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On to the week of German 2025!

The Week of German 2024 was a great success. With a comprehensive range of events for learners, teachers and all those interested in German, we put the German language and culture in the spotlight! On the Weef of German's Facebook page you will find some highlights in words and pictures. In 2025, there will be a German Week again! From 06 to 12 October, events will take place all over Belgium. All the practical information will be available on the wochefuerdeutsch.be website - so here - as soon as it becomes available.

Do you also have interesting propositions? Would you like to participate? Please contact us at info@bgdv.be. (Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband). We would be delighted to have you with us!

EVENTS

Latest Past Events

Faust

CINEMATEK / Koninklijk Filmarchief - Cinémathèque Royale 9, rue Baron Horta, Bruxelles

Faust (Murnau, 1926) - 118’ Silent film with subtitled German intertitles, accompanied live on piano

Berliner Ballade

CINEMATEK / Koninklijk Filmarchief - Cinémathèque Royale 9, rue Baron Horta, Bruxelles

Berliner Ballade (Robert A. Stemmle,1948) - 85'

Kameradschaft

CINEMATEK / Koninklijk Filmarchief - Cinémathèque Royale 9, rue Baron Horta, Bruxelles

Kameradschaft (G.W. Pabst, 1931) - 87'

Literary conversation with Nicolas Mahler on Komplett Kafka

Goethe-Institut Brüssel, Freiraum

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death, the Goethe-Institut Belgium, as part of its Europanetzwerk Deutsch program and its educational cooperation initiative, invites you to an exhibition featuring the comic biography Komplett Kafka, created in collaboration with the artist Nicolas Mahler and the Literaturhaus Stuttgart. The exhibition will be accompanied by […]

Guided tour of the BRF broadcasting house

Eupen

After some information about the development and product range of Belgian Broadcasting, we will visit the radio studios, the television studio, and the TV control room. Registration is recommended but not mandatory: pr@brf.be. Contact person: Sylke Tegtmeier

CULTURE FROM EAST BELGIUM “Nebensache” A PLAY FOR EVERYONE AGED 6 AND UP

Atelier Marcel Hastir Rue du Commerce, 51, Bruxelles

Culture from East Belgium Nebensache     -     secondary matter A theatre play – for all, ages 6 and up A Secondary matter. A commonplace story. A story without headline.   Every night, Cornelius sleeps in a different place. Today he wakes up in a corner of a room. It could perhaps be a class room. He […]

Slam-Nachmittag mit Paul Bank

Universität Lüttich Rue des Pitteurs, 18, Lüttich

A wonderful opportunity to discover slam and meet a German slammer, but also a great chance to practice the German language! On Wednesday, October 16th, the German poetry slammer Paul Bank will once again come to Liège for a workshop. He will work on German spoken-word texts with pupils and students. Creative fun guaranteed! Languages: […]

Film : Sterben

Cinéma Sauvenière (Les Grignoux) 14, place Xavier Neujean, Liège

Film by Matthias Glasner https://www.grignoux.be/fr/evenement/2363/sterben

Reading and discussion with Tonio Schachinger, Echtzeitalter (German Book Prize 2023; Rowohlt Verlag)

Permanent Representation of Austria for the EU Avenue de Cortenbergh 30, Brussels

An elitist Viennese boarding school, housed in the former summer residence of the Habsburgs, the class teacher an antiquated and despotic man. What can one learn from life there? Till Kokorda can’t do much with either the canon or the snobbish environment. His passion is gaming, specifically the real-time strategy game Age of Empires 2. […]

Faust

CINEMATEK / Koninklijk Filmarchief - Cinémathèque Royale 9, rue Baron Horta, Bruxelles

Faust (Murnau, 1926) - 118’ Silent film with subtitled German intertitles, accompanied live on piano.

ON THE LOOKOUT FOR GERMAN CULTURE IN NAMUR

Université de Namur Rue Grafé 1, Namur

The German departments of the University of Namur and of the Haute-École de la Province de Namur would like to invite you to their treasure hunt on the theme of “German culture in Namur”. Embark with us on a journey of discovery through Namur and solve exciting riddles about German culture. Our treasure hunt will […]

YOUNG FRENCH-GERMAN-BELGIAN CINEMA: FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Cinéma Churchill (Les Grignoux) Rue du Mouton Blanc 20, Liège

Fanny, a seventeen-year-old French high school student, travels to Germany as part of a language exchange program. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal Lena, who is the same age and dreams of becoming politically active. To impress Lena, the rather shy and introverted Fanny invents a different life for herself but soon becomes trapped […]

CLASSIC OF GERMAN CINEMA AT LES GRIGNOUX: “ALICE IN THE CITIES” BY WIM WENDERS

Cinéma Chruchill Rue du Mouton Blanc 20, Lüttich

Wim Wenders, a filmmaker of wandering and space, which he films like a photographer, presents an existential and contemplative road movie that foreshadows his cult work Paris, Texas. A young German journalist, reporting from the USA, is stranded at a strike-bound airport. A woman in the same situation entrusts him with her little daughter Alice. […]

Gegen die Wand

CINEMATEK / Koninklijk Filmarchief - Cinémathèque Royale 9, rue Baron Horta, Bruxelles

Gegen die Wand (Fatih Akin, 2003) - 121'

Reading and discussion with Tonio Schachinger, Echtzeitalter (German Book Prize 2023; Rowohlt Verlag)

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege in Antwerp (PASCH-school) Frankrijklei 91, Antwerp

An elitist Viennese boarding school, housed in the former summer residence of the Habsburgs, the class teacher an antiquated and despotic man. What can one learn from life there? Till Kokorda can’t do much with either the canon or the snobbish environment. His passion is gaming, specifically the real-time strategy game Age of Empires 2. […]

Reading and discussion with Margret Kreidl

Université Libre de Bruxelles, département Langues et Lettres

In her poetry and prose as well as in her theatre plays, libretti and radio plays, the Vienna-based freelance writer Margret Kreidl weaves richly associative tapestries of sound, reactivating a variety of lyrical forms and traditions. Memories and dreams, references to texts from world literature and iconic works of art are interwoven with trivial elements […]

Opening event of the ‘Week for German’

German Embassy in Brussels Rue Jacques de Lalaingstraat 8-14, Brussels

The Week for German will be officially opened by Bas Böttcher, a German writer and poetry slammer, on Monday, 14 October 2024, at 6.30 pm.   Bas Böttcher is one of the co-founders of the German-language spoken word scene. His texts are regarded as classics of contemporary stage poetry. They appear in textbooks and important […]

Berliner Ballade

CINEMATEK / Koninklijk Filmarchief - Cinémathèque Royale 9, rue Baron Horta, Bruxelles

Berliner Ballade (Robert A. Stemmle,1948) - 85'

YOUNG FRENCH-GERMAN-BELGIAN CINEMA: FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Cinéma Churchill (Les Grignoux) Rue du Mouton Blanc 20, Liège

Fanny, a seventeen-year-old French high school student, travels to Germany as part of a language exchange program. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal Lena, who is the same age and dreams of becoming politically active. To impress Lena, the rather shy and introverted Fanny invents a different life for herself but soon becomes trapped […]

Europa

CVO Semper

The adult education school, CVO Semper in Brussels, located on the northern outskirts of the city, invites you to an exciting reading with an EU staff member. The theme of the reading is Europe.