 Welcome to stories of escape and arising, refuge, refugees, refugio. Geschichten vom Fliehen und Ankommen. Just let me know. Who understands German? Now, you will hear a lot of things, enjoy it. However, you will get the message in English in a way or another as well. What my wonderful students, friends, and colleagues want to do with this is to be aware of what is going on these days. And we'll start with a piece. It's actually a scene in the movie Hannah Arendt, the movie from Margaret von Totta. And it plays exactly here at the university. She gives a lecture, and we will follow the encounters with her students. And then we will hear that in English. And this is for you, from the text that she wrote when she first came to the United States, real refugees. And the movie actually caught two. But that was so important, what she had to say there. But they transposed into the 50s scene, the 50th scene of the movie. Then we have the prologue of a piece of Elfriedi Yenemek. She's an Austrian laureate of literature. And her piece, George's, the Schutzbevollenden, just when people brought in London was the only thing they have was their life. And this is how it starts. We live, we live, help, we live, we are alive. That's all we have, that's all we need right now. But our survivors, but they witnessed so many. And it happened just over the weekend again. So many people told. And just being on the ground of the sea. Then we have a piece of the diary in 1933 on the 20th of April. So today, many years ago, we let listen to Katie Kovitz. We listened to the Geschwister Scholl, Sophie Unhant's Scholl with the Weiser Rosa, the White Rose, the only student movement that were anti-fascism, anti-Hitler. And there, yes, they were captured. And then thought of the concentration camp and downed. And we will at the end listen to the epilogue of Bertrand Precht's self-aufholdsame Aufstieg des Arturbo-Uli. And yes, we will have it in German and English. And you will understand how meaningful this is in our times. I want to thank you all to participate in that way of performance. No, we are not competing with the Drama Department. We are the German Department. We are not competing with the Music Department. However, we want to generate awareness that performance and a creative approach to the most important questions of our time is worthwhile for nobody who encounters that or who is involved in it will ever listen to that the same way, but it will vessel it differently. And as we will hear from Katie Kovitz, so important it is, to put the seed so that it can grow and that you in your own professional or private life will have seen new venues to join in to the many people who will not accept that but want to do something for the better. Thank you for the advantage that the worst that a person can do out of the burden of self-examination. But the worst has been seen in this year more radical than before. And we know until today that the worst or radical worst with such human, accessible, reasonable motives has nothing to do with it. It has much more to do with the following phenomena. The over-flexing of people as people. The over-flexing of people as people? Yes, the over-flexing of people as people. The entire system of concentration camps was also established to convince the prisoners that they would be forced to go before they were brought back. In the concentration camps, the people had to learn that the punishment does not have to do with a mistake. The exploitation does not have to bring a profit and the work does not take any results. The camp is a place where every hand and every rule becomes a principle where with all the words the silence is directly generated. The camp is a place where sensuality is generated. Yes, the camp is a place where sensuality is generated. To summarize, one thing is true, that the legendary totalitarianism of absolute evil appears. Absolutely, because it is no longer a human motive to act. Then it was also true that without him, without the totalitarianism we had never been able to learn how to dispose of nature. Do you have a specific question for him? Do you want to know? Do you want to know in one word? I had the opportunity to learn a certain time in the interview of the camp in France. I had the opportunity to learn a certain time in the interview of schools in France. But weren't the French on your side? But at the beginning of the year, they also took us in. But when the Germans in 10 May 1940 marched into France, our French friends from the 1940s were in the tournament camp. After that, we had these new kind of people who were from their enemies in the concentration camp and from their friends in the tournament camp. We were from our friends in Nazis in concentration camps and from our friends in French in the interview of the camp. How did you get there? Once, I was lucky enough to see when he said to America, a visa, but no pass. It was 13 years ago that I started. What was your first impression of America? I think she used Hannah Arendt. Our optimism, indeed, is admirable, even if we say so ourselves. The story of our struggle has finally become known. We lost our home, which means the familiarity of our daily life. We lost our occupation, which means the confidence that we are of some use in this world. We lost our language, which means the naturalness of reactions, the simplicity of gestures and the unaffected expression of feelings. We left our relatives and Polish ghettos and our best friends have been