Film Discussion

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS - THE CONCEPT OF HEIMAT IN NEW GERMAN CINEMA

While the British are said to be patriotic to the bone, they are lacking an exclusive term for the concept of HEIMAT (trans. homeland, belonging). In Germany and Austria the contrary seems to be the case. But even though the term HEIMAT in German-speaking countries exists in order to express that feeling of (be-)longing, one usually feels uncomfortable using it. In Film and media, however, the concept of HEIMAT appears to be more easily to grasp and the German-speaking countries produced great deal of so called Heimatfilme particularly after World War II but also well beyond that time. In the second series of our film even series we would like to draw our attention to that very German concept of HEIMAT and how it is been depicted in German and Austrian Heimatfilme made after World War II.


final event of this term: Tuesday, 29.03.2011
at 6.30 in room K.0.19 (Strand Campus)

Dr. Barbara Knorpp, Brunel University

"Kleine Heimat" (2007) - documentary produced by the German born anthropologist Dr. Barbara Knorpp
Introduction: Dr. Barbara Knorpp (Anthropology, Brunel University)

film discussion

ALL WELCOME!