Hajo Schaefer, Co-Director, Achtung Berlin

The annual festival achtung berlin – new berlin film award is dedicated to presenting movies from the German capital and, in only six short years, has established itself as the city’s second-largest film festival (after the world-renowned Berlinale).  CCGES is please to welcome the festival’s co-founder, Hajo Schäfer, to the Centre for a talk on Thursday, September 23rd (3:00-4:30 pm in Room 749, York Research Tower – building #95 on the map found here) in which he’ll expound on this unique festival’s beginnings, its place in the German festival scene and how it seeks to speak to current debates in the new capital and new Germany.

Mr. Schäfer will use clips from the recent festival program to offer a glimpse of achtung berlin and will explore further topics of particular interest to the audience in a substantive question and answer session to follow his presentation. Jennifer Ruth Hosek (Dept. of German, Queen’s University) will introduce this event and provide a commentary in the subsequent question and answer period.

This talk and the clips presented will be in English.

All are welcome, but attendees are asked to register with ccges@yorku.ca

Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
Location: 749 York Research Tower (building #95 on the map found here)