NELKENGASSE

documentary film
60 min
concept/editing/camera
alexandra reill
production photos/graphics
alexandra reill
walter peternell
production
kanonmedia
vienna/hoy, 2008 - (in process)

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NELKENGASSE is a portrait of Heinz Moldau whose family was threatened by the nazis, had to flee from Vienna and lost all possessions. The film documents the mass movement of institutional as much as private persons' aryanization in Vienna 1938.

By January 1, 1938, German Jews were prohibited from operating businesses and trades, and from offering goods and services. In the Autumn of 1938, only 40,000 of the formerly 100,000 Jewish businesses were still in the hands of their original owners. Aryanization was completed with the enactment of a regulation, the "Verordnung zur Ausschaltung der Juden aus dem deutschen Wirtschaftsleben" of November 12, 1938, through which the remaining businesses were transferred to non-Jewish owners and the proceeds taken by the state. Jewelry, stocks, real property and other valuables had to be sold below market value. Jewish employees were fired, and self-employed people were prohibited from working in their respective professions. (1)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryanization, visit: 2008/09/23

Heinz Moldau; photo by alexandra reill, Hoy 2008

The production of the film NELKENGASSE started in the framework of a cooperation of kanonmedia and the project Erinnern für die Zukunft of the Municipality of 1060 Vienna.

support
--- department of culture of the city of vienna/district activities
--- municipality of 1060 vienna
--- mediathek austria/audiovisual department of technisches museum wien
--- jugend in wien - wienXtra

featured by
--- educult / vie / a / 08
--- döw / vie / a / 08
--- apa ots portal / vie / a / 08
--- mondaynews / berlin / d / 08
--- der falter / vie / a / 08
--- gruene mariahilf / vie / a / 08

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