VU German Club

Date & Time: Thursday, April 17th. 9AM - 2PM @ the Duesenberg Recital Hall (VUCA)

Come and see this year's Theaterfest! Local high school students will perform skits in foreign languages. VU students enrolled in the German Drama Practicum will also present their skits.

As the final part of Valpo's International Film Festival, there will be a showing of Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) on Friday, April 4th, in the Niels Science Center.

Tickets cost $6, or if you are a VU student, bring your ID and there will be no cost to you.

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

To students of German:

You are invited to attend a free pizza dinner and German "job club" event this Thursday, March 27 in the German House. It will start at 5:30 and end at 7:00 p.m.

Each year, we like to invite one of our former German majors back to campus to talk about the world of work for students of German. (Last year, we had an interesting presentation by someone who uses German in her work for a business in Chicago.)

This year, our guest speaker will be Michaela Houldieson, a former Valpo German major who now teaches German at Valparaiso High School. If you have ever considered teaching, this might be a worthwhile talk for you.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by Wednesday evening to Prof. Bjornstad ( jennifer.bjornstad@valpo.edu ) so that she can order enough pizza. (If a few people don't have a chance to RSVP, that will be okay. Come anyway. We will order extra food. Just please RSVP if you can so that nothing is wasted.)

Best,
Prof. Malchow

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Hailed by critics as a new force in world cinema, FLRG 390 likes to invite interested students and faculty to a screening of the Romanian film

California Dreamin', Romania, 2007 (unfinished cut) Directed by Cristian Nemescu

In Romanian with English subtitles

Date & Time: Monday March 24th 7:30pm

At the Kade-Duesenberg German Cultural Center

1999, during the war in Kosovo. In a small Romanian town Doiaru, the chief of the railway station, who happens to be the local mobster as well, stops a NATO train transporting military equipment. The transport, supervised by American soldiers, is crossing Romania without official documents, based only on verbal approval of the Romanian government. The arrival of the Americans turns the hitherto nondescript settlement into the village of all possibilities. A love story is born between the rail station chief's daughter, who wants to leave the dusty village at any cost, and one of the American soldiers. Meanwhile, the American officer in command of the train stirs the villagers to revolt against the chief. In the end the train moves on, leaving behind a village steeped in anarchy...

Unfinished when the talented 27-year old helmer died in a traffic accident some six weeks after wrapping the shoot, the picture spins a complex dark comedy of near-Shakespearean proportions." (Alissa Simon, Variety)

The movie, a satire on the culture clash between American NATO troops and small-town Romanians during the 1999 Kosovo conflict, has won the Iris Award, the top prize at the Brussels European Film Festival. The movie already won the 'Un Certain Regard' award at Cannes in May [2007].

--(Leo Cendrowicz, The Hollywood Reporter)

********* Please join us for the screening of this recent film**************

Monika Moyrer, Ph.D.

The German Club sponsors many events for members, foreign exchange students and other interested people from around campus. Contact the president or secretary for more informatino about these events.

German club-ers,

The only real thing to come out of tonight's meeting was this:

Game night next week, 2/26 at 9:30 in the German House. Basically, same time and place as a regular meeting but more fun! Bring your favorite game, especially if you have trouble playing big kid games. :)

That's all for now!

Ryan

This years Internation Dinner will take place on Feburary 8th and 9th at 6PM.

Various foods from around the world will be served at 6PM. Following the dinner, at 7PM, VU's orginations will perform various skits. The German Club will be making an appearence.

Valpo's German 390 class on 'Post-Wende Lit&Culture' invites everyone interested in German film to our screening of "Stilles Land" D, 1992 on Monday, January 14th 2008 at 7:30 in the GCC. Since the film will be screened in German with English subtitles students of all levels are welcome.

Stilles Land (Silent Country), director Andreas Dresen

Right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989: Kai, an eager drama-school graduate arrives to stage "Waiting for Godot" in a run-down, provincial theater. The lethargic local theater troupe is a cast of cynics and drunks, trying to make sense of the revolution in Berlin.

"Silent Country" was the first feature film by Andreas Dresen, one of Germany's most successful young directors. The tragicomedy took the 1993 International Film Festival in Berlin by storm.

Danke. I wish the German Club an engaging and interesting semester,

Monika Moyrer