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Conversations on Werkleitz Festival 2024 Tank oder Teller [fuel or food]
The year 2025 marks the 500th anniversary of the Peasants' War and the anniversary of Thomas Müntzer's death. The great uprising of the 'common people' - the peasants, craftsmen and miners - was brutally crushed in Frankenhausen. Thomas Müntzer became known as a preacher and fighter who called for the violent liberation of the peasants and joined the uprisings against the ruling power. History also tells of the intense nature of the uprisings and the peasants' willingness to use violence.
However, history is written by the victors. How much of it is true and how much is an attribution? What do we know about the peasant movement? What were the people of the time concerned about, what were they fighting for? Who was Thomas Müntzer - a preacher, a fighter or both together? And what distinguishes or connects the Peasants' War of 1525 with the other peasant movements?
01 Alles Allen - Omnia sunt Comunia [all to all]
Ralf Wendt
In the episode Alles Allen - Omnia sunt communia, Friedemann Stengel, Professor of the Faculty of Theology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, devotes himself to this saying attributed to Müntzer, which still characterises the social reformist narrative surrounding his person today.
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02 History of the peasant movement
Ralf Wendt
In this podcast, Thomas Müller, Chairman of the Luther Memorials Foundation, provides insights into the history and prehistory of the German Peasants' War and helps us to better understand the motives of the peasant movement and the role of Thomas Müntzer. He also talks about the winners and loser
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03 History of the reception of Thomas Müntzer
Ralf Wendt
In the third podcast episode, Jan Scheunemann, historian at the Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Foundation, sheds light on the history of the reception of Thomas Müntzer. He talks about how the image of Müntzer has been portrayed over the years in academia, art and politics, how Müntzer has been instrume
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Audio to Werkleitz Festival 2023 Mein Schatz [My Precious]
Mein Schatz [My precious] - J. R. R. Tolkien's “Ring of Power” forged in Mount Doom could be a smartphone today. Like the ring, every smartphone is made of exquisite ores and rocks.
01 Artist Talk with Ana Alenso
When did the illusion creep into people's imagination that the treasures underground could be available in infinite quantities and at virtually no price? Anne-Christin Bielig and curator Alexander Klose talk to artist Ana Alenso not only about her work Glück auf! [Good luck!].
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02 Artist Talk with Mabe Bethônico
Das kollektive Buddeln. Ein Papiertheater über die Mythen des Bergbaus [The collective digging. A paper theater about the myths of mining] asks about the conditions of current and historical mining as well as the possibilities of a different mining industry that treats nature and people more respon
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03 Artist Talk with Viktor Brim
Who says that minerals are dead rock? Western thinking's categorical distinction between living and “lifeless” matter is the prerequisite for the unrestrained exploitation of natural resources.
Viktor Brim will be interviewed by Anne-Christin Bielig, Alexander Klose and other artists of the Werk
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04 Artist Talk with Egill Sæbjörnsson
Money has become immaterial, a data trail, but it rules the world as it always has. Sæbjörnsson's artistic works playfully and cunningly explore the relationships between the material and the imaginary, between the world and our preconceptions about it. His trolls made one of their first major app
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05 Artist Talk with Felicitas Fäßler
The term “third nature” refers to landscapes or ecological niches that have slipped out of the control of man-made “second nature”. Nature is spreading unregulated, but under conditions that continue to be influenced by human intervention. In her work Ausbiss [Outcrop], Fäßler approaches t
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06 Artist Talk with Stephanie Kiwitt
“There used to be more people here.” In recent years, artist Stephanie Kwitt has photographed places and landscapes in Saxony-Anhalt. Her resulting series show traces of an ongoing transformation. For Mein Schatz [My Precious], she returned to Sandersleben and spoke to residents about their plac
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07 Artist Talk with Barbara Marcel
From the central German mining region to Brazil - and back. The 7th episode of the multi-part podcast for the Werkleitz Festival 2023 Mein Schatz [My Precious] revolves around the work of Barbara Marcel Des Goldes Klang [Golden Tone]. It is about subterranean and supernatural landscapes, history and
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08 Artist Talk with Juliane Henrich
In the absence of mining, Juliane Henrich sees the presence of data mining - in the absence of copper processing, the presence of the wiring of electronic devices made from the same precious metals. The question of whether there can be good mining, which is no less urgent today than it was in the da
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09 Artist Talk with Agnieszka Polska
In The Demon's Brain, a multi-channel video installation exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin and elsewhere, Agnieszka Polska explores the ethical question of how the individual can assume social responsibility in the midst of the overwhelming demands of the present. The s
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10 Artist Talk with Karsten Bott
Why does history first have to be buried and then dug up again by archaeologists? Karsten Bott, who has been working on his archive for contemporary history for over 30 years, asks this question. Bott embarked on a new search for the Werkleitz Festival 2023. Together with Hettstedt scrap metal colle
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11 Exhibition tour with Lena Reisner
In episode 11 of the podcast series on the Werkleitz Festival 2023, Lena Reisner first guides us through the entire festival exhibition and is then interviewed by Anne-Christin Bielig about her artistic and curatorial approaches.
