Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls at Filmhaus Köln

The Filmhaus Köln screened Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls on 28 May 2024 to mark the 20th anniversary of the NSU nail bomb attack on Keupstraße. 



Thursday, May 16, 2024

'Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls' at Mein Kiez. Geschichte(n) des geteilten Berlins“, FHXB-Museum

16 May 2024:  'Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls' screened at „Mein Kiez. Geschichte(n) des geteilten Berlins“, FHXB-Museum, Berlin, followed by a discussion.


Sunday, November 19, 2023

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Krzysztof Okonski (Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland) analyzes 'Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls' in the book 'Turkish-German Relations in Literary History From the Fifteenth Through the Twenty-First Century' (November 2023)



CHAPTER 5

Wendeverlierer? Machos? Stasi-Zuträger? Zum Bild türkischer Einwanderer in ausgewählten Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen über den Zusammenbruch der DDR

Victims of the transformation process? Machos? Stasi informants? The image of Turkish immigrants in selected films and documentaries about the collapse of the GDR

Krzysztof OKOŃSKI*

*Dr. habil., Kazimierz-Wielki-Universität, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Kulturwissenschaftliche Komparatistik, Bydgoszcz, Poland

ABSTRACT (ENGLISH)
The history of migration from Turkey to Germany is presented in film, literature or in pop culture mainly focusing on the experiences of Turkish immigrants in West Germany. This perspective is self-evident and reflects historical reasons such as signing the labour recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Turkey (1961). On the one hand, immigration in the last 60 years has shaped various social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the German reality; on the other hand, numerous films and novels can be used to reconstruct the life of German Turks. Nevertheless, we can observe the interest of German artists of Turkish origin in specifically German themes anchored in Germany’s past or present. If there are any overlaps with more recent German history, then they are usually described from the perspective of the immigrants (or their children) who were subject to the processes of social adaptation in West Germany. Apart from a few exceptions (Yadé Kara and Emine Sevgi Özdamar), the former GDR or the fall of the Berlin wall remain terra incognita for the German- Turkish culture. In this article, the image of Turkish immigrants in the context of the last days of the GDR is analyzed on the example of the following films: Deckname Blitz - Der Spion vom Teufelsberg by Harriet Kloss (documentary, Germany, 2003), So schnell es geht nach Istanbul by Andreas Dresen (film GDR, 1990) and Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls by Can Candan (documentary, USA/Türkiye 2000).

Sunday, June 18, 2023

‘Duvarlar – Mauern – Walls’ at 'Speculative Properties' exhibit film series in Kreuzberg, Berlin

18 June 2023: ‘Duvarlar – Mauern – Walls’ screening as part of 'Speculative Properties' exhibit film series at Kotti-Shop, Adalbertstr. 4, Kreuzberg, Berlin

https://www.instagram.com/speculativeproperties/




Friday, July 22, 2022

Outdoor Cinema Screening by Boğaziçi University Cinema Club (BÜSK)

22 July 2022: ‘Duvarlar – Mauern – Walls’  outdoor cinema screening by Boğaziçi University Cinema Club (BÜSK), Istanbul, Turkey. (https://twitter.com/bounsinema?lang=en)




Friday, May 6, 2022

Film Screening & Talk at University of Basel, Switzerland

6 Mai 2022 - Filmvorführung am Seminar für Nahoststudien: der Dokumentarfilm «Duvarlar – Mauern – Walls» von Can Candan + ein Gespräch mit dem Regisseur. (Universität Basel, Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften)





Thursday, October 21, 2021

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls @ nGbK (neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst) in Berlin, 21-27 October 2021

... oder kann das weg? Fallstudien zur Nachwende
Case studies on post-unification

Case study: “Wessiwerdung”October 21–27, Tina Bara, Can Candan, Yvon Chabrowski, Harun Farocki, Jörg Herold, Wilhelm Klotzek & Peter Woelck, Silke Koch, Wolfgang H Scholz, Gabriele Stötzer






https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/379814/oder-kann-das-weg-fallstudien-zur-nachwende/

