A Conversation with Vivian Liska and Gertrud Koch
Taking Alexander Kluge’s film *How Walter Benjamin Explained the Weak Messianic Force to Bertolt Brecht* as their starting point, the participants will examine the messianic as a potential for social change.
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Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Akademie in der ehemaligen Blumengrossmarkthalle; Architektur Daniel Libeskind
In her lecture, Vivian Liska examines the messianic from a literary perspective as a political and social dynamic involving both the drive towards and the resistance to absolutist claims.
Film scholar Gertrud Koch takes the ‘defiant and headstrong’ nature of Kluge’s work as a starting point to explore the reality of desire as a genuine source of action.
IN GERMAN
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Dates
December 2026
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