by bcblessing | Aug 5, 2014 | Benita Blessing, Education, Films, GDR, History
What would you do if a creepy man in a bar claimed that he had sold your guardian angel – but could get it back to you for a price? If you are Mick, the older of the two boys living on the street, you might be wise to this trickster “Landolfi” and...
by bcblessing | Sep 12, 2013 | Benita Blessing, Education, Films, GDR, History, Uncategorized
What is it about youth on the verge of disaster that makes for such compelling films? The best part of them, of course, comes with the inevitable sacrifice of one of the young protagonists, preferably a suicide or murder that – although useless for the...
by bcblessing | Jun 29, 2013 | Education, Films, GDR, History, Languages, Uncategorized
This semester I taught a grad student seminar called “Documenting Education” at the University of Vienna in the faculty of Philosophy and Education. I had planned on discussing the long-term documentary Die Kinder von Golzow (dir. Winfried Junge; later...
