Rosenstraße
Location
JAAC 2140
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
14-9-2018 3:00 PM
Description
Today’s film in the pre-Symposium film festival is Margarethe von Trotta’s 2003 Rosenstraße, based in part on real events that took place in 1943 Berlin, an event still marked in the Berlin of today by a memorial outside a former Jewish community, later detainment, center on Rosenstraße, the street after which the film, and the protests it memorializes, is named. In the film, which is partially set in present day New York, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor is prompted following the death of her father to learn more about her mother’s past; returning to Berlin seeking to find out more about how her mother, a child of 8 at the time, escaped Berlin, she also uncovers the story of the Protests, in which Aryan women of Berlin won the release of their Jewish husbands from detention (and ultimately from death). Through its fictional narrative, the film explores ways in which our lack of knowledge of the lives of those closest to us can both mar our present relationships and hide from us events of great significance. As the film received some criticism for historical inaccuracies it also provides an excellent opportunity to explore how fiction can both open our eyes to important events while shaping (not always accurately) our conclusions about them. In German with English sub-titles. Discussion to follow.
Recommended Citation
Schwarzmeier, Regine, "Rosenstraße" (2018). Humanities Symposium. 3.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2018/ff2018/3
Rosenstraße
JAAC 2140
Today’s film in the pre-Symposium film festival is Margarethe von Trotta’s 2003 Rosenstraße, based in part on real events that took place in 1943 Berlin, an event still marked in the Berlin of today by a memorial outside a former Jewish community, later detainment, center on Rosenstraße, the street after which the film, and the protests it memorializes, is named. In the film, which is partially set in present day New York, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor is prompted following the death of her father to learn more about her mother’s past; returning to Berlin seeking to find out more about how her mother, a child of 8 at the time, escaped Berlin, she also uncovers the story of the Protests, in which Aryan women of Berlin won the release of their Jewish husbands from detention (and ultimately from death). Through its fictional narrative, the film explores ways in which our lack of knowledge of the lives of those closest to us can both mar our present relationships and hide from us events of great significance. As the film received some criticism for historical inaccuracies it also provides an excellent opportunity to explore how fiction can both open our eyes to important events while shaping (not always accurately) our conclusions about them. In German with English sub-titles. Discussion to follow.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts & Sciences