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Events - South Asia | Germany
August, 2008
A poster of the film, 'A Second Hand Life'Abundance: Documentary Films from India and Germany
From: 06 Aug, 2008   To: 06 Aug, 2008
The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi together with Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) will be screening documentary films from India and Germany at the India Habitat Centre. A Second Hand Life investigates the murky side of information technology, whereby tons of hazardous e-waste is seeping into developing countries like India. The Stomach Fillers portrays activities at the “Hamburg Table”, a private initiative that collects 60 tons of food from bakeries, supermarkets and wholesalers every month and gives it to the needy.

Goethe-Institut New Delhi
Logo of the German Film Week to be held in BangaloreGerman Film Week
From: 08 Aug, 2008   To: 14 Aug, 2008
The German Embassy in India, along with german-films.de and Suchitra Film Society is presenting the “German Film Week” in Bangalore. The week long festival, 8th August to 14th August, will showcase over a dozen contemporary feature films from German filmmakers and over a half dozen children’s films during the same time. The feature films include two films of celebrated director Fatih Akin - The Edge of Heaven (2007) and Head-On (2003) - and a couple of films from Hans-Christian Schmid. The festival aims at familiarizing the Indian audience with modern German cinema with its mixture of arthouse and entertainment films. The children’s section aims to bring in young audience in contact with German films and will receive multiple screening through the week.

Goethe-Institut Bangalore
A poster of the movie 'Sophie Scholl - the Final Days' / © sophieschollmovie.comSophie Scholl - the Final Days
From: 28 Aug, 2008   To: 28 Aug, 2008
Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and some other students are working for the resistance movement “The White Rose”, fighting against the National Socialist regime and the war. In a secret studio they prepare anti-Nazi leaflets which are then distributed everywhere. During one of these campaigns Sophie and her brother are caught by the Nazis and put into detention. Far from lecturing the audience about history, the film by Marc Rothemund, gives a very intimate and emotional insight into the motives and thoughts of the accused and also the interrogator.

Goethe-Institut Bangalore
A photograph from the exhibition / © Goethe-Institut ChennaiColonial India in Photographies of Wiele & Klein
From: 09 Aug, 2008   To: 20 Aug, 2008
Among the Western photographers who settled in Madras in the late 19th century, the Germans E.U.F. Wiele and Theodor Klein became remarkably successful and famous. The Baedeker guide book on India (and other South Asian regions) published in 1914, refers to "´Wiehle & Klein`, the most famous late 19th and early 20th century photographic Studio in the South of India". The exhibition, in co-operation with MadrasWeek, is the first to show such a large number and exquisit selection of photographs by Wiele & Klein. They were printed from glass plate negatives which today form the Vintage Vignette collection belonging to writer Timeri Murari and friends, kept in Chennai.

Goethe-Institut Chennai
A poster of Berlinale 2008 / © Internationale Filmfestspiele BerlinThe Best of Berlinale 2008
From: 04 Aug, 2008   To: 08 Aug, 2008
Prominent film pundit, Dr Tissa Abeysekara, attended the 58th Berlin International Film Festival, on an invitation from the German Federal Ministry of Foregn Affairs and as guest of the Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka. Out of his choice of 11 handpicked films the GI will present to Sri Lankan film enthusiasts as many as are made available for this non-commercial screening in Colombo.

Goethe-Institut Colombo
A Wolfgang Belwinkel photograph / © wolfgang-bellwinkel.deThe World as One: Photography from Germany after 1989
From: 04 Aug, 2008   To: 24 Aug, 2008
'The World as One' shows a representative sample of ‘90s professional documentary photography in colour. Nineteen photographers from Germany exhibit in seventeen groups of work their independently researched creations. In conjunction with the exhibition the artist Kai-Olaf Hesse will conduct a five days workshop for photographers in Mumbai.

Goethe-Institut Mumbai
A wind farm / © picture alliance / united archivesRenewable Energy India 2008 Expo
From: 21 Aug, 2008   To: 23 Aug, 2008
Renewable Energy India, to be held in New Delhi, is India’s most important exhibition dedicated to reducing energy consumption and promoting the use of renewable energy. Increasing energy demand in the Indian subcontinent and positive developments in the sector led to the first exhibition -- the 2007 Solar Tech India –- extending to all areas of renewable energy. The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) is participating at the second Renewable Energy India 2008 Expo. The German Renewable Energy Day and German Energy Efficiency Day, with specialist presentations on the renewable energy scenario, will be highlights of the German programme.

http://www.renewableenergyindiaexpo.com/
July, 2008
© dpa - BildfunkDistance and Proximity: Photo exhibition
From: 14 Jul, 2008   To: 31 Jul, 2008

After successful tours to Karachi (Pakistan) and Kolkata, Distance and Proximity now comes to Delhi. Distance and Proximity is an exhibition of photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher and their former students of the art of photography at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. Bernd Becher, from 1976 to 1996 professor at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, Hilla Becher and a number of their former students are the most influential photographers of our time, and major artists on the international scene.

