Films byTexts by Ruth Beckermann
FILM
The Dreamed Ones
Ruth Beckermann, 2016, 89’

Die Geträumten shows a staged recording of the almost two-decade correspondence between poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan – an Austrian and a displaced Romanian Jew – that began in 1948 and ended a few years before their premature deaths.

FILM
Ruth Beckermann, 2018, 93’

“When I looked at the material I shot 30 years ago, I was shocked. Had I really forgotten how easily emotions can be stirred up against others and used by populist politicians?