Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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Maybe in another life (movie review)



Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben

Der Film wurde im Rahmen des 6. Zurich Film Festival shown.

Content:

Austria, 1945: While the enemy is just around the corner, are still masses of Jews deported to concentration camps. A force is stuck in a small village, because the chain of command of SS is broken. Barely a dozen, the Jews are housed in a barn, where they endure hungry and depressed.

Here comes one of the Jews, a former opera singer from Budapest, the idea to perform an operetta in the barn. At first it kept the other for pure spinning, but the singer can convince them that some music just on such a Ort bitter Not tut. Mit der Hilfe einer Bäuerin ( Ursula Strauss ) und ihrer Magd tragen sie nach und nach alles zusammen, was für die Aufführung nötig ist. Doch der Mann der Bäuerin ( Johannes Krisch ) bekommt bald Wind von der Sache.

Kritik:

Keine Frage, der österreichische Film hat Hochkonjunktur. Drei Jahre in Folge waren die Ossis im Rennen um den Oscar für den besten fremdsprachigen Film vertreten, mit Die Fälscher gewannen sie sogar. In diesem Zusammenhang scheint Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben von Elisabeth Scharang auf den ersten Blick prädestiniert für eine Oscar nomination - this film but also by the (popular at the Academy) Nazi theme and portrayed as already The White Ribbon the superficially idyllic life in a rural village.

succeeds Why the film does not even come close to achieving the quality of the works just mentioned? There are several reasons: We get no such feeling for the village as a closed microcosm, as it was in The White Ribbon so meticulously placed exactly in the limelight. The village and in particular the barn are only the backdrop for the highly constructed story. It seems that the attempt to convert the pour of the story underlying theatrical material in film form, here does not really work out.

flows in the rigid framework of the act as tough then. Not that the leisurely narrative pace would be to chalk out of principle, but here the viewer is really very few surprises and even offered Thrilling. Although both can score points at the beginning and the end, in between, however, makes some wide yawning boredom. This can compensate for the film does not by any visual display values, since one hand is the staging of absolute average and on the other hand for large scenes and the like simply was no money available.

is downright annoying, the film in that most of the characters are pure stereotypes: Sure, we haben auf der einen Seite den rassistischen Vater und auf der anderen Seite die gutherzige, aber unterdrückte Ehefrau. Charaktere werden auf einige wenige Eigenschaften festgelegt, und wenn denn eine Figur eine Entwicklung durchmacht, wirkt sie viel zu überstürzt. Überhaupt mag das ganze Szenario auf der Bühne noch funktionieren, wirkt im Film jedoch schlicht unglaubwürdig: Die Juden sitzen den ganzen Tag in der Scheune herum, haben nichts anderes zu tun als eine Operette aufzuführen, und praktisch jeder scheint einfach rein und raus spazieren zu können. Was die SS-Truppe, welche die Juden begleitete, den lieben langen Tag lang macht, erfährt man ebenfalls nicht; Auf jeden Fall scheinen sie etwas Wichtigeres zu tun haben als ihre Gefangenen zu bewachen.

Am Ende macht es sich der Film mit der Thematik viel zu einfach: Es wird so dargestellt, als wäre der Antisemitismus nur ein oberflächlicher Irrtum einiger böser Männer, der durch Vernunft und Menschlichkeit in Sekundenbruchteil widerlegt werden kann. Dabei wird verschwiegen, dass rassische Vorurteile in der deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft sehr viel tiefer verwurzelt sind und weder erst mit den Nazis begannen, noch mit Hitlers Tod aufhörten. Statt tiefer in der Mentalität der Dorfgemeinschaft zu graben, wie es Das weisse Band getan hat, ist Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben schlicht ein Gutmenschen-Film, der uns nichts Neues über das Thema zu erzählen weiss.

more about 4 out of 10


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Monday, January 24, 2011

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The left formation

The following is a text of Antifa Freiberg is documented, which, thankfully, busy with this year's critical to mobilize the left activities against the Nazi parades in Dresden.