Saturday, December 5, 2020

New in DOMID's collection: contemporary historical material by Can Candan

"We received from the filmmaker Can Candan the raw material of his historically significant documentary Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls. Hardly any other document can express the views and analyzes of Berlin migrants in such a condensed form at the time of the “Wende”, shortly after the "re-unification" of Eastern and Western Germany. What did the “fall of the wall” mean economically for the migrants who had worked in Berlin for many years? How do they analyze the flaring racism that manifests itself in murder attacks only a little later? We are grateful to Can Candan for the trust and will soon be able to prepare the material for research and review in our archive." More here: https://domid.org/en/news/new-in-collection-can-candan/



Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls added to the collection of The Federal Agency for Civic Education in Germany (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb)

The Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb) in Germany has added Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls (with German subtitles) to their collection making it available for free within Germany. https://www.bpb.de/mediathek/305232/duvarlar-mauern-walls


Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls screening in Turin, Italy

The first ever screening of 'Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls' in Italy on November 13th, 2019.
With English and Italian subtitles. Crocevia di Sguardi, Cecchi Point, Turin.

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls Screening in Offenbach

First ever screening of 'Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls' in Offenbach at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) on November 8th, 2019. Followed by a Q&A with the director Can Candan. 

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls Screening @ Conne Island, Leipzig

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls screening at Conne Island, Leipzig on November 7th, 2019.


Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls Screening @ 4. Berliner Herbstsalon

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls screening at the 4. Berliner Herbstsalon on November 5th, 2019 at East Side Gallery.



https://www.berliner-herbstsalon.de/vierter-berliner-herbstsalon/performances/duvarlar-mauern-walls

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls Screening @ Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls Screening @ Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation) in collaboration with Türkische Bund Berlin-Brandenburg on October 30th, 2019.

October 30th is the anniversary of the bilateral recruitment agreement in 1961 between West Germany and Turkey for temporary workers ("guestworkers/gasarbeiter").




https://30jahre.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/events/duvalar-mauern-walls/

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls Screening @ Thalia Kino, Potsdam

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls was screened on October 29th, 2019 @ Thalia Kino, Potsdam in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Stiftung Brandenburg.



Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls Screening @ SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls was screened on October 2nd, 2019 at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin in collaboration with bi-bak and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.



https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2019/borderlands_take5/?fbclid=IwAR3Yi3PbgYXhYEWvJRmB7GX0hNvhJLSQ08M2MTRto5IW6y-Y3QsP_fb8p1Y


Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls at Northwestern University (25.01.2019)

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls screening on January 25, 2019 at Northwestern University's The Block Museum of Art as part of 'Migrating Berlin: Multinational Perspectives on Germany's Years of Reunification' film series



https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/cinema/migrating-berlin.html

Friday, November 30, 2018

New citation

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls was mentioned in an article titled 'Mobility and Migration in Divided Germany' by Prof. Dr. Maren Möhring of Universität Leipzig, which was published in a recent book 'A HISTORY SHARED AND DIVIDED: East and West Germany since the 1970s' (2018, Berghahn Books) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BoeschHistory

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls at Märkisches Museum in Berlin

On September 16, 2018, Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls was screened at Märkisches Museum in Berlin at the finissage of the exhibit 'Bizim Berlin 89/90'

https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/bizim-berlin-8990-finissage



Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls at the NSU-Komplex Tribunal (19 May 2017)


Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls was shown on Friday 19.5.2017 at the Tribunal unraveling the NSU-Komplex (in the GROTTE of the Schauspielhaus Köln): http://www.nsu-tribunal.de/en/

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin (7 October 2016)



