ENVIRONMENTAL APRIL | GERMAN MOVIE DAY

GERMAN MOVIE DAY
Wednesday, 8 April, 11: 30 am
Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, Entry: free

As a part of this year’s Environmental April’s program, we are pleased to present two films: Wenn der Eisberg kalbt (When the Iceberg Melts) and Recipes for Disaster. Both films are devoted to the topic of climate change and depict people’s attempts to fight the treat: sometimes naive and funny, sometimes innovative and progressive. The films will be shown with English subtitles.


short film | WENN DER EISBERG KALBT 

(When the iceberg melts)
Fiction. Director: Sylvie Hohlbaum, Gregor Schubert, 

Germany (2002), 6 min.

Manfred Binder is an ‘inventor’ in the Hesse countryside. To save humankind from rising sea levels, he is creating a gargantuan ‘survival capsule’ which will float on the world's oceans.

feature film | RECIPES FOR DISASTER
Documentary | Comedy
Director: John Webster, 

Finland (2008), 85 min.

How can we as individuals combat climate change? The filmmaker John Webster and his family are looking for an answer, leading a low-carbon lifestyle. Over the course of one year, they reduce their ecological ‘footprint’: they do not use a car, electricity or plastic, eat only local food and radically change their diet. Humorous and convincing, this film depicts the daily obstacles and adversities, as well as the newfound freedoms, which they encounter. 

About Environmental April 2015:
Environmental April is commemorated every year by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad with the special program, centred around the Earth Day, celebrated on April, 22nd. We present a program that highlight environmental issues in an innovative and thought-provoking manner through exhibitions, film-screenings, discussions and workshops.

The Launch of Café at GZ

Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to announce the launch of the

Terrassen Café by Poets and Oats

The new café will cater to all visitors of the Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad with a healthy and innovative range of snacks and refreshments, offering a special breakfast menu - the Bagel Breakfast - on Saturday and Sunday.

Timings:
Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 am - 3 pm.
Poets and Oats endeavours to provide healthy food, sourced locally within a 50 km radius of Hyderabad, and when ever possible straight from the farmer. They believe in food which is from the heart, made at home, and that tastes like heaven – Food that is kind to us. They specialize in a unique range of breads, cakes, sandwiches, spreads and cookies. We invite you to come and enjoy their delicious food at Goethe’s new Terrassen Café by Poets and Oats!

TALK | GORILLAS IN THE MIST

Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to announce the first event of this year’s Environmental April, in collaboration with the Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh:

TALK | GORILLAS IN THE MIST
Date : Tuesday, 7 April
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: Hamburg Hall, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad,
Entry : free

About the talk:

The speaker – a passionate traveller and an aerospace engineer Nikil Rangadas – will tell about his experiences during two treks into the mountains of Bwindi in Uganda and Virunga in Rwanda, during which he interacted with two groups of Habituated Mountain Gorillas-the Cyagorirra group and the Ugendo Group. He will discuss their amazing lives and their vulnerable existence.
Nikil Rangadas will also talk about chasing the hyper chimps through the forests of Kibale National Park, giving a brief look into the times and lives of a tribe of chimps and this primate rich area of Uganda, as well as the primates of Sumatra- the Orangutans and the Gibbons, and the lovely life of the Primates of Madagascar- the Lemurs.

About the speaker: Nikil Rangadas works in aerospace engineering. He is an avid traveller, is passionate about wildlife and enjoys scuba diving.

About Environmental April 2015: Environmental April is commemorated every year by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad with the special program, centred around the Earth Day, celebrated on April, 22nd. We present a program that highlight environmental issues in an innovative and thought-provoking manner through exhibitions, film-screenings, discussions and workshops.

WOMEN'S MARCH | POETRY & MUSIC | Purdah

Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to present an evening of poetry and music on the occasion of WOMEN’S MARCH 2015 featuring the German musician Hannah Winzentsen!

27 MARCH | POETRY & MUSIC
PURDAH
6:30 pm, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, Entry : free

The evening’s programme will feature a Mushaira of Hyderabadi women poets recited by the young girls of Shaheen, directed by Jameela Nishat, followed by a musical performance by Hannah Winzentsen (Mohanveena) and Anant Pingle (Tabla).

​About the recitation:
Under the direction of Jameela Nishat, founder of Shaheen Resource Centre for Women, the poetry of Hyderabadi women poets who created history by forming the women's organization Bazm-e-Khwateen-e-Deccan in the 1940s.

About the musicians:


Hannah Louise Winzents​​en, born in Hamburg/Germany, found her spiritual home in the ancient classical Raaga music of India, where the creative inventive mind meets a deep meditative state of silent awareness. She has lived in Varanasi since about 8 years studying the Indian slide guitar or mohanveena with Dr. Sanjay Verma. Since one and a half years she is a student at the Dhrupad Institute, Bhopal, to study the Vichitra Veena with Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha(Padmabhusan.


​​Anant Pingle, a CCRT scholarship holder, started training at the age of five in Tabla initially with Shri Girish Pande of Nashik, he moved on to his current guru Shri Sujit Kale six years ago. He already has several performances both in India and Germany to his credit.

About Women’s March 2015:
Women’s March is celebrated annually by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad to mark the month of the International Women’s Day. Every year we present a programme that highlights women’s issues in an innovative and thought-provoking manner.

WOMEN'S MARCH | GERMAN MOVIE NIGHT | My Beautiful Country

Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to announce the GERMAN MOVIE NIGHT of the month.This month will have a special focus on women as we celebrate WOMEN’S MARCH 2015!

​GERMAN MOVIE NIGHT​
MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Time: 6:30 pm
Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Venue: Hamburg Hall, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
Entry : free

About the film: 

"Die Brücke am Ibar" (My Beautiful Country)
Director: Michaela Kezele
85 min
Drama
Germany 2012

Our film choice for you this month in keeping with Women’s March, is the story of the young Serb Danica living with her children in Kosovo set in1999. The conflict between the Orthodox Christian Serbs and the majority Muslim Albanians, which has been smouldering for decades, has turned into war. NATO intervenes in March and bombs the country in an attempt to end the conflict. Danica mourns the loss of her husband, who perished in the civil war. One day, she finds a badly-wounded soldier from the “other” side in her house. Helping him means risking her own life.

About Women's March 2015:

Women’s March is celebrated annually by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad to mark the month of the International Women’s Day. Every year we present a programme that highlights women’s issues in an innovative and thought-provoking manner.