In the organizer's words:

"The past does not fade away"

Layers of the past in film and on stage. HFF students went into the HFF archives in search of German post-war films.

"The past never fades." This feeling runs through Lena Gorelik's story in the play "Zeit ohne Gefühle", which premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele in October 2025. A look at Feldafing. An idyllic place that, on closer inspection, becomes a burning glass of German history. Between 1934 and 1945, the town was home to the "Reichsschule", a training center for the Nazi elite. After the end of the Second World War, the abandoned grounds of the school were transformed overnight into a camp for "displaced persons", a reception camp for Jews who had survived the concentration camp. Today, a Bundeswehr barracks is located on this very site.

For the sixth edition of our Blickpunkte series on December 13, 2025 in the Habibi Kiosk, we went to the archive of the HFF Munich. We are showing a film that also sets out in search of layers of the past: "Wolfsgrub" by HFF alumni Nicolas Humbert from 1986, in which the director follows his mother Eva, who was born and raised in National Socialist Germany as the daughter of the Jewish playwright Max Mohr. "Wolfsgrub" is the meeting of two people, a story that delves into the past and yet contains all of the present and future. The film approaches the village of Wolfsgrub in the outskirts of Munich and the history of its inhabitants like a still life.

The evening will be accompanied by a short scenic reading by actor Luis Brunner from "Zeit ohne Gefühle", which expands the view of memory and the present from the perspective of the theater production.

Afterwards, we invite you to an open discussion with the film director Nicolas Humbert and the actor Luis Brunner. Together with the audience, we will discuss the questions raised by the film and the play and what they have to do with us today.

Price information:

free