Deutsches Haus at NYU

Tonight at 6:30pm @goetheinstitut.bsky.social NYC, co-sponsored by @deutscheshausnyu.bsky.social, I'll be in conversation with translator Sophie Duvernoy about her magnificent rendering of Gabriele Tergit's sprawling novel EFFINGERS, out from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.

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Please join us on 11/6 at 6 PM for a film screening of "Geographies of Kinship" and a discussion between Deann Borshay Liem and Rosemarie Peña about questions of identity, assimilation, kinship, and belonging. Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/adoption-a...

Please mark your calendars and join us on November 13 from 6–8 PM for the exhibition opening of Harald Hauswald's "Life in East Germany" and an artist talk between Harald and the photographer and curator Martin Schoeller. Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition...

Go Clara Go: Challenges for Art & Independent Expression in former East Germany DOORS OPEN AT 5:40 PM, EVENT BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 6:00 PM

Looking forward to next Tuesday's 6pm screening of GO CLARA GO (dir. Silvie Kürsten, 2025) at Syndicated Bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I'll do a post-screening conversation w/ the director.

h/t @1014nyc.bsky.social

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Please join us on 10/27 at 6 PM for a reading by Thomas Blubacher from his book "Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood" (@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social 2025) and a conversation with Sabine von Mering. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/weimar-und...

Please join us on 9/30 at 6 PM for an introduction into the question “What is Socionarratology?” with @marcortmann.bsky.social, Florian Fuchs, Sarah Rivett, Philipp Felsch, and Chris Wood. More details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-is-so...

Please join us on September 25, at 6 PM for a reading by Sasha Marianna Salzmann from their acclaimed novel "Glorious People" (@pushkinpress.com, 2025), followed by a conversation between the author and Marianne Hirsch. More details and RSVP info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/glorious-p...

Please join us on September 9 at 6 PM for a talk by Prof. Oliver Lubrich on "Alexander von Humboldt – The Whole World in 250 Essays," which will examine Humboldt not only as a researcher and writer, but also as an artist and public intellectual.

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Please join us on June 12 at 6 PM for the exhibition opening of Dirk Anschütz's long term photography project "Fathers and Sons," which includes portraits taken all across the U.S. More details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition...

Image of the empty German parliament with rows and rows of empty purplish blue seats.

Please join us on May 28 at 6 PM, when we present “What to Expect from the New Government in Berlin,” a conversation between @constelz.bsky.social (Brookings Institute) and Steven E Sokol (American Council on Germany). More details and RSVP information here: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-to-ex...

Book cover of Christian Lehnert's "Wickerwork" (Archipelago Books, 2025) with a pale blue background and an image of a delicate dragonfly on the cover.

Please join us and @archipelagobooks.bsky.social this Friday at 5:30 PM for the book launch of Christian Lehnert's "Wickerwork" with the translators Richard Sieburth and Rosanna Warren. Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/wickerwork...

‘Illness and Its Very Concept’ | Edna Bonhomme When I decided to move from Brooklyn to Berlin in 2017, I was attracted by the prospect of a medical system that would protect me from debt and premature

Edna Bonhomme on the Socialist Patients’ Collective and the politics of health

Image of the book cover of Dana Vowinckel's "Misophonia," which depicts a posterized teenage girl wearing headphones against a turquoise background with exploding yellow stars.

Join us and @1014nyc.bsky.social on 5/14 at 6 PM for the book launch of "Misophonia" (2025, HarperVia) with the author Dana Vowinckel, the translator, Adrian Nathan West, and the editor Martina Wunderer. Details and RSVP info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/misophonia...

Book cover of "Flacofolio" with an image by the visual artist Heide Hatry, which depicts Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl in black and white looking straight at the viewer.

Join us on May 9 at 5:30 for a conversation with the artist Heide Hatry and the poet Leonard Schwartz. "Flacofolio" reflects on the deep interconnectedness between humans and nature while celebrating Flaco the famous New York City eagle-owl. Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/flacofolio...

Please join our friends at Anthology this Saturday at 6 PM for the screening of two new works by the Austrian Filmmaker Marieli Fröhlich, who will be present to discuss her work. The works are "What is Happening?: Art and the Life of Hertie Fröhlich" and "S T O P" More details below:

Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller Demonstrations rarely lead to immediate policy change. But they are essential to building community and long-term resistance

"What is so often dismissed as performative–music, drums, people parading with handmade signs to have their photos taken by others–is not a matter of collective narcissism; rather, it has been recognized by many modern thinkers, starting with Rousseau, as an important part of building community."