killed in concentration camps. That means the rupture of our private lives. Nevertheless, as soon as we were saved, and most of us had to be saved several times, we started our new lives and tried to follow as closely as possible the good advice that our saviors passed on to us. We were told to forget and we forgot quicker than anyone could have imagined. And after four weeks in France or six weeks in America, we pretended to be Frenchmen or Americans. The most optimistic among us would even have their former life have been passed through a kind of unconscious exile and the only their new country now taught them what a home really looks like. It is true, we sometimes raise objections when we are told to forget about our former work and our former ideals are usually hard to throw over if our social standard is at stake. But the language, however, we find our difficulties after a single year of optimism and convince that they speak English as well as their mother tongue. And after two years, they suddenly swear they speak English better than their other language. They're German, it's a language they hardly remember. In order to forget more efficiently, you rather avoid any illusions, concentration or internment camps. We experienced in nearly all European countries. It might be interpreted as pessimism or lack of confidence in the new homeland. Besides, how often have we been told that no one likes to listen to all of that? Hell is no longer a religious belief or a fantasy, but something as real as houses and stones and trees. Apparently, no one wants to know the contemporary history has created a new kind of human beings. The kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and in internment camps by their friends. In Friede Jelenik, he shoots before the man. We live, we live. The main thing is we live. And much more is not like life after leaving the holy homeland. No one looks at us in a negative way, but they do look at us in a negative way. We are not being judged by the people, but by all who are judged there and here. The wisdom of our lives is gone. It has become a layer of enlightenment, not the circumstance of the knowledge anymore. It is nothing anymore. It is also no longer necessary to take something into account. We try to read from the law. You don't tell us, we don't experience it, we are ordered and not carried away. We have to shine, we have to shine with him and then go there. But which land do we get? I prefer than this one. And we don't know such a land. Which land can we go to? We live, we live. The main thing is we live. And much more is not like life after leaving the holy homeland. No one looks at us in a negative way, but they do look at us in a negative way. We are being judged by no court of the people, by all who are judged there and here. The wisdom of our lives is gone. It has become a layer of enlightenment. Nothing is the circumstance of the knowledge anymore. It is nothing anymore. It is no longer necessary to take something into account. We try to read from the law. You don't tell us, we don't experience it, we are ordered and not carried away. We have to shine. We have to shine here and then there. But which land do we prefer than this one? And we don't know such a land. Which land can we go to? No, we don't go to the room. We hear the footsteps. We are going to the church. We stand up again. We don't eat. We have to eat at least. We have a second church here. We have two of the idols. No, we have eaten from the idols. And that is also described. We have nothing else. Who can we please prepare for this statue? We have written two tons of paper. Of course, we were involved. Please, let's keep the paper. No, we don't have paper. Only paper. Who can we hand it over? You? Please, here you have it. But if you don't start with it, we have to try everything again. Try again. Is that clear to you? No, we stand up again. We will be sent away again. We lie on the cold church floor. We stand up again. We don't eat. We have to eat again. At least drink. We have a second church here. Two of the idols. No, we have eaten from the olive tree. Yes, and that is also described. We have nothing else. Who can we please prepare for this statue? We have written two tons of paper. Of course, we were involved. Please, let's keep the paper. No, we don't have paper. Only paper. Who can we hand it over to? You? Please, here you have it. But if you don't start with it, we have to try again. Try again. Is that clear to you? We will be sent away again. We will be sent away again. Yes, you have said it. Look around. We will be sent away. Yes, you are the statue of the land and the new water of the Donut Bowl and also you, the one who is standing in front of it, is still heard. You tell us this once. And then you tell us that. And if we can be saved, but if we are not saved, we will not be able to do anything. We will not be able to do anything. We will not be able to do anything. O gods, we fall from your hands. Yes, you have said it. Look around. We pray to you. Yes, you, the one who is standing in front of it, the new water of the Donut Bowl and also you, the one who is standing in front of it, is still heard. You tell us this once. Then you tell us that. Nothing can be justified. But you are not justified either. You, Engel, plus you, dear heavenly father. What should we do against you? You are allowed to do everything. You can do everything. Look here. Can you please tell us who the one who is standing in front of it? Here