02/27/2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm - What influence did Friedrich Schiller’s work have on Bertolt Brecht's? How do Schiller and Brecht’s major works on figures of the Thirty Years War inform one another? And had Schiller already established techniques in the late 18th century that scholars and theater practitioners of the 20th century would readily term “Brechtian” and “Epic”? This talk [...]
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02/25/2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Meet, greet, speak German! We're meeting at Stammtisch Restaurant ( 401 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR 97232) at 7pm. All levels of German speakers welcome!
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02/12/2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons [...]
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02/08/2020 @ 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm - In German speaking countries, Fasching is the time of the German version of Carnival - dating back hundreds of years. It is a time of feasting, frivolity, parades, parties, masks and costumes. The masks allow participants to hide their identity so they can really cut loose without fear of being identified. Get your costume ready, [...]
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01/28/2020 @ 7:00 pm - This is the first Eastside Stammtisch of the year! We're meeting at Stammtisch Restaurant ( 401 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR 97232) at 7pm! All levels of German speakers welcome!
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01/15/2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - It's the first Stammtisch of the Year! We meet at Golden Valley Brewery (1520 NW Bethany Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97006) at 7pm. All levels of German Speakers are welcome!!
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01/08/2020 @ 7:00 pm - In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please [...]
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12/11/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please [...]
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12/08/2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm - The Zeitgeist Holiday Party this year will be held at Fressen Bakery ( 7075 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR 97213), on Dec 8, 2019, from 5pm-7.30. There will be an arts and craft table for the kids, mulled wine and snacks for the grown-ups, live music, and a visit from Sankt Nikolaus, (Krampus will stay [...]
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12/01/2019 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm - In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please [...]
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11/21/2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Informational Evening on November 21 at 6.30 pm at the German American Society about dual citizenship (Germany - USA) and the process to apply for the retention certificate and US Citizenship. • Did you know that you automatically lose your German nationality if you gain US citizenship WITHOUT applying for retention of German citizenship first? [...]
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11/18/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Writer and activist Martin Jankowski will hold a lecture titled: "How to win a Revolution without Bloodshed. East Germany, 1989 and the consequences". Martin Jankowsk is a Berlin based writer and poet who started in the 80ies as a singer-songwriter in the oppositional underground of Leipzig. His texts were banned by the STASI but nevertheless [...]
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11/13/2019 @ 7:00 pm - In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons [...]
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11/09/2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Come and join us for our annual traditional German lantern walk (Laternenlauf). We will meet at the Visitor Center at Mt. Tabor Park at 5.30 pm on SATURDAY, Nov 9. Please have your children bring their lanterns so we can enjoy the beautiful lights during our walk up the hill to Mt. Tabor (no candles [...]
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11/06/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Get together, speak German, have fun! We meet at Golden Valley Brewery. All levels of German speaker are welcome!
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10/22/2019 - 11/05/2019 @ All Day - The Portland German Film Festival in collaboration with the Northwest Film Forum presents our 4th annual KINOFEST Seattle 2019, We are showing German language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Oct. 22 - Nov. 5, 2019. The annual festival showcases feature films, documentaries and short films that represent the state-of-the-art in German language film [...]
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10/09/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - You know you’ve made it as one of your country’s most famous celebrities when they make a movie about your childhood. Such is All About Me—whose German title translates to The Boy Needs Some Fresh Air—a sweet origin story about Hape Kerkeling, one of Germany’s most beloved comedians and television hosts. It’s 1972 in Germany’s [...]
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10/07/2019 - 10/15/2019 @ All Day - Zeitgeist Northwest, together with the Portland Office of Community and Civic Life proudly presents "Totally East: Life in East Germany”. It features photos by the renowned photographer Harald Hauswald and texts by Stefan Wolle, Scientific Director of the GDR Museum in Berlin. Harald Hauswald, born in 1954 in Radebeul, completed his training in photography in [...]
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10/04/2019 - 10/08/2019 @ 12:00 am - The 2019 Portland German Film Festival happens October 4-8 at Cinema 21. The 10th annual festival is presented by Zeitgeist Northwest - German Culture in PDX Our festival showcases feature films, documentaries and short films that represent the best in German-language cinema. All films are shown in German with English subtitles to allow a broad [...]
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09/11/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - “Wildes Herz” is a film about “Feine Sahne Fischfilet”, one of the most successful German punk rock bands, and their lead singer, Jan “Monchi” Gorkow. A young band who are under surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which gives them the right to call themselves the most dangerous band in [...]
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08/14/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - The young teacher Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strictly-run German school for boys in 1874. The reform-minded headmaster von Merfeld has hired Koch as one of the very first English teachers of all at a German secondary school in order to let a fresh new wind into his musty institution. Koch [...]