This is not the first in 2011, but now in particular through the absence of content and a maximum distance to an ideology-critical analysis of the memory in Dresden, but even more by left-wing populism to the "Events" and the "movement 'sake, coined.

Here we go ...

The left formation

" [T] he decision is made. For 19 February 2011 there is a large mobilization of mass blockades to Dresden. "That one, before this show, which reaches the majority of participants in the parade of sinister zombies on the ML-LLL-Demo almost had better turn tail like, we try to explain below.


The Curse of the superlative!

large mobilization, mass blockades; Event; Europas größter Naziaufmarsch; endgültig Geschichte werden zu lassen; bundesweit; auf jeden Fall zu verhindern; können und werden wir nicht; öffentlichkeitswirksam; aktiv werden; Aktionstag; trommelt alle eure Freunde zusammen usw. usf. Diese Sprache spricht Bände. Man braucht nicht erst Victor Klemperers L.T.I. zu lesen, um den Tatendrang, die Kraft und den superlativierten Sinn zu erkennen, mit denen bei no pasarán und Dresden-Nazifrei Politik gemacht wird: Mit einer Sprache, die schon von ihrer Struktur her auf etwas verweist, das zum Fürchten ist.

Welch autoritärer Gestus muss in den Köpfen der Menschen herrschen, die die überwiegende Zahl ihrer Ergüsse end with exclamation points and for which high performance is to formulate sentences. Phrases that deserve this name and the jargon emancipated without statements of resolve and manage their own insurance, common identity. Rates, therefore, the content, or in the highest of all cases, even criticism transport.


Thus in the mobilization of Dresden after the form and content together in a wonderful way, each word breaks with the need for community, identity and autonomous Gruppenkuscheln track. As for the LTI, so for the language of the mobilization is: " tendency gespannte Bewegung auf ein Ziel hin, ist Pflichtgebot, elementares und allgemeines. (..) Sein ganzer Sprachschatz ist von dem Willen zur Bewegung, zum Handeln beherrscht. 1 Tätigkeitsworte und das Schreiben im Futur sind symptomatisch für die Aufrufe von no pasarán und Dresden-Nazifrei: wir werden; blockieren; verhindern, stoppen; wollen; es nicht belassen werden usw. usf. Die Bewegung ist Alles, der Einzelne Nichts. Stillstand ist der Tod.


„Der Weg ist das Ziel“

no pasarán

"This goal unites us"

Dresden-Nazi Free


There is therefore action conferences, action consensus, blockade training and the like. Everything points to the principle of motion and the act itself. In the call for 2011, a justification for the blockade pasarán no spectacle is just three sentences worth; Dresden Nazifrei dispensed equally to all. Apparently it will convince no longer, but recruiting. Preventing Nazi marches seems for the vast Majority legitimate to already by itself and needs no further goals and analysis.


This is followed by another key feature of the pronouncements No Pasaran and Dresden-Nazi Freis to: the of the claim. The Nazi rally on 13 February would be the most important Nazi rally Europe is to read about. But evidence found for it at most rudimentary of the three sets that can not go through as a reason. 2 But why should the horse that chewed through and dealt with the topic funeral marches are significant because numerous demonstrations against such so-called child molester, herbeihalluzinierte „Überfremdung“, Globalisierung, oder aktuelle politische Anlässe?


Waren etwa die antisemitischen Aufmärsche anlässlich der Verteidigung des israelischen Souveräns gegen die „Free-Gaza Flotille“ im letzten Jahr, an denen sich u.a. auch die Antifaschistische Linke Berlin – eine im no pasarán-Bündnis organisierte Gruppe – beteiligte 3 , nicht minder gefährlich? Eine Tatsache, die die ALB als Bündnispartner völlig diskreditieren sollte. Und ist die Behauptung kein Schlag ins Gesicht jener Antifaschist_innen in Ungarn und Russland, die dort einer organisierten rechten Pogrom atmosphere are exposed to? 4


However, it is not surprising, as the mass of alliances come to this conclusion. Their limited horizon, the events seem to be the navel of the world in and around Dresden. Those who own relevance measures only to the assembled masses on the street who the participants figures on demonstrations indicators of success, who can think persisting despite as ideal Gesamtantifaschist_in thoroughly macho-like gestures on Gender Gap only in organizational contexts, is bound in the mobilization of technical tail compared 5 end with the neo-Nazis and see exactly where the danger. In this type of analysis are no pasarán and Dresden-Nazi Free criticize the doctrine of extremism them amazingly close.


