Jewish life in German film after 1945 – a critical overview
Small film academy in the Ernemann VII B museum cinema
The Filmakademie examines representations of Jewish life in German film after 1945. In the introductory lecture, the political and ideological contexts in which the selected films were made and the respective historical narratives will be explained, namely for the immediate post-war period (1945-49), for the GDR, the FRG and for the period after reunification.
The focus is less on a uniform "Jewish identity" than on historically changing attributions and visibilities that have emerged in each case in the field of tension between the politics of remembrance, defence against guilt, state ideology and social self-assurance. The selected and presented films show Jewish figures not only as individuals, but also as projection surfaces of the respective social confrontation with National Socialism, persecution and post-history.
- Lecture with numerous film examples by Dr Karsten Fritz and Markus Jüngling
- Admission € 3
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