{"id":823,"date":"2019-04-11T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/?p=823"},"modified":"2019-04-11T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:24:47","slug":"german-language-students-watched-comedian-harmonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/2019\/04\/11\/german-language-students-watched-comedian-harmonists\/","title":{"rendered":"German language students watched &#8220;Comedian Harmonists&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-824 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3219\/2019\/04\/IMG_2040-792x594.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Students at German film night 2019.&quot;\" width=\"792\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3219\/2019\/04\/IMG_2040-792x594.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3219\/2019\/04\/IMG_2040-396x297.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3219\/2019\/04\/IMG_2040-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3219\/2019\/04\/IMG_2040-990x743.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3219\/2019\/04\/IMG_2040-1188x891.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/>German language students crowded into a classroom to watch the film, &#8220;Comedian Harmonists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 25 students learned about the true story of the sextet called The Comedian Harmonists. A sextet is one piano player and five singers.<\/p>\n<p>The sextet performed before World War II. They formed in 1927 and disbanded in 1934 because three members were of Jewish heritage and were forbidden to perform under Hitler, <a href=\"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/faculty\/karen-jennings\/\">Karen Jennings,<\/a> instructor of German. said.<\/p>\n<p>They were well-known in Germany and Europe and even performed in the US.\u00a0 Their name is still relatively well-known in Germany today, Karen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German language students crowded into a classroom to watch the film, &#8220;Comedian Harmonists.&#8221; The 25 students learned about the true story of the sextet called The Comedian Harmonists. A sextet is one piano player and five singers. The sextet performed before World War II. They formed in 1927 and disbanded in 1934 because three members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[511],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}