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Podcasts Umbruch im Film [Upheaval in film]
Eine zehnteilige Podcastserie zu Umbruch im Film [Upheaval in film], ein Symposium zur Professionalisierung und Vernetzung von Filmemacher:innen, Filmproduzent:innen, Filmfestivalmacher:innen und Filmkurator:innen, das, präsentiert von der Werkleitz Gesellschaft, vom 5.bis 7. Dezember 2022 in Halle (Saale) stattfand. Im Fokus von Umbruch im Film standen Filme, die aktuelle gesellschaftliche Umbrüche, wie Deindustrialisierung und Strukturwandel im ländlichen Raum und in Bergbaufolgelandschaften thematisieren.
Der Branchentreff wurde gefördert durch das Land Sachsen-Anhalt, sowie der Stadt Halle (Saale). In Kooperation mit der AG DOK. Arrangiert von Marold Langer-Philippsen.
Umbruch im Film ist dokumentiert durch aufgearbeitete Live-Mitschnitte der Panels. Neben den Podcasts stehen auch einzelne Vorträge als Videobeiträge zur Verfügung.
01 Lecture by Lars Fischer
Lars Fischer
Podcast of Lars Fischer's lecture at Umbruch im Film
Lars Fischer is an expert in landscape communication and explains what it is and how he deals with it.
A ten-part podcast series on Umbruch im Film, a symposium for the professionalisation and networking of filmmakers, film producers, film festiva
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02 Lecture by Jonathan Everts
Jonathan Everts
Podcast of Jonathan Everts' lecture at Umbruch im Film
Jonathan Everts is a human geographer and professor at Martin Luther University Halle. He tries to summarise current phenomena with the concept of the planetary turn.
A ten-part podcast series on Umbruch im Film, a symposium for the professional
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03 Lecture by Andreas Petrik
Andreas Petrik
Podcast of Andreas Petrik's lecture at Umbruch im Film.
Andreas Petrik, Professor of Didactics in Social Studies at Martin Luther University Halle, talks about the possibilities of recreating village life in order to try out social processes.
A ten-part podcast series on Umbruch im Film, a symposium
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04 Lecture by Jonas Hansen
Jonas Hansen
Podcast of Jonas Hansen's lecture at Umbruch im Film.
Jonas Hansen, Professor of Interaction and Game Design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, tells the story of Expanded Media - from Frame to World.
A ten-part podcast series on Umbruch im Film, a symposium for the professio
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05 Panel 1 - Der Dinge Lauf [The course of things]
Podcast to Panel 1 - Zum (Ver-)Lauf der Dinge [On the course of events] von [ Umbruch im Film](https://werkleitz.de/umbruch-im-film/)
How do we depict the object of our interest, how do we find the appropriate means? Eva Könnemann, Georg Kußmann, Francesca Bertin, Marcel Schwierin, Lena Ditte Niss
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06 Panel 2 - Bruchstücke [Fragments]
Podcast to Panel 2 - Bruchstücke [Fragments] von Umbruch im Film
Where are the upheavals to be found, how can they be dealt with in film work? With Rebecca Zehr, Patrick Wallochny, Laura Reichwald, Susanne Kim, Peter Zorn.
A ten-part podcast series on Umbruch im Film, a symposium for the professio
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07 Panel 3 – Planetary Turn
Podcast to Panel 3 - Planetary Turn by [ Umbruch im Film](https://werkleitz.de/umbruch-im-film/)
Florian Fischer, Ginan Seidl, Thadeusz Tischbein, NEOZOON (Michaela and Frederike), Daniel Herrmann, Marcel Schwierin and others can be heard on the filmic examples of the human-nature and human-animal t
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08 Panel 4 - Räume träumen [Dreaming spaces]
Podcast to Panel 4 - Träume von Räumen [Dreams of spaces] by [ Umbruch im Film](https://werkleitz.de/umbruch-im-film/)
Cinematic, cultural, political, social and experiential spaces are outlined and how they can take place in film - described by Emerson Culurgioni, Juliane Jaschnow, Dino Weisz, Ju
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09 Panel 5 - Hybride Formen [Hybrid forms]
Podcast to Panel 5 - Intermedialität/Hybridformen [Intermediality/Hybrid forms] by [ Umbruch im Film](https://werkleitz.de/umbruch-im-film/)
It is about the different media forms beyond linear storytelling - in conversation are Clemens von Wedemeyer, Thomas Taube, Marleine van der Werf, Ralph Wendt
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10 Panel 6 – Transformation
Podcast to Panel 6 - Transformationsprozesse im Film [Transformation processes in film] by [ Umbruch im Film](https://werkleitz.de/umbruch-im-film/)
Amelie Befeldt, Kathrin Lemcke, Jürgen Kleinig, Emerson Culurgioni, Constanze Wolpers, Jonas Eisenschmidt, Tim Nowitzki, Denis Herzog, Heiko Hilker an
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