German-American Friendship Month

Mayor Bloomberg and Dr. Ruth Westheimer kick off “German-American Friendship Month”
Proclamation applauds “invaluable contributions” German immigrants made
NEW YORK – “German-American Friendship Month” has started with a bang – or, to be precise – with four bangs hammered out by “Dr. Ruth” Westheimer as she closed the trading session at the New York Stock Exchange on [...]

New York Film Festival wählt “Räuber”

Die deutsch-österreichische Koproduktion „Der Räuber” (“The Robber”) von Benjamin Heisenberg wurde für die kommende 48. Ausgabe des New York Film Festival (NYFF) ausgewählt. Die Kommission erklärte, der Film sei genauso präzise und konzentriert wie der Titelheld. Im Zentrum stünde die „brilliant kalibrierte Darstellung“ von Andreas Lust, die mal „physisch explosiv“ und dann wieder „eng angespannt“ [...]

Brooklyn Biergarten welcomes good cause

As Americans are getting ready to celebrate the 4th of July holiday, ‘The Place for all Things German in New York,’ is preparing another fun fundraiser in support of its website www.GermanyinNYC.org.
On Tuesday, July 13 (6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.), the New Loreley in Williamsburg is setting aside its wooden tables and opens a couple [...]

German painter Sigmar Polke dies

German Sigmar Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos-provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany. He was 69; the cause was complications of cancer, according to Gordon Veneklasen, a [...]

German “Father Christmas” Named Student Oscar Finalist

Martin Schreier of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg is among the five finalists competing for the 2010 Honorary Foreign Film award in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 37th Annual Student Academy Awards.
“The Night Father Christmas Died” was selected from a record 61 entries from 36 countries. After the fantastical fairy tale “Nimmermeer” in 2007 (written [...]

Donnersmarck mit Dalton

Derzeit mit den Dreharbeiten in Venedig beschäftigt, konnten Regisseur Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck und Produzent Graham King in „The Tourist“ weitere bekannte Namen an die Seite von Johnny Depp und Angelina Jolie stellen. Neben Paul Bettany („Legend“) und Rufus Sewell (Kronprinz Leopold in „The Illusionist) sind nun auch noch Timothy Dalton („The Living Daylights“) und [...]

Avatar’s Na’vi use German Grammar

Who knew that German could actually be cool enough to lend it’s Grammar to the natives in the most successful movie of all times, Avatar’s Na’vi?
The natives of the fictional planet Pandora speak a made up language created by Paul Frommer a linguistics expert at USC.
Na’vi language is similar to Star Trek’s Klingon or to [...]

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