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Dear Friends,
Spring is finally on its way - so emerge from your winter hibernation and check out our course schedule for April! Speaking of language: learning German is fun, even when school's out. Registration is now open for our German immersion summer camp for kids between 8 and 12.
On Wednesday, March 11, YA historical nonfiction author K.R. Gaddy will present her debut book, Flowers in the Gutter, which tells the incredible story of teenagers in Nazi Germany who formed their own resistance network. On March 25, we will have a very different kind of book talk: Paul M. Farber will present his new book, A Wall of Our Own, which explores the history of the Berlin Wall as it relates to American politics, society, and culture.
In 2020. New German Cinema filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder would have turned 75. But the troubled director lived a short life, fraught with violence, drug addiction, and mental illness. However, the films that he has left behind reveal many compelling trends in German attitudes toward gender, sexuality, and race in the postwar period. Join us on March 17 and March 31 as we engage critically with Veronika Voss and Whity, two remarkable works from Fassbinder's repertoire.
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