<nettime-ann> McDeutsch in Amsterdam

[Krystian Woznicki <kw@berlinergazette.de>]

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McDeutsch in Amsterdam
Mediamatic Foundation
Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam
27.04.2007, 8 p.m.
Free entry

?Save the German Language!? said the cover of Der 
Spiegel?s issue commemorating German 
Renunification Day. Demands for ?more German? are 
on the rise in Germany. After ?Quotas for German 
Music on Radio!? came the call for ?Obligatory 
German in Gyms, Bars, and Schools!? Ensuing 
debates have even carried over to the popular 
Sabine Christiansen talk show, Germany?s so-called ?ersatz parliament.?

Yet, what role does the German language really 
play today in propping up German national 
identity? Hasn?t this supposedly German cultural 
property long become common property worldwide? 
McDeutsch, a Berliner Gazette project, asked 
about 50 cultural mediators from all parts of the 
earth (except Antarctica!) to reflect upon this 
question, thus opening up a surprising bird?s-eye 
view of that complex known as the German language.

The McDeutsch project consists of several parts 
funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation: 
a series of protocols published under 
www.berlinergazette.de (through 31 December 
2006), an international symposium at the Museum 
für Kommunikation Berlin (15 December 2006), and 
a bilingual volume published by Kadmos (December 
2006), which features a collection of protocols originally published online.

In 2007 the editors of the Berliner Gazette 
present this project abroad: After a launch event 
in Zagreb in March, McDeutsch is being presented 
for the first time to the Dutch public in the 
context of the exhibition ?Vergessene Fahnen? by Florian Thalhofer.

For more information, please contact:

Lena Posingies
Berliner Gazette e.V.
Schönhauser Allee 141a
D ? 10437 Berlin
lp@berlinergazette.de
www.berlinergazette.de

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