Affiliation / Profession: Film Historian, Film Journalist, Head of Research Haus des Dokumentarfilms Stuttgart

Research interests: Documentary, Newsreels, Digitalization, Cinema Buildings

Current research project: Non-Fiction Film in Germany 1945-2005 (Funded by German Research Fund DFG)

Latest publications:

Bilder aus der Vorhölle. Dokumentarische NS-Propaganda zum Alltag in den Ghettos, in: Ursula von Keitz, Thomas Weber (ed.): Mediale Transformationen des Holocausts, Avinus: Berlin 2013, S. 83-106.

„Geheimsache Ghettofilm: Vom ‚richtigen‘ Umgang mit historischen Filmmaterial“, auf

http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/nationalsozialismus/geheimsache-ghettofilm/153347/vom-richtigenumgang-mit-historischem-filmmaterial

Kay Hoffmann, Richard Kilborn, Werner Barg (Ed.): Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit. Zur Entwicklung doku-fiktionaler Formate in Film und Fernsehen, UVK-Konstanz 2012

„Realität und Dokumentarfilm“. In: Potthast, Barbara (Hrsg.): Das Spiel mit der Wahrheit –Fälschungen in Literatur, Film, Kunst, Kino, Berlin/Münster: Lit Verlag, 2012. S.65–77.

„Dokufiktion – Hybride Formen als Chance“. In: Matthias Leitner, Sebastian Sorg, Daniel Sponsel (Hg.): Der Dokumentarfilm ist tot, es lebe der Dokumentarfilm, Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2014. S. 23-34.

„Dokumentarfilm und Digitalisierung: Ausbruch aus dem Gefängnis?“, auf: http://www.zhdk.ch/index.php?id=62227

Peter Zimmermann, Kay Hoffmann (ed.): Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films in Deutschland, Bd. 3 „Drittes Reich“ 1933-1945, Reclam: Stuttgart 2005.

Contact: kay.hoffmann@swr.de

Affiliation / Profession: Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the University of Regensburg. MA and PhD in Slavic Studies & History of Eastern Europe at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.  Co-author of Hyperkino. Winter 2013/14: Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC. Natascha`s courses at Freie Universität, Berlin in 2014/15: Winter 2014: “Neue Wellen im osteuropäischen Kino der Nachkriegszeit” and “Ghetto Cultures”: http://www.fu-berlin.de/vv/en/lv/144579?sm=119983

Research interests: Cultural studies of East and Central Europe, esp. Czech and Russian, the history and theory of film, film and religion, tainted films, Holocaust film studies, film editions and the history of institutions dealing with film (archives and festivals)

Current research projects: anti-religious campaigns of the first two Soviet decades; the cultural and political contexts of the films shot in the ghetto of Theresienstadt 1942-45.

 Publications:
Ghettoisierte Sprachen: Theresienstadt als tschechisch-deutsche „Zwangs-gemeinschaft“, in: K. Smola u.a.:  Slavisch-jüdische Topographien und Räume, Wiesbaden 2014. (in print)
Ėjzenštejns Pathos: Verweltlichtes Wunder und ekstatische Dialektik, in: R. Nicolosi / T. Zimmermann (Ed.): Ethos und Pathos der Medien. Wirkungsästhetische Strategien zwischen Rhetorik und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert, Konstanz  2014 (in print)
Rhetorische Evidentia in der der frühen sowjetischen Filmchronik: Vskrytie moščej Sergija Radonežskogo(1919), in: S. Frank / S. Schahadat (Hg.): Evidenz und Zeugenschaft: Poetische und Mediale Strategien im Umgang mit dem Unzugänglichen, Festschrift für Renate Lachmann, Wien 2013, 491-532.
Filme annotieren: Das Sprengen des Rahmens der Einstellung oder Fußnoten zum Film und seiner Wissenschaft. In: B. Metz, S. Zubarik (Hg.): Den Rahmen sprengen. Anmerkungspraktiken in Literatur, Kunst und Film, Berlin 2013, 241-259.
The Exploited Recordings. German and Czech Voices in the Film Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet (1944-5), in: D. Zakharine/ N. Meise (Hg.): Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer, Göttingen 2012, 249-279.
Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino, 2012 (529 pp).
http://www.boehlau-verlag.com/978-3-412-20456-3.html

