DSSV

Annual Dinner
2023-12-07 17:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Womans Club of Wisconsin, 813 E Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
Join Goethe House Wisconsin for an evening of Gemütlichkeit as we continue celebrating 65 years of service. Dinner will be delicious! As is tradition the evening will end with the singing of Christmas Carols auf Deutsch natürlich!

Board Meeting
2023-11-21 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-09-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Goethe House – Technology Innovation Center, 10437 Innovation Drive, Suite 312, Wauwatosa, WI, 53226, United States
The Goethe House Wisconsin Board meets February, May, September, November, and December.

Der Blaue Reiter Across Borders
2023-11-18 13:00 - 17:00 | Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53202
A transcultural project between local tradition and European colonialism.
“The whole work, called art, knows no borders and peoples, but humanity.” This credo was formulated by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in 1912 in their almanac “Der Blaue Reiter,” in which their interest in Bavarian and Russian folk art, Japanese woodcuts, children’s drawings, contemporary music, and works from Oceania, Mexico, and Egypt is apparent.
Kandinsky and Marc were two members of the Blaue Reiter, an association of artists who were active at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany, specifically in Munich and the Alpine foothills, as well as in international networks. For them, abstract and representational forms stood side by side on equal footing, as long as they were felt with “inner necessity.”
In this talk, Dr. Melanie Vietmeier will discuss the internationality and utopias of some members of the Blaue Reiter against the backdrop of increasing nationalism, the role of women artists in the group, and the impact of colonialism on the Blaue Reiter’s understanding of art itself.
Dr. Melanie Vietmeier is head of the collection and curator for the Blaue Reiter and the Kubin Archive at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich, which houses the world’s largest collection of art by this group of artists.

Educator Workshop with Goethe Institut Chicago
2023-09-16 09:00 - 14:00 | Goethe House – Technology Innovation Center, 10437 Innovation Drive, Suite 312, Wauwatosa, WI, 53226, United States
Educator Workshop 23
German Teacher Time Savers? Ja, bitte!
Do you struggle to plan interactive, engaging, and student-centered activities every day for all your German classes? During our German immersion day, learn how to streamline planning for teaching multiple levels of German. We will review best-practice unit and lesson planning techniques, explore the new Goethe-Institut teacher database Deutschstunde Portal, and preview some AI tools that promise to be new teacher time savers.

German Fest 2023
2023-07-30 12:00 - 19:00, 2023-07-29 12:00 - 21:00, 2023-07-28 16:00 - 21:00 | German Fest Milwaukee, 200 N Harbor Drive, Milwaukee, 53202, United States
Join us in the Culture Tent! Come find out what Goethe House Wisconsin is all about! Inquire about our professional language classes and cultural events.

Tuesday Trivia
2023-07-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Kegel’s Inn, 5901 W National Ave, West Allis, 53214, United States

Goethe Institut Educator Workshop
2021-10-09 09:00 - 14:00
Saturday, October 9th 2021
Workshop will be held at Goethe House Wisconsin from 9:30am – 2pm
Lunch will be included! FREE to attend!
Since January 2019, Theresa Fuchs serves as a language consultant at Goethe-Institut Chicago assisting schools in the Midwest to strengthen and improve their German programs. She studied at Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) and holds a teaching degree (1. und 2. Staatsexamen) in German as a foreign language, English and Religion for the German school type Gymnasium. Before moving to the United States, she gained teaching experiences both in German public schools, German integration courses for adult migrants and abroad as a teaching assistant in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Global Connections and the Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. This presentation will introduce you to our work and highlight some of our projects like the new virtual exchange opportunity GAVE, the Studybridge, our youth portal Step into German and our materials for educators.

Educator Appreciation Frühstück
2021-09-11 09:30 - 12:00
Saturday, September 11th 9:30am – 12pm
Goethe House Wisconsin will be hosting its annual Educator Appreciation Frühstück! German Educators of all levels come together and enjoy Frühstück und Gemütlichkeit! Start the school year off collaborating with colleagues. This is a wonderful opportunity to brainstorm and network. Mingle with colleagues, relax, and feel appreciated! Breakfast and Kaffee included! Co-Sponsored by DSSV.
Please join us at:
Goethe House Wisconsin
10437 Innovation Drive
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
There is ample free parking!
Please RSVP by September 7th.

The Life & Legacy of Alexander von Humboldt with Dr. Sandra Rebok
2021-01-12 12:00 - 13:00 | i-excelchild
The year 2019 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian naturalist, historian and humanist, whose wide-ranging work continues to influential to this day. This lecture focuses on the life and legacy of Alexander von Humboldt. Even over two centuries years after Humboldt’s celebrated expedition through the New World (1799-1804), he is well remembered on both sides of the Atlantic. This appreciation of the Prussian explorer and his contribution to the advancement of knowledge also extends to those regions that he did not visit, which is reflected in numerous places that carry his name.
Dr. Rebok will evaluate Humboldt and his achievements: Who was Humboldt and how can we define his key achievements? In which aspects did he differ from other explorers? And what can we still learn from him while facing the challenges of our world today?
Dr. Sandra Rebok is an historian of knowledge and ideas, author, speaker, and scientific consultant. Her research and publications focus on the globalization of science, intellectual networks and transnational scientific collaborations during the 19th century. She has over twenty years of experience in Humboldt scholarship, she is the author of several books on Humboldt as well as the editor of three of his works in Spanish. Her last book discusses his intellectual exchange with Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson and Humboldt: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment, 2014) and her forthcoming monograph analyzes his position between the Spanish Empire and the expanding United States (Humboldt’s Empire of Knowledge: From the Royal Spanish Court to the White House, 2020). Currently, she is preparing her actual book project that analyzes the networks of knowledge Humboldt established within the US and his impact on the development of sciences in this country (Expanding the Frontiers of American Science: Alexander von Humboldt’s Networks of Knowledge). In addition, she has many years of experience in science communication and has curated several exhibitions in the field of history of knowledge and exploration voyages.
This event is FREE and open to the public but Pre-Registration is Required!

Board Meeting
2020-05-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Goethe House – Technology Innovation Center, 10437 Innovation Drive, Suite 312, Wauwatosa, WI, 53226, United States
The Goethe House Board meets the 3rd Tuesday in February, May, September, & November.

Executive Board Meeting
2020-05-12 12:15 - 13:00, 2020-04-14 12:15 - 13:00 | Goethe House – Technology Innovation Center, 10437 Innovation Drive, Suite 312, Wauwatosa, WI, 53226, United States
The Executive Committee meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month.
