Leo Lensing’s essay “Rainer ‘Maria’ Fassbinder. Cinema between Literature and Life” is included in the new Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, edited by Brigitte Peucker.
Month: March 2012
Wesleyan Students in Germany
All five students have been studying with our Regensburg Program at Regensburg University, Germany since January 2012. Here you see them during a visit to Berlin in front of the German Reichstag in Berlin.
From left to right: Oscar Takabvirwa’14, Taylor Steele’14, Shu Zhang’13, Julius Bjornson’14, Afi Tettey-Fio’13
Newer and Newest German Cinema
Film Studies & German Studies will continue their annual film series with Maren Ade’s comedy drama, Everyone Else (2009).
“…watching the film is to watch the emergence of a very particular and potentially galvanic cinematic talent.” – Glenn Kenney, The Los Angeles Times
Powell Family Cinema, CFS, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 7 p.m.,
with an introduction by Katja Straub
Leo Lensing on Karl Kraus
Leo Lensing contributed the article on Karl Kraus (1874-1936) to the Handbuch der Kunstzitate, a lexicon documenting allusions to painting, sculpture and photography in the work of more than two hundred German-language writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The “handbook,” edited by Konstanze Fliedl et al., is published in two volumes by De Gruyter.