A critique of neo-Nazi and other inhumane ideologies can not help but to examine them on their potency. As it also nominates No Pasaran right, authoritarian character structure and cynical thinking in society is widespread. However, one must also recognize that in almost all parts of society is consensus to distance themselves from neo-Nazis and the funeral march everywhere met with strong disapproval.


in Dresden for the Nazis is no pot more to win. No one wants them, not even the uptight mayor Helma Orosz. If Leave No Pasaran, therefore, that the actions of Dresden-Nazi Free and No Pasaran as perceived as disturbing would be like the inhuman propaganda (sic) of the neo-Nazis, that's a bold claim that is punished by the reality lies. That the covenants not just the goodwill of the city leaders to draw on, is certainly the case - but nothing more. The outsider who takes no for pasarán claim, has long recuperated from the social mainstream and only the gesture another.


often - and there lies the problem - it reveals itself only in a discomfort with Nazis, which position themselves somewhere between social desirability, self-assurance and antiracist activism and for this reason in the is able to go beyond a rejection of neo-Nazis. Against Nazis is to be OK to criticize capitalism and its related phenomena, such as isolation, alienation, perceived helplessness and lack of subjectivity of individuals, as one of the causes of mass movements and collective identification zu benennen, zu viel des Guten. Theodor W. Adorno schrieb bereits 1963 in seinem Aufsatz Was bedeutet: Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit, dass das Nachleben des Nationalsozialismus in der Demokratie potentiell bedrohlicher sei, als das Nachleben des Nationalsozialismus gegen die Demokratie. 6


Und auch mehr als 40 Jahre später ist Deutschland von einer faschistischen Machtübername unendlich weit entfernt. Daher ist der Verweis darauf, dass das Blockadespektakel durch die deutsche Geschichte notwendig wird , bereits empirisch widerlegt. Notwendig wäre ganz anderes, etwa, sich die Causes of inhuman thinking is known and to work on its abolition.


Although it is claimed to have left with the blockade actions undertaken the framework of symbolic protest are the blockages in the end just that - purely symbolic actions. Dresden-Nazi Free betrays so even if people are asked to put an effective sign . Menschenverachtendem ideas on the roads to do is utopian. Above all, the closures have not addressed and a gain of knowledge they will not bid. Nazis, their social marginality wissen, bekommen das an diesem Tag lediglich noch einmal gespiegelt, während alle anderen sich gegenseitig bestätigen, wie blöd sie Nazis finden. Um nicht falsch verstanden zu werden: Wenn Nazis am 19. Februar einen richtig beschissenen Trauermarsch erleben, ist das unbedingt zu begrüßen – aber wir glauben, dass es nicht die Auswirkungen hat, wie die Blockadelustigen sie sich gern einreden. Nach Dresden zu fahren ist einfach, aber nutzlos und hat mit Zivilcourage nichts zu tun. Es ist eine riesige Selbstbespaßung, die die dafür aufgebrachte Mühe nicht wert ist.


Angesichts all der Zumutungen, die diese Gesellschaft bereit hält, It is almost ludicrously, for a event as the 13th wasting February, his strength and energy, where there are other places so many reasons to get involved. What progress could in asylum law and the German deportation be achieved, there would be an approximately similar protest. How many people could against adverse circumstances, or her death to be preserved, even were calling an alliance to help prevent deportations. And how much richer in prospects would be the province were flowing commitment once there. Every progressive political event in the youth club, and even every cultural program that is not dominated by right-wing or right-audience content wird, ist dort nachhaltiger, als die noch so große Großblockade. Doch dort fehlen sowohl der klar lokalisierbare „Feind“, an dem sich abzuarbeiten wäre, als auch der jährliche Eventcharakter. Denn damit rechnet das autonome Herz: Dass in Dresden was geht!


Der Spaßfaktor

Genau diese bewegungslinke Scheiße ist es, die es für uns unerträglich macht, die Mobilisierungen nach Dresden gutzuheißen. „ Der Mobi-Stuff des Antifa-Bündnis „no pasarán“ für diese Saison(sic!) ist fertig. “, it is about on the homepage of the Alliance pasarán no, as if I apply a football game.


The funeral march of the Nazis and the protests against it have long since blown up into a chimera, which itself receives in life and makes for quite a few groups the only purpose of their political work. The goal here is behind the production.

social criticism is not a carnival club. Those who already weeks before the 19th February full of excitement and anticipation, eager to explore Dresden in a little action, so that the hope of a better wound Society in a dispute with menschenverachtendem thought would be obsolete, in favor of private pleasure. This, of course - to remain in the hands of Nazi Dresden-free - a legitimate one, but has to do with a dispute with menschenverachtendem thinking about as much as a hiking trip with the group of free time in the Saxon Switzerland.


No Pasaran is in the call for 2011, however, problematic. "We like to disturb," is written. A tiny headline in the infected so many. Should not it be sickening, by the efforts to have to operate that make no pasarán and Dresden-Nazi Free undoubtedly? Could not the people at No Pasaran and Dresden-Nazi free use of their limited life time more, there were no Nazi rallies?


to do something like inevitably implies an acquiescence with the circumstances and not in resignation, which, while regrettable, but probably would not understand, but in sheer satisfaction. However, it is sickening to have to live in a society like this. Every day, the longer the case, a day that is gone forever. On the criticism of it (by the covenants is not even done) to have fun, nothing more than sadism.

Furthermore, the quoted passage is evidence for that moment in the mobilization plays a major role. Even the word mobilization indicates that status. The blockades are not just resources but also an end in itself. To sit together in a blockade is exciting and welded together like the winter, the fellow in the winter help. Man awaits jointly in the freezing cold and snow and is in solidarity with each other for . Reason enough to put all the political differences shelve and forget the class boundaries. This is the replacement Community as compensation for their own marginality in a handy pocket size.


As in any process of identification is needed here too a clear enemy against which can be delineated. criticism is not the fact that neo-Nazis are used to distinguish which of itself, but that this process ever used for identification. It will not be dealt with ideologies and formed a critical concept of society, but above all, its insured, but that even the "good side" is. Is it done once, by implication, agree or even actively supportive in sports groups Hunting of neo-Nazis - or whom you hold it - done and in department made that people hurt in the attack with paving stones seriously and then expected that similar behavior does not draw such a denunciation to the police after themselves, but silence from the "repressive apparatus the state ".


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This esprit de corps also finds expression in speech and gesture No Pasaran. Texts and views of the Alliance are full of military terms: neo-Nazis had a crushing defeat accept surround, buses will be in a long column , the Nazi big event is cracked , opponents, local displacement of the blocks, will not remain unanswered . The Antifascist Left Berlin is not even too stupid to talk of human blockades . Why not just of human material? If there are no pasarán thousands of people who make up the impact of the force. And on the web site is actually an adaptation of the slogans of Che Guevara "We work two, three, many Vietnams": "Take two, three, many buses ...".


Die angestrebten Massenblockaden sind ein Mittel, auf das man setzt . Ebenfalls eine Formulierung, die man sich auf der Zunge zergehen lassen sollte. Auf etwas zu setzen ist der Fall, wenn man bewusst eine Strategie verfolgt. Das intendiert ein Kalkül, Abwägung von Sachverhalten, wie man es aus Militärmanövern, oder auch der institutionalisierten Politik kennt. Es geht dabei um Hegemonie auf dem Schlachtfeld, oder in der Gesellschaft; um Interessenkampf, oder Entscheidung auf der Straße. Wer auf etwas setzt, hat längst begonnen, Realpolitik zu machen. Verwundern muss das nicht bei those who do not want to overcome capitalism with all its forms of socialization, but only a system based on exploitation economic system.


Quo vadis Dresden?

