Deutsches Haus at NYU and the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU present a reading by Leonard Barkan of his new book Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion, and a conversation between the author and Ben Kafka, professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you…
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eutsches Haus at NYU and the University Alliance Ruhr New Yorkpresent “Fragments of Metropolis – Rhein & Ruhr,” a panel discussion among Barry Bergdoll, Niels Lehmann, and Christoph Rauhut. The architecture of expressionism powerfully heralded in Central Europe the onset of the roaring twenties. On the occasion of the publication of the bilingual German and English volume Fragments of Metropolis – Rhein & Ruhr (Hirmer Verlag, 2016), the publishers, authors…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents Various Small Grunewalds, an exhibition of photographic black and white prints by the writer-in-residence Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. “Not a stranger to the city of Berlin at all, back after 16 years, I was suddenly a resident of the Grunewald colony, villas and bungalows near small lakes with public access. I bumped into a policeman on…
The Austrian Cultural Forum presents a special screening of Heidrun Holzfeind’s Colonnade Park. The film explores architect Mies van der Rohe’s high rise apartment buildings in Newark and the lives and stories of the people inhabiting it. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Austrian artist Heidrun Holzfeind, architecture historian Mariana Mogilevich and MoMA curator Barry Bergdoll.…