EXISTENZ ENKEL
GRANDCHILDREN'S QUESTIONS

premiere and screenings of the documentary film ontinuing the work of coming to terms with NS-past in Vienna

When:
TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010, 7:00 pm
Where:
Jewish Theater Austria
Kandlgasse 6
A 1070 Vienna
free admission

The film maker Alexandra Reill researches the specific history of Vienna: in the interviews held, she examines relationships between contemporary xenophobia and historical traces of fascist or fascistoid identity in a Viennese 'majority' society by not only interviewing people on their opinions on integration and interculturalism but also posing a personal question: which "stories" from the Nazi era the family passed down to offspring?

GRANDCHILDREN'S QUESTIONS is supported by the District Council of 1090 Vienna.

#WB: quoting Walter Benjamin:
Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts

online publication series on facebook
based on daily updates since august 3, 2009-february 14, 2010

walter benjamin, paris 1937, dhm berlin

The structure of facebook as a social networking tool and magazine with decentralized notes, essays and media publications, in a mixture of private and public statements coming from all kinds of content fields, enhances the concept of short daily updating. Walter Benjamins essay Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts relates to interdependencies of media technologies coming up in XIX. century and having an influence of society and the arts in early XX. century. The essay is pioneering and many approaches of rethinking structures of society still seem to apply to the information age in its current states. the concept of daily short quotes on a social networking platform like facebook with its millions of members might be a socially effective contemporary approach to give appreciation to the ouevre of Walter Benjamin in all its contemporary relevance.