Filmvorführung & Gespräch: Die Möllner Briefe

In the organizer's words:

Film screening and discussion with
Martina Priessner, director,
Ibrahim Arslan, protagonist, and
Sabina Idrisova, ezra - counseling for victims of right-wing,
racist and anti-Semitic violence in Thuringia
Moderation: Suntje Brumme and Marc Bouttens,
Topf & Sons Place of Remembrance

On November 23, 1992, neo-Nazis carried out arson attacks on
two houses in Mölln that were occupied by two families from Turkey.
families from Turkey. Three people were killed
lives: ten-year-old Yeliz Arslan, 13-year-old Ayşe Yılmaz and 51-year-old Bahide Arslan.
51-year-old Bahide Arslan while trying to save the two girls.
to rescue the two girls. She had previously managed to save her seven-year-old grandson
İbrahim Arslan in wet cloths and thus saved him from death.
from death. Other people were injured, some of them seriously.
In the days and weeks following the racist arson attacks
hundreds of people wrote to the affected families
- mostly to express their solidarity and sympathy.
However, the many letters, postcards, children's drawings and offers of help
did not reach the families. Only decades later
did İbrahim Arslan become aware of the letters by chance,
which were stored in the Mölln town archives. How it came about
that those affected by the attacks, according to their own statements
did not find out about the letters is still not clear.

With her documentary film The Mölln Letters
Martina Priessner opens up a new perspective on remembrance that gives
gives the voices of those affected the space and recognition
they deserve. She follows Ibrahim Arslan and his siblings
in the discovery of these letters and in their encounters with
three writers. Her story places the survivors at the center
survivors and paints a complex picture of the ongoing trauma
trauma that shapes their lives.
The film not only sheds light on the survivors' experiences,
it also reveals the great solidarity that existed - a solidarity
that the victims were unaware of until this point.
The film celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2025 on February 14.
It was awarded the Amnesty Film Prize there
and will be shown in cinemas nationwide from September 25.
One question for the film discussion will be how prevention,
prevention, solidarity and a culture of remembrance from the perspective of those
right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence can and must look like
and must.

Admission to the film: €9, reduced €7
Film discussion at 1 pm: Free admission
In cooperation with
Cinema Club Erfurt
State Center for Political Education Thuringia
ezra - Counseling for victims of right-wing, racist and
anti-Semitic violence in Thuringia

Price information:

9 €, reduced 7 €