[Reader-list] Getting Married: A film by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels ( Feb 26, 6:30pm, New Delhi) / Austrian Film Screening ( March 2, 5pm, New Delhi)

Fri Feb 21 23:31:48 CST 2014

Film Screening

Getting Married - The Wedding of Mahesh and Benela

A film by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels
2012, 55 Minutes

Monday, 24.02.2014, 6:30 pm
Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

The Goethe-Insititut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Heidelberg Centre South Asia are pleased to screen ‘GETTING MARRIED, The Wedding of Mahesh and Benela’, a film by Prof. Niels Gutschow and Prof. Axel Michaels in honour of Prof. Axel Michaels. Prof. Michaels has received a 15-year grant from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on legal and religious documents from 19th century Nepal. He has also received the German Photo Book Prize 2014, along with Amit Pasricha for their publication "Heiliges Indien".

The film documents the main events of a Hindu marriage in Bhaktapur, Nepal in November 2010. It covers the preparation and main rituals in both the house of the bride and the groom. It is the third part of a project within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 619, Ritual Dynamics at the University of Heidelberg, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The film is part of the publication, ‘Getting Married. Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur and Patan, Nepal’, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012.

Prof. Axel Michaels is the Head of the Dept. of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology) at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. He is also one of the Co-Directors of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe" and he was instrumental in setting up the Collaborative Research Centre 619 "Dynamics of Ritual", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2002 to 2013. Since 2006 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Since 2010 he is Head Coordinator of the Heidelberg Center South Asia of Heidelberg University in New Delhi.

Prof. Niels Gutschow graduated in architecture from Darmstadt University, and later on wrote his PhD-thesis on the Japanese Castle Town in 1973. From 1980-2000 he was a member of the German National Committee for Conservation, after having been a member of a team for the first bilateral conservation project in Bhaktapur, Nepal (1971). In addition to many other fields of research, Niels Gutschow has concentrated on urban space and rituals in India and Nepal for many years. Since 2004, he is an honorary professor at Heidelberg University, Department of Indology, and was one of the researchers of the prestigious DFG's SFB "Ritualdynamik".

For further information please visit:
http://cms.goethe.de/ins/in/ned/ver/en12254115v.htm

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Austrian Film Screening 

The Austrian Cultural Forum of the Austrian Embassy New Delhi cordially invites you to the screening of the award-winning Austrian film
‚ATMEN (BREATHING)‘
within the European Union Film Festival 2014 ‚Voices of Youth‘

Date:           Sunday, 2 March 5pm

Venue:        Auditorium
                   British Council
                   17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg
                   New Delhi 110001

Entry:           Entry is free, seating on a
                    first-come, first-serve basis

Language:   German with English subtitles

Year:             2011

Synopsis

19-year-old Roman Kogler has a chance to be released early from his young
offenders’ institution. The odds are against him, however: he is an uncommunicative and solitary character without a family and doesn’t seem to be fit for re-socialization. As a day-release prisoner he has a job at a funeral home. Of all things, it is this job dealing with death that shows him the path back to life.

The award-winning film by Austrian director Karl Markovics will be shown as part of the 19th European Union Film Festival entitled ‚Voices of Youth‘. Movies from across Europe will showcase stories of European youth.