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07/17/2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Ulli Lust, author of the LA Times Book Prize-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last day of the Rest of Your Life, joins us to celebrate the launch of her new book, How I Tried to Be a Good Person. How I Tried to Be a Good Person is a story of sexual obsession, gender [...]
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07/10/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - WED. July 10, 2019 – 7:00 PM Germany, 1985, 86 min. Director: Percy Adlon Cast: Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp, Toni Berger, Manuela Denz She lies on the surface of a swimming pool like a dead woman. It’s a symbol of her stagnant life: a fat, unattractive woman, 38 years old, who works at a funeral [...]
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06/12/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - CELEBRATING PRIDE MONTH Germany's infamous Paragraph 175, which had made sexual acts between men a criminal offence since 1872, was only officially repealed in 1994. However, since the 1960s - with West Berlin being the only place were men could at least dance with other men - there had been public locales there, which became [...]
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06/05/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Meet us for our monthly Westside Stammtisch on the first Wednesday of every month at Golden Valley Brewery in Beaverton. German speakers of all levels are welcome!
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05/28/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Get together, speak German, have fun! We meet on the last Tuesday of every month at Stammtisch Restaurant All levels of German speaker are welcome! We're looking forward to you all!
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05/08/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Germany in the 90s: Art critic Sebastian Zöllner is on the hunt for glory. He wants to write a tell-all book about Manuel Kaminski, a once prominent, now almost forgotten painter, pupil of Matisse and friend of Picasso, who’s retreated to a chalet in Graubünden and has long been blind. Zöllner tracks him down, unscrupulously [...]
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05/01/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Meet us for our monthly Westside Stammtisch on the first Wednesday of every month at Golden Valley Brewery in Beaverton. German speakers of all levels are welcome!
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04/20/2019 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The weather is finally getting warmer, the birds are singing, Easter is ahead- You are invited to an family spring get-together to enjoy German food and kid-friendly activities. Come and get to know other members of the German-speaking communities here in Portland! This year, Nordic Northwest, Zeitgeist Northwest and the Sophie Scholl Schule are celebrating [...]
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04/12/2019 @ 10:15 am - 12:00 pm - Friday, April 12th, 10:20am. Lewis and Clark College, Miller 211 (ILC) Milena Moser will be leading a seminar on her first book, Gebrochene Herzen oder mein erster bis elfter Mord. This event will be held in German and is open to everyone, but requires pre-registration. Please contact catherine@lclark.edu to get more information and/or to register. [...]
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04/11/2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Thursday, April 11th, 5:30pm. Lewis and Clark College. Miller 102 Milena Moser, one of Switzerland’s most well-known and beloved authors, is coming to Portland, Oregon. She has published 18 books to date, novels, short stories and memoirs. They were translated into nine European languages, three of her novels were adapted for the screen. She wrote [...]
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04/10/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - This film begins with the premise of a silent reproach: The proponents of the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962 - for many marking the birth of New German Cinema - with their problem-laden work, have stood in the way of a freer, and perhaps more entertaining development of cinema at home. Dominik Graf focuses on some [...]
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03/16/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Helau and Alaaf! Together with the German American Society, we’re celebrating what Germans call “the fifth season”- Fasching, Karneval, Fasnacht! The party kicks off at 7pm-11pm. We’ll have a short program, costume contest, yummy food and a DJ playing all the Fasching tunes you know and love. There will be a no-host drinks bar serving [...]
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02/13/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN LANGUAGE films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons [...]
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02/13/2019 @ 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm - Dr. Collenberg- Gonzalez' talk will take place before the screening of the Portland German Film Festival's Monthly Film "Wer, wenn nicht wir?" "Wer wenn nicht wir" is based on a true story and deals with one of the most tumultuous times in post-war (West) German history: The RAF (Red Army Faction) and their resort to [...]
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02/06/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Get together, speak German, have fun! We meet the first Wednesday of every month at Golden Valley Brewery in Beaverton. All levels of German speakers are welcome!
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01/29/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Get together, speak German, have fun! We meet on the last Tuesday of every month at Stammtisch Restaurant All levels of German speaker are welcome!
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01/09/2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons [...]
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12/15/2018 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Please join us on Saturday Dec 15 from 5-8pm at the Regent's Center (3185 NE Regent's Drive, Portland). There will be an arts and craft table for the kids, mulled wine and snacks for the grown-ups, live music, a photo booth, and a visit from Sankt Nikolaus, (Krampus will stay home, though). This year, music [...]
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12/02/2018 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm - This is an additional special screening of JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER (Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer). In the tradition of special films in Germany for the holiday season, this screening is FREE for all children under 12 yrs and GENERAL ADMISSION is $7.00. SUN. DEC. 2, 2018 @ 3.00 PM @ [...]
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