Were the Earth Not Round (Wäre die Erde nicht rund) is the story of Christiane (Bożena Stryjkówna), an East German woman studying geology at a university in Moscow. The story is told in flashbacks while Christiane waits for her ailing daughter to leave the hospital. The flashbacks jump back and forth between the woman’s childhood …
Month: August 2021
Location Hunting
When documentary filmmaker Rüdiger Stein decides to make a film about an ordinary couple, he finds that he's bitten off more than her can chew.
Lotte in Weimar
In 1774, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther took Germany by storm. Goethe would go on to become the most important writer in Germany, and it started with this book. The book is told from the perspective of a young man, pining for his unrequited love, Lotte. He wrote the book in …
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