Debate about Sarrazin’s comments about Immigrants
Thilo Sarrazin’s controversial comments about Turkish Immigrants have led to a broader discussion about immigration and integration in Germany. Spiegel Online: Sarrazins türkenfeindliche Tiraden lösen Entsetzen aus Spiegel Online: Türken empören sich über Sarrazin Zeit: Zentralrat sieht Sarrazin in der Tradition Hitlers Zeit: Unter Deutschen Spiegel Online: Ökonom fordert Integrationsministerium/Umfrage: Zustimmung für Sarrazins Meinung
Herta Müller wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Zeit: Herta Müller bekommt den Literaturnobelpreis Spiegel: Patriot of an Estranged Homeland Spiegel: Nobelpreis für das Drama ihres Lebens
Where Europe Continues… Translingual Writers & the Cosmopolitan Imagination
Readings and a Roundtable with Yoko Tawada and Zafer Senocak moderated by Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley) Discussant: Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University) Friday | 18 April 2008 | 4-6 pm Townsend Center for the Humanities, Geballe Room
Fatih Akin’s Latest Film “Soul Kitchen”
Reuters: “Fatih Akin’s “Soul Kitchen” offers tasty treat” Zeit Online: “Fatih Akin in seiner Heimatstadt gefeiert” CNN Türk: “Hamburg’un açılışı Fatih Akın’dan”
Refugee Camp in France Closed
Spiegel Article: “Französische Polizei räumt Flüchtlingslager am Ärmelkanal“
“NPD’s Racist Election Campaign Flops”
Spiegel Article : “NPD’s Racist Election Campaign Flops”
Angst essen Seele auf (Ali: Fears Eats the Soul)
With actors Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin Available on VHS with English subtitles in USA Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of twenty-nine, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi […]
Sommer in Mezra
With actors Hussi Kutlucan, Abdurrahman Selvitop Zur Zeit will der junge Kreuzberger Türke Süleyman nur eines: raus aus der Stadt! Seine Freundin hat ihn gerade verlassen und in seiner WG läuft es auch nicht besonders. Also reist Süleyman in die Türkei, seiner Heimat. In Istanbul wird er von seinem skurrilen Onkel überredet, einen mysteriösen Goldschatz […]
Kanak Attack
With actors Luc Piyes and David Scheller available on DVD in Germany Ertan Ongun is a 25-year-old Turk living in Kiel, in Germany. His parents own a snack stand, but his real family has been the local Turkish gangs. His life – like those of his friends – is characterized by the daily fight for […]
Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
With actors Hanna Schygulla and Klaus Löwitsch available on DVD with English subtitles Hermann and Maria Braun’s marriage lasts only one day and one night before Hermann is called to the front. After the war he is reported missing. Yet Maria believes he is still alive. Maria becomes the mistress of a GI whom she […]