Table football tournament for amateur players at Paderborn University
On Friday, 7. October, the Paderborn Table Football League invited players to join them at the “No-Pro Table Football Tournament” at the Grill-Café as part of Paderborn University’s 50th anniversary celebrations. At ten tables in the university’s Grill-Café, amateur table football players could pit their skills against each other and make friends. First, various teams of two play together in a preliminary round with five to seven games per team to sort out the “newcomers” from the “amateurs” and “professionals”. Then knockout rounds were played to see who had real sporting ambitions, although the focus was always on having fun and making new friends. Players could register as a team of two or as individuals. Anyone who decided to join in on the spur of the moment could sign up in the Grill-Café on the night, provided that places were still available. Spectators were welcome at any time – and without advance registration – to watch the tournament and cheer on the players.
Campus and Cinema: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) by Ernst Lubitsch
Student-run art house cinema shows silent film with live piano accompaniment
At noon on Saturday, 8. October, the “Programmkino Lichtblick e. V.”, a student-run initiative at Paderborn University, showed the silent film “The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg” by Ernst Lubitsch. Pianist Richard Siedhoff accompanied the screening in Paderborn’s Pollux cinema (Westernstraße 34) with live piano music. “Even when we are still at school, we all develop ideas in our heads about what university life is like – not least because of the many films we watch. The Hollywood college film already has a tradition going back 100 years,” says Timon Steup, first chair of the student-run art house cinema club. “We wanted to revive a classic silent film from 1927 with this screening.”
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
A prince from a small German principality manages to escape from his golden cage for a short time and enjoy the bloom of his youth – including friendship, conformity, consumption and love – during his student years in Heidelberg. Wilhelm Meyer-Förster’s play “Old Heidelberg”, which premiered in 1901, was a long-running favourite in German theatres for many decades. Three film versions were made in Hollywood. Berlin-born director Lubitsch turned it into a silent film with markedly ironic undertones.
About Lichtblick
“Programmkino Lichtblick e. V.” was founded in 2003, making it one of Paderborn University’s oldest student-run initiatives. Its members compiled a diverse programme – entitled “Future Visions – Yesterday’s Tomorrow isn’t Today” for the winter semester 2022/23. Every Tuesday evening from 11. October onwards, 15 films from almost 90 years of cinema history enticed audiences into the world of future cinema.
