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Narrating War
dal 19/2/2014 al 21/2/2014

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Anne Maier



 
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19/2/2014

Narrating War

Haus der Kulturen der Welt - HKW, Berlin

Theme Days. Conversations, discussions, panels, dialogs, films, readings. The event brings together war correspondents and photographers, editors and academics, soldiers and human rights activists, filmmakers and witnesses from war zones and conflict areas.


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Conversations, Discussions, Panels, Dialogs, Films, Readings

How do we talk about war in the early 21st century? What is it about the experience of extreme violence that is so difficult to understand and to speak about? What does describing the “indescribable” mean for the survivors, and for those who have been spared – and for the observers? The theme days NARRATING WAR, curated by Carolin Emcke and Valentin Groebner, are devoted to this paradox. The accompanying film program will be taken care of by Cristina Nord.

In NARRATING WAR, HKW deliberately does not take the great catastrophes of the 20th century as its point of reference. Rather, it places conflicts of the recent past and the present at the center, from the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia to the wars in the Middle East, in the Gaza Strip and in Syria. The year 2014 marks not only the centenary of the start of the First World War, but also the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. And, not least, it is the year in which Germany will begin to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. How are the stories of these wars told today? And what is kept silent? Who is allowed to speak, and what fissures, gaps, formulas, and clichés arise when they do?

Reporting, the ur-technique of dealing with information, is not a neutral process. It smooths out and filters, abbreviates and expands on its subject. What formats in texts, pictures, and films are suitable for conveying extreme experiences in war? At what cost? Why do objectifying reports so often fail, and why do so many reporters choose subjective perspectives? NARRATING WAR brings together war correspondents and photographers, editors and academics, soldiers and human rights activists, filmmakers and witnesses from war zones and conflict areas. In roundtables, in panels, and one-on-one, the participants will discuss doubts and fears, errors and the unspoken, coincidences and taboos – the “making of” behind professional reporting which normally remains hidden from news consumers. The discussions will be complemented and contrasted by readings by actors and a selection of extraordinary documentary films put together and commented on by Cristina Nord.

With Jon Lee Anderson, Mohammad Al Attar, Ulrich C. Baer, Bibiana Beglau, Andrea Böhm, Carroll Bogert, Sebastian Bolesch, Colette Braeckman, Hans Christoph Buch, Slavenka Drakulić, Lars Eidinger, Peter Geimer, Philip Gourevitch, Michael Kamber, Elisabeth Kaneza, Romuald Karmakar, Albrecht Koschorke, Kattrin Lempp, Liao Yiwu, Verena Lueken, Peter Maass, Karl Marlantes, Ethel Grace Matala de Mazza, Marcel Mettelsiefen, Avi Mograbi, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Marcel Ophüls, Gerhard Paul, Senad Pećanin, Milo Rau, Klaus Reinhardt, Majeda al-Saqqa, Bente Scheller, Eyal Sivan, Lawrence Weschler, Manfred Zapatka, Almut Zilcher.

Carolin Emcke is a freelance journalist and philosopher. She works as a reporter from war zones and writes primarily about violence and voicelessness. In her much-respected books Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter (2004) and Stumme Gewalt. Nachdenken über die RAF (2008), she grapples with questions of the possibilities and limits of telling. She most recently published Weil es sagbar ist. Über Zeugenschaft und Gerechtigkeit (2013).

Valentin Groebner is a historian at the University of Lucerne. In his book Defaced (2004), he deals with images of extreme violence in the 20th and 21st centuries and their historical precedents. Other books he has published include Gefühlsbilder extrastark. Gewaltfotos, Bildmagie, Werbung (2012) and Wissenschaftssprache. Eine Gebrauchsanweisung (2012).

Cristina Nord is a culture editor for the daily taz – die tageszeitung specializing in film. She has reviewed a number of films for the broadcaster WDR, including Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain and Christian Petzold’s Yella. She teaches film criticism at the Free University of Berlin and serves on the selection panel of the Duisburger Filmwoche documentary film festival. In addition to taz – die tageszeitung, she writes for Der Standard, kolik.film, and Cargo.

NARRATING WAR is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstriftung des Bundes)

Furter information: www.hkw.de/en/krieg_erzaehlen

Haus der Kulturen der Welt is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as well as by the Federal Foreign Office.

Image: © Sebastian Bolesch

Press contakt:
Anne Maier tel. +49 (0)30 39787.153/196 fax +49 (0)30 3948679 Mail presse@hkw.de

Opening: 20.2.,18h
Free admission

Feb 21 – 22, 2014
Two-day ticket 12€/10€, One-day ticket 8€/6€, Single ticket 5€/3€, Film ticket 6€/4€

All events will be with simultaneous translation German/English

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