By Eva Knopf, 2013, Germany, 50 min.
in German with English subtitles
Guest: Eva Knopf
Moderator: Necati Sönmez
When a black man was needed to appear in the films of the Nazi era, it was nearly always Majub who played the part. The essayistic documentary Majubs’s Journey tells the story of an African man who lived and worked as an extra in the film industry during the Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He was born in the colony German East Africa and became a soldier for the Germans during World War I – when he was only nine years old. About a decade later he decides to travel to Germany.
We will screen the movie, “Majub’s Journey” with the presence of the director Eva Knopf, and would like to discuss the roles in which society casts us in.
Eva Knopf studied ethnology in Göttingen, rhetoric/ film theory at the University of California in Berkeley, film & television studies at the University of Amsterdam and documentary film direction at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. She teaches visual and media anthropology on the MA programme at the Free University of Berlin and is an academic associate at the German Research Society (DFG) on the project entitled »History of the Documentary Film in Germany 1945-2005«. Majubs Reise was her graduation film for the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy.
The movie will be in German with English subtitles. The discussion afterward will be held in English. We are pleased to invite you to attend the screening and the discussion.
When: 13 September 2024, Friday, 19:00
Where: AKEBI e.V.
Böckhstraße 24, 10967 Berlin
