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LBI LondonDr Julia Ng - A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish ThoughtIn the early twentieth century, German-Jewish thinkers converged upon Daoism as a means to criticise state power and the dominance of economic productivity in modern society. Figures like Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin explored how Daoist ideas could inspire alternative ways of organising social and economic life, thereby challenging stereotypes of ‘China’ as passive or non-productive. This talk examines how their engagement with Daoism offered a vision of religion’s role in everyday life that moved beyond racialised notions of activity and inactivity, and the mercantilist-salvational paradigm then dominant in Western societies.Julia Ng is Reader in Critic...
2025-12-011h 24
Easy German: Learn German with native speakers | Deutsch lernen mit Muttersprachlern616: Der längste Zug EuropasWir podcasten von einer Dachterrasse in Istanbul und Cari berichtet von einer ganz besonderen Bahnreise: 46 Stunden ist sie mit dem Optima Express von Österreich über viele Länder bis in die Türkei gefahren - und kam mit zehn Stunden Verspätung schließlich in Istanbul an. Sie erzählt, welche Herausforderungen sie dabei meistern musste und warum sie trotzdem schon wieder bereit für die nächste Reise ist. Transkript und Vokabelhilfe Werde ein Easy German Mitglied und du bekommst unsere Vokabelhilfe, ein interaktives Transkript und Bonusmaterial zu jeder Episode: easygerman.org/membership...
2025-11-1829 min
Fisher German TalksBridging business & charity - the challenges, the future and the need for business collaborationIn this special episode of Fisher German Talks, host Stuart Flint is joined by Sally Chacatte, Founder and Chair of W4Youth, and Tim Sledge, Director of Fundraising at XLP, for a powerful conversation about the realities facing the charity sector, and the young people who rely on it.As Fisher German marks two major milestones, the launch of our Future Proofing London report and the completion of the Big 25 Challenge, the discussion turns to how charities can remain resilient in a time of economic uncertainty, social change, and rising need. It’s a time for business an...
2025-11-0736 min
London School of Theology PodcastFaculty Faith Stories: Annette GlawFaculty Faith Stories with Matt Knell.
Matt, LST's Lecturer in Historical Theology and Church History, sits down with different faculty members to ask about their spiritual journey and testimonies, meeting the people behind their teaching at LST.
In this conversation, Matt speaks with Annette, student Pastoral Support Worker and lecturer at LST. Annette talks about her German heritage and upbringing, with her childhood spent in Taiwan as a missionary kid, and her time in boarding school in the Philippines. Annette shares about her PhD work focusing on the Holy Spirit and Christian ethics, and her...
2025-10-3134 min
LBI LondonRethinking German Nationalism in the Interwar PeriodErin HochmanDue to the horrors of the Third Reich, we have come to think of German nationalism as inherently antisemitic, racist, antidemocratic, and violent. This talk challenges this conventional interpretation. It shows how the defenders of the Weimar and First Austrian Republics used the großdeutsch idea, the notion that Austria should be part of a German nation-state, to create a democratic nationalism. Unlike their conservative and right-wing opponents, these republicans did not view democracy and Germany, socialism and nationalism, or Jew and German as mutually exclusive categories. As such, the triumph of Nazi ideas about nationalism was far f...
2025-10-141h 15
Design PerspectivesLina Ghotmeh: What Does Responsibility Look Like in Architecture Today?
The guest on this episode is ICONIC AWARDS 2025 „Architect of the Year” Lina Ghotmeh. Host Martin Pauli talks with the Paris-based architect about her design philosophy “Archaeology of the Future” and the question of what responsibility in architecture means today. From her upbringing in post-war Beirut to internationally acclaimed projects such as the „Stone Garden Housing”, the Hermès Workshops in Normandy, and the „Serpentine Pavilion” in London, Ghotmeh shares how place, memory, material, and care shape her work.
The conversation explores how architecture can act as both a critical and hopeful practice – one that embraces complexity, fosters community, and responds to urg...
2025-10-1434 min
Design PerspectivesGerman Design Graduates Special: What Role Does Experimental Design Play as a Driver of Innovation?
In this special edition of Design Perspectives, we explore how experimental design can spark innovation between the laboratory and industry. Host Jasmin Jouhar talks to Miriam Johnston, a graduate of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, and Johannes Voelchert, Innovation Design Lead at On Shoes in Zurich.
The occasion for this special episode is the exhibition Dare to Design – Spaces of Care, on view at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (MAKK) until 12 October 2025. The show features projects by this year’s German Design Graduates, an initiative of the German Design Council supporting graduates of German design univ...
2025-09-0332 min
Readle - Learn German with 5-min PodbitsLearn German EP 30 - What Makes Tea So British? (Advanced)In this episode, hosts Jen and Paul take a warm sip of history as they explore why tea is such a beloved part of British culture. From ancient trade routes to tax changes in the eighteenth century, they uncover how tea went from a luxury to a daily ritual. With stories stretching from North Africa to Asia, they also reflect on how tea is enjoyed around the world — and why London once ruled the global tea trade. Download the Readle app today!Story TextTee ist in vielen Teilen der Welt ein be...
2025-08-1506 min
LBI LondonHitler’s Mein Kampf: Reflections 100 Years OnLisa PineInstitute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of LondonHitler and the history of the Nazis remain extremely popular topics and ones that never cease to attract people’s interest, even fascination. It is crucial to comprehend the nature of Mein Kampf, the mindset of its author, Adolf Hitler, and the ideology he espoused that brought untold tragedy to millions of people – death, destruction, genocide and war. The book presents a dangerous set of ideas, regrettably ones that still have followers today, one hundred years after Mein Kampf was...
2025-07-111h 30
LBI London(Un)Welcome Returns? Re-Naturalisation Rights of German Jews in GermanyNicholas CourtmanKing’s College LondonSince 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany has allowed former citizens, whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazis due to their Jewish faith or ‘race’, to reclaim it. Yet, over the past 75 years, there have been significant changes regarding which German Jews – and which descendants – can enjoy that right. This talk tracks those developments, from the restrictive, often antisemitic decisions made in the 1950s, to attempts to uphold those regulations in the following decades, through to the 2021 reform of the German Nationality Act that finally redressed such exclusions.Nicholas Courtman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History an...
2025-06-061h 22
Decades From Home - A Podcast About GermanyEp 224: OK, Let's GoThere’s a lot of good vibes flying around the podcast this week. Producer Simon is quietly delighted with New Zealand’s sporting endeavours, but the real positivity comes in the form of Simon’s story on a Hanoi based Instagrammer who’s memeing themselves to a solid German education.All that positivity puts us in good stead given we do have to quickly look at the bin fire that is politics. We find out if Germany has a government, wonder why pollsters seem unable to take a holiday, and follow up on the changing advice for Germans...
2025-03-2944 min
LBI LondonHermann Beck - Online Book TalkBefore the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi TakeoverSpeaker: Hermann BeckHermann Beck has just been announced winner of the Yad Vashem Book Prize 2024 for his book Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover.Historians have traditionally argued that antisemitic violence in Nazi Germany rose gradually, from low levels during the first years of Hitler's rule to a high point in the Reich-wide pogrom of November 1938. Before the Holocaust, based on research in more than twenty German archives, demonstrates that this long-held...
2025-02-211h 16
Design PerspectivesWiebke Ahues: Wie sieht radikale Nachhaltigkeit im Bauwesen aus?
