Jascha Hannover is a documentary filmmaker based in Cologne and Berlin. Documentaries he directed or collaborated on as a creative producer were shown at festivals including Locarno, Raindance and Filmfest Munich, and have been sold to broadcasters worldwide. In , he was a participant of Documentary Campus Masterschool. In no other work did the writer incorporate so many of his personal longings, sexual desires and fears. The dictator and mass murderer owned 16, books at the end of his life, 1, of which are kept in the Library of Congress in Washington D.
C today. The hateful ideas in them paved the way for Hitler β and influence far-right extremists until this day. Jewish humor has travelled from the Shtetl to Hollywood, from the Torah to Comic books.
Jewish humor is, allegedly, self-ironic β and laughing about the Jews together with the Jews seems like a convenient way for the perpetrator countries to cope with their dark pasts. But is Jewish humor really always self-mocking β or is the matter more complex? Wikipedia begins with a promise: knowledge production, which for millennia was in the hands of elites, is to be radically democratized. Anyone can contribute, regardless of education level or background.
Is the online project a utopia come true? Is it an online re-launch of Eurocentric and androcentric knowledge production β or a truly global project? Eight people, eight turning points. The web series tells the story of fleeing and a new beginning in a foreign country. The protagonists come from different countries, their experiences range from to the present. They describe formative moments that still resonate in their lives today.
In eight chapters, "Refugees in their own words" shows that the history of mankind is a story of migration. The US military had fewer than half a million troops in That number rose to over 12 million by the end of the war.
