Join us for a movie talk with H. Peter Reinkordt following the 12:30pm screening of FATHERLAND on Sunday, November 22. $5 tickets available for OLLI members at the Ross Box Office (not available online). All other tickets at regular Ross prices.

H. Peter Reinkordt

H. Peter Reinkordt was Professor of German at Doane University, Crete. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1972 in German Language and Literature. Reinkordt has taught at a private secondary school in Switzerland, at UNL, and Nebraska Wesleyan before settling at Doane College in 1984 and teaching there until 2011 full time, and as emeritus he taught one history course each fall until 2016.

While his areas of special interest and research are German literature of the Medieval Period and the 20th century as well as German history and culture, he taught a range of classes involving German language acquisition. His focus on contemporary history of Europe deals with fascism, the Holocaust and recent developments with special emphasis on Germany, particularly post-WW II and more recently unification of East and West Germany since the fall of the wall in 1989.

In the seventies Reinkordt lived and worked in Switzerland for four years, traveling widely in Europe as well as through Asia and Egypt. He keeps in touch with current European events by frequent trips to Europe. He has been involved with the film program at the Ross since the early 1980’s, then the Sheldon Film Theater, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.

FATHERLAND (SHOWING NOV 13-25)

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family. More info…