Free
Afternoon
seminars
Every Tuesday, 3 PM
About German film, art, history and literature
GLS teachers are not only good teachers – they are experts in fields like German film, art, history and literature. Every week they offer a free seminar, each about her/his field of expertise:
Gudrun
- German film: all about early masterworks like ”Metropolis”, about famous “Autorenfilmer” like Rainer Werner Fassbinder and today´s movie production
- Weimar Republic (1918 – 1933): about a brief and very liberal period in German history, between World War I and the rise of the Third Reich
Susann
- Art of the Third Reich: how the Nazis handled art, using it as a tool for propaganda purposes
Teoman
- Berlin – capital of nightlife: more about famous Berlin clubs and partys
- Angela Merkel: the biography of the world´s most powerful woman
- The Berlin Wall and its origins as “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"
Christina
- Western Germany, the “Bonn Republic” between 1945 and 1990
- Berlin, from its foundation in the 13th century till today
Jeremias
- Martin Luther, the German Reformation and its influence on Europe
- The German Empire before World War I
Jochen
- National Socialism and the sociological concept of hostility against groups defined as being different and not belonging
Petra
- German literature in the 19th and 20th century
- Art history with presentation of famous German artworks from the 16th century till today
Matthias
- Communist Germany: how the “Deutsche Demokratische Republik” DDR (1948 – 1990) operated and what daily life looked like
