Flucht und Exil - Literatur und Film mit dem Regisseur und drei Autor*innen

We are showing "Beyond the Border - Walter Benjamin 1892-1940" by Gerd Roscher (1990). The documentary researches and condenses Benjamin's last day, the arduous ascent over the Pyrenees, the crossing of the border and the deep hopelessness when Benjamin realizes that he has reached the end of his flight.

Gabriel Bornstein reads from the novel manuscript "Café Berlin" about a boy from Madagascar who wants to travel to Italy to talk to the Pope about poverty in the world and is taken to a refugee ghetto by the Italian police.

Christine Sterly-Paulsen reads "Madagascar Plan". A personal and at the same time political approach to one of the poorest countries in the world.

Eter Hachmann, born in Georgia and social mayor in Dessau-Roßlau, will be a guest. "Why do people flee their home countries? In my text, I would like to talk about the reasons for flight and exile using five concrete examples and show the different facets of this very emotional topic."

An event of the Drehbuchwerkstatt Hamburg, supported by "Hamburg Stadt mit Courage"