In the context of this year's event series 'Utopian pasts - Utopian futures? 500 years after Thomas More's Utopia' organised by the Departments of English, German and Philosophy, the Department of German is organising a film screening of 'Die Wand' (2012) based on the novel by the Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. 

The screening will take place on Thursday, 30 June at 18:00 at the KSU Tipico Careers Common Room; the film will be shown in German with English subtitles. A short introduction as an impulse for discussion will also be offered. This film screening is organised in collaboration with KSU - Kunsill Studenti Universitarji.

Abstract: The paradigmatic site of utopia – and of dystopia – is the city. But there is also a strong link between ideas of 'going back to nature' and utopian visions. And there are many post-apocalyptic, dystopian scenarios of being involuntarily thrown back – or forward – to a 'post-human' state of nature. In this context, the German-Austrian co-produced film, Die Wand (The Wall, 2012), is highly interesting: the story of a woman, cut off from the rest of the world in a hut and its surroundings in the Alps behind an invisible wall. This contemporary female Robinsonade – based on the acclaimed novel of the same title by Marlen Haushofer – is far from romanticising the relationship between (wo)man and nature, but shows the intensity, brutality but also gentleness and interdependency of (wo)man and animals, natural surroundings and the remains of civilisation. – Are there utopian seeds in this disturbing and nevertheless beautiful vision?

Detailed information on the movie is available online.

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