In dieser Folge von Design Perspectives spricht Host Martin Pauli mit Wiebke Ahues, Partnerin bei LSXSY Architekten, über radikale Nachhaltigkeit im Bauwesen. Gemeinsam beleuchten sie die Herausforderungen und Chancen des zirkulären Bauens, die Bedeutung der Wiederverwendung von Materialien und die Notwendigkeit neuer Prozesse und Denkweisen. Ahues zeigt auf, warum die Transformation der Branche nicht nur technologisch, sondern auch kulturell und wirtschaftlich gedacht werden muss, um echte Fortschritte in Richtung nachhaltiger Architektur zu erzielen.
📌 Die drei Takeaways:
🚀 Radikalität im Denken und Handeln
Die Transformation der Baubranche erfordert radikale Ansätze, die über die bisherige Praxis hina...
2025-02-1855 min
LBI LondonGrzegorz Kwiatkowski: More Light – Art Against HateMore Light – Art Against Hate: Fighting Holocaust Denial and The Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism In Poland
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
The ability to accurately describe the past is not confined to historians alone. Artists use their creative expression to explore the cruelties of history, aiming to shape a more ethical present and future. In the case of Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, art is also mixed with activism and active efforts to preserve the memory of the victims and their cultural heritage. Kwiatkowski, whose grandfather was a prisoner of the Stutthof concentration camp, and whose wife’s Jewi...
2024-11-291h 15
LBI LondonA German-Jewish Athlete During The Age of Extremes: Alex Natan (1906–71)Prof. Kay Schiller
University of Durham, UK
As a gay high-performance runner, antifascist intellectual and sportswriter, Alex Natan was a quintessential outsider in Weimar Berlin. His marginal status also remained a constant during his forced emigration to Britain, as a precarious refugee in pre-war London, as a long-time internee during World War II, as well as a schoolteacher in the Midlands and author and journalist in post-war Britain and West Germany. This lecture will demonstrate how an unusual German Jew was affected by the ‘age of extremes’, making his life story quite typical of the pred...
2024-10-111h 21
LBI LondonLBI London Summer Lecture: Psychologists in Auschwitz: Accounting for SurvivalProf Dan Stone
The writings of Dutch Auschwitz survivors Eddy de Wind, Elie Cohen and Louis Micheels merit analysis not only because they anticipated what later became known as PTSD and much of the underpinnings of trauma theory. They also advocated a theory of survival that offers a compelling contrast to well-known “self-help” theories put forward by Bruno Bettelheim and, especially, Viktor Frankl. This lecture traces the ways in which this theory of survival challenged these simplistic narratives, explains how their work informed the changing field of psychiatry after the war, and considers its relevance for the historiography of the...
2024-07-121h 25
LBI LondonJewish Life In Contemporary GermanyProf Dani Kranz
Germany is home to Europe’s third largest Jewish community. Yet surprisingly little is known about them. After the Shoah, about 15,000 German Jews returned to Germany or emerged from hiding. The growth of the Jewish population in Germany after 1945 was due entirely to immigration, which is somewhat counter intuitive. Who are the Jews who live in contemporary Germany? How do they live out their Jewishness? What Jewish cultures did they bring with them, and what kind of Jewish culture is forming in Germany?
Dani Kranz is the incumbent DAAD Humboldt chair at El C...
2024-06-141h 28
Enjoy Amazing Free Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense[German] - Sherlock Holmes - Der Baumeister von Norwood: London Crime Stories by Sir Arthur Conan DoylePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sherlock Holmes - Der Baumeister von Norwood: London Crime Stories Series: #3 of [German Edition] London Crime Stories Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrator: Christoph Jablonka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Release date: May 30, 2024 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: ..ein ganz besonderes Puzzle.. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature in neuer Übersetzung. Kriminalroman-Serie von Arthur Conan Doyle um den weltberühmten Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson und deren teils kniffeligen Fälle und Abenteuer. Der Baumeister aus Norwood Ein brennender Holzstapel. Und ein verkohlter Gegenstand. Die Spuren eines Kamp...
2024-05-3003 min
Enjoy Amazing Free Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense[German] - Sherlock Holmes - Die tanzenden Männchen: London Crime Stories by Sir Arthur Conan DoylePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sherlock Holmes - Die tanzenden Männchen: London Crime Stories Series: #2 of [German Edition] London Crime Stories Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrator: Christoph Jablonka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: May 29, 2024 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: ..gut konstruiert - clever aufgelöst. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature in neuer Übersetzung. Kriminalroman-Serie von Arthur Conan Doyle um den weltberühmten Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson und deren teils kniffeligen Fälle und Abenteuer. Die tanzenden Männchen Es ist ein gewöhnlicher Tag wie jeder andere i...
2024-05-2903 min
Comedy with an AccentS02E05 Alice Frick, German speaker - From Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹Alice Frick is a comedian, writer, producer originally from Vienna, Austria, who is also the show runner of "Laughing Labia", an all-female line up comedy show and one of the longest-running LGBTQ+ comedy show in London with a loyal following.Alice talks about the articulation lessons she has been having and how her English went from American-sounding to more obviously German when she decided to switch to British pronunciation. We also learn why Alice is happy to go with the Alpine Milk Maid stereotype and why certain stereotypes about Austria seem to be based on an element...
2024-05-0747 min
LBI LondonHeinrich Zimmer, Nazi Racial Politics and The University of Heidelberg, 1933–1938Dr. Baijayanti Roy
University of Frankfurt
This talk examines the grey zones that exist between the established paradigms of persecution and exile in the ‘Third Reich’, as demonstrated by the trajectory of the Indologist Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943). Zimmer, who taught at the University of Heidelberg, lost his teaching license in 1938 since his wife Christiane was classified as a Mischling (mixed race) by the Nazi regime. He tried to battle his fate by offering diverse political capital to the Nazi political establishment and by counting on some sympathetic colleagues. Zimmer was able to flee German...
2024-05-031h 11
LBI LondonWriting The Lives of Those That Stayed Behind. Georg Hermann’s Long-Lost Exile Novel ‘Die Daheim Blieben’Godela Weiss-Sussex
ILCS (University of London)
In the winter of 1939–40, exiled in the Dutch city of Hilversum, Georg Hermann was working on a novel that he regarded as one of his most important. Entitled Die daheim blieben (Those that Stayed Behind), it was to be composed of four parts and tell the story of a large, diverse German-Jewish family in Berlin from March 1933 to November 1938. He was unable to complete the novel or see it published, and it was long thought to have been lost. Recently, however, the manuscripts of the first two parts were disc...
2024-04-301h 18LBI LondonWho was Fritz Kittel? A German Railway Worker Decides, 1933–2022Reading: Esther Dischereit together with Jonny Ball.
In 2023, Esther Dischereit created an exhibition in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn to honour the railroad worker Fritz Kittel. In 1944 and 1945, he hid her mother Hella and sister Hannelore, who as Jews were persecuted by the Gestapo and threatened with death in Germany under National Socialism. They were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945. Dischereit began to search for the family of the rescuer and found them in 2019. Fritz Kittel had not told his own family about his courageous act throughout his life.
Esther Dischereit's literary response in 17 text...
2024-02-071h 31
Staying Connected - London EditionEpisode 18: The 'B' Word: BerlinWhat makes Berlin so attractive? Has the German capital become 'normal'? Does someone really walk sheep on an abandoned airstrip? Author and broadcaster John Kampfner and RTL journalist Katharina Delling discuss Berlin's allure, British and German idiosyncrasies and a recent poll of UK peoples attitudes towards Germany in this latest episode of the podcast.
