Issue 7, December 2006 - DAAD

Issue 7 - December 2006
Welcome
Alumni Meeting
Talks
Janice Muller
Richard Kuipers
Dr Ditta Bartels
Jens Schröder
Lyn Harrison
Dr Paul Foley
Fiona Allon
Elite Universities
Tuition Fees in Germany
Scholarships to Germany
theatricality in real life and brings reality on to the stage. They frequently
work with "real life experts" in place of actors - in this production with a
range of people whose lives intersected in some way with Karl Marx's
famous work - resulting in a surprisingly warm and amusing night at the
theatre. For more information: http://www.rimini-protokoll.de/
Richard Kuipers:
Current German Cinema - No Flash in the Pan
In the context of his visit to the Munich Film Festival in July, Variety critic
and Festival of German Cinema advisor Richard Kuipers discussed the
current status of German Cinema. He noted that Germany’s film industry
has been on an artistic and commercial upswing initiated by the success
of “Run Lola Run” in 1998, and cited the success of German Film
Festivals staged by Goethe-Institutes around the world as evidence of
sustained interest in New German Cinema. Richard named the influence
of second-generation German filmmakers, the significant efforts of
institutions such as German Films and the Goethe-Institut, and a series of
bold and highly impressive films dealing with the re-unification of
Germany and potent social topics as major contributors to this success.
Richard concluded his address with an overview of the new German films
premiered at Munich. He declared that once again, the Festival of
German Cinema will face its on-going and most happy problem again in
2007, with too many good films to choose from.
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Dr Ditta Bartels
Quality in German Universities – Opportunities for Australia
On my two recent trips to Germany this year, I have been impressed with
a new dynamism in the German university landscape. The most
impressive effort is that of the Federal Government, called
Exzellenzinitiative. Some of its more important points for Australia would
be:
- Commitment to the Humboldt ethos to link research and teaching
- A real emphasis on Masters Programs, with a strong focus on
research in them
- Internationalisation is seen in terms of enhancing the quality of
research and for attracting very high quality students - and not at all in
terms of extra income for the universities
- there is no privatisation of universities at all
- Let us accept more German PhD students into our research
projects and we bring in a whole lot of links to these new directions in
German research
- Let us send our PhD students to the new (and the old) Graduate
Schools and they will even obtain scholarships!