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Forthcoming Events for May at Messina Palace

  Wednesday, 8th May at 6.30p.m.

  Gesprächsrunde: "Uwe Timm - Familien- und andere Beziehungen"

  Diskussionsleiterin: Frau Dr Ute Rupprecht-Hung

  Members with a good knowledge of German are welcome
 

Friday, 8th May at 7.00p.m.  - Members and students are welcome.  Entrance is free.

German Film Evening - introduced by Frau Sirka Facklam. 

Film in German but with subtitles in English: "Knallhart" -  (produced in 2005 - Directed by Detlef Buck)

Fifteen-year-old Michael Polischka is thrown into the gritty urban world of a rough ethnic neighborhood, far from the posh suburbs he’s used to. Beatings and extortion by a gang of violent bullies makes public high school miserable for Michael. Life at home isn’t much better since he has to put up with the guys his pretty young mom entertains in her desperate search for a new man. Michael’s life turns around when urbane crime lord Hamal takes him under his wing. Michael’s honest face makes him the perfect guy for drug deliveries to local dealers. The teenager handles the tension of these dangerous missions like a pro.
 

Wednesday, 13th May at 7.00p.m. -  Everyone is welcome to attend

Talk by Dr Thomas Freller, Senior Lecturer at the Department of German at the University of Malta on the theme:

"Does Maltese contain Punic Fragments?"

In Early Modern Times this was a hotly debated subject. This talk aims to give an overview of what European linguists and historians said on the topic. A special focus will be laid on the comments by German scholars.

Wednesday, 20th May at 6.30p.m. - Members with a good knowledge of German are welcome.

Gesprächsrunde: Thema:  "Geld"

Diskussionsleiter: Dr Thomas Freller
 

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 *  Europatag werden zwei Tage des Jahres bezeichnet, an denen Europäisches gefeiert wird. Am 9. Mai jedes Jahres gedenkt man der Schuman-Erklärung,
     der 5. Mai jedes Jahres erinnert an die Gründung des Europarates.

ion all Members!!  -  Exciting Events for May at Messina Palace

Goethe Institut: Ambassador of German Film

The Goethe-Institut, the cultural organization of the Federal Republic of Germany, is famous worldwide. But most people who know the organization associate it with German language classes. What they do not realize is that it is also one of the biggest “cinemas” in the world. Every year the 134 Goethe Institutes around the world offer some 25,000 film screenings, or an average of 68.5 per day, reaching an audience of over two million film-goers. For over 50 years Goethe Institutes have been supporting the distribution and screening of German films abroad.

Goethe Institutes’ programs includes films of all styles and genres, starting with silent classics by such directors as Fritz Lang or Ernst Lubitsch and ranging through New German Cinema auteur films, documentaries, shorts and animated films to the most recent productions: Cherry Blossoms by Doris Dörrie, On the Other Side by Fatih Akin and The Lives of Others by Oscar winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck are currently among the most widely shown films. The Goethe-Institut has a central film archive not far from Frankfurt and 37 of its own film archives dotted around the world which supply their regions with German films. Goethe Institutes have established their own German-language film festivals on almost every continent, for example in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Sydney, Prague and Tokyo.

More than 60 film representatives work abroad, designing attractive programs with the pool of 900 contemporary and historical films for which the Goethe-Institut has acquired the rights. “The film representatives work very creatively with this range of individual films and film series. That’s why their skills and specialist knowledge are of decisive importance for the success of the Goethe-Institut’s international film activities,” says Detlef Gericke-Schönhagen, head of the film department at the Goethe-Institut. “The key to our work with films lies not only in screening them. We also work on developing international film networks which benefit filmmakers, producers and broader audiences.”

Here, the Goethe-Institut is aided by its worldwide network and its numerous contacts with film academies, filmmakers and film industry representatives in the various countries. In addition to this the Goethe-Institut cooperates with about 150 international film festivals, as well as film libraries, film clubs and film academies.

Of all the different branches of culture represented by the Goethe-Institut, film is certainly the most regularly employed medium: some 45% of all the events are film-related. Before the Goethe-Institut buys new productions for worldwide screenings, an advisory board consisting of experts from the German film industry discusses the selection. They concentrate mainly on aesthetic, content and artistic criteria. Apart from this, every film should be thematically suitable for long-term worldwide use. Film is also an important medium in Goethe Institutes’ German-language work: all of the films are shown in the original language version accompanied by subtitles in ten optional world languages.

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