DIE ÄSTHETHIK DES WIDERSTANDS – PETER WEISS 100
EIN FESTIVAL DES HAU HEBBEL AM UFER
FILMREIHE
in Kooperation mit dem Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst.
Kurator: Florian Wüst

Fr, 07.10., 19:00 / HAU 1

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls, Can Candan, US 2000, 84'

1991 fliegt der Filmemacher Can Candan von den USA nach Berlin, um der Frage nachzugehen, wie sich die Folgen des Mauerfalls auf die in der Stadt lebenden türkischen Immigranten auswirken. Angesichts des zunehmenden Nationalismus und der von rassistisch motivierter Gewalt begleiteten Asyldebatte sprechen eine Vielzahl von Interviewpartnern über die Vergangenheit der Arbeitsmigration in die BRD sowie die Gegenwart und Zukunft migrantischer Kultur und Mitsprache im wiedervereinigten Deutschland.

http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/spielplan/duvarlar-mauern-walls/

Monday, May 2, 2016

FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur

Nr. 59 (2016)

Deutschland (post)kolonial? Visuelle Erinnerungskulturen und verwobene Geschichte(n)

http://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/issue/view/69/

Mauern 2.0 - migrantische und antirassistische Perspektiven auf den Mauerfall

Jana König, Elisabeth Steffen, Inga Turczyn

WIDERREDE / WIEDERREDE. Eine Einführung zum Projekt „Mauern 2.0“ von Jana König, Elisabeth Steffen und Inga Turczyn

Nanna Heidenreich

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls in Berlin on October 2nd!



Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls will be screened in Berlin on October 2nd, 2015 at 19:30. Afterwards, there will be a discussion with the director and the film's pratoganists.

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls 2 Ekim 2015 saat 19:30'da Berlin'de gösterilecek. Gösterim sonrasında yönetmenle ve filmin oyuncularıyla bir söyleşi gerçekleştirilecek.

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls am Freitag, den 02. Okt. 2015 um 19:30 Uhr.

"(M)Eine Heimat Berlin? - Film + Diskussion
Die Situation der Migranten nach der deutschen Einheit
Die Veranstaltung erinnert an das Erleben von Menschen in Berlin, die zur Wendezeit noch Gastarbeiter oder Ausländer genannt wurden.
Gezeigt wird der Film „Duvarlar Mauern Walls“ von Can Candan.
Anschließend: Diskussion in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs und von Protagonisten des Films.

Veranstaltungsort:
Neuköllner Leuchtturm
Emser Str. 117
12051 Berlin"

http://www.neukoelln-plus.de/termin/news/meine-heimat-berlin-film-diskussion/

Friday, March 20, 2015

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls was screened in Halle (Saale), Germany

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls was screened in Halle (Saale), Germany by "Jusos" (young socialists) on March 19th, 2015:

"Im Rahmen der Bildungswochen gegen Rassismus des Halle gegen Rechts - Bündnis für Zivilcourage laden die Jusos Halle (Saale) zu einer spannenden Filmvorführung ein!

Mauerfall, friedliche Revolution und Rassismus. In seiner Dokumentation „Duvarlar“ lässt der Regisseur Can Candan die Migrant*innen Berlins zu Wort kommen, die ihren Lebensalltag im zunehmend nationalistischen und rassistischen Klima des wiedervereinigten Berlins Anfang der 90er-Jahre beschreiben.

Wir freuen uns auf Euer zahlreiches Kommen und auf die anschließende Diskussion nach der Filmvorführung!"

https://www.facebook.com/events/1551291665152873/

Friday, November 7, 2014

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls at the Jewish Museum Berlin


Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls at the Jewish Museum Berlin was screened at the Jewish Museum Berlin on November 6th, 2014:

"JETZT WÄCHST ZUSAMMEN, WAS ZUSAMMEN GEHÖRT?
(WHAT BELONGS TOGETHER IS NOW GROWING TOGETHER?)
viewpoints on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
A film screening, lecture and panel discussion"

http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/02-Events/Events_2014/2014_11_06_mauerfall.php

