May-December: theater play by Edgar Allan Poe, Ein Spiel von Liebe und Tod, at Seebühne Hiddensee
November 8: Freedom’s Challenge Awards
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Atlantic Council will host "Freedom’s Challenge: A Gala Banquet and Awards Ceremony." Held in association with Newsdesk Media Inc., the Freedom’s Challenge
Dinner will be attended by government, military, industry, financial
and cultural leaders and officials from across the Atlantic Alliance,
with past and present leaders receiving Atlantic Council Freedom
Awards. The event will take place at Berlin’s Adlon Hotel. more
November 10: An American in Berlin - Reading and Discussion with Ralph Martin
"Ein Amerikaner in Berlin. Wie ein New Yorker lernte, die Deutschen zu lieben" (Dumont Verlag, August 2009)
Ralph Martin — Reading and Discussion
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:00 pm
Ralph Martin tracks the stages of his transition from contemptuous ex-New Yorker to “lover of all things German." When he arrived in Germany, Martin was a typical New Yorker: smart, snobbish, always a little bit over-dressed. Just the way to stand out in Berlin which compared to the “big apple," seemed like a wormy organic apple. One thing was clear: something had to give. It wasn't going to be Berlin — and Ralph Martin began the painful but sometimes comical transition from Manhattanite to Berliner. http://ralphmartinwrites.com/
In cooperation with the Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Potsdam.
Location: Stadt-und Landesbibliothek Potsdam, Hauptbibliothek Am Kanal 47 - 14467 Potsdam (10 min from Potsdamer Haupbahnhof)
November 11: Audrey Niffenegger
American Embassy Literature Series
Thalia Buchhandlung Berlin, U. S. Embassy Berlin and S. Fischer Verlag present
Audrey Niffenegger
who will read from her novel Her Fearful Symmetry(2009 Scribner, USA), German translation Die Zwillinge von Highgate (Fischer 2009; translation by Brigitte Jakobeit)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 20:00 At babylon berlin:mitte, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin
Tickets: € 15,00 / € 12,00 Euro (Info-Tel. 24 25 96-9)
Writer and artist Audrey Niffenegger lives in Chicago. Her first novel The Time Traveler’s Wife has been on the best seller lists since 2004 and was translated into several languages. Audrey Niffenegger loves Alice in Wonderland and Rilke, and collects butterflies, books and comics.
Audrey Niffenegger’s second novel is a ghost story set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London:
The endurance of love animates this gothic story set in and around Highgate Cemetery, in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her estate, including an apartment overlooking the graveyard, to the twin daughters of her twin sister, from whom she has been estranged for twenty years. When Valentina and Julia show up to claim their inheritance, they soon discover that Elspeth is still in residence, in ghostly form. Niffenegger’s writing can be wearyingly overblown, but she has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secrets to be found in Elspeth’s diaries and the lengths to which she will go to reunite with her younger lover. It’s no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected. The New Yorker
November 24: David Goldfield on "The Obama Presidency and Race in America"
W.E.B.
Du Bois Lecture at Humboldt University
David
Goldfield (University of North Carolina)
"The Obama Presidency and Race in America"
November
24, 2009
18:30 – 20:00
Humboldt University, Main Building,
Room DOR 24 1.501
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Dr.
David Goldfield is
Robert Lee Bailey Prof. of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Dr. Goldfield is an expert on the American South, including race relations,
economic development, religion, and political culture. His research has also
focused on the American City with many of the same issues, including ethnicity.
He published an American history textbook with Prentice Hall, called The
American Journey: A History of the United States. His most recent
publication is Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred. He is
the author of the award-winning study, Still Fighting the Civil War: the
American South and Southern History
(2004), "America's Changing Perceptions of Race, 1946-1996,"
in Cristina Giorcelli and Rob Kroes, eds., Living With America, 1946-1996
(1997), Race, Region, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South (1997), Black,
White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture (1990), and Urban
America: A History (sec. ed. 1990). Dr. Goldfield received his Ph.D. in
History from the University of Maryland in 1970. He has served as
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Urban History since 1990 and is consultant to
numerous urban and southern history museums.
This event
is organized by the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt
University and supported by the U.S. Embassy Lecture Series.
December 17: Richard Pells on "The Conservative Impulse in American Culture and Politics, 1970 to the Present"
John
F. Kennedy Institute Guest Lecture, History Department
Richard
Pells (University of Texas, Austin)
"The
Conservative Impulse in American Culture and Politics, 1970 to the Present"
December
17, 2009
18:00 –
20:00, room 203
Lansstr.