2023-10-3130 minLBI LondonThe Shoah and the Tragedy of Assimilation: Lessons from one German-Jewish familySimon May
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 18:30
Between 1933 and 1941, Simon May’s mother and her two sisters pushed the boundaries of assimilation among German Jews to their limits. They resorted to conversion, aristocratic marriages, and ‘Aryan’ certificates, which likely saved them from the death camps. However, this marked the defeat of the hope that such strategies would secure acceptance for Jews in German and European society. It led to a unique vulnerability, as these three women – and many others like them – distanced themselves from their cultural roots, leaving them emotionally defenceless when disaster struck. This self-inflicted psychic violence p...
2023-10-291h 33LBI LondonWhat a shayna punim!: Cute Jews, Photography, and Jewish RegenerationProf Daniel Magilow
Jüdische Kinder in Erez Israel, a collection of twenty-one photographs of adorable Jewish children in Mandatory Palestine, was the last overtly Jewish-themed photobook published in Germany before the Holocaust. Yet its propaganda mission transcended its diminutive size and surface superficiality. This talk examines how this photobook creates an allegory of Jewish vulnerability by eliciting responses associated with the minor aesthetic category of ‘cuteness.’ In so doing, it broadens our understanding of how photobooks helped expand the visual lexicon and aesthetic strategies central to Jewish cultural and political regeneration.
Daniel H. Magilow is Professor of German at th...
2023-10-131h 09
If It Ain't Baroque...Queen Charlotte: A German Princess, A British Queen and A Netflix DarlingIn our second episode we talk about Queen Charlotte, and why she deserves to step into the historical limelight, so many years after her death.We look at her life, her death and her relationship with her family.Was she friends with Marie Antoinette? Did she truly love George? Why is there a painting of her in North Carolina? And...was she indeed Britain's First Black Queen?We mention a few books, most notably https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Real-Queen-Charlotte-Hardback/p/21481/aid/1238 .Please find more history fodder on our...
2023-09-111h 02
Staying Connected - London EditionEpisode 17: The KindertransportIn 1939, Maria Ault and Kurt Marx managed to escape Nazi Germany and were brought to the UK on the Kindertransport. They told London-based German radio correspondent Gabi Biesinger their moving stories: what it was like to arrive in the UK as children, their journeys, whether they saw their parents again, and the importance of Holocaust education.
2023-09-0741 min
LBI LondonGerman Jews, English Gentry: The Messel Family and the Cultural Expression of a Changing IdentityLeo Baeck Institute London Summer Lecture
Speaker: John Hilary, honorary professor at the University of Nottingham
The conspicuous set of German-Jewish financiers who made their homes in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain brought with them a rich cultural inheritance that reflected the historical journey of German Jewry towards emancipation. As they established themselves in their new environment, they faced the challenge of being at one and the same time German, Jewish, British and English, and the crisis of having to choose between allegiances in the dark days of the First World War.
This lecture explores the diverse ways in...
2023-06-301h 29
LBI LondonMarked Off in the Eyes of the Public: Anti-Jewish Imagery and the Politics of PrejudiceSara Lipton
Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Art can be a powerful force in shaping the way we see and think about the world: pictures craft our ideas of beauty and ugliness, good and bad, power and weakness. This lecture traces how medieval Christian images of Jews, originally designed to aid religious devotions, made Christians look at Jews with new curiosity and interest, and drew their attention to previously unnoticed aspects of Jewish life and looks. As images of Jews evolved from benign but outdated Hebrews to caricatured usurers and demonic sorcerers, Christian society developed new – and in...
2023-06-201h 25
LBI LondonThe Virtuous JewessNadia Valman
Queen Mary University of London, UK
British culture has always been fascinated by the figure of the Jewess. This lecture will explore its roots in nineteenth-century theology, and its popularisation through literature. In contrast to the more well- known stereotypes of Fagin and Shylock, the virtuous Jewess was an emblem of the privileged status accorded to both women and Jews in Victorian Protestant culture and demonstrates that Jews could function not simply as an ‘other’ within modern cultures, but also, simultaneously, an ideal self.
Nadia Valman is Professor of Urban Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She...
2023-05-051h 25
NACHTS UM HALB 1 – Der Musikpodcast in 3D AudioRoo Panes über Burberry, Bücher und London
Der Singer-Songwriter aus England hat ein Theologie-Studium abgeschlossen, bevor er nach London zog und dort seine Musikkarriere startete. Bei Nachts Um Halb 1 erzählt er uns heute, warum er für Burberry gemodelt hat, dass er seine Gefühle besser durch seine Songs ausdrücken kann und von seiner Liebe zu Büchern.
Wie immer bei Nachts Um Halb 1 gibt es Songs in einer einzigartigen 3D-Audio-Version.
Roo Panes spielt für uns:
Our Time (Live at Nachts Um Halb 1)
I Just Love You (Live at Nachts Um Halb 1)
Suburban Pines (Live at Nachts Um Halb 1)
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2023-03-2045 min
LBI LondonGender, Sex and Jewishness in Weimar Cinema’s MonstersProf Cathy Gelbin
University of Manchester, UK
Leo Baeck Institute London Lecture Series 2023
The monstrous Jew of popular imagination found perhaps his most salient expression in Weimar cinema’s love of the uncanny. These films derive their lasting fascination from the often-ironic interplay of their separate and yet related gendered, sexualized and racialized portrayals. The talk explores how spectatorial pleasure can arise from the emerging gaps where the incoherence of these categories, presumed to be absolute in the biologized discourses of modernity, is playfully made visible and ridiculed.
Cathy Gelbin is Pr...
2023-03-101h 26
LBI LondonImages of the Grotesque and Arabesque: The Discovery of Kafka’s drawingsOver 100 completely unknown drawings by Franz Kafka of fascinating figures, shifting from the realistic to the fantastic, the grotesque, the uncanny and the carnivalesque have been made accessible in Prof Andreas Kilcher’s highly acclaimed book Franz Kafka: The Drawings. The drawings illuminate a previously unknown side of the quintessential modernist author. Three fascinating stories can be told about Kafka’s drawings: the story of their transmission, the story of Kafka as a draftsman, and the story of his drawing in relation to his writing.
Hosted at the German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ an...
2023-02-281h 37
NACHTS UM HALB 1 – Der Musikpodcast in 3D AudioL.A. SALAMIL.A. SALAMI
Willkommen zu Folge 13 mit L.A. Salami!
Heute gibt es mal wieder ein Reeperbahnfestivalspezial mit unserem Gastmoderator Jan Paersch.
Das ist L.A. Salami. Der Singer-Songwriter, der wirklich mit Nachnamen Salami heißt, wuchs in London bei Pflegeeltern auf.
Heute erzählt er uns von seiner harten Nacht auf der Reeperbahn, wie Kunst uns alle überdauert und warum Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws”, oder auf deutsch “Der weiße Hai” , der beste Film ist, der jemals gedreht wurde.
Also viel Spaß mit L.A. Salami!
Wie immer bei Nachts Um Halb 1 gibt es Songs in einer...
2022-10-3139 min
LBI LondonPost-Holocaust German-Jewish Symbiosis: Ephraim Kishon and the GermansProf Moshe Zimmermann
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Post-Holocaust German-Jewish Symbiosis: Ephraim Kishon and the Germans 6.30pm, Thursday, October 13th 2022 The bon mot 'A German joke is no laughing matter' is attributed to Mark Twain. Improvising on Adorno's dictum 'writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric' one might consider writing humour in the German language after Auschwitz a contradiction in terms. Yet, this was the gap into which the Israeli Author Ephraim Kishon, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, stepped. The most successful humourist of the Federal Republic, his humour was rooted in the everyday life of Isr...