The exhibition by the ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) in Delhi's Vadehra Art Gallery presents 76 works, some of them extra large. The selection reflects both the artists' shared approach to the chosen motifs and their artistic position.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/ned/kue/en3535399v.htm
© dpa - BildfunkThe Flying Eye - Retrospective Michael Ballhaus
From: 04 Jul, 2008   To: 13 Jul, 2008

Spotlighting Michael Ballhaus, Germany’s best-known cinematographer, Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore screens movies from his early German phase, when he worked with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. His work with Fassbinder began in 1970 and it was at this time that Ballhaus developed his unique style. Indian cinematographer Sunny Joseph opens the series with an introductory talk on Michael Ballhaus, entitled Eye to Eye - the Cinematographic Art of Michael Ballhaus.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/enindex.htm

© dpa - ReportBook Launch - 'Night Train to Lisbon' by Pascal Mercier
From: 03 Jul, 2008   To: 03 Jul, 2008

Book Launch at the Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai, presenting English editions of books written by contemporary German authors, followed by an open discussion. In Night Train to Lisbon, Fascinated by the writings of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat, middle-aged Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius feels compelled to leave his quiet teaching life to go in search of the mysterious man behind the words – Lisbon and much else awaits him.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/che/enindex.htm
© ColourboxBest of the Duisburg Documentary Film Festival
From: 16 Jul, 2008   To: 17 Jul, 2008

A selection shown at the Goethe-Institut Colombo - The European DVD-Edition “Young Heroes”, which consists of 26 contemporary and innovative European children’s and youth documentary films which were put together by the Goethe-Institut Munich and “doxs!”, a special section for documentaries for children and adolescents at the 2002 Duisburg Documentary Film Festival. The films are from 10 European countries such as Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Spain and Portugal.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/lk/col/enindex.htm
June, 2008
© dpa-ReportVagri people over two decades: Photographs by Barbara Bechtloff, Chennai
From: 20 Jun, 2008   To: 25 Jun, 2008

The photo exhibition `Vagri´ gives an inside into the personal and social changes in the life of the Tamil Nadu Vagri family. It features the black and white photos of Barbara Bechtloffs first visit to Mahabalipuram and her photos in colour, which she took in 2006 during her second stay.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/che/enindex.htm

© ColourboxWelcome to Germany, Chennai
From: 03 Jun, 2008   To: 03 Jun, 2008

The Goethe-Institute and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) present a day long information programme about study opportunities in Germany and related topics.

Experts and professionals present lectures about: Study & Research in Germany, Student visa procedures, the German language and preparation courses for study and life in Germany, Indo-German business relations and job opportunities and careers for bilingual professionals.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/che/enindex.htm

© ColouboxMovie Screening
From: 08 Jun, 2008   To: 15 Jun, 2008
The Global Industrial development over the past twenty years has presented new challenges for societies, their inhabitants and the environment. On the occasion of World Environment Day and World Ocean day, 2008 Max Mueller Bhavan Pune in collaboration with The Indian Maritime Foundation, Pune, Rotary Club Central, the Society of Indian Marine Artists, and the NFAI presents environmental films at the National Film Archives of India.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/poo/enindex.htm
© ColourboxFilm Festival
From: 26 Jun, 2008   To: 28 Jun, 2008
Pune’s very own International Cultural Exchange ICE is back with a wonderful collection of digital short films from India as well as abroad. In addition to ICE’s spread, Max Mueller Bhavan has contributed a selection of short films for this occasion. These films are taken from the award-winning series “All people are free and equal…”, “Next Generation” and “Gestures of Reconciliation”. All films will be shown in the original with English subtitles.

These films produced and directed by students from various European nations, deal with issues such as the human rights and dignity, freedom and justice. These films basically are a critical evaluation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations, in December 1948.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/poo/enindex.htm
© dpa-ReportUEFA Euro 2008
From: 07 Jun, 2008   To: 29 Jun, 2008
The Goethe-Institut Dhaka and the Embassy of Switzerland will kick off the EURO Football party on June 7, 2008.

The Goethe-Institute Dhaka will show all the important games throughout the European championship, live, at the Institute premises. Everyone is invited to revel at the soccer party, which is open for everyone free of cost. Limited seating on first come first-seated basis.


http://www.goethe.de/ins/bd/dha/enindex.htm
© Colourbox40 Years of Video Art
From: 11 Jun, 2008   To: 13 Jun, 2008

On the suggestion of Wulf Herzogenrath, the Cultural Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany has attempted to rescue, preserve and disseminate the cultural heritage of video art. As this medium for preservation is of a very limited time and the media art works tend to disintegrate, the project „40 Years of Video Art” was set up as a studio edition of the overview of this art in Germany as well as the international media art scene.

We are going to show video art with English subtitles such as „Tele-knowledge“ by Herbert Schuhmacher, „The Schleyer Tape“ by Klaus vom Bruch, „About Holger Meins, Today’s Viewpoint“ by Gerd Conrad and Hartmut Jahn, „Longing for Sodom“ by Kurt Raab and Hanno Baethe.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/lk/col/enindex.htm

Prix Jeunesse International, Colombo
From: 23 Jun, 2008   To: 24 Jun, 2008
The best productions from a bi-annual festival of children and youth television programmes.

The Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka presents the “PRIX JEUNESSE Suitcase 2008,” the best productions from a bi-annual festival of children and youth television programmes. This festival is being held in Munich, Germany, at the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast stations from all continents are entering their best productions into the competition. The awarded prizes are called Prix Jeunesse.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/lk/col/enindex.htm
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