Film screening „Disaster is my muse“ and Workshop „Holocaust in the Comic“

The film Disaster Is My Muse reflects on the life and work of Art Spiegelman, the son of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors and one of the world’s most renowned comic artists. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel Maus, which tells the story of his father’s survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Spiegelman is a highly influential artist whose work has been published in many major American as well as German newspapers.

Maus, which portrays his father’s experiences during the Holocaust, has repeatedly sparked discussions about the appropriate and responsible ways of engaging with the past through creative expression. After watching the film together, we aim to take part in a discussion that focuses on selected examples from the comic and connects them to broader questions of how history—especially traumatic history—can and should be represented.

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Stefan Strietzel is a Public Historian and researcher specializing in German-Polish relations and the remembrance of the Holocaust and the Second World War. He wrote his thesis on the Polish comic Chleb wolnościowy, which depicts stories from the Lublin concentration camp. His professional background includes working for the German-Polish House and Polish-German youth exchanges, as well as serving as a volunteer at the memorial site of the Lublin concentration camp.

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