** This year's season of films gets underway with this 2013 drama from Hannover-based director Christian Schochow, starring Joerdis Triebel. East German Nelly Senff and her young son Alexej emigrate […]

** The Hanseatic League, considered an ancient forerunner of the European Union, ruled the waves in the Renaissance. Based along the German-speaking Baltic and North Sea coasts, it had an […]

** Katja Hoyer’s talk is based on her new book, which explores the history of Weimar — the town rather than the Republic. Tickets for online and in-person participation are […]

** 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 […]

** 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 […]

** The scheduled visit to the George Muller Museum on October 8 has been cancelled because of damage caused by a water leak. We will reschedule in the spring. #####

** 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! #####