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May 21: Your Ideas, Your NATO: Insights from the Next Generation

Wilhelmstraße 67

Wilhelmstraße 67

Discussion in Berlin between Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense Christian Schmidt, U.S. Ambassador Philip D. Murphy, and the winners of our policy workshop competition. The dialogue will focus on unity in the Alliance, NATO’s partnerships after the Arab Spring, and Smart Defense.

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    • May 21: special screening of SPLIT – A DIVIDED AMERICA

    http://www.splitdoc.com/Festivals/Calendar.aspx

    http://www.splitdoc.com/Festivals/Calendar.aspx

    Invitation to a special screening of

    SPLIT:  A DIVIDED AMERICA

    (Original with German subtitles)

    a film by Kelly Nyks

     Kino Arsenal

    Potsdamer Straße 2, 10785 Berlin

    Followed by a

    Discussion with director Kelly Nyks

    (Discussion will be in English. Questions can also be asked in German.)

    Doors open at 4:30 p.m.
    Film starts at 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion starts at 6:00 p.m.

    Seats are limited. Please r.s.v.p. to schilling-muehld@state.gov.

    SPLIT: A DIVIDED AMERICA is a concerned American’s unbiased look at the partisan divide that dominates American politics today. Part road-movie, part political investigation, SPLIT: A DIVIDED AMERICA examines the political, social and economic factors (like religion, urbanization, race, and wealth) behind Americans’ growing frustration with the election process.

    Director Kelly Nyks balances candid discussions with citizens all across the country and commentary from political observers including Robert Putnam, Norm Ornstein, Tucker Carlson, Bruce Bartlett, Noam Chomsky, Thomas Frank and Jesse Jackson among others.
    SPLIT: A DIVIDED AMERICA goes far beyond the headlines that reduce the United States to a nation of ‘‘Liberals vs. Conservatives.’  Shocking, informative and insightful, SPLIT: A DIVIDED AMERICA is a coast-to-coast adventure about democracy in America today.

    May 24: Joint reading with Karen Russell and Fiona Maazel

    Fiona Maazel

    Fiona Maazel

    The U.S. Embassy Literature Series

    The U.S. Embassy in cooperation with Veranstaltungsforum der Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, the American Academy Berlin, and the English Theatre Berlin
    Presents
    A joint reading with Karen Russell, American Academy Spring Fellow 2012, and Fiona Maazel, Picador-Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig

    Karen Russell will read from Vampires in the Lemon Grove, her new collection of short stories.

    Fiona Maazel will read from her forthcoming novel Woke up Lonely. 

    Moderator: Gregor Dotzauer, Der Tagesspiegel

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    19:00, English Theatre Berlin, Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin

    Tickets:  EUR 3,-  at +49 - (0)30 - 691 12 11  or by e-mail at tickets@etberlin.de

    For school classes and their teachers: Pl. register at IRCBerlin@state.gov to receive free tickets.

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    Fiona Maazel was born in Cleveland in 1975. She received a Master of Arts from William College in 1997 and a Master of Fine Arts from Bennington College in 2002. Fiona Maazel is the author of the novel Last Last Chance. She is the winner of the Bard Prize for 2009 and a National Book Foundation "5 under 35" honoree for 2008. Her work has appeared in Bomb, Book Forum, The Common, Conjunctions, Fence, The Mississippi Review, the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Salon, N+1, and The Yale Review. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, and just finished work on her next novel, Woke up Lonely.  She is the holder of the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature in the summer term of 2012.

    Karen Russell  received a B.A. from Northwestern University in 2003, and graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University in 2006. She was Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English at Williams College. Her stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope.

    She was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at a November 2009 ceremony, for her first book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and received the Bard Fiction Prize for it in 2011. Her second book and first novel, Swamplandia!, about a shabby amusement park set in the Everglades, was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011. It was also included in the New York Times' "10 Best Books of 2011."She is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, for Spring 2012.

    In 2007 the University of Leipzig in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service and the Veranstaltungsforum der Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck initiated the Picador-Guest Professorship for Literature at the University of Leipzig.

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    Poetry Festival Berlin 2012, June 1-9, 2012 at Akademie der Kuenste

    Michael Palmer (poet)

    Michael Palmer (poet)

    Michael Palmer ist einer der renommiertesten zeitgenössischen Dichter der USA. Seine über 20 Bücher wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt und mit wichtigen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Palmer ist ein vielseitiger Autor und Übersetzer, der sich durch genreübergreifende Projekte in den Bereichen Musik und Tanztheater auch außerhalb der Lyrik einen Namen gemacht hat. In diesem Jahr ist endlich ein Querschnitt aus seinem Gesamtwerk auf Deutsch bei KOOKbooks, Berlin, erschienen (Übersetzung: Rainer G. Schmidt). Michael Palmers Verlegerin, Daniela Seel, ist selbst Dichterin und spricht mit ihm über sein Werk und seine Poetik, seine Wurzeln in der Language Poetry, über seine Übersetzungen und seine Projekte.

    1. Weltklang - Nacht der Poesie
    2. Poesiegespräch: Gegenschein

    June: Berlin/Potsdam Jewish Film Festival

    Founded in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Berlin/Potsdam Jewish Film Festival is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. This unique cultural event in Germany, aimed at film lovers of any background, is a showcase for new cinema that explores Jewish life in Germany and around the world. The Festival's strength is its offering of perspectives rarely seen in the daily stream of headlines and broadcast news. The film screenings provide a lively forum for dialogue and debate about a wide range of issues, drawing larger audiences every year.

    On June 6 at 10:00 a.m. there will be a screening of David for students, followed by a Q&A with the producer, Stephanie Levy.

    Daud ist ein elf-jähriger Junge aus Brooklyn. Nach einem Missverständnis wird er für jüdisch gehalten und David genannt. Er freundet sich mit den gleichaltrigen, jüdischen Jungs an und geriet in Konflikt: er ist der Sohn eines Imams.

    www.jffb.de/david/articles/david.html

    Thru June 10: Pacific Standard Time. Kunst in Los Angeles 1950 - 1980

    Poster of the exhibition “Pacific Standard Time”

    Poster of the exhibition “Pacific Standard Time”

    thru June 23: BIG YOUTH II - Emerging Painters from the USA

    In 2009, Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery proposed a panorama of the young artistic scene of Chicago with the exhibition Big Youth. The artists were affiliated with the renowned School of the Art Institute of Chicago and most works presented in the show were paintings. Now, three years later, Amel Bourouina is happy to invite John Corbett and Jim Dempsey to carry on this "inventory" and show for the first time in Berlin ten Chicago artists who are among the most promising of their generation.

    thru July 2: 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

    Occupy Wallstreet. Foto: Joanna Warsza, 2011

    Occupy Wallstreet. Foto: Joanna Warsza, 2011

    Professors Gil Hochberg and Katrin Pahl are participating in the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art taking place at various venues (Akademie der Kuenste, KW Institute for Contemporary art, Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele etc.) For more details pls. see www.berlinbiennale.de

    thru July 28: Julian Schnabel exhibit

    Julian Schnabel and Ambassador Murphy on Chancery roof

    Artists meets diplomat: Julian Schnabel and Ambassador Murphy

    Famed American artists and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has an exhibit opening this Friday at Contemporary Fine Arts at Am Kupfergraben 10 in Berlin. He took time out of his painting to stop by the Embassy for a chat with Ambassador Murphy on April 25. The exhibit will be up until July 28.

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