Goethe-Institut: German humor exists via ‘tragicomedy’

Films from Germany are “typically German”—cold, conventional and overly intellectual—or at least a lot of people think so. The Goethe-Institut tries to break this stereotype with its latest film series of German “tragicomedies” entitled “Heartbreakingly Comical.”

Every Wednesday beginning today until July 8, the Goethe-Institut will be screening three tragicomedy movies in its premises for free. Tragicomedy films are interplays of the sad and the funny wherein the tragic elements are softened by humor and tragedy breaks the humorous.