in the church we know which one. But there may be others somewhere else. There is a president, a chancellor, a minister, and of course there are also these criminals. We have noticed that. Don't worry. There are all of them right next to you. For example, you, who is always you? Who are you? You, you, Jesus, Moses, Messi, no matter. You, the house, the church, all forms of defense. You did not take us. We have also come from the same place. Come into your kitchen. The guards are closing. Please help us, God, please. Help us. Our feet have your shoes on. Our feet have completely different shoes on than the one who was lucky. But how is it going on now? Look here. Can you please tell us who is living here and who is responsible? Here in the church we know which one. But there may be others somewhere else. There is a president, a chancellor, a minister, and of course there are also these criminals. We have noticed that. Don't worry. There are all of them right next to you. For example, you, who is always you, you, you, Jesus, Messi, Messi, no matter. You, the house, the church, all forms of defense. You did not take us. We have also come from the same place. Come into your church. As a guard. Please help us, God. Please help us. Our feet have your shoes on. Our feet have completely different shoes on than the one who was lucky. But how is it going on now? What has blessed us? What has blessed us the mountains? Now we are in this church again. Tomorrow we will be in the monastery again. Thanks to God, thanks to the president. They would have settled in. They have settled in. They will be here tomorrow morning and after that. Where will they tell us? Where will they tell us? Where will they tell us? Where will they explain to us their own thoughts? That means, who will do it all? Who will do it for us? Who will make sure that we will be seen as well? And that without hesitation. They would have almost destroyed us. They would have almost destroyed us. Now we are in this church again. Tomorrow we will be in this monastery again. Thanks to God, thanks to the president. They have settled in. They have settled in. But where will they tell us tomorrow and after that? Where will they tell us a bet? Where will they tell us a bet? Where will they throw us out again? Where will they bury our own bones? That means, who will do it all? Who will do it for us? Who will make sure that we will be seen as well? And that without hesitation? Who will make sure that we will be seen as well? No one will make sure that we will be seen as well? It would not be useful for us either. Please, why are we here? We will not understand that. It is a bit long. It is a bit long. But what have we done? That they are afraid of us everywhere. They are afraid of the mine that I lost. That I have to lose it again. But they are afraid that I have to stay. That I can not stay there. Now they will give me life right away. Now they will give me life right away. If they are afraid of us, they will say, why did you come here? If you have a new arm again, use it now, in the word of law, that we do not know and do not know, that it is always like this, where everything is different. What do you see now? What do you see now? They found the basin of the sea coast, the swamp of the home, wet, lying in the grass, lost home. Died of their primitive teeth, they can see here. No one wants to come here, would not use him either. And why, please? Why are you here, too, teeth, on us? We do not understand that. We are long-term friends, yes. But what have we done here that they are afraid of us? Fear everywhere. Fear of the minds that I lose, that I have to go back. But even more fear in front of you that I have to stay, that I cannot stay. Now they will give me life right away. They will give me life right away. If they are afraid of us everywhere, they will say, why did you come here? To have new fear again? Only now, in the word of law, that we cannot and cannot know. That is always the case when you are somewhere else and there are strangers. What is going on now? What is going on only now? We call for life in this swamp that we cannot and cannot know, that they are able to control themselves. Outside, they stand on a barge and see us. Please, do not be afraid of what they cannot and cannot know. Please, please, please, please, please, please. Klempherer from his diary. The 20th of April, Thursday evening, 1933, is it the urging of the atrocious propaganda, film, radio, newspapers, flags, forever news celebrations? Today, the Folk Festival, Adolf, our leader's birthday, or is it the trembling slavish anxiety that pervades? I am almost certain that I will not live to the end of this tyranny. I become progressively aware of the loss of personal rights. I am already not German and Aryan, besides being a Jew, and must be thankful for being allowed to live. The genius of this publicity is quite effective. The day before yesterday, we saw and heard on film how Hitler, the great performer, with masked Esa Loita in front of him, and a half dozen microphones in front of his lectern, spreads his word via the airwaves to 600,000 Esa Loita all over the country. One sees the omnipotence and swallows it, and always the Hearst Festival song. And we submit a reading frame of Shahgold who survived the Holocaust. We're supposed to read that today. Unfortunately, she was unable to come and we wish her well. 20th April, 1933. This is the time it's available today. That must have gone well. Do you see? Is