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls in Bremen - Bremen'de




Film & Gespräch mit dem Regisseur Can Candan (Istanbul)

27.11. - 20 Uhr - Lagerhaus (Saal), Schildstraße 12, Bremen

Regie: Can Candan
, USA/Türkei 2000, 83 min. 
türk./engl./dt. mit dt. UT



In der Zeit nach dem Mauerfall und der deutschen Wiedervereinigung" war 1991 das Jahr, in dem rassistische Gewalt alltäglich wurde und in Hoyerswerda erstmals pogromartige Ausmaße annahm. 1991 ist gleichzeitig das dreißigjährige Jubiläum des Anwerbeabkommens mit der Türkei.

'Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls' ist ein dreisprachiger Dokumentarfilm über die Jahre 1989-'91 aus der Perspektive türkischsprachiger Berliner_innen. In dem Film sprechen sie über ihre Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Sie stellen sich Fragen über die Folgen von Mauerfall und Wiedervereinigung und darüber, wie sich die steigende Feindseligkeit auf ihre Zukunft im neuen Deutschland auswirkt. Die mehrheitsgesellschaftlichen Bilder vom Mauerfall werden von 'Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls' neu ausgeleuchtet, die ausgrenzende Gewalt der „friedlichen Revolution“ sichtbar gemacht.

Im Anschluss wollen wir mit dem Regisseur Can Candan und weiteren Gästen über den Film, Entwicklungen und auch über Bremen in den Jahren nach dem Mauerfall sprechen.



Can Candan ist Filmemacher und Akademiker und hat in den USA und der Türkei unterrichtet. Er ist Gründungsmitglied des docIstanbul-Center for Documentary Studies und lehrt und arbeitet im Moment an der Boğaziçi-Universität in Istanbul. Seine aktuelle Dokumentation "My Child" begleitet Eltern, die ihre queer lebenden Kinder unterstützen und sich gegen Homo- und Transphobie engagieren.



Eine Veranstaltung der Gruppe ARA in Kooperation mit der Rosa-Luxemburg-Initiative Bremen

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls 13 Nisan'da Berlin'de/in Berlin on April 13th:


Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls 13 Nisan'da globale 2013 festivali'nde Berlin'de!


Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls is in globale 2013 festival in Berlin on April 13th!

http://www.globale-filmfestival.org/index.php?id=79

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Kasseler Dokfest: DuvarlarMauernWalls & Mauern 2.0


29. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

(13. bis 18. November 2012)
Kurzfilm-Programm: Großes BALi (KulturBahnhof)
Donnerstag 15.11.2012, um 15:15 Uhr

29th Kassel Documentary Film and Video FestivaShort film Program: Großes BALi (KulturBahnhof)
Thursday, Nov. 15th, 2012 at 3:15 pm.

Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls (Ausschnitte, Excerpts) / Can Candan / 30’


&

Mauern 2.0. Migrantische und antirassistische Perspektiven auf den Mauerfall - gestern und heute (Migrant and anti-racist persepectives on the Fall of the Wall- yesterday and today/ Jana König, Elisabeth Steffen, Inga Turczyn / 29’

In 1990/91, Can Candan interviewed members of Berlin‘s Turkish community about their experiences with the German reunification. His film “Duvarlar/Mauern/Walls” testified to the fact that the newfound German unity explicitly excluded those perceived as “foreigners.” Inspired by Candan‘s film, the video project WALLS 2.0 set out to ask similar questions to some of the same protagonists twenty years later. The result is a much-needed dialogue about nationalism and identity in Germany, to be continued after the film in a moderated panel.

http://www.kasselerdokfest.de/


Mauern 2.0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6f-U5OzCyc



Thursday, August 30, 2012

Friday, July 27, 2012

Antifa AK Köln presents Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls



Die deutsche Wiedervereinigung aus der Sicht von MigrantInnen:

