Klaus Theweleit. Filmen nach Auschwitz: Claude Lanzmann und Jean-Luc Godard (n.b.k. Diskurs Bd. 20)

In the organizer's words:

Book presentation with Klaus Theweleit (cultural theorist, Freiburg), moderated by Katja Nicodemus (film critic and journalist, Die Zeit)
In German language

This publication is the first to bring together all of Klaus Theweleit's texts on the work of Claude Lanzmann and Jean-Luc Godard, which reflect in a unique way on filming after Auschwitz. Theweleit states: "Realities that are not transformed into art remain unreal. Lanzmann and Godard work them out, each in their own way; they conjure them up. The visible detaches itself from the eyes, the audible from the ear system. I do think that there are developments. Evolution of physicalities. Our neurologists - as incredibly advanced as their findings are - are still poking around in the fog. So there are always tasks that the real, changing (super)real presents us with. G + L are good gateways, really fantastic ones. No one is excluded."

Klaus Theweleit (*1942 in Ebenrode / East Prussia) lives in Freiburg and works as a literary scholar, cultural theorist and writer. Until 2008, he was Professor of Art and Theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. In 1976, he completed his doctorate with the dissertation Freikorpsliteratur: Vom deutschen Nachkrieg 1918-1923, which served as the basis for his two-volume work Männerphantasien, published in 1977/1978, one of the first extensive studies in the field of masculinity and violence research. In November 2019, Männerphantasien was published in a new edition by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin.