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| German Film Series, Fall 2008 - Sexual Revolutions in German Cinema The Legend of Paul and Paula (Heiner Carow, 1973) | September 2, 2008 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | EP Schoch 4.104 Conference Room | The Legend of Paul and Paula (Heiner Carow, 1973) Director Heiner Carow adapted Ulrich Plenzdorf's tragicomic love story to make what has become one of the best-known East German films. After leaving her husband, Paula, a now single mother, falls in love with Paul, a committed bureaucrat and married career man altogether dissatisfied with his stagnant life. He and Paula get involved in a passionate affair, but Paul turns out to be much too uptight and conservative for Paula who soon gets fed up with him. When a tragedy makes him aware of what Paula means to him, he gives all he's got to win her back. | Department of Germanic Studies | |
| German Film Series, Fall 2008 - Sexual Revolutions in German Cinema The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) | September 16, 2008 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | EP Schoch 4.104 Conference Room | The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) At the end of WWII, Maria discovers that her husband, a German soldier, has been killed on the front. She takes a job in a bar where she falls in love and gets involved in a relationship with an African-American GI. When her husband Hermann returns unexpectedly, confusion ensues in what becomes a complex filmic exploration of the shifting meanings of relationships, and the intersections of sex, gender and power in post-war German society. | Department of Germanic Studies | |
| Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5), September 26-28, 2008 | September 26, 2008 | Texas Union | Conference Registration Purchase your conference registration now in our online webstore! Conference Webstore: http://utdirect.utexas.edu/txshop/list.WBX?component=0andapplication_name=GMGERMAN For general questions about ICCG-5 please write to: iccg5organization@gmail.com | Link to the ICCG-5 web page  | Germanic Studies, Linguistics, French and Italian, English, College of Liberal Arts |
| German Film Series, Fall 2008 - Sexual Revolutions in German Cinema A Woman in Flames (Robert van Ackeren, 1983) | September 30, 2008 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | EP Schoch 4.104 Conference Room | A Woman in Flames (Robert van Ackeren, 1983) Eva, who has recently left her husband, decides to become a prostitute. She meets Yvonne, and together they start picking up johns. One night she goes home with Chris who she soon learns is a hustler. They move in together and have what at first looks like a good relationship. When Eva begins working as a dominatrix, though, and making more money than Chris, he gets envious and they begin fighting. In a dramatic turn before ending, the film questions the distribution of power in relationships between women and men, and violence as an expression of gender inequality. | Department of Germanic Studies |