"Roman Vishniac's
Berlin"
Photographs of Pre World War II Berlin, on loan from the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany

This exhibit is sponsored by the Consulate General
and the Goethe Institut

Facing the Wall: Living with the Berlin Wall

Inspired by the acquisition of an original segment of the Berlin Wall, painted by renowed artist Thierry Noir, the Wende Museum opens its doors to a new innovative exhibition exploring everyday life with the Berlin Wall. The multimedia display features original artifacts from the infamous barrier and follows the experiences of an East German border guard, a West Berlin day visitor, a western Wall artist, and an East German secret police officer - lives that came face to face with history.
The exhibition is supported by the German Consulate General.

Names and No-Names in Photo History
(part one)

Images from the Collection of Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera

The exhibition at the OMC Gallery reflects a variety of positions in photography, covering almost 150 years. Some images are icons in Photo History, while others, despite their quality, never made it into the public awareness. Rather than the fame of the photographer (although it includes e.g.: Beato, Cartier-Bresson, Bravo, Bristol, Chapman, Horst, Korda, Sudek), the visual ideas of the images, their documentary value, their visual impact, their statement about a certain period or last, but not least their quality as a piece of art have been important for the selection.

OPERETTA INTERNATIONAL: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER
OF THE MIRTH.

What happens when two married couples, the closest of friends for years, share both a love for travel and more than just friendship? Journey with our four singers as they play out their romantic intrigues through music from some of the greatest operettas from distant shores.

The show will feature some of the greatest operetta music from Germany, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Russia, United States, England, Serbo-Croatia, Greece, Australia, Cuba, Spain, Hungary, as well as Yiddish operetta tunes from New York’s Second Avenue.

German Theatre Abroad USA

embarks on a hilarious theatrical adventure – or misadventure – as five actors (three German and two from the US), two Austrian video artists and the GTA team go cross-country in a tricked out school bus, travelling from New York to Los Angeles in search of the "American Dream" and touring the world premiere of Start Up, a black comedy written specifically for GTA by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Germany's most produced contemporary playwright.

This always new and expanded dramatic 'Road Journal' will interact with the production of the play Start Up as background and stage design.  The audience is treated to a unique, riotous and ever-changing performance event, a combination of the filmed 'reality' of the tour and the theatrical 'fiction' of the Schimmelpfennig play."The trip will take the troupe from New York through 14 cities and in the US over seven weeks.  They will travel 4,500 miles and perform in 16 locations – until they reach Los Angeles.