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September 17 2006
to
January 7, 2007

The Hammer Museum presents the first major U.S. retrospective of the work of German artist
Wolfgang Tillmans

The exhibit features 300 photographs, installations, and videos spanning his entire career and the genres of portraiture, landscape, still life, and documentary.

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
at UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd., at Westwood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

For more information: call
310.443.7000 or visit:
www.hammer.ucla.edu

October 5, 2006
to
April 29, 2007

From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden

Emerging from a partnership between the Getty Museum and the Dresden State Museums, this exhibition presents a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister, one of the foremost collections of German art from 1800 to present.

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
in Los Angeles, California

For more information, please visit:
www.getty.edu

and for directions:

November 2 to
December1, 2006

Photographs
by Hans-Juergen Esch
"Decadent Decay
Abanoned Beauty"

Hans Juergen Esch born and raised in Nuernberg/Germany,
is an architect by training. He also works in interior– product- and media design.
His show at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles is his U.S. debut.

Goethe Institut Los Angeles
5750 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 100
Los Angeles , CA 90036
Tel: 323.525.3388
www.goethe.de/losangeles

www.esch-projekt.de

November 18, 2006
to
December 23, 2006

Opening reception: Sat. Nov. 18th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm

"Dance on the Dancefloor"

by German artists Paule Hammer and Sebastian Goegel, both from Leipzig, who call themselves "Hagel," use sculpture and spatial installations as a medium of expressions - placing pop over the sublime, combining penetrating power with a clever, sharp wit

Chung King Project
936 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

For more information call:
213.625.1802
or visit:
www.chungkingproject.com

F I L M

November 21, 2006

7:00 pm

"Redhead
(Die Rote)"

Fed up with a disappointing marriage and an equally disillusioning affair, Franziska leaves her husband and her lover and heads for Venice. There she finds a job at a hotel and meets a man who turns out to be an ex-spy, and who implicates her in a criminal case. Trapped in her new life as well as her old she must find a way out for herself.
German w/ English subtitles

Goethe Institut Los Angeles
5750 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 100
Los Angeles , CA 90036
Tel: 323.525.3388
www.goethe.de/losangeles

Admission: $5.00/free for FOG

Free parking in the building. Please bring your parking stub for validation.

November 28, 2006

7:00 pm

"The Captain from Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)

Released after serving time for a petty crime, an impoverished shoemaker ( Heinz Ruehmann) is keen to make a fresh start, but finds himself mired in bureaucracy until he stumbles across a second-hand captain’s uniform. He decides to wear the uniform and embarks on a quest to fool the entire German army. A true German classic.
Germany, 1956, 93 minutes. German w/ English subtitles

F I L M and T A L K

December 7, 2006

7:00 pm

with
Christian Schellewald
DreamWorks animator Christian Schellewald closes out another year of HOLLYWOOD TALKS SHOP, where German Hollywood personalities share their insights into the movie industry and provide an entertaining and informative look behind the scenes.
Christian’s credits include movies like Shrek 2, The Road to El Dorado, and this summer’s Over the Hedge. In addition to showing clips of his work, Christian will guide the audience through the history of animation, from hand-drawn sketches to computer generated images.

P L A Y

November 11, 2006
to
January 27, 2007

Thurs. - Sat.
at 8:00 pm
Sunday
at 2:00 pm

Bertolt Brecht's
"Drums in the Night"

The American premiere of Finegan Kruckemeyer's new translation of Brecht's musically exuberant and darkly comic parable that says much about a world at war.

The Actors' Gang
Ivy Substation
9070 Venice Blvd. (corner of Culver and Venice Blvds.)
Culver City, CA 90230

For more information call
310.838.4264
or visit:
www.theactorsgang.com

R E C I T A L

November 19, 2006

5:30 pm

Con Gioia, the early music ensemble, presents a solo recital
"More Mozart at 250"

Pasadena Museum of California Srt
490 E. Union Street (at Oakland Ave.)
Pasadena, CA 91101

For more information call
909.624.0638 or visit:
www.congioia.org