Deutschland 09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films on the State of the Nation)
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of the country in 2009. Director and one of the project’s founders, Tom Tykwer, says, “Der Film Deutschland 09 vereint ein gutes Dutzend individuelle filmische Blicke auf das, was wir heute und jetzt als Heimat erleben – und wie wir uns in diesem Land verorten, verirren, verstricken. (“The […]
Müll im Garten Eden (Garbage in the Garden of Eden)
This documentary follows villagers in Turkey’s Black Sea village of Çamburnu as they struggle with the central government’s decision to turn establish a garbage dump in the hills above their community. The film is not currently for sale in the US. Links: IMDB, Official Site, Film-portal Genre(s): Documentary Theme(s): Democracy; Activism; Spatial or Temporal Spaces and Borders;
Multicultural Germany Class Final Paper: Staged Realities
At the end of the past semester, students in the Multicultural Germany class at UC Berkeley wrote final papers on topics of their choosing. To conclude our series of posts from this class, we are delighted to share several of their papers here. This paper is by Treasure Nguyen, who wrote about Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 film, Angst […]
Film Reviews: “Alles auf Zucker!”
As part of their work in the Multicultural Germany undergraduate seminar at UC Berkeley, students in the course reviewed recent German films relating in various ways to topics of migration, multiculturalism, and contemporary German identity. Jennifer Lau, Jenelle Mathews, and Brittany Scott reviewed Dani Levy’s 2004 comedy Alles auf Zucker Review by Jennifer Lau: Nothing brings an estranged family […]
“Alles auf Zucker!” Film Review by Jennifer Lau
Nothing brings an estranged family together like the death of a loved one and the subsequent promise of an inheritance. In Dani Levy’s 2004 comedy, Go for Zucker (Alles auf Zucker), two brothers are forced to overcome their animosity and reconcile both their personal feud and religious differences, which simmered for over 40 years as […]
“Alles auf Zucker!” Film Review by Jenelle Mathews
The 2004 film, “Alles auf Zucker” is a German work that engages with social issues such as religion, family loyalty and identity through the use of comedy. The film was directed by Dani Levy and is situated in modern Berlin. Levy’s work portrays two brothers and their families, who after many years of severed contact […]
“Alles auf Zucker!” Film Review by Brittany Scott
Go for Zucker! is a comedy film directed by Dani Levy that was released in 2004. The film portrays the story of a family divided by the Berlin Wall emotionally and physically. The division provides the basis for conflict between Jackie Zucker – a pool shark – and Samuel Zuckerman, his orthodox Jewish brother. The […]
“Alles auf Zucker” Film Review by Katja Minitsenka
A movie by a Swiss Jewish director about German Jews, Go for Zucker deals with multiple problems in German post-reunification society. Among many conflicts, depicted in this movie, are the differences between the West and the East, now and then, religious and not, politically correct and not, family relations or absence thereof, conflict of generations […]
German-Chinese Business Communication: An Interview with Anne Schreiter
MGP research apprentice Yiran Wang recently interviewed Anne Schreiter, a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley German Department. Anne received her Ph.D. in Organization Studies and Cultural Theory with a focus on Sociology from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Her dissertation examines sense-making mechanisms of managers in the German-Chinese business world. She studied Societal […]
New Issue of TRANSIT
“TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World” is pleased to announce the publication of the first installment of texts in the 2013-14 volume: an excerpted translation of Ali’s Kürk Mantolu Madonna (The Madonna in the Fur Coat, 1943) and selections from the exhibition on “Das neue Deutschland. Von Migration und Vielfalt” (The New […]