How can take place against these backgrounds, a critical approach to ideology and in Dresden? We believe that the execution will lead to Nazis on the street in Dresden to nothing. Especially in the province of Saxony, is based on neo-Nazis organized an acute danger. It lies not only in life and limb threatening violence, but their influence on the socialization young people and the erosion of alternative subculture. That, however, the annual, oversized family gathering in Dresden occupies such an important networking, encouragement and politicization function, as often stated, we do not deny completely, but doubt remained preoccupied vehemence.

appears on the contrary, the presumption is not entirely unreasonable that the attention will be accompanied by the Nazi parades in Dresden, for the reinforcing effect. After all that frustration can lead to self-reflection, is a steep proposition as evidence, not least, which followed the funeral march prevented in the last year. The Proliferation inhuman thoughts are no good and meet pasarán Dresden-Nazi free in this way can not.


This is also the danger that we discover the core of the protests. The militant gesture and the participation of groups and individuals reproduce most disgusting inhuman ideas in many different ways. The politicization of people, which takes place in Dresden certainly involves, in addition to opportunities and great dangers. At the end of may at the point of critical human and social democrats, Greens, Communists and other left-ML managers are suffering. The experience as part of a broad alliance verheißt jedenfalls nichts Gutes. Für die zu leistende radikale Gesellschaftskritik ist das wahrscheinlich viel gefährlicher, als die organisierten Neonazis, um die sich längst die zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen kümmern.


Antifaschistische Gruppe Freiberg, Januar 2011


Fussnoten:

1 Klemperer, Victor (1957): LTI. Stuttgart: Reclam, 22. Auflage 2007, S. 304.

2 " The annually staged a funeral march large deployment is to last more than 6,000 participants in the largest Nazi rally Europe dar. But he is not only because of its size matter, but also because of its spillover effect into other European abroad, and its internal efficiency in the various, otherwise often fractious spectra of the Nazis. Autonomous Nationalists, NPD, DVU, the rightmost edge of fraternities and associations, and Nazis from other European countries came together and were represented together as a powerful movement to do. , "is all that pasarán in the call to no is written to it.

3 See http://anti.blogsport.de/2010/06/01/stoppt-das-massaker-in-gaza-ueber-linke-und-ihre Friends /

4 See: http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0, 1518,734389,00 html . and http://www.taz.de/1/sport/artikel/1/pogromstimmung-in-moskau/

5 A particularly dramatic example can be found eg here: http://de.indymedia.org/2011/01/298545.shtml?c=on # c694825

6 Adorno, Theodor W. (1963): What does coming to the past. In: intervention. Nine critical models. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, special issue on the 40th anniversary of edition Suhrkamp 2003, p. 126

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Met Art Models With Bigger Labias

The Hummel (Theater Review) Adopted



The Hummel

The Hummel was in the sixth Zurich Film Festival shown.

Content:

Pit is representative for beauty products and trying to make the impression of the successful privately Sauber's. His motto: who risks nothing, risking their lives. But behind the facade there is already no longer as good as he wants himself and others to believe. Pit is divorced, the relationship with the adult son is supercooled and financially it is far from the black. In addition, it has the cynicism of his daily work, while he dishes up old ladies smiling lies, inside almost meaningless.
Before he give up his SUV and send its expensive housing needs, dedicated to pit in his need the so-called "hot springs". He meldet sich also bei alten Schulfreunden und Bekannten, lädt sie der guten alten Zeiten wegen zu einem Essen ein und versucht dabei, ihnen seine Produkte anzudrehen. Darunter ist etwa auch Christiane (Inka Friedrich), seine Jugendliebe. Da beginnt Pit zu realisieren, wie sehr er andere Menschen durch seine Heuchlerei verletzt.

Kritik:

Mit Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot wurde zuletzt bewiesen, wozu bayrische Komödien in der Lage sind. Dabei hatte Jürgen Tonkel eine kleine, aber feine Nebenrolle als suizidgefärdeter Radiomoderator. Beim Debutfilm von Sebastian Stern (Regisseur und Co-Autor) darf er nun die Hauptrolle übernehmen. He brings the conflict between the man and outer rays of inner emptiness extremely credible and maneuvered over the figure sent from the plate area. A bit of a cliché is the fact, already, the dashing Represented, who sold his job for the soul.

