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The Week in Germany: Culture
January 11, 2008
Readings: Second Opinions Courtesy of 'The Week in Germany'
As you might imagine, the TWIG editors spend a lot of time sifting through
the mountain of information available on the Internet about Germany. For
those of you who are not quite as surflustig, we continue our
roving weekly selection of links to top-notch writing about Germany on
the Web. If you like TWIG, you might find these stories interesting as
well.
Happy Reading!
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| Fatih Akin |
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Hand That Links Germans and Turks
Director Fatih Akin's “The Edge of Heaven” won the screenwriting
prize at Cannes, received critical acclaim in Germany and will represent
the country in the competition to be nominated for best foreign-language
film at the Academy Awards. The movie is scheduled to open in New York
at Film Forum on May 21. Akin is traveling to New York this month to begin
filming a short called "Chinatown" to be included in a collection
of vignettes called "New York, I Love You". “If you love
the cinema, you have to love America,” he told the New York Times.
My
Jewish Roots in Germany
Journalist Robert Strauss approached his trip to Germany to retrace
his families past with some trepidation. He knew that his adoptive father's
father, Moritz, had died in Germany in the late 1930s, possibly in a concentration
camp. In this travel feature for Salon.com, he recounts a poignant journey
of discovery, undertaken without a plan or a map and just a few words
of broken German.
Latkes
and Vodka
By the time the Berlin Wall fell, Germany's Jewish community had
only 30,000 aging members and was dwindling rapidly. Today it is the third-largest,
and the fastest-growing, Jewish population in western Europe. This Economist
feature explains how Jewish society in Germany was reinvigorated
by the influx and how the Jewish community is coping with cultural differences
between the established news and the newcomers.
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