German-American Friendship Month:
Cabaret Evening – Berlin Now
The next event of the German Forum will be our exciting annual Cabaret Evening. This year, the title of the show is “Berlin Now” featuring Accordionist & Singer Annika Krump (Berlin) and Actress Felicitas Madl (Berlin) directed by Uwe Mengel, Berlin/New York.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011,
6:15 PM – 9:00 PM
Reception: 6:15pm
Program: 7:00pm (there will be a second reception after the program).
Where: Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street in NYC.
Tickets : $30
For further details please write to: contactus@germanforum.org or click here
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Born and raised in New York, Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) moved at the age of sixteen to Germany, where he became one of the leading practitioners of German Expressionism and the Bauhaus. In the late 1930s, when the Nazi campaign against modern art forced him to flee back to New York after an absence of fifty years, his marriage of abstraction and recognizable imagery made him a beloved artist in the United States.
Long acknowledged as a major figure of the Bauhaus, Feininger is renowned for his romantic, crystalline paintings of architecture and seascapes. Less well known are the whimsical aspects of his work: his pioneering Chicago Sunday Tribune comic strips; his figurative, Expressionist compositions; his photographs; and his miniature hand-carved wooden figures and buildings, known as ... 
