3. Film screening as part of the series “Das wirst du nie verstehen”

The film Das wirst du nie verstehen (2003) was screened at the Munich Film
Museum on Sunday, November 25, 2012.

In her film
Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who were key figures in
her upbringing. During the Nazi era all three were still girls; today, they
tell of these times in very diverging ways, members of different memory
collectives. Hanka Jassy, her grand aunt, survived Auschwitz.
Gertrude Rogenhofer, her nanny, was a socialist and supported her uncle in the
resistance. Margit Kohlhauser, the grandmother, lived in Graz during the war. There she did what the
majority did: nothing.

The
film takes up the family narratives, explores the repercussions of history and
the mechanisms of how it is passed on. Anja Salomonowitz confronts herself and
her family members with the different memories of all three women.