2022-10-131h 24
Definitely German PodcastTaylor Hawkins Tribute, Skinwalker Ranch, Speyer & Musikmomente! 🎙️Erlebe emotionale Musikmomente und spannende Erlebnisse! In dieser Podcast-Folge berichte ich vom Taylor Hawkins Tribute Konzert in London, meiner Reise nach Speyer zum Auftritt der Progressive Metal Band „Alternative Ways“, faszinierenden Eindrücken von Skinwalker Ranch und besonderen Momenten unter Sternschnuppen.Du erfährst:Wie das Taylor Hawkins Tribute Konzert in London mich berührt hatEindrücke vom Auftritt der Band „Alternative Ways“ in SpeyerWas die Doku-Serie „The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch“ so spannend machtPersönliche Highlights: Grillen, Sternschnuppen und FreundschaftIdeal für Musikfans, Entdeck...
2022-09-091h 10
The LRB PodcastTwo German FraudsJohn Lanchester talks to Tom about the recent scandals involving two DAX-listed companies, Volkswagen and Wirecard, and the ways in which they challenge the stereotypes of German business.Find further reading, and listen ad free, on our website: lrb.me/fraudpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20bTitle music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-08-0946 min
Staying Connected - London EditionEpisode 12: What role do Honorary Consuls play in connecting countries?There are 17 German Honorary Consuls in the UK. But how does one become a Honorary Consul? How do Honorary Consuls contribute to UK-German relations? In this episode of our podcast, Peter Barnes of the British-German Association speaks to Helga Rother-Simmonds, Honorary Consul in Cardiff, and Richard Cutler, Honorary Consul in Southampton, about their work, the image of Germany in their regions and the living connections between their areas and Germany.
2022-08-0331 min
LBI LondonA Story of Ambivalences. Jewish Topics and Characters in East German TelevisionDr Lisa Schoß (Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies, Berlin, Germany)
6.30pm, May 5th 2022
In general, East German television attempted to combine so-called ‘political-operational cultural work’ with attractive programming. The same balancing act can also be observed in the presentation of Jewish topics and characters on TV. This talk covers so-called anti-fascist films about the Nazi era; campaign films against the West, e.g. courtroom dramas and crime movies; the aspect of ‘Jewish heritage’; Yiddish music; and Jewish contributions to entertainment shows.
Dr des Lisa Schoß is a scholar of film and literature. Her monogr...
2022-05-051h 23
Our ClassroomEpisode 19 | Using Bilingual Books to Teach Self-Love & Diversity w/ Marisa TaylorAll the way from London, UK! Author Marisa Taylor checked into Our Classroom to discuss Using Bilingual Books to Teach Self-Love & Diversity. She touched upon:-The personal experiences that inspired her book ´Happy within´-Her observations of how other countries responding to the concepts of bilingualism and diversity-Steps monolingual families can implement now to learn a new language and connect with people from other culturesMarisa Taylor lives in London, UK. Her first book ´Happy within´ has been translated into +15 different languages. The idea behind the bilingual books is to create diverse reso...
2022-03-3025 minStaying Connected - London EditionEpisode 9 - How teaching and learning German in the UK keeps us connectedLanguage classes at school bring about some of our earliest encounters with foreign languages and cultures. In this episode, Stamatia Kalogeropoulou and Emma Whittle, winners of the German Teacher Award, talk about the joys and challenges of getting pupils, parents and headteachers interested in German. In conversation with Bernardette Holmes, expert on education policy, they share the secret of how 'Vanillekipferln' can keep nations connected.
2022-02-2833 min
Easy German: Learn German with native speakers | Deutsch lernen mit Muttersprachlern262: Konzert-BuddiesHeute sprechen wir mit Isi über etwas, das wir seit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie sehr vermissen: Livemusik. Wir reden über unsere schönsten und schlimmsten Konzerterfahrungen, darüber, was für uns das Besondere an Livemusik ist, und welche Bands wir für unser persönliches Traumfestival auswählen würden. Transkript und Vokabelhilfe Werde ein Easy German Mitglied und du bekommst unsere Vokabelhilfe, ein interaktives Transkript und Bonusmaterial zu jeder Episode: easygerman.org/membership Thema der Woche: Livemusik Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry (YouTube) Caris "Sunday Evening" Pl...
2022-02-0536 minStaying Connected - London EditionEpisode 8: Staying Connected through town twinnings – how cities bring countries togetherAlmost 500 town twinnings and other partnerships connect UK and German cities through projects as varied as school exchanges, sports days, joint council meetings and much more. Our guests Ann Kennard and Petra Pilger are actively involved in the Hanover-Bristol twinning, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2022. They talk to Peter Barnes, Chairman of the British-German Association, which actively supports and promotes British-German town twinnings.
2021-11-2629 min
London beyond time and placeDominik Scherrer - Komponist ("Ripper Street", "Requiem") - Mini Episode (Deutsch/German)Dominik Scherrer ist ein 1967 in Zürich geborener britischer Komponist, der viel für Film, Theater und Fernsehen geschrieben hat. Von ihm stammen die Soundtracks zu "Agatha Christie's Marple", "Ripper Street", "Inspector George Gently", "Primeval", "The Missing", "Requiem" und "The Serpent".Wir trafen Dominik Scherrer in seinem Crimson Noise Studio auf der Brick Lane, mitten im Gebiet von Jack the Ripper. Um die Ecke in der Hanbury Street wurde Annie Chapman, das zweite kanonische Opfer des Rippers, ermordet. Die Musik zu "Ripper Street" stammt also quasi "von" der "Ripper Street".Entdecken Sie das East End des Rippers auf unserem Self-Guided Ja...
2021-11-1223 min
LBI LondonFrom Heartland to Homeland? – German-Jewish Émigré Artists in Britain, ca. 1933-45Sarah MacDougall (Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, UK)
From Heartland to Homeland? – German-Jewish Émigré Artists in Britain, ca. 1933-45
6.30pm, November 11th 2021
Founded as an arts society in 1915 in London’s East End, Ben Uri’s collection, exhibition history and programming were significantly impacted from the 1930s onwards by the artistic influx of the so-called ‘Hitler émigrés’. This lecture examines the conception of Heimat in relation to the lives and work of German-Jewish artists from this cohort, among them Frank Auerbach and Eva Frankfurther, as they navigated their new host culture, touching on no...
2021-11-111h 34Staying Connected - London EditionEpisode 7 - Why are British musicians drawn to Berlin?J. Willgoose Esq. from Public Service Broadcasting speaks with Gabi Biesinger of ARD about his band's latest album 'Bright Magic', which was inspired by and recorded in Berlin. They explore why Berlin has been such a magnet for British musicians, such as David Bowie and Depeche Mode, discuss what it's like to record in the hallowed halls of Hansa Studios and look at the German lyrics and British-German collaborations on PSB's new album.
2021-10-2224 min
Decades From Home - A Podcast About GermanyEpisode 44On the Show this week:We welcome Dr. Sandra Jansen to the show, just in time to talk about controversial cocktail opinions and the recent takeover of Nic’s favourite football club, Newcastle United.However, we didn’t ask the good doctor on to only talk booze and football. Sandra is a sociolinguist and she has more than a few interesting observations about how Nic and Simon speak. She teaches us how to recognise a Glottal Stop and various other phonetic points about Simon and Nic’s very different accents.Simon introduces us to a l...
2021-10-1654 min
LBI London‘Your Heimat is our Nightmare?’: Post-Soviet Poetic Interventions in German CultureDr Natasha Gordinsky Haifa, Israel
Dr Katja Petrowskaja Berlin, Germany
‘Your Heimat is our Nightmare?’: Post-Soviet Poetic Interventions in German Culture
6.30pm, October 14th 2021
In the past decade post-Soviet Jewish writers, poets and artists who live and work in Germany have played a crucial role in the ongoing debate on the various forms of migrant belonging in contemporary German culture. This lecture seeks to grasp the poetics of (non) belonging. Natasha Gordinsky will explore how different artists represent and de-stabilize performatively the meaning of Heimat, and reflect on this highly charged conc...
