Deutschland 83: Episode 1 and 2 Screening and Panel Discussion
November 5, 2015
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall lower level
Address
701 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Screening of Deutschland ’83 with discussion moderated by Dr. Sara Hall
1:00 pm Episode 1 “Quantum Jump”
2:00 pm Episode 2 “Brave Guy”
Please join us for screenings of selected episodes of the mini-series DEUTSCHLAND 83, which premiered in the United State on Sundance TV in summer 2015. The New York Times touted the series, which is the first German TV series to air on US television, as an “ingenious, counterintuitive look at the Cold War.”
Sundance describes the series: “DEUTSCHLAND 83 is a captivating story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) as the 24-year-old East German native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.”
Selected screenings will be accompanied by a Skype discussion on the topic “Cold War Themes in Current the Trans-Atlantic Televisual Landscape” with screenwriter Anna LeVine Winger and producer Joerg Winger, the creators of DEUTSCHLAND 83. The panelists will consider their series in the context of American television representations of the Cold War.
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Date posted
Jun 11, 2020
Date updated
Jun 11, 2020