Together with Prof. Dr. Franziska Heller, of the Institut für Musik, Medien- und Sprechwissenschaften, I will give two lectures in the public series Antisemitismus und Rassismus — Verstehen, Urteilen, Handeln (Antisemitism and Racism: Understanding, Judging, Acting), held within the certificate programme in antisemitism-critical and racism-critical education.
The first, on 18 January 2027, is a workshop talk built around a single film from the Stolpersteine series — the documentaries made around the brass memorial stones laid for the victims of National Socialism. The film, Protokolliert, benutzt, vergessen by Lea Büttner and Carolin Körber, which I supervised as its artistic director, concerns the forced prostitution of women in the Buchenwald concentration camp; the talk follows it from the archive to the finished work. The second, on 25 January 2027, asks how racism and discrimination take shape in audiovisual and digital media cultures.
The series brings together historical, social, psychological, legal and media perspectives on antisemitism and racism. At its centre is a question of competence: what it takes to recognise discriminatory patterns of interpretation, to understand the conditions they grow from, and to meet them — in education, in schools, and in public — with reflection rather than reflex.