2021-10-141h 29
NachrichtenstubeZhikun Lin London bietet Fachkräften Arbeitsvisa anhttps://www.dw.com/de/london-bietet-fachkr%C3%A4ften-arbeitsvisa-an/a-59311997
2021-09-2706 min
RTS London PodcastSpitting Image: Production FocusSkewering the politicians and celebrities who need it the most! Join the Spitting Image team for a look behind the revival of this bitingly funny sketch show. Described as “one of the most innovative and daring television programmes ever conceived” by the BFI, Spitting Image was first broadcast on ITV all the way back in 1984 and continued to mercilessly caricature the great and the good of British society (and beyond) till 1996. Now rebooted in 2020 with Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, Donald Trump and XI Jinping leading the global stage, the Royal Family in tabloid turmoil (again) and...
2021-07-2253 minStaying Connected - London EditionEpisode 4: Joint Task of Climate Action - COP26, G7 and UK-German cooperationWhat are the joint German-UK ambitions to tackle climate change on the way to COP26 (and beyond)? How and where can cooperation be expanded? Journalist Christoph Prössl talks to renowned policy advisors Jennifer Tollmann and Susanne Dröge, who assess their countries' goals for COP26 and analyse why both countries are seen as world leaders on climate policies. Introduction by Oliver Schramm, Head of the Economic Department of the German Embassy London.
2021-07-0132 min
EUNICAST: Meet Visionary EuropeansEUNICAST: Meet Visionary Europeans Episode 6: Tomo KellerEPISODE 6
In this episode we meet one of Europe’s foremost musicians Tomo Keller. Born in Stuttgart to German-Japanese parents, Tomo moved to Vienna in the mid-1980s where he started his formal music training at a young age. He’s since enjoyed a career as a world famous violinist and has held several leadership roles: as Assistant Concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, leader of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and as Director & Leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in London. In conversation with Joe Lynam he talks about the influence of Asia...
2021-05-0531 min
LBI LondonHeimat as a Shelter from NazismOfer Ashkenazi
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
6.30pm, 22 April 2021
This talk analyses the presence of generic Heimat imagery in German-Jewish family albums from the 1930s and highlights two major tendencies: the appropriation of Heimat iconography in photographs of the Jewish home, and the endeavour to situate Jewish family members within generic Heimat scenes. In both cases, Heimat iconography alluded to an alternative notion of German identity – and of belonging in the German landscape – which allowed and encouraged the integration of Jews within it. Consequently, in Jewish family albums, Heimat imagery provided an imagined lands...
2021-04-221h 20
The Europe DeskNot the Exception but the Rule: COVID-19 and Capitalist CrisesCostas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at the SOAS University of London, joins us to discuss the Covid-driven economic crisis gripping the US and EU, their relationship to the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and how policy responses to the current crisis will shape our collective future. The Europe Desk is a podcast from the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It brings together leading experts working on the most pertinent issues facing Europe and transatlantic relations today. Music by Sam Kyzivat and Breakmaster Cylinder Production by Andrew...
2021-04-2044 min
French Tech Podcast - LondonDATA in SPORTS - Dr Lutz GRAUMANN | German Ice Hockey Federation Team Dr & CEO of QuadumaDr Lutz GRAUMANN is the Team Doctor for the German Ice Hockey Federation, CEO of Quaduma and Ex-Military
QUADUMA is an elite digital health & performance consultancy and investment firm. It integrates sports and military medicine and cutting-edge technology to create movement, nutrition, recovery and mindset strategies for work and play.
Lutz has been running performance enhancement programs around the globe since 2005. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, NATO Forces, Olympic Athletes, and business clubs such as EO and YPO.
From 1995 to 2005 Lutz has been working with Armed Forces and Pro Athletes. Extreme climate, physical an...
2021-03-1942 min
Deep House DublinCSR ♯002 [w/ Joone, London, UK] (22/12/2020)The second episode of the Confined Spaces Radio Show is on the way. Join my guest Joone and myself tonight from 10PM (GMT) on Bloop London Radio.
About the guest:
Joone (June) DJ Producer producer from North London, currently signed to Hugarian Label “Secret Fusion” as well as running his own music labels “Acrylic On Canvas” & “Furioza”. In November Acrylic On Canvas released a remix pack from German artist Kat Koan receiving support from the likes of Moscoman, Stereocalypse, PHUNKADELICA. For 2021 Joone is expected to release the Affair EP with Victor C. featuring singer 1403 including remixes from Sobek and Marcus Worgull. Joo...
2020-12-232h 01
Easy German: Learn German with native speakers | Deutsch lernen mit Muttersprachlern79: Ein Freiwilliges Soziales JahrEs herrscht Aufbruchsstimmung im Podcast: Cari freut sich auf die neue Wohnung und für Lisa geht es bald nach London, um ein Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr zu absolvieren. Sie erklärt, bei welcher Organisation sie ihren Freiwillgendienst macht und dass es auch Incoming-Programme für junge Menschen aus aller Welt gibt, die ein FSJ in Deutschland machen möchten. Transkript und Vokabeln Werde ein Easy German Mitglied und du bekommst unsere Vokabelhilfe, ein interaktives Transkript und Bonusmaterial zu jeder Episode: easygerman.org/membership Sponsoren Hier findet ihr unsere S...
2020-08-3131 min
Easy German: Learn German with native speakers | Deutsch lernen mit Muttersprachlern21: KaterstimmungAuf unserem Easy German Meetup in Berlin hat Cari unsere Gäste um Themenvorschläge für den Podcast gebeten und so gibt es diese Woche statt einem Thema der Woche ganz viele Themen im Schnelldurchlauf. Gemeinsam mit Emanuel von yourdailygerman.com sprechen wir über Autos, Menschen, Tiere, Essen, Hochzeiten, Donald Trump, deutsche Wörter und die Liebe. Transkript und Vokabeln Werde ein Easy German Mitglied und du bekommst unsere Vokabelhilfe, ein interaktives Transkript und Bonusmaterial zu jeder Episode: easygerman.org/membership Sponsoren Hier findet ihr unsere Sponsoren und exklusive Angebote: easyg...
2020-02-251h 09
LBI London‘Coming Out’ as Jewish in Weimar GermanyProf Kerry Wallach
(Gettysburg College, USA)
6.30pm, 23 January 2020
In the 1920s and early 1930s – as today – Jews in Germany were concerned about growing anti-Semitism, and many took precautions to conceal their Jewishness by dressing and behaving in certain ‘assimilated’ ways. Yet there were still occasions when it was beneficial to be openly Jewish. This lecture explores the tensions that came with being visible as a Jew – an identity play that often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Drawing on a wide range of images and films, this presentation explores controversial aspects of German Jewish vis...
2020-01-231h 29
Your London LegacyHis Excellency Libor Secka The Ambassador of The Czech Republic On The Close Ties With The UK & His Love Of LondonWhat a privilege and a pleasure it was to be given the opportunity to sit down with His Excellency Mr.LiborSecka,Ambassador of the Czech Republic in London at their fascinating Embassy building. The Czech Republic may be a modern state, but it grew from the ashes of the collapsed Austro – Hungarian Empire and its recent modern history has been quite tumultuous.
Libor took up his position as Ambassador on 5th January 2016, having been posted in similar roles in such diverse countries as Mexico, Spain and most recently China. There are very close links between the people of the Czech Re...
