Event in English.

Due to illness, Klaus Davidowicz will be giving an online lecture in the Cinema Room. After the lecture, Jakub Majmurek will host a Q&A session as scheduled.

The topic of hiding during the Shoah was examined in film very early. In my lecture I would like to present various feature films from different countries from the 1940s to the present that approach the topic in a different way, from Morituri (Germany 1948), The Diary of Anne Frank (USA 1959), Angry Harvest (Germany/Poland 1985) to In Darkness (Poland 2011), In Another Lifetime (Austria 2011) and Anna's War (Russia 2018). After the lecture Jakub Majmurek will lead a Q&A with Klaus Davidowicz.

Klaus Samuel Davidowicz is a cultural scientist and professor for Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on Jewish cultural history of modern times, Kabbalah and Jewish film. Together with Frank Stern, he is the director of the "Jewish Film Club Vienna" and founder of "Film/University" at the Filmarchive Austria. He is currently working on his studies on the "Jewish Image in American Film" and on the "Representation of Jewishness in Austrian Postwar Film".

Jakub Majmurek — film expert, essayist, and publicist. Active as a film critic, he also writes about literature and visual arts. A graduate of the Film Studies and the Institute of Political and International Studies at the Jagiellonian University, he also studied at the School of Social Sciences at the IFiS PAN in Warsaw. Publishes, among others in Tygodnik Powszechny, Gazeta Wyborcza, Oko.press, and Aspen Review. Co-author and co-editor of many film books.

Coorganizer:

Financial support of the public programme: