“The Emergence of the Modern Age: Jews in the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.”
Author: Kathleen Eamon (Page 2 of 3)
Berlin
After a morning with Adorno and other friends, Rube and Mandy put on their country mouse shoes and took the U2 to the U3 to Dahlemdorf Ubahn station: a thatched hut, btw., from whence they walked to Grunewald, Berlin’s largest greenspace. They walked around the eponymous Grunewaldsee, stopping to eat only twice (having fortified themselves at the Crobag in the Alex-U), first at Forsthaus Paulsborn and then again, a mere kilometer later, at their new favorite Biergarten, Châlet Suisse.
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Please download and open this Word doc containing the options for your PsychicCity Procedures and Findings: PsychicCity MENU by the week Berlin 2016; remember, you will post the results every Thursday by 10 pm. Your options for tomorrow: “The Legible Erlebnis” or “‘Degenerate’ Art”. Next week: “Listening to Berlin” or “Alarms and Incursions.” The week after that: “Gedächtnis” or “Fragen und Antworten.” Finally, unless we get a second late-but-worthy contribution, week 5 will be “Willst du mit mir Musik hören?” below!
Week 5 Thursday: 5. Mai So far, one option: “Willst du mit mir Musik Hören?”
WILLST DU MIT MIR MUSIK HöREN? Kristin Petroske.
Dearest Klassenkameraden, my PsychicCity is simple. I would like you to pick a German song YOU DON’T ALREADY KNOW and write about it. It must be in German.
I would like you to pay special attention to the song and after the first listen I would like you to write down what kind of feeling the song left you with: were you happy? Sad? Anxious? Eh? Confused? Don’t try to understand it just yet.
The second time you listen to it I would like you to try and understand what the song is about. Does that match the emotion you had when you first listened to the song? Write that down (it doesn’t matter if you’re right or not).
When all that is said and done, I’d like you to go look up the lyrics. How do the lyrics of the song match up with what you felt and think the song was about? Do you like the lyrics or do you think you were better off not understanding?
Post your findings and songs! Share the music!
Here is a place to start if you aren’t sure how to find any German songs:
Marianne und Juliane: [note: film contains graphic Holocaust footage]
Wiki re the director: “Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942) is a German film director who has been referred to as a “leading force” of the New German Cinema movement. […] Von Trotta has been called ‘the world’s leading feminist filmmaker.’ The predominant aim of her films is to create new representations of women. Her films are concerned with relationships between and among women (sisters, best friends, etc.), as well as with relationships between women and men, and involve political setting. Nevertheless, she rejects the suggestion that she makes ‘women’s films.’”
c/o Berlin c/o Berlin (which has moved and is no longer in Mitte; Hardenbergstraße 22, 10623 Berlin) is a contemporary exhibition space dedicated to photography. Out of the four photographers being exhibited right now, we focused on the central two, both born in the 1940s and still working today: American photographer Stephen Shore and East German photographer Ulrich Wüst.
The Shore-show is a retrospective, which means we moved through is work chronologically (although since Shore moved between New York and pan-US projects, the show had a spatial element and made me think in particular a lot about how we might document our time here in Berlin and after, above and beyond the standard food-and-culture memoir), starting with his move at age 18 into Warhol’s Factory, through a conceptual period (grids!) in the 70s, into larger format, rich scenes of suburban and urban Americana, and finishing (somewhat disappointingly but I’d love it if someone argued me out of that thought) into the digital, streaming world of Instagram.
The Wüst collection is otherwise-organized: categorically, spatially and seasonally, with Stadtbilder (Cityscapes), Spätsommer (Late Summer), and Randlegen (Peripheries).
From the Brandenberger Tor to Checkpoint Charlie: Berlin, a swamp settlement on the Spree River, first mention 1237, came the Hohenzollern family for 500 years, all of the Karls and Wilhelms and Friedrichs until Karl Wilhelm abdicates in 1918, then Weimar, then Hitler, then Reichtag fire, then “state of emergency,” Kristallnacht, KZ (Konzentration) camps, Battle for Berlin, Allied victory, nation and capital in four sectors, then division, a wall, Bonn capital in the west (BRD), Berlin in the east (DDR), 1989 a press conference gone wrong (just so story), reunification.
