German

Come join Peyton Mader & friends for a cozy evening of German song. This event serves as a celebration and showcase of Peyton Mader’s (‘24) thesis work with the German Department, exploring the world of German songwriting. This event will feature original music as well as the performance of some classic German art songs. This event will be accessible to non-German speakers.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, German, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, and Russian.

Join us in singing songs in a foreign language! You won’t be able to sing in English but there is still a variety to choose from: Russian, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, French, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, and others. The details will follow up in the Language House Instagrams: @russianhousemidd @midd_chinese_house @deutschhaus_middlbry @casadeespanol @arabichouse2 @jhouse_diary @casaitalianamidd @lamaisonfrancaisemidd @casadeportuguesemidd

During World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were in some cases incarcerated in internment and concentration camps. One of the most significant visual documents of this neglected chapter of the war are a series of drawings and paintings created by Caribbean artist Josef Nassy during his internment. This talk introduces the little known Josef Nassy Collection as a unique visual record of the experiences of Black prisoners in the Nazi camp system.

GRMN 0440, “German Theater in Action”, will perform Peter Turrini’s “Der tollste Tag”, a modern take on the famous French play “Le Marriage de Figaro”, resp. W.A. Mozart’s opera “Marriage of Figaro.” Austrian author Turrini, a master of wit and physical comedy, explores the tensions between physical and rhetorical might as servant Figaro tries his very best to cross his master’s, i.e. Count Almaviva’s plans to make use of an old law that would allowed Almaviva to spend the wedding night with Figaro’s fiancée Susanne.

GRMN 0440, “German Theater in Action”, will perform Peter Turrini’s “Der tollste Tag”, a modern take on the famous French play “Le Marriage de Figaro”, resp. W.A. Mozart’s opera “Marriage of Figaro.” Austrian author Turrini, a master of wit and physical comedy, explores the tensions between physical and rhetorical might as servant Figaro tries his very best to cross his master’s, i.e. Count Almaviva’s plans to make use of an old law that would allowed Almaviva to spend the wedding night with Figaro’s fiancée Susanne.

The German Theater Group at Middlebury presents Heinz Erhardt’s hilarious comedy “Das hat man nun davon”. Set in a German ministry of finance, the play follows the fate of the lowly employee Willi Winzig who, threatened with losing 1/3 of his hard-earned pension for offending a superior, needs to find a way to plead “not guilty by reason of insanity” to save his retirement. And he spares no effort to convince everyone that he is crazy … In German, English synopses available at the door.

The German Theater Group at Middlebury presents Heinz Erhardt’s hilarious comedy “Das hat man nun davon”. Set in a German ministry of finance, the play follows the fate of the lowly employee Willi Winzig who, threatened with losing 1/3 of his hard-earned pension for offending a superior, needs to find a way to plead “not guilty by reason of insanity” to save his retirement. And he spares no effort to convince everyone that he is crazy … In German, English synopses available at the door.

Urmel aus dem Eis. German Theater for the young and the young at heart, for German speakers and non-German speakers.

The German Theater Group presents Ephraim Kishon’s comedy “Es war die Lerche”, a play imagining that Romeo and Juliet did in fact not die but are instead allowed to live as a married couple in Verona for 30 years. Will their love survive the “baseness of the everyday life”?