Die erste Veranstaltung wollen wir eher entspannt angehen lassen…

Gemeinsam möchten wir uns den Film „DUVARLAR / MAUERN / WALLS“ anschauen und über die Eindrücke von damals aus migrantischer Perspektive sowie den etwaigen Bezügen zu heute diskutieren. Der Zeitzeuge Dr. Massimo Perinelli (Kanak Attak, Filmhistoriker an der Universität zu Köln)wird uns mit einem kurzen Input auf den Film einstimmen.

http://www.no-racism.de/duvarlar-mauern-walls/

Thursday, September 1, 2011

DMW visits Berlin's Ballhaus Naunynstraße again! DMW tekrar Berlin'de Ballhaus Naunynstraße'de!


Monday, October 3rd, 2011 / 3 Ekim 2011, Pazartesi


Almancı! – 50 Jahre Scheinehe
31. August – 31. Oktober 2011


Gegen die Leinwände – 50 Jahre 50 Filme!
Anlässlich des 50. Jubiläumsjahres des Anwerbeabkommens zwischen der Bundesrepublik und der Türkei zeigt das Ballhaus Naunynstrasse im Rahmen des Festivals Almancı! – 50 Jahre Scheinehe insgesamt mehr als 50 Spiel-, Dokumentar- und Kurzfilme.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the guest-worker treaty between Turkey and Germany

Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls is a feature-length (83 min.) trilingual (in Turkish, German, and English) documentary film about the effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall on the immigrants from Turkey living in post-wall Berlin. It is also a snapshot of this immigrant community in 1991, as most of the filming for Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls, including many hours of interviews (both on audio and video), took place that year, during the 30th anniversary of the guest-worker treaty between Turkey and Germany. Since its completion in 2000, Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls has been shown at conferences, universities, seminars, film festivals, and community groups in Germany, Turkey, Switzerland, USA, Denmark, Norway, Egypt, and France. It has been a useful teaching tool and a discussion-starter about issues such as migration, guest-workers, cultural identity, belonging, history of Berlin, Berlin Wall, xenophobia, racism, etc.
Although Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls has been shown in numerous places, it is not distributed on DVD or online and remains largely inaccessible. It has not been broadcast on television, nor has it been distributed on DVD or via the Internet. Those interested in screening this film, especially academicians, teachers, researchers, social workers, and students can only access the film through its director. Moreover, hours of audio and video recordings, which did not make it into the edited 83 minutes of the documentary remains unknown and inaccessible.
This year I am trying to make this documentary available to the public through DVD or online distribution and a web-based audio-visual digital archive. As 2011 is the 50th anniversary of the guest-worker treaty and the beginning of migration from Turkey, this project will be a meaningful way to commemorate this historical event and create a valuable resource for the public.
I appreciate any type of support.

Can Candan

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

6. Uluslararası İşçi Filmleri Festivali - 6th International Labor Film Festival



'Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls' 6. Uluslararası İşçi Filmleri Festivali'nde gösteriliyor.

'Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls' is screened at the 6th International Labor Film Festival.

3 Mayıs/May 2011, Salı/Tuesday, 14:15 (Beyoğlu Sineması Pera Salonu, İstanbul)

7 Mayıs/May 2011, Cumartesi/Saturday, 18:15 (Mezopotamya Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Migration et Rencontre des cultures dans le Cinéma documentaire de Turquie à l'Université de Strasbourg



'Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls' screening @ Migration et Rencontre des cultures dans le Cinéma documentaire de Turquie à l'Université de Strasbourg (Migration and Cultural Encounters in Documentary Cinema of Turkey)

Monday, March 21, 2011

Duvarlar, Nauern, Walls @ Cairo Documentary Festival (March 2011)


Duvarlar, Mauern, Walls was screened at AUC's Tahrir Square Campus on 21 March 2011 as part of the 2011 Cairo Documentary Festival.