FEBRUARY 08 - Prague Events

Culture and Entertainment Foreign Cultural Centers
budget films, exclusive broadcasts of musical performances and many
others. Kishaws instead of fast food. All movies will be screened in original
with Czech subtitles. For the program, see our website.
ARCHITECTURE
GOETHE-INSTITUT, 2ND FLOOR
Opening of the gaaleriie.net Project, on Feb 20 at 6 pm
Video screening. Zollverein School of Management and Design is the
first building constructed in former black coal mine in Zollverein, which
was registered in the UNESCO world heritage list in 2002. It is also the
first European project by famous Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and
Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA). The mysterious cube does not reveal what is
happening inside… The 45 min video is based on various points of view
of this building and on statements of people who experience the daily
life there.
LECTURE
GOETHE-INSTITUT, 2ND FLOOR
Education Forum - Integration or Multicultural Society?
On Feb 21 at 6 pm. Read by Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heitmeyer from the
University of Bielefeld; reasons and dangers concerning the integration
of young immigrants. In German with interpretation to Czech.
LITERATURE
GOETHE-INSTITUT, 1ST FLOOR
Another Sight (Der andere Blick), on Feb 25 at 7 pm
Eleonora Hummel, Lucie Koutková and Tomáš Dimter discuss the topic
of 'Literature and migration' and the influence of the authors presented
on contemporary German written literature. E. Hummel, born in
Kazakhstan, lives in Dresden and was awarded the Adelbert-von-
Chamisso-Förderpreis Prize in 2006 for her book 'Die Fische von
Berlin'. L. Koutková, a Germanist, participated in the concept of the 'My
Books Are Expensive' exhibition devoted to Libuše Moníková (from Jan
24 at the National Literature Archive). T. Dimter is a translator, publisher
and lector; in 2007, his translation of Terezia Mory's novel 'Day by
Day' was released; these days he is preparing for publication an anthology
of migrating authors' literature.
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