Ruth Beckermann: In Praise of Detours
Conversation and Film Clips
December 3, 2025
Author and director Ruth Beckermann is known for her engagement with history, which is always based on her close observation of contemporary realities. Time and again, her work deals with the emergence of the past in the present, and vice versa . This is evident, for example, in her preoccupation with Austria, Judaism and questions of personal and collective identity and its fractures. Beckermann is critical of both closed narrative forms and a linear view of history.
All of Beckermann's films are now available on DVD. This evening at the Film Museum offers the unique opportunity to see and discuss never-before published material from her production process: interviews, filmic miniatures, and interventions as well as the documentary accompaniment to the creation of individual works. (Michael Loebenstein / Translation: Ted Fendt)
Ruth Beckermann in conversation with Michael Loebenstein
Free admission, voluntary solidarity contribution (1 euro) for the "Kulturpass" initiative
Author and director Ruth Beckermann is known for her engagement with history, which is always based on her close observation of contemporary realities. Time and again, her work deals with the emergence of the past in the present, and vice versa . This is evident, for example, in her preoccupation with Austria, Judaism and questions of personal and collective identity and its fractures. Beckermann is critical of both closed narrative forms and a linear view of history.
All of Beckermann's films are now available on DVD. This evening at the Film Museum offers the unique opportunity to see and discuss never-before published material from her production process: interviews, filmic miniatures, and interventions as well as the documentary accompaniment to the creation of individual works. (Michael Loebenstein / Translation: Ted Fendt)
Ruth Beckermann in conversation with Michael Loebenstein
Free admission, voluntary solidarity contribution (1 euro) for the "Kulturpass" initiative
Related materials
Photos 2025 - Ruth Beckermann
Books Ruth Beckermann (2016)
Books Ruth Beckermann
Program Ruth Beckermann - December 2016
For each series, films are listed in screening order.