this the suggestion of unparalleled propaganda, film, radio, newspapers, and posters, always new festivals, today the People's Day, Adolf's birthday, or is this the trigger of the plan? I think I'm almost used to the fact that I no longer experience the end of this tyranny. And I'm almost used to the state of lawlessness. I'm not German and Aryan, but Jewish and it must be if you let me live. Great, you understand on the advertising. We saw a film before yesterday like Hitler's big appeal. It was a film that was shot in front of him with half a dozen microphones in front of his pulse so that his words would continue to reach 600,000 people in the world. You can see his power and always live in this house. Thank you. 6th and 6th, and 70th years old. We decided not to repeat organizations in the same way and the SPD who was a member was banned. In 1936 we were banned from the state of law. We were killed with the delivery in a concentration camp. We were prepared for a long time not to fall into his hands. There was death and the youngest son Peter after just two weeks at the front in the First World War I would be at peace. On January 15, only in 1919 began the war with the double war on the heads of the Spartacus of Losa, Luxembourg and Karl Liebwind. This murder took place very badly. In 1900 I signed as already. I humiliate my life the people are able to transform their daily life. Work hard work. At the beginning of 1942 I took the last time the topic of Saatbrüste should not be the painting. And who do I do with the same loud vitro copy of my test paper. These days my ears were higher than the heart. The real Berliner boys the young horses were allowed to go outside. While the woman had the boys under her and her husband strong. And as soon as she came her arms and hands fell over. Then they should not be destroyed. This murder is like never before war. Not a single bullet was born before the war. 22 April 1945 I died 72 years ago. 70 years old. We decided not to emigrate. Even after the media political parties and other organizations were taken over by the Nazi party. And the Social Democratic Party of which Carl was a member was banned. We were interrogated by the Gestapo in 1936 who threatened to send us to a concentration camp. From this time on we prepared not to fall into their hands. Gallery owners cancelled planned exhibitions and my work was also withdrawn from some museums as a result of the Ent Ostekwist campaign. Seven death of our youngest son Peter only two weeks into the First World War at the front made me a pacifist. Who were leaders of the Spartacus League were murdered also in 1919. I was elected as one of only a few women to be a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. But in February 1933 I signed as I had done in 1932 a call for the unification of the various workers' parties. The urgent call for unity this desperate attempt cost me my membership in the Academy. As it did to Heidemann, Max Wiedemann Otto Dix and Carl Schmidhorn In 1940 Carl died. To my doctor-in-law Otto Dix written in February 1944 I formulated something approaching a summation of my life's work. People have been pushed as far as they can endure for so many should not be milled. Once again I've drawn the same subject. Boys real Berlin boys who are greedily snickling the outside air like young ponies are being held back by a woman. The woman an old woman she has the boys by herself and brought them under her coat strongly and powerfully she stretches her arms and hands over the boys Seed for sewing should not be milled. Like never again war. April 22nd 1945 the day after tomorrow 72 years ago I died. 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Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kocht. Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kocht. The womb he crawled from is still going strong. Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kocht. Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kocht. And whoever feels one of them comes to mind, brainstorming, thoughts, questions, whatever you want. No questions? If there is no question I will just finish it, until they've always answered your question. Yeah, you had such a wonderful selection of texts, so I was wondering how you chose them. This is actually, I can give that to my students, you know that this is the work of the students, to 416 minority voices in German culture. And we read and watched and worked with all kind of different material. And they identified which of the material we worked through during the semester. And they thought to lend best for our performance. And then in the particular film or novel or whatever it was, they identified always three things that they thought are most important to tell you in the story. And then we started from there, getting them and putting them in the form that it would lend to a performance. But maybe the students, is there something more to add? Well, from the many texts that we read, these seven, eight, seven, I think it's seven. We're the most relevant to each other. We pick the strongest themes throughout the course, which is primarily the refugees coming over from Germany or fleeing the country during those times. Yes, as we always, it was always about identity. It was always about being on the run and arriving, but then not feeling to be welcome or not having the legal rights or the papers you needed. And there are repetitive things we learned from all those who do that. I want to