[Nettime-nl] McDeutsch in Amsterdam (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Krystian Woznicki <kw@berlinergazette.de>]

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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