 Contact: dr.nataschadrubek(@)gmail.com

Affiliation / Profession: Deputy director of the archival aquisition department, Yad Vashem archives, Israel

Research interests: German Jewish history, Holocaust related testimonies and films

Current research project: Testimonies as a historical source

Contact: anat.kutner@yadvashem.org.il 

Affiliation / Profession:  Professor Emily Budick, Dept. of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Research interests: American literature, Holocaust literature

Current research project: Holocaust sites, museums, art works, memorials

Latest publications:
forthcoming Indiana University Press: The Subject of Holocaust Fiction; “Double Exposure in the Absence of Verbs: Repossessing the Image of Self in H. G. Adler’s The Journey (forthcoming in H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (Northwestern University Press)

Contact: emilyfbudick@yahoo.com

Alice Aronová is connected with film in many different ways: the topic of her diploma thesis at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague in 2002 was “The Reflection of Jews in Czech film”, followed by a PhD dissertation in 2007 with the topic “The Jewish theme in Czech television production”. She is active as a programmer (film festivals, special film events in art cinemas), editor (Czech Television, Czech Radio), jury member of the Short film competition organised by Goethe Institut Prag, Ekofilm festival in Český Krumlov, Czech film critics’s award and The Czech Lion Awards – The film Critic’s award.

She is also active as a reviewer and critic (the program Mozaika in Czech Radio), as a lecturer (lectures about Jewish motives in Czech film for the Jewish Museum in Prague 2004-2005), moderator (One World festival, Das Filmfest, discussions and introductions to screened films). Currently she works as a lecturer at the Art Campus Prague (History of Czech and International film) and is responsible for PR of CinemArt and art cinemas Atlas and Evald in Prague.

Affiliation / Profession:  Leslie Swift, MA, has worked at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for more than 15 years. She currently holds the title of Film Researcher in the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She worked for many years in the Photo Archives of the USHMM and thus has a comprehensive knowledge of the visual history of the Holocaust, including prewar Jewish life, wartime footage, and immediate postwar subjects such as liberation, life in displaced persons’ camps, and war crimes trials.

 Research interests: Unique amateur footage related to the Holocaust including: prewar Jewish life, American amateur films that record the early stages of the Holocaust, amateur footage of liberation, and amateur footage of Displaced Persons’ camps.

Current research project:  Work with individual donors and film archives to compile a comprehensive collection of Holocaust-related footage.

Latest publications: Film compilations including:  Three part edited series of unique USHMM-owned amateur films titled:  Jewish Life before World War II; Inside Nazi Germany; Liberation and Return to Life [TRT 60 minutes] Shoah:  Unseen Interviews [TRT 54 minutes]; Europe on the Brink of War:  the Baker and Bryan Film Collections; “Yes there was a World: Prewar Jewish Life on Film” upcoming in Amateur Film Archaeology, the first German-language anthology devoted to the topic of amateur films.

Contact:  

Leslie Swift,  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW

Washington DC 20024

lswift@ushmm.org, tel:  (202) 488-6153

Affiliation / Profession:  film archivist

Research interests: history of film and art

Current research project: filming in Terezín

Latest publications:

The Dodals. Pioneers of Czech Animated film (Published by the National Film Archive and the Academy  of Performing Arts in Prague /AMU Press/, 2013);

Truth and Lies. Filming in the Terezín ghetto  1942-1945 (Exhibition and DVD; JMP and NFA , 2013-1014, Praha, Terezín)

Contact: struskova@email.cz 

Affiliation / Profession: Lives in Hamburg as a free lance author, film-maker and curator. Has lectured at the Art Schools in Hamburg, Dresden and Potsdam, and the Universities of Hamburg, Bochum, Zurich and Vienna.

Research interests: Soviet Avant-garde, political documentaries, “Essayfilm”.  Re-education films, films on architecture and archeology.

