Itinerary

January Term GETR 270-z

Goethe, Schiller and J-Term

Day 1 Saturday, 12-30-06 Arrival in Berlin Check in at Hotel Sylter Hof 1400 Initial meeting 2:00 pm. Room 5 1445 Walking tour of the neighborhood to Wittenberg Platz, Kaufhof des Westens (KaDeWe), the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin Infostore in the Europa center, Kurfürstendamm, and Bahnhof Zoo. Purchase of weekly transportation passes, city maps, visit to local bank for purchase of Euros. 1800 Dinner together at Marisol in Savigny Platz (included in program fee) then free time and walk/bus back to Hotel Sylter Hof
	Day 2 Sunday, 12-31-06 New Year’s Eve 900 Meeting in lobby, Hotel 915 Departure “Big Berlin Tour” by bus (Severin & Kuehn) 1300 Lunch following city tour in Kurfürstendamm area (on own) Afternoon free time, with suggestions 2100 Departure from Hotel for New Year´s Eve Celebration, Brandenburger Tor-Siegessäule area
Day 3 Monday, 1-1-07 New Year’s Day Free time 1300-1430 Meeting, Room 5, Sylter Hof 1. Language instruction, discussion of projects 1500 Departure for S-Bahn, Visit to new Hauptbahnhof, Hackesche Hoefe, Marienkirche, Marx- Engels statue and Red Rathaus, and St. Nicolai Nicolaiviertel 1800 Dinner Nicolai Viertel at the Zur Gerichstlaube Evening free
	Day 4 Tuesday, 1-2-07 900-1045 Class 1. Language instruction 2. Introduction to Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 1245 Bus 100 to Reichstag 1315-1500 Visit to the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate 1530 Walk to Pariser Platz, “Berlin Story” book store 1730 Dinner at the Bavaricum, Europa Center 2000 Concert, Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Czech Symphonie of Prague, “Carmina Burana” and Beethoven´s Ninth Symphony
Day 5 Wednesday, 1-3-07 900-1045 1. Language Instruction 2. Discussion of texts 1030 Museum at Checkpoint Charlie Lunch Friedrichstr. area, walk to Jewish Museum 1340 Arrive at Jewish Museum for security check, tour to start 1400-1530 Guided tour, Jewish Museum (Architect: Daniel Libeskind) 1800 Dinner at Maximilians, Friedrichstraße
	Day 6 Thursday, 1-4-07 9:00-10:45 1. Language instruction 2. Brian Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, XXX-YYY; and Discussion of the Wende and reunification 1400 Dr. Barbara Gügold, IES/Humboldt University “East –West Feeling in Germany” 1800 Dinner at Hasir, Oranienburgerstraße 4 Evening free choice of Altes Museum or Alte Nationalgalerie
Day 7 Friday, January 5, 2007 900 Class Language Instruction; 920 Depart Hotel for U Bahn to the Free University, Berlin (exit Breitenbachplatz) F.U. Berlin European Studies Center, Brentano 50 1000-1130 Dr. Dirk Verheyen, The Free University, "The Berlin Republic: Berlin at the Center of German Politics" FU-BEST, Brentanostr. 1200 Lunch Alter Krug, Dahlem 1400 Exhibition, Stunde Null/Zero Hour (Berlin 1945 and immediate post war recovery) 1500 U-Bahn to Allierten Museum, Clayallee (Cold War, "Raisin bomber," Wall tunnel) Bus or walk to Brücke Museum for German expressionist art Return to hotel on your own 1800 Dinner at San Marco, Savignyplatz
	Day 8 Saturday, January 6, 2007 9:00-1045 Class + individual meetings with instructor re class project Presentation, Carsten Lüßmann, Hamburg businessman 1100 Bus 200 to the Kultur Forum, visits to Neue National Galerie Lunch at the Sony Center/Potsdamer Platz 1400 Museum Insel. Pergamon Museum 1530 Free time/project time Evening free EARLY START SUNDAY!!
Day 9 Sunday, January 7, 2007 Day trip to Weimar 710 Departure Hotel Sylter Hof for Hauptbahnhof 753 Departure, Berlin Hauptbahnhof, via Leipzig to Weimar, Deutsche Bahn: ICE Arrival Weimar 1004 1030 Walking tour of Weimar 1400 Guided tour in English of the Goethehaus in Weimar 1753 Departure, Weimar Bahnhof, via Leipzig, return Berlin, 2006
	Day 10 Monday, January 8, 2007 1300 German Historical Museum 1430 Meet at entrance to German Historical Museum- walk to Bebelplatz and Neue Wache. Coffee and cake at the Opern Palais 1430 Holocaust Memorial . Afternoon and evening free time and projects
Day 11 Tuesday, January 9, 2007 900-1045 Class,1. Language 2. Discussion of projects and today’s Open Forum 1115 Departure from Hotel to the Free University by U-Bahn, exit Dahlem 1200 Lunch at the Mensa, Free University Tour of the new library, Free University (Norman Foster, Architect) 1400-1600 Open Forum, Free University of Berlin and UVA at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Rm 319 1600 Luise’s for coffee, cake, pizzas (included in program fee)
	Day 12 Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Day trip to Potsdam 830 Departure from Hotel for Potsdam by chartered bus (Severin & Kuehn) 930 Visits to Schloss Sanssouci 1230 Schloss Cecilienhof (Potsdam Conference, 1945) 1315 Holländischesviertel-freetime and return to Berlin on own via S-Bahn Afternoon Free time in Potsdam and/or projects in Berlin Evening free
Day 13 Thursday, January 11, 2007 800-1000 Tour, Berliner Ensemble (Brecht’s Theater) 1015 Class: Discussion of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, place tbd 1115 Free time 1400 Dr. Andreas Butter, “Berlin, Past and Present” IES/Humboldt University 1530 Free time 1815 Dinner at Schinkelklause 2000 Giuseppe Verdi, “La Traviata” at the Staatsoper unter den Linden
	Day 14 Friday, January 12, 2007 900-1030 Class 1. Language and 2. Discussion of projects 1100-1200 Guided Tour of the Neue Nationalgalerie 1200-1800 Project Time 1800 Departure for Komische Oper, Behrensstr. 1900 Johann Strauss, “Die Fledermaus” at the Komische Oper
Day 15 Saturday, January 13, 2007 900-1130 Class and interim reports, class projects. To be submitted: Outline and annotated blibliography of project 1300 Free time with attractive choices, suggestions 1800 Abschiedsfeier/Dinner, Meineke (included in program fee)
	Day 16 Sunday, January 14, 2007 Departure, Tegel Airport (Bus 109 from Bhf Zoo)