Margarethe von Trotta retrospective for New York

Anniversaries (Jahrestage) published in English

by Anne-Katrin Titze

Episode one of Margarethe von Trotta's four-part film adaptation of Uwe Johnson's masterwork Jahrestage (Anniversaries) will be introduced by Anne-Katrin Titze
Episode one of Margarethe von Trotta's four-part film adaptation of Uwe Johnson's masterwork Jahrestage (Anniversaries) will be introduced by Anne-Katrin Titze

Coming up in November, the Quad Cinema in New York will be holding a ten film retrospective titled Margarethe von Trotta: The Political Is Personal with screenings that include Margarethe as an actress in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The American Soldier and Gods Of The Plague, and Volker Schlöndorff's Coup De Grâce. Films that she directed include Rosa Luxemburg, Marianne & Juliane, Sheer Madness, and Sisters, Or The Balance Of Happiness. Also showing will be The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum, the film Margarethe co-directed with Volker Schlöndorff.

Margarethe von Trotta: The Political Is Personal at the Quad Cinema in New York
Margarethe von Trotta: The Political Is Personal at the Quad Cinema in New York

New York's Goethe-Institut is celebrating the New York Review of Books publication of Anniversaries, the English language translation (by Damion Searls) of Uwe Johnson's masterwork Jahrestage. I will introduce episode one of Margarethe von Trotta's four-part film adaptation of the novel on November 2 in the Riverside Drive Revisited: Uwe Johnson's New York programme.

On 9 October Margarethe von Trotta was honoured with the inaugural Ulfers Foundation Award at Deutsches Haus, NYU, the evening after her documentary Searching For Ingmar Bergman had its 56th New York Film Festival première.

The Anniversaries book launch at Goethe-Institut will have a panel discussion with Damion Searls joined by critics Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger on 1 November at 7:00pm.

Margarethe von Trotta: The Political Is Personal retrospective runs from 2 November through 8 November at the Quad Cinema in New York.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman opens in the US on 2 November.

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