** Our season of German films comes to an end with Gundermann (2018) This film, directed by Andreas Dresen, is a German biopic about singer-songwriter Gerhard Gundermann, who worked as an excavator operator in an East German lignite mine while also being a popular musician. The film moves between two timelines -- his life before and after German reunification -- […]
** Join us for a Zoom talk tracing Berlin’s extraordinary Cold War story — from the four-power occupation and the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift, through the building of the Wall in 1961, to the tense stand-offs and superpower summits that made the city the front line of East-West confrontation. The talk explores daily life in a city split between two worlds, and […]
** Talk and tour at 45-47, The Lofthouse, College Rd, Ashley Down, Bristol BS7 9FG. Housed in one of the original Ashley Down orphan homes, this small museum tells the extraordinary story of George Müller -- born in Prussia, educated at Halle University, and later a Bristol resident who cared for and educated over 10,000 orphans through the Victorian era, funded […]
** Richard’s talk uncovers the true story of Germany’s WWII spy network in Britain — a handful of failures and a number of “successes,” though none of them for Germany! #####