Book cover of "German Film: From the Archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek" which depits a planetary landscape in the background and a small team of silhouetted figures that compose a camera crew in the foreground. The title "German Film" is in a pale yellow.

Join us 4/24 for a book presentation of "German Film. From the Archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek" and a conversation between Rainer Rother (Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek) and Mariana Ivanova (DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst). Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/german-fil...

Reminder: On Tue, April 22, 11 a.m. EST/17 CET the 2nd panel of "Historians on Democracy" will discuss "The Role of Civil Society". Speakers: Jeremy Varon, Marion Kaplan, Till van Rahden and Stephen Milder. Register here: tinyurl.com/mr478w7y

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@maxweberstiftung.de; @historians.org

And if you are not yet familiar with Katja Brunner, please have a look at this interview with her about her "decidely political" work, feminist collectives, the power of collaboration, and her plans for her residency in New York City: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Please join us this Friday at 5:30 PM for a reading and performance by Katja Brunner (Pro Helvetia writer-in-residence) from "The Hand is a Lonely Hunter" and "The Art of the Wound." Katja will be in conversation with Josefine Berkholz. More details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/my-steps-w...

Politics, Constitutions, and the Law Waiting room opens at 10:50 AM, event begins at 11 AM.

On 4/10, experts on constitutional law and comparative law Prof. Franz Mayer and Prof. Russel Millerto will discuss the current trends of executive power, judicial oversight, and constitutional integrity with 1014 and the ACG. Register now!
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Our speakers on the 1st “Historians on Democracy” panel next Tue, April 8, will include James Grossman, Jürgen Kocka, Dagmar Herzog, Colin Berg and myself, plus Q & A. Moderated by Ute Frevert @maxweberstiftung.de

Join us and please spread the word!

We are devastated to hear of Tim Mohr's passing. Such an incredibly soul, translator, and friend. We will miss him so much. Sending our deepest condolences to his family and friends, and to anyone whose lives he touched with his wit, humor, passion, and immense heart. 💔

Join us on 4/24 at 6 PM for a book presentation of "German Film. From the Archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek" and a conversation between Rainer Rother (Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek) and Mariana Ivanova (DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst). Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/german-fil...

Intriguing image of a dolorite sculpture called "Time Traveler," which depicts what might be a tiny monkey sitting on the neck of and holding on to the horns of a sort of equine skull.

Please join us on 3/10 at 6 PM for "On Space: Freeway to Hell" and a reading and conversation with the poet Monika Rinck (DAAD Chair in Contemporary Poetics) and Eugene Ostashevsky. More details here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

This looks like an interesting event taking place on 2/12 at 4:30 PM @thenewschool.bsky.social: A conversation on the graphic novel "Oberbrechen" with the authors Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, the historian Christina Molina, and the sociologist Irit Dekel: event.newschool.edu/graphichisto...

Movie poster of "Union: The Best of All Days" depicting a grid of images showing the main protagonists of Annekatrin Hendel's film about Berlin's Union Football Club and it's rise to the Champions League.

Please join us on 2/27 at 6 PM for a film screening of the documentary "Union: Die besten aller Tage," and a conversation between the filmmaker (and current Max Kade Foundation writer-in-residence) Annekatrin Hendel and our director, Juliane Camfield. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/union-the-...

Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to think, and how to feel, in a changing environment.

“You don’t need to go all the way to the Matterhorn or the Grand Canyon to discover the infinite, because the infinite is inside you.”

Caspar David Friedrich at the Metropolitan Museum.

Moshtari Hilal on her debut book Ugliness – The Skinny We speak with Afghan-German writer Moshtari Hilal about her book Ugliness, and the politics of how beauty is constructed.

"Beauty is not just something that passively exists. It is violently constructed"

Afghan-German writer Moshtari Hilal discusses her new book UGLINESS, out 11 Feb via @newvesselpress.bsky.social

Image stating "Federal Election 2025" on the right hand side (underlined in the colors of the German flag) and a list of the parties that will be on the ballot on the left hand side.

Please join us on February 5 at 6 PM for "Snap Elections in Germany and the Fate of Europe," with a moderated conversation featuring Hans Kundnani, Rahsaan Maxwell, Joyce Mushaben, and Steven E. Sokol. More details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/snap-elect...