7-9, 14195 Berlin
Richard Pells received his Ph.D. from Harvard,
and is currently Professor of History at the University of Texas. He
specializes in the history of American culture and social life in the 20th
century. He is the author of three books: Radical
Visions and American Dreams: American Culture and Social Thought in the
Depression Years; The Liberal Mind in
a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s; and Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved,
Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II. He has also
written for magazines and newspapers including the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chronicle
of Higher Education. He has lived and taught in Germany, Austria, Denmark,
Finland, and The Netherlands, as well as in Brazil, Australia, and Indonesia.
He has just completed a fourth book—Modernist
America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture—to
be published by Yale University Press.
20 Years Fall of the Wall
November 2-March 2010: joint Berlin-New York exhibition project “9-11” ↔ “11-9”. The American artists will be exhibited in the gallery Berlin am Meer in Berlin in March 2010
November 2, 2009 – March 2010 “11/9 ↔ 9/11”
Exhibition project by a group of artists from Berlin and New York: the artists explore from a personal angle the effects and implications of two contemporary historical events:
the fall of the Wall in Berlin/Germany and the 9-11 attacks in New York. The works of the U.S. artists will be exhibited in Berlin, those of the German artists in New York.
Opening of exhibition in New York: November 2, 2009
Opening of exhibition in Berlin: March 2010
November 6 & 7 and November 13 & 14:
The Kennedy School
Drama Department will be peforming the musical Stimmen durch die
Mauer/Voices through the Wall. The musical, written by JFKS teacher Dr.
McDaniel to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the
Berlin wall, offers insight into the Cold War divide and its effect on
Berliners from both sides. The piece will be performed by high school
students in both English and German with-projected subtitles. Five
performances are scheduled during two consecutive weekends at 7 pm in the
Aula, as well as on Thursday,
November 12th.
November 8/9 The Wall Project, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles Artists Thierry Noir, Kent Twitchell and Shepard Fairey will design 32 recreated pieces of the Berlin wall, which will be erected across Wilshire Blvd., to be torn down at midnight in form of a artistic ceremony on November 8 corresponding to November 9 in Berlin. The midnight ceremony will feature a performance by renowned chanteuse Ute Lemper, after which the Wall across Wilshire will be toppled by artists featured in The Wall Project: www.wallproject.org
November 9 “Fest der Freiheit” The fall of the Wall will be celebrated on November 9 with a festive act at the Brandenburg Gate and state representatives, contemporary witnesses and senior personalities. A highlight of the event will be a 'domino effect' staging of the symbolic fall of the Wall when more than 1,000 oversized 'domino' stones designed by young people will be made to fall - stretching from the Reichstag through to Potsdamer Platz, marking the old route of the Wall that ran past the Brandenburg Gate.
PA Berlin has sponsored a U.S. Embassy domino designed by 12th grade students from the Torhorst Schule Oranienburg (Brandenburg). www.torhorstschule.de/html/domino.html - Fall of the Wall
November 10: Street Festival on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of the opening of the Glienicker Brücke organized by Land
Brandenburg and City of Potsdam - The Street Festival (Bürgerfest) is taking place at
Glienicker Brücke in Potsdam from 18:00-20:00 hrs. and will be
open to the public. There will be performances by a U.S. Army brass quintet as part of the cultural program.
December 17 Lecture within the series “20 Years Fall of the Wall on “American Culture and the Cold War” - 6-8 PM - Speaker: Richard Pells, Professor of History, University of Texas, Audience: students from the Kennedy Institute (literature, culture, history).
Host: Andreas Etges, Professor of History.
Ongoing programs: USA-GDR: Twenty Years Later – Oral History Project The project highlights the American connections to the GDR by an interactive online oral history collection designed to record the reciprocal impressions of GDR citizens and Americans who lived through this period of history. To document this unique relationship, the impressions of both Americans who lived and visited in the GDR and citizens of the GDR who came in touch with Americans are being recorded. In cooperation with the Leipzig Consulate, PA Berlin has identified interview partners including Foreign Service officers and local staff from the former U.S. Embassy in East Berlin, Americans with other institutional and personal contacts in the GDR, and former GDR citizens. Their interviews will be posted on a YouTube page, with appropriate links from the Mission website. In addition to video clips, text comments and photographs, the site will feature a timeline of the political events that led to unification, including the commitment of successive American presidents, FRG Ostpolitik, Perestroika, and the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR as reference points to topics mentioned in the interviews.
So far the project has been presented at America@yourlibrary events in Frankfurt/Oder and Potsdam, more regional events are planned.
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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Atlantic Council will host "Freedom’s Challenge: A Gala Banquet and Awards Ceremony." Held in association with Newsdesk Media Inc., the Freedom’s Challenge
Dinner will be attended by government, military, industry, financial
and cultural leaders and officials from across the Atlantic Alliance,
with past and present leaders receiving Atlantic Council Freedom
Awards. The event will take place at Berlin’s Adlon Hotel. 
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