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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Politics and filmmaking with Hito Steyerl
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 Kumars Salehi relates his interaction with acclaimed German video artist Hito … Continue reading
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Language and migration in Cinco Palmas
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 Jon Cho-Polizzi comments on the role of speech, translation, … Continue reading
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Film Review: Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Kenneth Cromer The Edge of Heaven (2007), directed by German-Turkish director Fatih Akın, is an award-winning German-Turkish film that exemplifies the convergence of German and Turkish cultures … Continue reading
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Tagged Akın_F, asylum, Fatih, Fatih Akin, film, film review, German, Germany, identity, immigration, integration, Istanbul, lgbt, lgbtq, Lotte, Nejat, Turkey, Turkish, violence, Yeter, youth culture
Film Review: Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Seri In The Edge of Heaven is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Turkish-German Fatih Akın. This film, set in Germany and Turkey, is in omnibus … Continue reading
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Tagged Akın_F, asylum, Auf der anderen Seite, Edge of Heaven, Fatih, Fatih Akin, film, film review, German, Germany, Istanbul, lgbt, lgbtq, Lotte, Nejat, review, Turkey, Turkish, Turkish-German, Yeter
Film Review: Am Rand der Städte (On the Outskirts)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Angel (Jingwei) Li Am Rand der Städte (On the Outskirts) Film Production Studio: Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Running Time: 83 min DVD Release Year: 2007 Director: Aysun Bademsoy … Continue reading
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Tagged Am Rand der Städte, Aysun Bademsoy, Bademsoy, culture, documentary, Europe, film, film review, German, Germany, On the Outskirts, Turkey, Turkish
Film Review: The Swissmakers (Die Schweizermacher)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Karla Palos The 1978 film Die Schweizermacher (The Swissmakers) is a good cop/bad cop comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy which dramatizes the bureaucratic exchanges between immigration officials and … Continue reading
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Tagged citizenship, Die Schweizermacher, employment, Europe, film, film review, identity, immigration, integration, migration, mobility, multicultural, Multicultural Germany, Schweiz, Schweizer, society, Swiss, Swiss Makers, Swissmakers, Switzerland, The Swiss Makes, The Swissmakers, xenophobia
Film Review: Fack ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Jasmine Giang Fack ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer) is a 2013 German screwball/romantic comedy, directed by Turkish-German director Bora Dağtekin. It proved to be one of the most commercially … Continue reading
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Tagged Bora Dağtekin, comedy, crime, Dağtekin, education, Europe, Fack ju Göhte, German, Germany, Goethe, Göhte, high school, identity, Multicultural Germany, school, Shakespeare, Suck Me Shakespeer, Turkish, Turkish-German
Film Review: Dirt for Dinner (Dreckfresser)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Cara Bohmann Dreckfresser – Dirt for Dinner This documentary from 2000 by Branwen Okpako tells the story of Samuel Njankouo Meffire, son of a Cameroonian father and German … Continue reading
Book Review: Along a Dangerous Road
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Evelyn Roth Along a Dangerous Road – “Der Schlaf in der Ténéré hinterlässt eine unzerstörbare Spur im Körper. Eine Erinnerung für das ganze Leben“ (Sleeping in the Ténéré leaves its mark … Continue reading
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Tagged Along a Dangerous Road, book, book review, border, culture, Europe, Fabrizio Gatti, journalism, migration, multicultural, Multicultural Germany, North Africa, review
