Herr Doepel's Lecture Series 1, 17th March 2010

Dear Members,

We will be having a special program organized especially for you! We are inviting our very own Herr Doepel to give us a lecture. Here are the details of Herr Doepel's lecture on 17th March 2010.

Event: Lecture Series 1: 20 years of unity - historical, sociological and political issues of the re-unification.

Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010

Time: 7pm to 9pm

Place: AS1/0205

This lecture will be held in English.

Mr Martin Doepel

Martin Doepel was born in Jena, Germany, which was formerly part of the DDR. He graduated from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena in 2004 and majored in German as a Foreign Language, Modern History and Political Science. Before coming to Singapore, he taught at his alma mater, the University of Jena and and was involved in the development of E Learning material there. He has been in Singapore since 2007 and currently teaches German at the Center for Language Studies. His interests include cognitive aspects of language acquisition, new media in language teaching and the Cold War.

Don't hesitate to come down for this event. Hope to see you guys there! =)

Update: SEP Sharing session, 25th feb 2010

Hello everyone!

A few weeks ago, the German Language Society held a SEP Sharing session for all interested to find out more information on SEPs in Germany, whose universities are amongst the best in many fields of study. We are extremely delighted that there were so many of you turned up and showed great interest in learning more about the ups and downs of such a journey. We would also like to thank our speakers, who set time aside to prepare and come down to share their first-hand experiences with us all!

We hope that this sharing session was able to help answer some of the questions you all had reagrding SEPs in Germany and wish you every success in your own journey! =)

For all of you who have pressing questions regarding SEP, but missed this highly informative session, please feel free to email us at frag.mal.uns@gmail.com. We will try our best to help you!

As always, here are some photos of the event:

SEP Sharing Session, 25 Feb 2010

Hello everyone!

Interested in going for exchange to Switzerland, Austria or Germany? Come down and join us for our Student Exchange Programme Sharing Session! (SEP sharing session). We have invited seniors who went to Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Mannheim to this session to share all about their wonderful experience overseas. We have also invited the Convenor of German, Ms Rita Niemann to join us as well. It does not matter which year you are in, all are welcome! You can start planning for your exchange early, so come down and join us for this exciting and informative session!

Date: 25 Feb 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 7pm
Venue: AS6/0212

Be sure to join us! If you have questions, please email them to frag.mal.uns@gmail.com. We would love to see you there!

Movie Screening: "Auf der Anderen Seite"

Liebe Mietglieder,

NUS' German Language Society will be screening a German movie on Tuesday, 9th of February! Do invite your friends and join us! And read on for more details!


About the Film

Auf der Anderen Seite is a film directed by a Turkish-German director Faith Atkins. With this film, Faith Atkins won the Best Director at Golden Orange Film Festival. It also won the prize for Best Screenplay at the 60^th Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and LUX prize for European cinema by European Parliament.

Synopsis (English)

Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.

Synopsis (Deutsch)

Als der Witwer Ali die Prostituierte Yeter überredet, bei ihm einzuziehen, ist sein Sohn Nejat irritiert. Nejat taut erst auf, als er erfährt, dass sie ihrer Tochter Ayten regelmäßig Geld für ihr Studium schickt. Nach Yeters plötzlichem Tod reist Nejat in die Türkei, um Ayten zu suchen. Die politische Aktivistin Ayten ist jedoch vor der türkischen Polizei nach Deutschland geflüchtet und bei einer jungen Frau, Lotte, untergetaucht. Als sie von der Polizei aufgegriffen und in die Türkei zurückgeschickt wird, macht sich Lotte auf die Suche nach der Freundin.

Date: 9^th February 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Venue: Central Library Theatrette 1
Subtitles: English

For further enquiries, drop a comment on our tagboard!

Hope to see you there!

Liebe Grüße,
Ya Jie
Project Director
NUS‘ German Language Society

Update: In-Fusion 2010 @ Central Forum

Hello everyone!

Thanks to all who dropped by our booth yesterday for In-Fusion 2010! We hope that you enjoyed the pretzels, Kinder chocolate and Maoam we had for you; the little German language game "Doppelkopf"; and most importantly, talking to us about Germany!

We all had a great time sharing our knowledge and experiences with those who were interested to know about Germany and getting to know each of you! A special thanks to all EXCO and subcomm members for their hard work and for helping out in decorating the booth and preparing for the event!

Here are some pictures of our booth!

Decorating the booth & Brandenburger Tor!

Just the booth by itself!

Some of us who woke up early in the morning to set up the booth!

German treats and information!

Thank you to those who came forward!

Do join us for future events and leave a comment if you have any feedback! =)