2020-01-1300 min
the underthought061 - Why Uber was BANNED in London... (and Germán's Uber experience)Uber was recently banned in London. We touch on the reasons as to why this is happening. Germán has been Ubering for the last month and shares his experience so far. The positives and the negatives.
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2019-11-2729 min
German JungleS19/20 - Regular Season Week 9: Recap London Rams, Andy Dalton, Preview Ravens, OfftopicWhoDey liebe Hörer! Leider etwas verspätet die neue Folge. Wir sprechen in voller Kapelle über das Spiel vor 2 Wochen in London und den Bombeneinschlag am Tag der Trade-Deadline. Andy Dalton wurde gebenched. Das geht auch nicht spurlos an uns vorbei und wir diskutieren voller Emotionen dieses Thema und deren Auswirkungen. Zudem blicken wir auf das Matchup in Week 10 mit unserem neuen Starter Ryan Finley. Wie immer: Kritik, Lob und Anregungen in die Kommentare! Viel Spaß beim Hören!
2019-11-1053 minGerman JungleS19/20 - Regular Season Week 7: Recap Jacksonville, Preview Rams London, OfftopicWhoDey liebe Hörer! In dieser Folge sind wieder alle German Jungle-Mitglieder am Start und sprechen über eine vermeidbare Niederlage gegen die Jaguars aus dem sonnigen Jacksonville. Andy Dalton gerät nicht nur durch seine Line unter Druck, sondern auch die Fanbase macht "The Red Rifle" Feuer unter'm Hintern - da kommen wir nicht daran vorbei auch das zu thematisieren. Ebenso schneiden wir die Zukunft nach der Season an. Aber das besondere Highlight: der Blick auf das Spiel gegen die Rams in London. Wir sind heiß und lassen auch ein paar Späßchen los. Wie gewohnt: Kritik, Anregungen und Ideen in die...
2019-10-241h 08Your London LegacyGerman Born Londoner Mark Hebwood’s Brilliantly Conceived Debut Book ”Happiness Rules” Clearly Sets Out How To Build, Maintain & Live Your ‘Authentic Life’This week’s guest, Mark Hebwood, is author of the brilliantly conceived debut book ”Happiness Rules”. If you are anything like me, you may have read dozens of self-help style books in this genre. However, I can pretty much promise you won’t have read anything quite like this.
Mark was born and raised in Germany before coming to London where he has lived and worked in the financial services sector for around 20 years. In Marks words he has “loved, lived, and breathed in the City of London,’’ and has been fulfilled and happy. As a result of this blissful existence...
2019-09-1600 min
The Europe DeskBonus: Will Tanner on the center ground of politicsIn this bonus episode, Will Tanner, director of the new, London-based think tank, Onward (and a guest on last week's show) discusses British politics post-Brexit. Tanner was previously an adviser to Theresa May and talked to us about the centre ground of politics as well as the future relationship the UK might have with the EU. The Europe Desk is a podcast from the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It brings together leading experts working on the most pertinent issues facing Europe and transatlantic relations today. The podcast also h...
2019-09-0326 min
LBI LondonMoses Mendelssohn – The German-Jewish Icon of Modernity (1780s-2019)Prof Richard I. Cohen
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
6.30pm, 14 February 2019
Moses Mendelssohn has engaged artists of Jewish and non-Jewish origin from his lifetime until today. The lecture will show how, over this long period, Mendelssohn has been turned into the icon of German-Jewish modernity by being represented in a myriad of ways and techniques.
Richard I. Cohen is the academic director of the Israel Center of Research Excellence (ICore) for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World. Formerly the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French J...
2019-02-141h 24
LBI LondonIn conversation: Philippe Sands and Katrin HimmlerThursday, May 17, 2018 - 18:30
Prof. Philippe Sands, QC
(University College London, UK)
East West Street: A Personal History of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
In his short lecture and subsequent conversation with Katrin Himmler, Philippe Sands explores how personal lives and history are interwoven. Drawing from his prize-winning book East West Street – part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller – he connect his work on ‘crimes against humanity’ and ‘genocide’, the events that overwhelmed his family during the Second World War, and an untold story at the heart of the Nuremberg Tria...
2018-05-171h 49
German Historical Institute London PodcastTimothy Garton Ash: German and European unification: Harmony or dissonance?Annual Lecture on Contemporary German History. The lecture was given on 24 April 2018 at the German Embassy London. In his lecture Timothy Garton Ash gives an insightful analysis of the processes of German and European unification, reflecting on the history of the European Monetary Union, the unification of Germany as a means towards a more united European continent and on how the roots of the problems we face in Europe today are connected to the historic developments in 1989 and the 1990s.
2018-04-3050 min
LBI LondonLifting a Taboo: The Story of a Holocaust victim which has never been told beforeMartin Doerry
(Der Spiegel, Germany)
6.30pm, 12 April 2018
After the death of German politician Gerhard Jahn in 1998, his four sisters found hundreds of letters in his house, which they had written during the war to their Jewish mother Lilli, who had been detained in a labour camp and, finally, killed in Auschwitz in 1944. Fifty years of silence had followed but now, for the first time, the family was able to talk about Lilli once again. But should the letters be published? Lilli’s grandson Martin Doerry undertook the tasks of both convincing his family th...
2018-04-121h 24
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfA Changing Germany in a Changing Europe? The German Elections and Implications for Europe [Audio]Speaker(s): Christian Odendahl,Professor William Paterson,Dr Natascha Zaun | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor audio quality of this podcast. The forthcoming elections in Germany have important implications for Germany, for Europe and international politics. For the UK, the next German Chancellor will likely have a crucial impact on the ‘BREXIT’ outcome. The re-election of Angela Merkel would further strengthen her international status – not to be underestimated by Moscow or Washington. But recent elections in different countries have produced surprises, on occasions. The elections may give a signal as to the current appeal of the centre-left in Europe and th...
2017-09-141h 09Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfA Changing Germany in a Changing Europe? The German Elections and Implications for Europe [Slides]Speaker(s): Christian Odendahl,Professor William Paterson,Dr Natascha Zaun | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor audio quality of this podcast. The forthcoming elections in Germany have important implications for Germany, for Europe and international politics. For the UK, the next German Chancellor will likely have a crucial impact on the ‘BREXIT’ outcome. The re-election of Angela Merkel would further strengthen her international status – not to be underestimated by Moscow or Washington. But recent elections in different countries have produced surprises, on occasions. The elections may give a signal as to the current appeal of the centre-left in Europe and th...
2017-09-1400 min
LBI LondonArno Paucker - Scholar and FriendA memorial event in honour of the Leo Baeck Institute’s esteemed, longstanding former director Dr Arnold Paucker OBE
Opening Words by
Pauline Paucker
Lecture by
Peter Pulzer (Oxford):
‘Arno Paucker, A Scholar Who Reached Out’
Panel: ‘Arno Paucker and German-Jewish History’
Peter Alter (Cologne)
Simone Erpel (Berlin)
Raphael Gross (Leipzig)
Chair: Daniel Wildmann(London)
The event was organized jointly by the Leo Baeck Institute London and the German Historical Institute London and took place at the German His...
2017-03-301h 43LBI LondonCosmopolitanism – Jewish and Postcolonial PerspectivesPanel Discussion
Leo Baeck Institute London in partnership with the Pears Institute for the study of antisemitism
‘If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.’ Prime Minister Theresa May, November 2016
In the aftermath of the vote for Brexit in 2016, Prime Minister Theresa May controversially broached a key issue of our times: how do we identify ourselves, and must our sense of belonging be defined by national borders? These questions are closely connected to the term cosmopolitanism, which has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Cosm...
