Von Literatur zu Film

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Current events
In the summer semester, Nina Janz offers a seminar on "Literature and Film" at the RWTH, which takes place on Tuesdays from 16:30-18:00. Every second Tuesday of the month, the seminar will discuss the book that serves as the literary basis for the film that will be shown the following Thursday in our cinema series.

You are all cordially invited to these sessions - April 8, May 6, May 3 (one week before due to the Whitsun vacations). We would like to give you the opportunity to talk about the book in advance before we discuss the book together in the movie theater on Thursday.

If you are interested in attending one of the seminar sessions, please send an email to n.janz@germlit.rwth-aachen.de Nina Janz will then send you further information.

"The book is better." - is one of the best-known phrases that moviegoers say about literary adaptations, at least if they have seen both media. But what happens when you approach a film adaptation from both a literary and a cinematic perspective?

FROM LITERATURE TO FILM is the approach from a cinematic perspective, represented by Sven Ollig, Theater Director Apollo Kino Aachen, and a literary perspective, represented by Dr. Nina Janz, research assistant in the Department of German Studies at RWTH Aachen University. Together we curate the film selection, non-German-language films are presented in the OmU version, which has been deliberately kept open in terms of both film and literature.

The events always take place on the second Thursday of each month at 6.00 pm. In addition to the film screening, the series of events includes a short impulse from both of them as well as a film discussion with the audience after the screening. All films are shown without advertising and, if possible, trailers of upcoming films from the program series are shown at the beginning of the event.

The Backhaus bookshop provides an individually designed book table for each event, where books can also be purchased.