In the Fade | Free Film Screening
@ Goethe Institut
Goethe-Institut Chicago Building (Michigan Room) 150 N. Michigan Ave., 3rd Fl.
Opening Thursday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 8:30 PM
Fatih Akin’s 2017 thriller about neo-Nazi terrorism in Germany
Join us for a screening of In the Fade, Fatih Akin’s 2017 thriller about a German woman whose Turkish-Kurdish husband and son are killed in a terrorist attack perpetrated by neo-Nazis. After the film, Anna Parkinson, Associate Professor in the Department of German at Northwestern University, will offer brief remarks about rising right-wing extremism in Germany today.
***Advanced registration is required, and please bring a photo ID for check-in. Please note: the event will take place in the Michigan Room, on the 3rd Floor of 150 N. Michigan Ave., in the same building as the Goethe-Institut Chicago.***
About In the Fade
After the death of her family in a terrorist bombing, Katja’s life falls apart. Her friends and extended family try to give her the support she needs, but the mind-numbing search for the perpetrators and reasons behind the senseless killing complicate Katja’s painful mourning. The trial against the two suspects, a young couple from the neo-Nazi scene, pushes Katja to the edge. She feels she has no alternative but to take action and seek justice herself.
Fatih Akin’s In the Fade was inspired by an attack carried out by the neo-Nazi terror cell National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Cologne, Germany in 2004. It is an absorbing and nuanced drama about anger, xenophobia, and taking the law into one’s own hands.
Anna Parkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of German at Northwestern University, where she is also a Core Member of the Critical Theory Program, the Jewish and Israel Studies Program, and an affiliate of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. Her fields of research and graduate and undergraduate teaching include: twentieth and twenty-first century German-language literature and film, Holocaust and memory studies, critical theory (particularly the Frankfurt School and psychoanalysis), literatures of migration, and forensics and human rights in the Global South. Her monograph, An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture was published in 2015 by the University of Michigan Press, and she has essay publications in journals including New German Critique, European Holocaust Studies, and History and Psychoanalysis.
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