"To save a stranger, first love your home": a special screening of the indie documentary The Volunteers – im d.a.i. Tübingen

Sie hatten die Möglichkeit den amerikanischen Dokumentarfilmer, Amerikanisten und emeritierten Professor für Verfassungsrecht Mark S. Weiner bei der Vorführung Q&A zu seinem neuen abendfüllenden Indie-Dokumentarfilmessay „The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home“ (Hidden Cabinet Films, 105 Minuten) zu begleiten. Der Film untersuchte große philosophische und politische Themen anhand eines ungewöhnlichen Themas: der Bergrettung – insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit der Verbindung zwischen zwei Bergrettungsorganisationen, der einen in Seattle, Washington, der anderen in Tirol, Österreich. Diese Verbindung zieht sich letztlich vom Zweiten Weltkrieg und dem Nationalsozialismus und deren Lehren für das heutige bürgerliche Leben. Die dem Film zugrundeliegende Prämisse war, dass die Bergrettung eine positive, und inspirierende Perspektive auf das bürgerliche Leben bot, insbesondere auch auf die Beziehung zwischen der lokalen Verbundenheit mit einem Ort und einer universellen menschlichen Solidarität, die dazu beitragen kann, politische Differenzen  zu überwinden.

Short Bio:

Mark S. Weiner (A.B., American Studies, Stanford University; Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University; J.D., Yale Law School) is professor emeritus at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. A scholar of the public humanities, he co-curated "Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection" for the Grolier Club in New York, whose catalogue was awarded the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award from the American Association of Law Libraries. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Akureyri, Iceland and Salzburg, Austria, and he served as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies in Uppsala, Sweden.

“Pushkin in the African-American Imagination”
Mit Melissa Frazier (Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY)
Di, 7. Mai 2023, 14:30 Uhr 
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen, d.a.i.-Saal (d.a.i., Karlstr. 3)

African-Americans have long identified with Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) both as a great poet and as a poet of partly African descent. Mention of Pushkin’s African great-grandfather appeared in the African-American press as early as 1828, and Pushkin himself remained a touchstone for Black artists well into the 20th century. Join us for a combined screening and discussion that will focus on the work of two Black artists in particular. We will talk about the 1990 film To Sleep With Anger by acclaimed AfricanAmerican director Charles Burnett, which tells the story of an enigmatic older gentleman, Harry (played by actor Danny Glover). Harry pays an unexpected visit to old friends, who, like Harry, are originally from the South, but followed the Great Migration to L.A. where they now live a comfortable middle-class life. We will then watch and listen to clips of African-American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson, blacklisted for his political stance in the 1940s and ‘50s, as he performs in English, Russian, and Yiddish.

Melissa Frazier is a professor of Russian Language and Russian and Comparative Literature. Current projects include Dostoevsky and the detective novel and the intersections of Russian and African American literature. Frazier is a DAAD visiting professor at the Slavic Department in Tübingen during the summer semester 2024. 

Laden Sie hier das Sommerprogramm des d.a.i. herunter. 

Der Eintritt ist frei, um Anmeldung wird gebeten:  www.dai-tuebingen.de/frazier

In Kooperation mit dem d.a.i., dem Slavischen Seminar der Universität Tübingen und dem Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD).