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“Makarionissi:” An Evening with Vea Kaiser And Eric Jarosinski

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Vea Kaiser, from her recent novel Makarionissi oder Die Insel der Seligen, followed by a conversation with the acclaimed Germanist, writer and mastermind of @neinquarterly, Eric Jarosinski. Makarionissi oder Die Insel der Seligen: When Yiayia Maria misreads the signs in a little village nestled in…

(Panel Discussion) Ghosts in the Machine: East German Culture in Unified Germany

Join us on the German pre-election evening for a fascinating panel with Petra Epperlein, director of the recent acclaimed film, Karl-Marx-City; Tim Mohr, author of Stirb nicht im Warteraum der Zukunft, a book on East German punk rock; and Cornelia Thomsen, a prominent East German artist now based in New York. The talk will be followed by a reception sponsored by NYU. From the Goethe…

A Conversation: Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between scholars Tina Campt and Joshua Chambers-Letson who will join Malik Gaines to discuss his new book, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible. In this transnational study, Gaines explores the legacies of leftist theater in performances of the 1960s. Attention to the roles played by Afro-German actor…