Lecture and talk with Hann Loewy (in German language)

For a long time, public appearances by Holocaust survivors were a rare occurrence. But immediately after the end of the Second World War, fictional survivors appeared on the big screen of the cinema and soon also on the screen at home.
Their images oscillate between hope for healing, reconciliation and forgetting, images of the triumph over fascism and popular fantasies about trauma and revenge, retribution and brokenness, which unfolded in a disturbing boom with the Nazi trials since the 1960s. It was precisely at this time that the survivors themselves first stepped into the public limelight as witnesses. This role, sometimes assumed with painful reluctance, sometimes quite consciously and with a sense of mission, was also reflected in film.

Hanno Loewy, who as a film researcher has examined many of these media testimonies, presents the changing image of the "contemporary witness" in particular using the example of fictional films in which individual and socially mediated fantasies intersect.

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