Available November 2009

SALMAGUNDI magazine is about to bring out a special issue devoted to the great German film-maker Margarethe von Trotta, whose film "Marianne and Juliane" won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Film and Best Director and whose other films--"Rosenstrasse," "Sheer Madness," "Sisters," "Rosa Luxemburg," and others-- have received numerous international awards.
One of von Trotta's latest feature films, "The Other Woman," starring Barbara Sukowa, which has never been released in the United States, will be available as a dvd, sealed inside the special issue of SALMAGUNDI.
To launch this issue of the magazine, SALMAGUNDI is sponsoring several public events with Margarethe von Trotta during the first week of December.
In these events, von Trotta will be engaged in extended conversation on Films and Film-making by a panel of interviewers.
The schedule of events is as follows:
NEW YORK CITY:
--Tuesday December 1st: The New School for Social Research, Theresa Lang Community Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
6 PM Screening of von Trotta's "Rosa Luxemburg" starring Barbara Sukowa (Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award)
*8 PM Panel Discussion with Margarethe von Trotta
--Wednesday December 2nd: Barnard College, Broadway at 116 Street main entrance to BARNARD HALL, 4th floor, James Room
*6 PM Panel Discussion with Margarethe von Trotta
WASHINGTON DC:
--Thursday December 3rd: Georgetown University, ICC Auditorium
6 PM Screening of von Trotta's "Sheer Madness" starring Hannah Schygulla & Angela Winkler
*8 PM Conversation with Margarethe von Trotta & Robert Boyers
BARD COLLEGE:
--Friday December 4th: Bard College, Avery Theatre, Avery Center for the Arts
*5.30 PM conversation with Margarethe von Trotta & Robert Boyers
--Saturday December 5th: Bard College Weiss Cinema, Campus Center
*10.30 AM Panel Discussion with Margarethe von Trotta:
"Filming Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt"
participants: Leon Bostein, Norman Manea, Roger Berkowitz
Please email salmagun@skidmore.edu with any questions.