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Halo School in Switzerland 🇨🇭 For several years Halo School has been providing language courses to the Berlin Opera Academy, the premier training program for young opera singers from all around the world. We are delighted to contribute again to this unique program, which takes place this summer in a conference resort in the Swiss Alps.






Halo School provides tailor-made Elocution & Presentation lessons with coaches from the Berlin Opera Academy. This is an additional feature to our curriculum. You can practice effective speech, presentation styles, and pronunciation online with trained opera singers in a focused program for Bespoke German Elocution Lessons. Besides elocution, Halo School is also offering coaching for 'Vorsingen', which includes training on how to best prepare presentation aspects of your audition package, as well as training specialized for those singing in German opera houses, including how to rehearse with German stage instructions. Elocution training will start from 15 August. For more information and registration please write to Email: info@halo-school.com 



Elocution training will start from 15 August. For more information and registration please write to: Email  info@halo-school.com 








The Digital Summer is here. Halo School has partnered up with DigiForge for a summer series of events on “Digital German”. We are offering a series of fun and interactive workshops on digital topics relevant to today’s workplace, specifically tailored for students of the German language. All topics will be held in slow German with added vocabulary lists to assist you in the progress. Learn Digital German with Halo School Berlin and prepare yourself for an exciting course. This is part of the Learning with Facebook Program. 




TRANSCENDING SLAPSTICK - Berlin Literaturhaus Lecture with Steve Weinberg :  How Kafka took the Gestures of Silent Film and made them Absurdly Humorous. “Like El Greco, Kafka tears open the sky behind every gesture...” wrote Walter Benjamin.  The stereotypical image of Kafka as a dreary and solemn prophet is a myth which needs to be debunked. In fact, throughout Kafka’s literature, diaries, and letters, one observes the author’s gift for effervescent, silly, and innovative humor. One area which has been particularly unexplored is Kafka’s penchant for absurd humor in his masterful crafting of gesture. It is no secret that Kafka was an avid silent filmgoer, and worked diligently to capture the dramatic, exaggerated, and boisterous gestures of silent film actors in literary prose. As early as 1934, Walter Benjamin aptly compared Kafka’s artistic style with that of Charlie Chaplin. However, what has not been observed in the scholarship is how Kafka creatively exploits these physical movements in his fiction to infuse them with a strange, avant-garde, postmodern humor. This humor cannot be reduced to slapstick. Rather, Kafka crafts gestures in such a way that their multi-faceted superfluousness unleashes a humor over the motion of the body which can be said to go beyond slapstick. Steve Weinberg, Fellow at Humboldt Unviversity, studied Kafka’s works and German literature at Beersheba University in Israel. He currently undertakes Ph.D. studies in German literature at Rutgers University in New Jersey.


LITERATURHAUS BERLIN
16 May 2019, 7:30 pm

Fasanen Strasse 23
Contact Tel: 0179 5800972
Event in English/ Free Entry
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