In the organizer's words:

Mallorca, a vacation dream. An island where there are too many travelers and too little living space. But there is another story hidden between the colorful parasols and picturesque hiking trails: of military dictatorship and forced labor, of forgetting and concealment and of the struggle for memorials, all closely interwoven. The teacher Jaume Serra Cardell from Sa Pobla was shot in the Illetes military fortress on Mallorca in 1937. His niece is now campaigning for a reappraisal of this period and is collecting evidence.

Director Jule von Hertell goes in search of traces on the Balearic island and comes across forms of transcultural remembrance as well as politically motivated silence. By investigating historical entanglements in German-Spanish history, she pursues a kind of film archaeology that explores the invisible and its translation.

The film project sees itself as a kind of "film archaeology" that uncovers the historically invisible and questions its significance today. The essayistic approach is intended to make it possible to experience memories from multiple perspectives and stimulate self-reflective perception. Authentic places and contemporary witnesses serve as central sources, while social changes pose new questions about memory. The Spanish culture of remembrance in particular is still characterized by a resounding silence, while at the same time activists look at the German reappraisal - which is often seen as successful from the outside. The examination of local history and its German-Spanish interdependencies thus opens up a view of fundamental questions of European remembrance: How does remembrance change in the context of current political developments, migration and debates about (post-)colonialism? And what forms of remembrance will we need in the future?

To mark the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism, the Landeszentrale is organizing two film screenings at the Metropolis Kino on two important and rarely examined topics. Here we can welcome Dr. des. Jule von Hertell, director and employee of the "Euthanasia" memorial in Lüneburg, as a speaker and discussion partner. She completed her doctorate on memory in essayistic documentary film, cultures of remembrance in Spain and transcultural remembrance at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Jule von Hertell will give a historical introduction to the films and afterwards there will be an opportunity to talk to each other.

Both events are being held in cooperation with the Metropolis Kino Hamburg.