German House

Christian Petzold’s drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of her past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional career has no future in her native town in the Eastern part of Germany, Yella has decided to search for a job in the West. When she gets to know Philipp, a smart executive at a private equity company in Hanover, she becomes his assistant and gets involved into the world of ruthless and big business. Realizing her dreams could come true with Philipp’s help, she starts hearing voices and sounds from her past, which menace her new and better life…

SYNOPSIS

Based on a chilling true story, The Experiment is an intense, high-energy thriller about a human behavior study in a controlled environment that gets wildly and horribly out of control. Stylish, compelling and incredibly provocative, “it’s an exhilarating and powerful work you won’t soon forget.” (Warren Curry, Cinemaspeak.com)

An undercover reporter (Moritz Bleibtreu of Run Lola Run) signs up tobe a paid volunteer in a two-week scientific research project designed to test the psychological effects of prison life. Joining a group of 11 other volunteer “prisoners” in a makeshift prison, the inmates are monitored by eight volunteer “guards” and an elaborate system of surveillance cameras. Now, the watched and the watchers find themselves drawn into a twisted nightmare where vulnerability is weakness, power is intoxicating and The Experiment becomes a terrifying reality that will change their lives forever.

“Hypnotic! Haunting and Unsettling.” -Elvis Mitchell, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Chilling! Leaves you breathless.” -Molra McDonald, SEATTLE TIMES

Love finds a tabloid journalist in an unexpected place in this romantic comedy from Germany. Ludo (Til Schweiger) is a reporter who has enjoyed a successful career documenting the peccadilloes of the rich and famous with the help of his photographer sidekick Moritz (Matthias Schweighoefer). But a run-in with boxerWladimir Klitschko and his fiancée Yvonne Catterfeld at a party turns into a food fight and Ludo is charged with disturbing the peace. Ludo is ordered to perform three hundred hours of community service at a children’s day care center, which is especially bad news since Ludo doesn’t care for kids. Ludo finds himself working side by side with the center’s director, Anna Gotzlowski (Nora Tschirner), who had an unfortunate run in with Ludo when they were children and doesn’t like him any more now than she did then. Anna goes out of her way to make things difficult for Ludo, but in time he begins to get the hang of his new assignment, starts bonding with his young charges, and even enjoys a brief fling with a sexy single mom (Brigitte Zeh). But as Ludo’s soft side begins to surface, Anna finds herself increasingly attracted to him, and the antagonists discover they’re falling in love.Keinohrhasen was written and directed by leading man Til Schweiger, and was a major box office hit in Germany.

There are six principal characters in “The Edge of Heaven”: two mothers, two daughters, a father and a son, all arranged in more or less symmetrical pairs. In the course of this extraordinary film by the German writer-director Fatih Akin (which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last year) children are lost, lost parents are never found, and generational and geographical distances grow wider. Yet at the same time, as the lives of the characters cross and entwine, there is a sense of human connections becoming stronger and thicker, of a fragile moral order coalescing beneath the randomness and cruelty of modern life. And even as the movie bristles with violence — accidental and systematic, sexual and political — its tone is curiously gentle. — A. O. Scott, The New York Times

The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red Army Faction terrorism in the 1970s Federal Republic of Germany.

Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) is a bit of a mystery. In every respect a model citizen, a divorced young woman, living modestly, working as a housekeeper, she is quiet and doesn’t even consort with men, to such an extent that she is known to her friends as “the nun”. Attending a friend’s party one evening however during Carnival she encounters a known anarchist, Ludwig Götten (Jürgen Prochnow), who is being followed by the secret police, and to the surprise of everyone, leaves early, takes him home and spends the night with him. When the police raid her apartment the next morning however, there is no sign of Götten. Taken in for interrogation, the police do not believe Katharina’s story…

In Hamburg, Ibrahim “Ibo” Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle’s kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo’s German girlfriend, finds she’s pregnant. Ibo is uncertain about fatherhood – compounded by his father’s disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant – so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he’s still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montegue feud between the kebab joint and a Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?

…with Norah Tschirner (Keinohrhasen)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Eyvh4SUG0

Die Sehnsucht der Verkonika Voss

Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her “kind” doctor, Dr. Kart, supplying her house, food, clean clothes and her favourite: morphine. Voss, trying to come back towards the cinema, cannot perform an absurdly simple scene, but it attracts the attention of the journalist, who suspects that something’s very wrong regarding her doctor.

A Summer in Germany:

A wonderful opportunity to enjoy the advantages of studying abroad during your summer break.

June 1 until July 23, 2010

Experience Germany, Dortmund and the Ruhr Area

The upcoming summer program will focus on German culture in local, European and global contexts. As Germany’s largest polycentric, metropolitan region, the Ruhr Area will be the European Capital of Culture 2010, whose events and cultural activities will be incorporated in the program. You can select from a variety of courses, e.g. “Hip Hop on the Ruhr,” “Representations of Dortmund: Constructions of Urban Space,” “The Ruhr – Convergence of Industry, High Tech and Culture,” “The Identity and Representation of Representation of Teenagers in Germany and America.” In these classes, American and other international students will join Germans to explore together and from different perspectives the new developments on German and European culture. German language classes for all proficiency levels will complement the course offering.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15. February

Click here for more information: http://www.summerprogram.tu-dortmund.de

Watch: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/939950/Ruhr.2010

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http://wwww.cometogermany.com/

http://www.young-germany.de/

http://www.land-of-ideas.org/

http://www.deutschland.de/

http://www.goethe.de/ges/enindex.htm

http://www.goethe.de/kue/enindex.htm