Film screening and discussion with Evgenia Gostrer (animation film artist, Berlin) and Yael Reuveny (filmmaker, Berlin), conceived and moderated by Dr. Lea Wohl von Haselberg (Professor of Jewish Film and Audiovisual Memory, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam)

The film Adamah links the experience and trauma of the Shoah with the hope of a new beginning. Avodah, by contrast, envisions a social utopia in which labor becomes the engine of a shared future. How do these historical images resonate today, amid new traumas, social polarization, and the culture wars over memory?

With Dr. Isabelle Graw (Professor of Art History and Art Theory, Städelschule – Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main), Schorsch Kamerun (theater director and singer, Hamburg), Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (historian, Berlin), Masha Qrella (singer and songwriter, Berlin), representatives of the clubs Conne Island (Leipzig) and ://about blank (Berlin), among others.

Conceived and moderated by Andreas Fanizadeh (chief correspondent for cultural affairs, taz, Berlin)

In the 1990s, bands, intellectuals, and antifascist activists joined forces as Wohlfahrtsausschüsse (“welfare committees”). United by the attempt to defend antiauthoritarian ways of life in Rostock, Dresden, and Leipzig against farright scenes, participants discuss what can be learned from this history and where we stand today.

In German, free admission; the event will also be livestreamed

La Haluca (“The Pioneer Woman”) refers to a historical text by the Bosnian-Jewish writer Luna Laura Papo Bohoreta (1891–1942), which artist Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* takes up in her performance. The Haluca emerges as a projection figure in which Jewish self-determination and feminist emancipation intertwine. Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s performance takes up this figure of the Jewish woman as pioneer. Through selected biographies of individuals widely known today, the work brings renewed attention to Jewish history in the Yugoslav region – a history overwritten by the Shoah, by the memory politics of socialist Yugoslavia, and by the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, and one that remains, to this day, only tenuously part of collective memory in the region and beyond.

Free admission

Finissage of the exhibition Projections Onto the East at n.b.k.

Conducted by Marlies Rossmann in cooperation with Florian Hein, at the invitation of Jasmin Werner (artist, Berlin)

Free admission