Fack ju Göhte 2 (Suck Me Shakespeer 2)
With actors Karoline Herfurth and Elyas M’Barek. In the sequel to the blockbuster romantic comedy Fack ju Göhte, Karoline Herfurth and Elyas M’Barek return as Lisi Schnabelstedt and Zeki Müller, an unlikely couple of teachers at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. Ms. Schnabelstedt and Mr. Müller, now an item, are tasked with improving the school’s image by taking their students on a […]
Kulturelle und Politische Partizipation? Ein Interview with Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz
In addition to English-language translations and original posts, the MGP blog also provides a space for creative and critical work in German that may be of interest to our readers. In this post, MGP contributor Daniel Schreiner talks to German-Turkish scholar, author, performer, and activist Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz on representing marginalization and hybridity and what it means to be […]
José F.A. Oliver’s First Letter from Istanbul
José F.A. Oliver is a contemporary German-language author of Spanish descent. In 2013, he received the Stipendium der Kulturakademie Tarabya, spending four months as writer in residence in Istanbul and publishing 21 Gedichte aus Istanbul 4 Briefe & 10 Fotow:orte (2016), a collection of poetry, photography, and prose inspired by his experiences there. Encountering firsthand the […]
Framing Migration: Timeline of the seminar
Feb. 17-18 – “Cinco Palmas” A performance and workshop of the theatrical play about experiences of migration, facilitated by writer-director Martha Herrera-Lasso Gónzalez and dancer-choreographer Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, a Performance Studies PhD student and a participant in “Framing Migration.” While the plot follows the journey of an undocumented child from Honduras to Los Angeles, the play […]
Framing Migration: Our new blog
The Multicultural Germany Project blog is a project of the UC Berkeley Department of German in collaboration with others working in various fields of study and practice. In this space, the MGP brings together perspectives from different disciplines and backgrounds, all centered on themes of immigration/migration, race/ethnicity, minority experiences, and cultural exchange—hopefully, in a fun […]
Schlingensief’s remains: Crisis and cruelty
This post was workshopped in the graduate seminar “Framing Migration,” taught by Prof. Deniz Göktürk of the UC Berkeley Department of German. In this post, seminar participant Christine Korte analyzes the way in which a play by performance artist and theater/film director Christoph Schlingensief engages (and provokes) discourses around European cultural politics and the potential of avant-garde art. […]
Law, communication, and the discourse of migration
A version of this post was originally written for the graduate seminar “Framing Migration,” taught by Prof. Deniz Göktürk of the UC Berkeley Department of German. In this post, seminar participant Abigail Stepnitz uses legal theory lenses to tie together the strings of multiple readings from the course. An earlier version of this post served as an […]
Reading Erpenbeck at Oranienplatz
A version of this post was originally written for the graduate seminar “Framing Migration,” taught by Prof. Deniz Göktürk of the UC Berkeley Department of German. In this post, seminar participant Lisa Friedrich discusses German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen, a German novel that deals with the refugee protest encampment at Berlin’s Oranienplatz (“Oplatz”). An earlier version […]
Migration and museums
A version of this post was originally written for the graduate seminar “Framing Migration,” taught by Prof. Deniz Göktürk of the UC Berkeley Department of German. In this post, seminar participant Aster Hoving reacts to an essay by German cultural anthropologist Barbara Wolbert, “Studio of Realism: On the Need for Art in Exhibits on Migration.” Wolbert’s […]
Undocumented pleasures
A version of this post was originally written for the graduate seminar “Framing Migration,” taught by Prof. Deniz Göktürk of the UC Berkeley Department of German. In this post, seminar participant Juan Manuel Aldape lays out the basics of his project in the course, drawing out connections between the theatrical piece Amarillo (a migration narrative that […]