2017-03-161h 35
LBI LondonPanel discussion: The Legacy of the Left and Israel: 1967-2017Panel discussion as a part of the Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series: The panel discuss the complicated and multi-layered relationship of the European left with Zionism and the State of Israel, examining this broad subject from a historical perspective and shedding light on the different debates on various European countries.
Panelists
Nick Cohen The Observer and The Spectator
Prof David Feldmann Birckbeck University of London
Prof Christina Späti University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Dr Peter Ullrich Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Chair: Dr Daniel Wildmann, Le...
2017-03-161h 57
Learn German Today50 Archaeopteryx Fliegt Nach JapanArchaeopteryx fliegt nach Japan
Der Archaeopteryx ist mit seinem Alter von etwa 147 Millionen Jahren das wertvollste Fossil im naturhistorischen Museum von London. Das Tier, das in einer Platte aus Kalksandstein erhalten ist, hat Federn wie ein Vogel und gleichzeitig Zähne und einen knochigen Schwanz wie ein Dinosaurier. Als das Fossil vor etwa 150 Jahren in Deutschland gefunden wurde, löste es viel Verwirrung aus. Manche Leute dachten damals sogar, es sei kein Tier sondern ein Engel. Letzten Endes ist es aber der Beweis, dass es eine Evolution vom Dinosaurier zum Vogel gab. Nun soll das seltene Relikt in einem Museum in...
2017-03-1001 min
LBI LondonMein Kampf Today: Ideology, Memory and the Question of Censorship – Panel DiscussionThursday, December 1, 2016 - 18:45
Panellists are Prof Neil Gregor, David Aaronovitch, and Prof Maiken Umbach, and the panel will be chaired by Dr Daniel Wildmann and Prof David Feldman.
In Germany, until this year, it was illegal to print copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. The State of Bavaria held the copyright and banned publication of the book. In January 2016 the copyright expired and the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich published a scholarly edition which runs to two enormous volumes, complete with a lengthy introduction and copious annotation. The first print run was sold out before...
2016-12-011h 41
LBI LondonPolitical Sovereignty and Cultural Property: The Mount Scopus Enclave in JerusalemProf Yfaat WeissThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
German Historical Institute
6.30pm, 11th February 2016
The UN Partition Plan for Palestine known as UN Resolution 181 envisioned Jerusalem as a Corpus Separatum, an international city open and accessible to believers of the three monotheistic religions. This did not materialize. While the city was divided as a result of the 1948 War, Mount Scopus in its northern part acquired an exceptional status. Until 1967 it existed as an enclave amid Jordanian territory, divided into a Jordanian and an Israeli part under UN control. This lecture will...
2016-02-111h 30
LBI LondonLand, Power and Resistance in Israel: The Case of the Bedouins of the NegevDr Thabet Abu Rass
German Historical Institute London
In this lecture the state policies toward tens of thousands of the indigenous inhabitants of the Negev region in Israel who live in ‘unrecognized villages’, will be highlighted. Militarizing space to secure land has always been one of the means tocontrol land. The Prawer Plan is the current attempt of displacing the Bedouins to finalize their land claims and urbanize them against their will. The landowners have tried all means of resistance including the legal and political ones, however, they didn’t succeed. Therefore, they returned to their...
2015-12-031h 37
LBI LondonRites of Reserve – The German-Israeli Encounter in Luxemburg 1952Prof Dan Diner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Dr Daniel Wildmann (Acting Director Leo Baeck Institute London) and Prof Elizabeth Harvey (Chair German History Society) are delighted to invite you to a lecture by Prof Dan Diner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) as part of the German History Society Annual Conference.Rites of Reserve: The German-Israeli Encounter in Luxemburg 1952 The lecture presents, using historical-anthropological 'thick description', the diplomatic scene in Luxemburg on 10 September 1952, at the point when the treaty on restitution was signed between Germany and Israel. It interprets this short scene a...
2015-09-0355 min
Spring 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoBeing German, Becoming Muslim: race, religion, and conversion in the New EuropeContributor(s): Dr Esra Özyürek, Dr Ruth Mandel, Dr Nasar Meer, Professor Joel Robbins | The panellists will discuss Dr Özyürek’s newly published book Being German, Becoming Muslim: race, religion, and conversion in the New Europe. Esra Özyürek is Associate Professor in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE’s European Institute. Ruth Mandel is Reader in Social Anthropology at University College London. Nasar Meer is Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship at Strathclyde University and a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow. Joel Robbins is Sigrid Rausing Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University...
2015-01-211h 25
#BirkbeckVoicesBirkbeck Voices 21, June 2014: London in the First World War- enemy bombing & positive social changeLondon was transformed by the Great War. The capital was bombarded from the air for the first time and 668 people lost their lives in raids by Zeppelins and German aeroplanes. But death and destruction were also accompanied by an unprecedented economic boom, and the rise of women as they entered the workforce in huge numbers.
All these major developments are explored in this podcast by Professor Jerry White, of Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology. He shares the findings and personal stories from his new book, called Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War. Ahead of the ce...
2014-06-0616 minSummer 2014 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe Nazi-Soviet Pact in the Light of Transnational History: Persian Connections in German-Soviet RelationsContributor(s): Professor Jennifer Jenkins | The Nazi-Soviet Pact, a central topic in the scholarship on the Second World War, is generally studied in its political and European dimensions. It was the instrument for the coming together of two unlikely ideological allies in the destruction and acquisition of Poland. By contrast the economic aspects of the Pact are understudied, although they were fundamental to how it functioned. They also worked through transnational networks that stretched far beyond Europe. Professor Jennifer Jenkins will take a new look at the Nazi-Soviet Pact by embedding it in German and Soviet economic policies toward the...
2014-04-301h 00Summer 2014 | Public lectures and events | VideoThe Nazi-Soviet Pact in the Light of Transnational History: Persian Connections in German-Soviet RelationsContributor(s): Professor Jennifer Jenkins | The Nazi-Soviet Pact, a central topic in the scholarship on the Second World War, is generally studied in its political and European dimensions. It was the instrument for the coming together of two unlikely ideological allies in the destruction and acquisition of Poland. By contrast the economic aspects of the Pact are understudied, although they were fundamental to how it functioned. They also worked through transnational networks that stretched far beyond Europe. Professor Jennifer Jenkins will take a new look at the Nazi-Soviet Pact by embedding it in German and Soviet economic policies toward the...
2014-04-301h 002014 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoThe Nazi-Soviet Pact in the Light of Transnational History: Persian Connections in German-Soviet RelationsContributor(s): Professor Jennifer Jenkins | The Nazi-Soviet Pact, a central topic in the scholarship on the Second World War, is generally studied in its political and European dimensions. It was the instrument for the coming together of two unlikely ideological allies in the destruction and acquisition of Poland. By contrast the economic aspects of the Pact are understudied, although they were fundamental to how it functioned. They also worked through transnational networks that stretched far beyond Europe. Professor Jennifer Jenkins will take a new look at the Nazi-Soviet Pact by embedding it in German and Soviet economic policies toward the...
2014-04-301h 002014 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe Nazi-Soviet Pact in the Light of Transnational History: Persian Connections in German-Soviet RelationsContributor(s): Professor Jennifer Jenkins | The Nazi-Soviet Pact, a central topic in the scholarship on the Second World War, is generally studied in its political and European dimensions. It was the instrument for the coming together of two unlikely ideological allies in the destruction and acquisition of Poland. By contrast the economic aspects of the Pact are understudied, although they were fundamental to how it functioned. They also worked through transnational networks that stretched far beyond Europe. Professor Jennifer Jenkins will take a new look at the Nazi-Soviet Pact by embedding it in German and Soviet economic policies toward the...
