Birkbeck German Society
Visits
Visits for the 2011/12 session are planned to include Hamlet (in German) at the Barbican Theatre, Wagner operas at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and at the Curzon Cinema, a visit to the Handel House Museum complete with short harpsichord recital, and of course the Christmas party! See Calendar for further details.Past visits
Trips to Germany include:- November 2010: long weekend in Dresden (see Reviews).
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Play: The Stone by Marius von Mayenburg, RADA theatre
Play: Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children, National Theatre
Opera: Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Covent Garden
Liederabend at Wigmore Hall
Play: Büchner’s Woyzeck, at RADA
Play: Brecht's Turandot, at the Hampstead Theatre
Lieder recital: Angelika Kirchschlager
Opera: Korngold's Die tote Stadt, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
German Film Festival at Curzon Soho
Reading: David Hare on BERLIN, at the Littleton Theatre
Play: Buchner's, Woyzeck, at RADA
- Play: Hedda Gabler at the Barbican
- Play: Zerbombt at the Barbican Theatre - a performance, in translation, of Sarah Kane's Blasted, by the Schaubühne am Lehninerplatz Berlin
- Leonce and Lena - Georg Büchner's light-hearted play performed at the Tabard Theatre
- Visit to the Holbein Exhibition at Tate Britain
- Lieder recital at Westminster School Hall by Gerald Finlay with Julius Drake (Schumann's Dichterliebe)
- Das Leben der Anderen a recent release at the cinema
- Goethe Institute showing of 'Forbidden Films' from East Germany in the communist era - Jahrgang 45
Read some reviews by members of the Society.