Current research project: research project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Werben für Europa – Europafilme und europäische Öffentlichkeitsarbeit«

Convener of the conference  “Bildpolitiken 1945: Die Filme über die Befreiung der Konzentrationslager” 15-18/1/2015, Hamburg, Gästehaus der Universität and Metropolis-Kino.

 Latest publications:

Films (selection):
In the Land of Cinema Veterans: A Film Expedition Around Dziga Vertov(D 1996, 66’)

Hafenstrasse im Fluss(2010, 87’)

The Great Game: Archeology and Politics(D 2011, 22’)

Editor / Author of:

»Johan van der Keuken: Abenteuer eines Auges« (1987; 2nd editon 1992, co-editors: Jutta Hercher, Gerd Roscher, Theo Janssen)

»Chris Marker – Filmessayist« (1997, co-author: Birgit Kämper)

»Dziga Vertov: Tagebücher / Arbeitshefte« (2000, co-editor: Alexandra Gramatke).

»Dziga Vertov: The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum« (2006, co-editor: Barbara Wurm).

»Viva Fotofilm! Bewegt / unbewegt« (20010, co-editors: Katja Pratschke, Gusztáv Hámos).

»Der Essayfilm. Ästhetik und Aktualität« (2011, co-editor: Sven Kramer).

»bauhaus & film« (Maske und Kothurn 1+2/2011)

Affiliation / Profession: Head of special collections, research, and information in National Film Archive Prague

Research interests: History of Czech and German cinematography (esp. film institutions), production studies, economic history of film, local film history, Czech-German film relations, Nazi film and cultural policy in Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and in other occupied areas of Europe. Contemporary film practice and film (cultural) policy, history of Czech film production and producers.

Current research project: Bohemian-Moravian Film Chamber (1941-1945)

Latest publications:

Elmar Klos a zestátnění československé kinematografie. In: Jan Lukeš (ed.): Černobílý snář Elmara Klose. Praha: Národní filmový archiv 2011, 51-67.

Česká kinematografie v průniku totalit. Dis-/kontinuita vývoje českého poválečného filmu.In: Od svobody k nesvobodě 1945-1956. Praha: Vojenský historický ústav 2011, 38-47.

Marriages (not only) of convenience: history in Czech Television & television in Czech history. In: Pierre Sorlin et al: History on television in seven Eastern European countries. La Storia in televisione in sette paesi dell´Europa dell´Est. Bologna: Istituto Storico Parri Emilia-Romagna 2010, 65-92 /71-100/.

Českomoravské filmové ústředí jako ambivalentní pilíř protektorátní kinematografie. In: Protektorát v sociokulturních souvislostech. Hradec Králové: Univerzita HK 2009, 43–67.

Marketa Lazarová v zrcadle produkčních dokumentů Filmového studia Barrandov. In: Marketa Lazarová. Studie a dokumenty. Praha: CASABLANCA – Václav Žák 2009, 51–75.

Třináct minut protektorátní idyly. Reportáž z Filmových žní 1941 a co v ní není. In: Film a dějiny 2. Adolf Hitler a ti druzí – filmové obrazy zla. Praha: Casablanca – ÚSTR 2009, 174–1845.

Klasifikace audiovizuálních produktů podle věkových hranic v zemích Evropské unie.Praha: CEMES FSV UK 2009, 33 s. /research study for Ministry of Culture, co-author David Czesany/.

Koncepce klasifikace audiovizuálních produktů podle věkových skupin. Závěrečná zpráva o řešení projektu.Praha: CEMES FSV UK 2009, 83 s. /final research study for Ministry of Culture, co-author prof. Jan Jirák/.

Prag-Film AG 1941-1945. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Protektorats- und Reichs-Kinematografie.Muenchen: edition text + kritik 2008, 212 pages /introduction by doc. PhDr. Ivan Klimeš/.

Im Prager Spannungsfeld. Machtstrukturen der Kinematografie im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. In: Johannes Roschlau (ed.): Zwischen Barrandov und Babelberg. Deutsch-tschechische Filmbeziehungen im 20.Jahrhundert. Muenchen: edition text + kritik 2008, 84-93.

Contact: tereza.dvorakova@nfa.cz