But the script treats all the characters not condescending - as do about the Coen brothers usually - but with warmth and respect. They all feel somehow lost in the highly differentiated world of work today are not satisfied with their long life and for human affection. The result is a carefully constructed combination of exciting results in conflicts even if here and there some are constructed. For example there is the young, insecure Hermann, who just starts new company in pits and as a kind of mirror of his younger self to function. been able to gain only a few scenes - great also, how much depth and credibility of the star girlfriend of pits son - thick goth girl is in itself far from being a popular figure.

side scenes of bitter sardonic wit thus arise mainly in the second half melancholy, some really touching moments. Captured these are hardly noticeable from a handheld camera with simple, peaceful images. It convinced the subtle symbolism of the imagery, as when in the supermarket in Pit go under a sea of price tags and billboards almost imminent. Another fine detail is in the background constantly emerging classical music of Liszt, among other things, which is harmoniously complemented with a soundtrack by Markus Lehmann-Horn.

Only towards the end falls on The Hummel by slightly over stock, even if the movie with 87 minutes pleasant fall short. Overall, Stern is definitely a heart-warming, accurate tragicomedy succeeded with biting social criticism.

about 8 out of 10

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

What Does A Pain In The Jaw Mean

(Theater Review)



Adopted

Adopted was in the sixth Zurich Film Festival shown.

Content:

Ordinary Adoption Agencies, it might look like this, see that by white, western families catalogs with pictures of black African children. But there is another way! The organization ADOPTED turns the tables by offering lonely, let the local society weary West Europeans the opportunity to adopt from an African family.
The film portrays the fate of Ludger, Gisela and Thelma, who open from Germany to live with three different families in Ghana. While the actor Ludger there hopes to find the true happiness of life, the pensioner is Gisela since the death of her husband alone and left without prospects in life. Thelma the other hand, is originally from Iceland, has nothing of material values and want to know mainly people from all over the world. If the find three, they are looking for?

criticism

The stakes of Adopted certainly something ironic. Without doubt, the choice of the title and the advertising poster is designed to attract through the "One upside" principle attention. Finally, Gudrun F. Widlok seems director, who led the project along with Rouven kingdom to have the right to trigger the audience as possible in-depth reflection on the relationship of the two cultures. Provides the basis of this provocative question of whether the personal happiness is not to find more closely linked in the social life of African village than in the isolated town houses of the West.

The biggest danger here is that it gives itself as a Western viewer the romantic and idealized vision of African society. At the beginning of the film made in this regard also rather one-sided and nourishes these more subjective images, instead of them the unvarnished Reality oppose. Self-reflection is certainly present, as when Ludger noticed that there is a sign of fastidiousness actually when we voluntarily give up our affluent life to live in poverty want.

The best part Adopted is the immediacy with which the camera puts us in the action. As a viewer one is amazingly close to it to the protagonists understand their motives and feel with them. How do they all have at first more or less large start-up problems, so you feel as a viewer to know a stranger in the new environment and learns the adoptive families for the first time and appreciate. Here are the three stories, in reality not at the same time took place, cut side by side and cleverly woven into a diverse and exciting overall picture. Despite the fact that it was filmed with small and not of outstanding quality camcorders, also creates an almost palpable atmosphere of the village and town life in Ghana. It is strengthened by the contrast to the images of Germany, which will be shown at the beginning. Even the music is making a remarkable contribution to generate atmosphere.

When one or other audiences may already harbor while the film is doubt whether the represented organization actually exists in reality or whether this is more a kind of Mockumentary is. Left the protagonists really stay home with the intention of forever in Ghana? Such assumptions are at least not entirely misguided, since the idea originally started as an art project and actually took only later to real forms. But that also does not work. It's much closer to the utopia that the viewer can imagine himself at least for a moment, here and now give up everything and be by adopting an African family. This succeeds the movie impressive.

about 7 out of 10