German

The German Department is thrilled to welcome Berlin-based writer and director Henk Handloegten, co-creator of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin”. Join us for a pre-release screening of episodes 1 + 2 of the series’ fifth and final season. Set in spring 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, the show depicts Weimar Germany’s final and irrevocable descent into Nazism, viewed through the lens of detectives Gereon Rat and Charlotte Ritter who set out to solve one last fateful murder-mystery.

Join us to celebrate the German Theater Group’s 25th birthday with two performances of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s “Urfaust” (1772/ 1775). 

Join us to celebrate the German Theater Group’s 25th birthday with two performances of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s “Urfaust” (1772/ 1775). 

Please join the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Dance, German, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, Philosophy, Russian, and Theatre for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines. 

The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

Arabic | MAC 221 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Dance | MAC Dance Theatre (110) | 3:30-4:15 pm

Japanese Studies | MAC 232 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Russian | MAC 125 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Theatre | Seeler Studio Theatre | 3:30-4:15 pm

Chinese | MAC 232 | 4:45-5:30 pm

German | MAC 121 | 4:45-5:30 pm

Luso-Hispanic Studies | Seeler Studio Theatre | 4:45-5:30 pm

International Karaoke is back!

The evening will begin with performances from student groups representing each language department - so come cheer on your department and help them win!

After the competition, the stage opens to everyone to sing a non-English song during Open Mic.

Come celebrate language, culture, and community at Middlebury College!

Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists is a darkly comic thriller set in a psychiatric clinic, where three scientists pretend to be mad. Their hidden identities and inventions trigger a tense battle between ethics and power, revealing how dangerous knowledge can be in the wrong hands.

Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists is a darkly comic thriller set in a psychiatric clinic, where three scientists pretend to be mad. Their hidden identities and inventions trigger a tense battle between ethics and power, revealing how dangerous knowledge can be in the wrong hands.

The Outlines of a Human, Emerging on the Stage.
Theater as a Medium of Human (Self-)Recognition and -Production in Shakespeare, Aristotle, and Jakob Lenz.

Carla Nowak is the new teacher at a local high school. When she discovers a series of thefts, she decides to investigate. As she tries to get to the bottom of the problem, most everyone around her—colleagues, parents, students—tries to stop her. When one of her students’ mother becomes the chief suspect, Carla resorts to methods that set her off on a road of no return. 

In German, with English subtitles.