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Election Brunch

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2017 Prize Ceremony

Last Language Standing Competition

Last Language Standing Competition

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Welcome 

Shea House

Shea House

Kaffeestunde

Kaffeestunde

Election Brunch

Election Brunch

Prize Winners

2017 Prize Ceremony

German Film Festival

10:00-7:00
Minor Hall, Room 125

Second Annual German Film Festival at U.Va.
From Page to Screen: Filmic Translations of German-Speaking Literature

Refreshments provided throughout the day

9:45 AM: Welcome Address

10:00 AM: Two Times Lotte (Das doppelte Lottchen) - Josef von Baky, 1950

  • Based on the novel by Erich Kästner. "The Parent Trap" is based on this film.

12:30 PM: Presentation of Awards to Short Film Contest Winners and screening of winning films.

Imran Ayata Reading

1:00 P.M. 
NCH 236 

Born in Ulm, Imran Ayata is the author, to date, of three volumes of fiction (see poster). He was a founding member of the anti-racist group Kanak-Attak, and co-edited the song collection Songs of Gastarbeiter (2013).

Imran Ayata - Songs of Gastarbeiter

5:00 P.M.
UVA Chapel 

Born in Ulm, Imran Ayata is the author, to date, of three volumes of fiction (see poster). He was a founding member of the anti-racist group Kanak-Attak, and co-edited the song collection Songs of Gastarbeiter (2013).

The German weekly Die Zeit calls Mein Name ist Revolution one of the best novels of 2011, praising Ayata as a writer who can “like few others” describe “the unhappy joys of love,” especially when they are combined with depictions of the “politically precarious situation of the Kurds” born in Germany to migrant parents..

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