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DEFA Foundation

  • network partners
  • Archiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin [Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin]
  • Buddenbrook House / Heinrich and Thomas Mann Center
  • Das Bundesarchiv / The Federal Archives
  • DEFA Foundation
  • Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen / Filmhaus am Potsdamer Platz
  • Deutsches Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven [German Emigration Center]
  • German Exile Archive 1933 – 1945 of the German National Library
  • Deutsches Filminstitut DIF e.V. [German Film Institute]
  • German Art Archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  • German Literature Archive in Marbach
  • Edition Memoria. Publishing house and collection for exile culture
  • Else Lasker-Schüler Society and Foundation “Burned and banned writers – in favour of a centre for persecuted arts”
  • Felix Nussbaum House / Cultural History Museum of Osnabrück
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation
  • The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc.
  • Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. [Society for Exile Research]
  • Institute for German Philology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen
  • Interkulturelles Forschungsinstitut Deutschland-Mexiko  e.V. [German-Mexican Intercultural Research Institute] Instituto de Investigaciones Interculturales Germano-Mexicanas, A.C. I.I.I.
  • Jewish Museum, Frankfurt – Ludwig Meidner Archive
  • Center for Persecuted Arts in the Solingen Art Museum
  • Arbeitsstelle „Verfolgte Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit“ [The Working Group for Musicians Persecuted under National Socialism]
  • MAX BECKMANN ARCHIVE
  • The Monacensia. Literature archive and public library of the City of Munich
  • musica reanimata. Society for the Promotion and Re-discovery of Composers Persecuted by the Nazi Regime and their Works 
  • National Library of Israel
  • Austrian Archive for Exile Studies at the Literaturhaus Wien
  • The PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad
  • PEN Zentrum Deutschland
  • Isaak Emil Lichtigfeld School at the Philanthropin
  • Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies
  • Swiss Literary Archives (SLA)
  • Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
  • Foundation Clément Moreau
  • THOMAS-MANN-ARCHIV / THOMAS MANN ARCHIVES
  • Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House
  • Walter A. Berendsohn Forschungsstelle für deutsche Exilliteratur der Universität Hamburg [Walter A. Berendsohn Research Centre for German Exile Literature]
  • Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann-Stiftung
  • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
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    • Still photo: Arnold Zweig

      Arnold Zweig (documentary film, GDR 1962, excerpt)

      Documentary film directed by Joop Huisken
      Directed by Joop Huisken and with a screenplay by Renate Drescher, the documentary film Arnold Zweig was released in 1962. Viewers were presented with the most significant events in the life of the writer Arnold Zweig and his artistic oeuvre.
    • Still photo: Do you know where Mr. Kisch is?

      Do you know where Mr. Kisch is? (documentary film, GDR 1985, excerpt)

      About the writer and reporter Egon Erwin Kisch
      Writer and reporter Egon Erwin Kisch, who was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, was one of the most important reporters of the 20th century. Kisch reported in the 1920s from Asia, North Africa and the Soviet Union and published in 1925 his reports in the book The Raging Reporter whose title became a catchword for himself and his work.
    • Still photo: Even Today He'd Speak His Mind

      Even Today He'd Speak His Mind (documentary film, GDR 1975, excerpt)

      About the poet Erich Weinert
      Directed by Volker Koepp and based on a screenplay by Klaus and Vera Küchenmeister, the 1975 documentary Even Today He'd Speak His Mind was about the poet Erich Weinert.Autobiographical notes and poems together with archival material, documents and interviews show the life, views and work of the poet and his fellow communist activists.
    • Still photo: Malik

      Malik (documentary film, GDR 1967, clip)

      Directed by Giovanni Angela and based on a screenplay by Paolo Chiarini, the film Malik was released in 1967. It was made at the East German DEFA Studio, which produced newsreels and documentaries.
    • Still photo: Slatan Dudow –  A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist

      Slatan Dudow –  A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist (GDR 1974, excerpt)

      The artistic development and the essence of the film director Slatan Dudow throughout various stages of his life was depicted in Volker Koepp’s documentary Slatan Dudow – A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist (GDR 1974).Slatan Dudow was born in Bulgaria in 1903.
    • Still photo: The whole world should endure. Erich Fried - a portrait

      The whole world should endure (documentary film, GDR, 1988, excerpt)

      Erich Fried - a portrait
      Directed by Roland Steiner, the documentary The whole world should endure. Erich Fried - a portrait) was released in 1988.
    • Still photo: Martin Brandt

      Traces (documentary film, GDR, 1989, excerpt)

      About Jewish theatre and memories of Jewish life in Berlin
      Directed by Eduard Schreiber and based on a screenplay by Regine Kühn, the documentary Traces was released in Berlin in 1989. It looked for memories of Jewish life in Berlin.