drop, can you lead me to my healing spot?
I thought I was independent, but I guess I forgot
that I've got milkyways in one neuron alone
I've got river beds in my bones
And I am no less a part of this, a part of all this
Show me the road less traveled, let's follow it back to the source
before the balance unraveled, before we lost our course
Auf unserem Sandkorn im Kosmos
Wunder der Anwesenheit
in seiner Zerbrechlich- und Unersetzlichkeit
Hey coyote are you out there
Have we come to a dividing line
Hey pollen on a bee's wing, do we still have the time
to save your habitat with habits that
inhabit that we have the facts
with habits that stop the ransack
We can grow less so you grow back
Show me the road less traveled, let's follow it back to the source
before the balance unraveled before we lost our course
Auf unserem Sandkorn im Kosmos
Wunder der Anwesenheit
in seiner Zerbrechlich- und Unersetzlichkeit
The State of the Arts: Movie Theatres
Mark Anastasio, Programmer at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and Wiebke and Johannes Thomsen, owners of Kino Lodderbast in Hannover, Germany, in conversation about cinemas during the pandemic. May 5th, 2021
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Authors in Conversation: Anja Kampmann & Amy Brady
EarthDay@Goethe presents: "High as the Waters Rise" by Anja Kampmann and "Climate Fiction" by Amy Brady.
Online Conversation, April 22, 2021.
Q&A with Burhan Qurbani
Conversation with the director of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Burhan Qurbani and Roy Grundmann, Professor of Film at Boston University. Online, March 28, 2021.
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Discussing Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
Fassbinder experts Peter Jealvich and Johannes Binotto examine Fassbinder's 1980 miniseries. Online, March 21, 2021.
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Film and Discussion : Masel Tov Cocktail
Discussion with filmmaker Arkadij Khaet. Online, February 18, 2021.
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