Halli Hallo!

The holidays are here! It's time to get into the spirit and your Santa hats for our annual Christmas party!

Please RSVP on one Meetup list only so we don't count you twice. This will be a joint event with other German Meetup groups. December 3rd will be our Christmas party and will be the last event of the year. Since this will be a party we will have the whole bar to ourselves with German music and hopefully German beer for the group (still working on that).

Since everyone seems to be having a rough year financially, we've decided to cancel the $10 cover charge for appetizers. Libation has a delicious food menu so don't be shy about eating there or joining with others to order appetizers on your own. Drinks cost $5 for domestic beer, well drinks (vodka cranberry for example), Champagne for the ladies and $6 for imported beer including Spaten Lager.

It is a tough year for a lot of families and in order to remember those who are less fortunate then ourselves we will be having a non-perishable food drive collecting food for the homeless. Please bring at least 1 canned or boxed non-perishable food item to the party. All the food will be donated to City Harvest.

Suggested foods are:

* canned fruit
* canned vegetables
* peanut butter (plastic jars)
* mac and cheese (packaged)
* hot and cold cereal (packaged, family-sized)

Check your kitchen, maybe there's some things in your pantry that you can donate. The more we have the better.

Since this will be the last event of the year I hope all of you will join in for the fun and festivities.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Ganz Lieben Gruß,
Amy

Halli Hallo Leute,

Since it appears there is enough interest in having a group meet in Jersey City, a couple of us have decided to try to get a Stammtisch going in addition to our regular Manhattan events. The Jersey City Stammtisch will meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at the new Zepplin Hall in Jersey City (directions to follow). I'll try to get there early to secure a table for us and will bring a paper "German flag" sign with me. We'll meet in the back corner of the restaurant/bar. I hope some of you Jersey City / Hoboken residents will come join us.

Wo: Zepplin Hall, Liberty Harbor, Jersey City.
Zeppelin Hall is located in Liberty Harbor, a new community on the Jersey City waterfront and not yet listed on most mapping programs.
http://www.zeppelinhall.com/

By Car: To locate Liberty View Drive and Grand Street on your GPS system type in: 297 Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 which will bring you to the intersection of Grand Street and Liberty View Drive.

By Path Train: Take the PATH to Grove street. Walk down Grove Street passing City Hall on the left. Make a right on Grand Street then your next left on to Liberty View Drive. Zepplin Hall is at the end of the block.

By Hudson Bergen Lightrail: Take the lightrail to Jersey Avenue. Make a right into the very large Zepplin Hall parking lot next to the Lightrail Station walking toward Grove Street.

Hope to see you there.

Alles gute und lieben Gruß,
Amy

Advance ticket purchase is recommended.

Here are the movie details:

http://www.filmlinc.com/

Everyone Else / Alle Anderen
Maren Ade, 2009, Germany, 120m

"… delicious, acutely observed dissection of the mercurial emotional and psychological ties between two young lovers…Everything in this film seems new, yet at the same time, completely recognizable and completely right." –Hollywood Reporter

One of the most accomplished unraveling-couple films of recent years, writer-director Maren Ade’s second feature brilliantly captures the growing disconnect between mismatched young lovers Chris (Lars Eidinger) and Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr), whose moments of tender intimacy are often immediately followed by cruel passive-aggressive behavior. On vacation with Gitti at his parents’ villa in Sardinia, architect Chris feels his artistic greatness has been unrecognized; his sulking is sometimes indulged by his far more sanguine girlfriend. After spending time with an older, more successful friend and his pregnant wife, the fault lines in Chris and Gitti’s relationship grow even wider. For all the film’s emotionally volatile scenes, Everyone Else never devolves into histrionics, its precise examination of the hazards of coupledom always ringing honest, true, and instantly recognizable.

Getting there

Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater is on 65th Street near Amsterdam Avenue.

Our theater is convenient to the 65th Street stop of the 1 train, as well as being five blocks from a major transportation hub, Columbus Circle. Bus Lines M104, M5, and M7 all stop in front of Lincoln Center.

Walk west on 65th Street, look for the FILM banner on 65th Street. For access to the upper level use: the new public staircase on the north side of 65th St near the mid-block crossing, the elevator in the Juilliard School, the elevator or the escalator directly beneath the theater.

Halli Hallo Leute,
Since it appears there is enough interest in having a group meet in Jersey City, a couple of us have decided to try to get a Stammtisch going in addition to our regular Manhattan events. The monthly Jersey City Stammtisch will meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month for the next few months at the new Zepplin Hall in Jersey City (directions to follow). I'll try to get there early to secure a table for us and will bring a paper "Stammtisch" sign with me. If it rains, we'll just meet inside. I hope some of you Jersey City / Hoboken residents will come join us in the beer garden.

Wo: Zepplin Hall, Liberty Harbor, Jersey City.
Zeppelin Hall is located in Liberty Harbor, a new community on the Jersey City waterfront and not yet listed on most mapping programs.
By Car: To locate Liberty View Drive and Grand Street on your GPS system type in: 297 Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 which will bring you to the intersection of Grand Street and Liberty View Drive.
By Path Train: Take the PATH to Grove street. Walk down Grove Street passing City Hall on the left. Make a right on Grand Street then your next left on to Liberty View Drive. Zepplin Hall is at the end of the block.
By Hudson Bergen Lightrail: Take the lightrail to Jersey Avenue. Make a right into the very large Zepplin Hall parking lot next to the Lightrail Station walking toward Grove Street.

Yes, you read it right! for $25 per person OPEN BAR taps from 7:30pm-10:00pm!

Come check out friend and sponsor Ed Raven's new beer store and bar!

The $25 cost will cover open bar taps. There are several restaurants in the vicinity that you can check out before the taps open at 7:30pm.

There will be 10 OPEN beer taps (like open bar) that will run from 7:30pm-10:00pm - from Gaffel to Oktoberfest to maybe an organic beer or maybe their chocolate beer! You have to join us - try one or try them ALL!

Any of their 150+ different choices of bottled beers will cost you extra with prices marked on the bottles (please bring cash if you want to try other beers).

Join us for German beer! German conversation, German Karaoke and 10 open Growler taps.

http://brouwerijlane.com/