German Studies Center to host events at WestConn
DANBURY, CONN. — Discover the similarities among Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Peterson, Kirsten Dunst and other German-Americans with the German Studies Center of Western Connecticut State University as the center celebrates “400 Years of Germans in America” with two upcoming events.
The film “Das Leben der Anderen” (The Lives of Others) will be screened at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 28, in Viewing Room 1 of White Hall on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White Street in Danbury. Admission will be free and the public is invited.
“Das Leben der Anderen,” starring Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck and Sebastian Koch, is the 2007 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, “Das Leben der Anderen” takes place in 1984 East Germany and is the story of a secret police agent’s obsessive interest in the lives of two state enemies, lovers Georg and Christa.
A film presentation and discussion about “Searching German Roots and Impact in New York” will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, in the Student Center Theater on the university’s Midtown campus. Admission will be free and the public is invited.
Dr. Heinrich Neumann, consul for press and public information of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, will lead a discussion about 400 years of Germans in America. As spokesman for Germany’s Consulate General of New York and press officer of the German Embassy’s Department of Press and Public Information in New York, Neumann has frequent contact with the American media.
For more information, call Renate Ludanyi, director of the German Studies Center, at (203) 792-2795 or the WCSU Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