share an impression. First of all, I want to say that the choreography and the way that it was delivered was really very compelling. And also just to say that the texts were almost haunting to me because it had a lot to do. I mean, I kept on thinking about certain images that we're getting in the media right now. So I just want to thank you very much for the selection of texts because they resonate so powerfully with all of the things that people are enduring today. I think, you know, Peter Kovitz said, you know, that we can't endure this and people have been pushed to the edge of their endurance. And so thank you, you know, for the selection of texts and for the way that you so thoughtfully presented them. Thank you very much. Thank you to my wonderful students. It was a long but hopeful, rewarding journey and they did such a wonderful job. We have had endurance to go through the process. I want to acknowledge my colleague on the media who is a scientist, a visiting scientist and Sharon Ford who is a scientist too. Just actually as much a global survivor got sick and couldn't be our very specialist today. She was so kind to fill in and did it in a wonderful way. Thank you, Sharon. I'm interested in, it was, yes, it was a lot of children that I hope and think you still got a lot out of it before you heard it now in English. And we made sure more or less that you got the most important themes and questions in English. What was it that kind of you think will stick with you? What is it that might be from now on to allowing performance, allowing the arts to get voice to the voiceless? What might change your perception in the future? Any ideas about that? I said now you came here, you were part of this performance. What do you think from after the performance having allowed the arts to give a voice to the voiceless? How will that change your perception of things when you listen something here on the radio or in the media about the very unfortunate things that happened over and over again? The family people just this weekend and there are many people on the run but they never make it to what they hope is hereditary. Hannah Aaron said when they asked people how was it for you when you arrived in the United States? Oh, paradise. But a lot of people just on the plane never make it. So my question is what do you think? How will you encounter things that come to you and to your ears every day? How will you encounter them eventually differently? My response as a grandchild of immigrants is to be reminded by these texts even though my grandparents were not German and Italian is to be reminded of that feeling of being an outsider, being different and yet in the texts we see among everyone the common human emotions that link us all together as human beings, fear, anger, frustration, love. They link us all together as human beings. Somebody who doesn't speak German, it just reminds me of the power of words even if you don't necessarily understand them. It was the inflections, the tones, the little bit of English that we did get that kind of set the tone for everything else that was going on. And it's just being reminded that just because somebody doesn't understand you doesn't mean that you can't still get your message across. Thank you. Do you have questions for the students that participated? If there's something you would like to know? What were you guys all saying at the end, what was the different between them? What's that very last? She was the little English president? Yes, we have it. The role from which he crawls is still going strong. More meaning for France right now. And he voted in 1941 in exile as well in Finland. The peace. Do you have a question for Mark? Yes, please. For the students, did you guys learn German like with your family or preschool? I've only learned German at university, so I've only learned German for two and a half years. I'm German, I speak German at home. Kind of cheating, but I'll take it. Same deal with your German with my first language. I do not speak German. I speak German. And for me too, I'm German, German is my first language. This was actually we have a resident and he did read from his to us. There was a person out and I thought, hey, he had a shadow. And I thought, oh, that's interesting. Let's have a shadow too. Like an echo for Yellenegg is really it's she plays with words and even for a native speaker. This is so dense and this is so incredibly artistic. They call it actually a work of art in writing. So so that it's worthwhile to to kind of have a chance to hear it again. Yeah, but there is a beautiful brand new translation of that. And it would be my book to be able to do a staging of both the whole piece in German ending. But it's incredibly difficult to translate that. Yeah. Thank you for the question. And I would add that it's easy to understand. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. This was a hand-bought apartment. If she said it, you'd have to know where to keep it. She would know. Yes, guys, it's actually true. Is that true? And did you hear how nice it sounds? Yes. Now, on that happy note, and thank you. Thank you so much. I must say I would like to express that in the property that the head of our department is on the medical and gave us the honor to be here with us. So many things that meant a lot to us. Thank you so much. And thank you to all of you. It has been delightful to have you here. And I hope you enjoyed it and take one or two thoughts of that with you. Thank you.