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We Don't Need to See Anything Out of the Ordinary. We Already See So Much.

Sunday, February 26, 2012 @ 9:00am
@ Goethe-Institut
Jan. 25, 2012
The Donald Young Gallery is exhibiting the works of artist Thomas Schütte in February. On the occasion of Thomas Schütte’s visit to Chicago, the Goethe-Institut presents a symposium with Thomas Schütte, Jörg Kreienbrock, Susan Bernofsky and Michal Pawel Markowski on Robert Walser's microscripts.

Literaturlenz: Reading with Authors from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 @ 12:00pm
@ Goethe-Institut
Jan. 25, 2012
Each year Literaturlenz brings together the Goethe-Institut Chicago, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago, and the Consulate General of Austria in Chicago for an evening of readings in German. Each author represents a unique voice in contemporary German-language literature.

Barbara Lamprecht: The Cross-Pollination of American and European Architecture Shown Through the Work of Richard Neutra

Thursday, January 12, 2012 @ 12:00pm
@ Goethe-Institut
Dec. 9, 2011
Long before he set foot in his future, permanent home of Los Angeles, the renowned 20th-century architect Richard Neutra immersed himself in the lessons of booming 1920s Chicago and America, drinking in steel framing via architect and engineer Dankmar Adler, working on the Palmer House as Draftsman

Martin Walser: Ein springender Brunnen

Thursday, November 3, 2011 @ 11:00am
@ Goethe-Institut
Oct. 25, 2011
Join us as Martin Walser reads from his novel Ein Springender Brunnen.

Between Old and New World: Max Frisch and His Love-Hate relationship with the U.S.

Monday, September 26, 2011 @ 1:00pm
@ Goethe-Institut
Sep. 8, 2011
2011 could be termed “Max Frisch Year” as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth and commemorate the 20th year of his death.

"Funeral for a Dog": Author Thomas Pletzinger and Translator Ross Benjamin

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 @ 1:00pm
@ Goethe-Institut
Mar. 26, 2011
The career path of author and translator Thomas Pletzinger has taken him from Münster to Hamburg, New York, Leipzig, and Berlin, where he now runs the literary studio known as “adler & söhne literatur.”

Literaturlenz 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 12:00pm
@ Goethe-Institut
Jan. 28, 2011
Each year Literaturlenz brings together the Goethe-Institut Chicago, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago, and the Consulate General of Austria in Chicago for an evening of readings in German. Each author represents a unique voice in contemporary German-language literature.
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