2014-04-301h 00
LuxenburgMag x Phunky LondonItsNotAdam Year End MixDance the year away in the Main Room with German fashion magazine LUXENBURG. Headlining the event, new resident ItsNotAdam and his YEAR END MIX, representing a year of outstanding and highly refined trance anthems. Count down the ultimate in New Year's Eve celebrations with 2013 Podcast Awards Nominee LUXENBURG, giving you first and exclusive view into the world of high fashion. Look for us, dashboard embedded, in over 50 GM, Ford, Mazda, BMW, MINI and Mercedes models by Stitcher Radio. Brought to you by Luxenburg Magazine and Phunky London. We thank you for joining us at Volvo Fashion Week in Moscow, Paris...
2013-12-301h 57
LBI LondonKristallnacht Remembrance Lecturehttps://www.leobaeck.co.uk/events/special-events/kristallnacht-remembrance-lecture
Opening words by Sir Nicholas Montagu KCB
November 1938: The Story of Herschel Grynszpan
Raphael Gross's talk focuses on Herschel Grynszpan and the diverse reactions to his assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath. It tells the story of Grynszpan’s background and examine the various responses to and consequences of his action which was used by the Nazis as an excuse for the most significant pogrom against German Jews in history.
The Night of Broken Glass: Looking back...
2013-10-312h 00
LBI LondonCosmopolitanism and the JewsProf. Sander L Gilman Chairman, LBI London
Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry Emory University
A lecture organized by the Leo Baeck Institute.
Cosmopolitanism and the Jews
The newest buzzword for globalization is cosmopolitanism. As with many such reuses of older concepts, cosmopolitanism has a complex history, specifically in the German-speaking lands. It is this history and its relationship to the history of German Jewry from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust that will be examined – in a global and perhaps even cosmopolitan manner.
Wednesday, 2nd O...
2013-10-021h 10Spring 2013 | Public lectures and events | VideoGerman Europe: Are there Alternatives?Contributor(s): Professor Ulrich Beck, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Professor Mary Kaldor | The basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of other nations. Even France, which long dominated European integration, must submit to Berlin’s strictures now that it must fear for its international credit rating. In this event, Ulrich Beck, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Mary Kaldor discuss the current political crisis and how to reinvent democracy in Europe. Ulrich Beck is pr...
2013-03-211h 21Spring 2013 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfGerman Europe: Are there Alternatives?Contributor(s): Professor Ulrich Beck, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Professor Mary Kaldor | The basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of other nations. Even France, which long dominated European integration, must submit to Berlin’s strictures now that it must fear for its international credit rating. In this event, Ulrich Beck, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Mary Kaldor discuss the current political crisis and how to reinvent democracy in Europe. Ulrich Beck is pr...
2013-03-211h 21Autumn 2012 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfFrom Kaiser Wilhelm to Chancellor Merkel. The German Question on the European StageContributor(s): Professor Andreas Rödder | The German Question has kept Europe in suspense for more than a century. It appeared to have eventually been solved by German unification and through the integration of the D-Mark - the German "atomic bomb" - into the European Monetary Union. However, after losing two world wars and a third of its territory, having committed the holocaust and expelled huge numbers of its elites, after Europeanising central elements of its power and yet being strained by the economical impact of reunification, Germany is once more suspected of aspiring to supremacy. The lecture will follow t...
2012-11-071h 31
London Review Bookshop PodcastTeju Cole and Max Liu: Open CityTeju Cole came to the Bookshop to discuss his first novel, Open City. The book, which follows a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist in New York City five years after 9/11, was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won both the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Internationaler Literaturpreis. Cole spoke in conversation with writer and journalist Max Liu. Their discussion took in the cities of Lagos, London and New York; W.G. Sebald; twitter as a literary medium; and the disturbing revelation which closes the novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2012-08-301h 01
German Ortiz sesions y megamixesGerman Ortiz aka DjGO live @ DISCOTECA SOUNDAño 2001, Mayo. Momento en cabina de Germán Ortiz aka DjGO tras los Technics y en directo, para mezclar una de las sesiones que mejor recuerdo guarda. Sesión para todos aquellos adeptos al Remember mas progressive de siempre. Temas como On the Move, Playe'd alive, Bass to the place London (blade cover) entre otros muchos de la época entre los que está también el favorito de Germán: MARCO V. Disfrutadla, merrece la pena.
2011-12-151h 09Summer 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoLondon Integration Forum 2011 - Exploring DiversityContributor(s): Liz Fekete, Dr Naika Foroutan, Dr Myria Georgiou, Nazia Hussain, Lamya Kaddor, Profressor Julian Petley | How can we formulate a vision of the future after the widely proclaimed "failure of multiculturalism"? The London Integration Forum aims at providing a fresh perspective on British and German integration debates bringing together renowned scholars and professionals and framing immigration and integration as fields of learning and exchange. Liz Fekete is the executive director and head of European research at the Institute of Race Relations in London. A leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. Dr Naika Foroutan...
2011-07-012h 22Summer 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoLondon Integration Forum 2011 - Exploring DiversityContributor(s): Liz Fekete, Dr Naika Foroutan, Dr Myria Georgiou, Nazia Hussain, Lamya Kaddor, Profressor Julian Petley | How can we formulate a vision of the future after the widely proclaimed "failure of multiculturalism"? The London Integration Forum aims at providing a fresh perspective on British and German integration debates bringing together renowned scholars and professionals and framing immigration and integration as fields of learning and exchange. Liz Fekete is the executive director and head of European research at the Institute of Race Relations in London. A leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. Dr Naika Foroutan...
2011-07-012h 22Summer 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLondon Integration Forum 2011 - Exploring DiversityContributor(s): Liz Fekete, Dr Naika Foroutan, Dr Myria Georgiou, Nazia Hussain, Lamya Kaddor, Profressor Julian Petley | How can we formulate a vision of the future after the widely proclaimed "failure of multiculturalism"? The London Integration Forum aims at providing a fresh perspective on British and German integration debates bringing together renowned scholars and professionals and framing immigration and integration as fields of learning and exchange. Liz Fekete is the executive director and head of European research at the Institute of Race Relations in London. A leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. Dr Naika Foroutan...
2011-07-012h 22Summer 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLondon Integration Forum 2011 - Exploring DiversityContributor(s): Liz Fekete, Dr Naika Foroutan, Dr Myria Georgiou, Nazia Hussain, Lamya Kaddor, Profressor Julian Petley | How can we formulate a vision of the future after the widely proclaimed "failure of multiculturalism"? The London Integration Forum aims at providing a fresh perspective on British and German integration debates bringing together renowned scholars and professionals and framing immigration and integration as fields of learning and exchange. Liz Fekete is the executive director and head of European research at the Institute of Race Relations in London. A leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. Dr Naika Foroutan...
2011-07-012h 22
AudiotrainerLesson 33: At the train station – Im BahnhofDeutsche Welle — Berlin, Paris and London are always worth a visit. Expand your vocabulary with the Audio Tutor. Here you can learn new words and improve your pronunciation.Links: Listen & Download, Download the worksheet — PDF (19.3 KB)
2010-06-2204 minAudiotrainerLesson 33: At the train station – Im BahnhofDeutsche Welle — Berlin, Paris and London are always worth a visit. Expand your vocabulary with the Audio Tutor. Here you can learn new words and improve your pronunciation.Links: Listen & Download, Download the worksheet — PDF (19.3 KB)
2010-06-2204 min