[Reader-list] Getting Married: A film by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels, Monday, 24.02.2014, 6:30 pm

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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