The first full critical biography of Benjamin in any language, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Harvard 2014) is the capstone of a twenty-year collaboration between scholars Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings on Walter Benjamin’s life, work, and critical legacy. The Program in Critical Theory brings them together with Harvard University …read more
UC Berkeley German Film Club presents “Nosferatu the Vampyre” (dir. Werner Herzog, 1979) …read more
By invitation only. Contact: euba@berkeley.edu …read more
By invitation only. Contact: euba@berkeley.edu …read more
UC Berkeley German Film Club presents “The Hands of Orlac” (dir. Robert Wiene, 1924) …read more
Admirers as well as critics have discussed Ruttmann’s famous BERLIN: DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSSTADT (1927) either as a major work of autonomous film art or as a formalist experiment in documentary, featuring what might have been the world’s most dynamic metropolis of that time. Ninety years later, in the face …read more
By Sonja Kmec (Professor at the University of Luxembourg and Visiting Professor at the Department of German and Dutch Studies) Tuesday, October 21 223 Moses Hall, 6-8PM, followed by a reception offered by the Consulate of Luxembourg. For the third time, a Luxembourg politician has been nominated President of the European Commission. After …read more
Between Thorns and Thistles: The Enlightenment Critique of the Rococo “E tenebris autem quae sunt in luce tuemur” “Now we see out of the dark what is in the light” (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, IV, 337) Categorizing, contemplating, and critiquing the dark shadows of culture remained a key component of the Age …read more
Film screening of “Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam,” classic silent horror film from 1920. …read more
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