Wir sind wieder da!
The second event of the series “Wir sind wieder da!” has a strong music element, as we will be screening the film “Love, Deutschmarks and Death” on Saturday 2 March. Cem Kaya shows Turkish-German recent history through music, in his gripping and vivid documentary film essay. A fascinating and upbeat documentation of music culture of migrants of Turkish origin over the last 60 years in Germany.
Everyone is invited to bring with them an object that links to music, be it a cassette, a poster, or a book, and to participate in a relaxed discussion about music, culture, and memories. Our guest for this event is ethnomusicologist
Nicoletta Demetriou, who will also tell us about the Cypriot communities in the UK and their music.
About the film:
Documentary // 2022 // Cem Kaya // 96 minutes
The recruitment agreement of the German Federal Republic with Turkey in 1961 brought many “guest workers” (Gastarbeiter) to Germany. Cem Kaya shows Turkish-German recent history through music, in his gripping and vivid documentary film essay. A fascinating and upbeat documentation of music culture of migrants of Turkish origin over the last 60 years in Germany and a celebration of this forgotten, or even little known, subculture. Over the years this music spans many genres and deals with diverse subjects, from personal, social to political.
From the Berlinale section Panorama Dokumente 2022
Directed by: Cem Kaya
Screenplay: Cem Kaya, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Co-written by: Ufuk Cam
Cinematography: Cem Kaya, Mahmoud Belakhel, Julius Dommer, Christian Kochmann
Editing: Cem Kaya
Sound Design: Henning Hein
Sound: Fatih Aydin, Armin Badde, Tarik Badaoui, Thorsten Bolzé, Dalia Castel, Tim Gorinski, Cem Kaya, Kris Limbach, Jule Vari
Awards:
Panorama Audience Award (best documentary film) - Berlinale 2022
Dokfest Munich (2022) - Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2022) - Audience Award
Free Zone Film Festival (2022) - Best Film
German Film Critics' Award (2023) - Best Documentary & Best Editing
Rating "particularly valuable" by the German Film and Media Rating
Nicoletta Demetriou is an ethnomusicologist and singer specializing in the traditional music and oral poetry of Cyprus. She studied music in Thessaloniki, Vienna and London, and has a PhD in Ethnomusicology from SOAS, University of London. She worked as a teaching fellow at SOAS (2008-11), as a research fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-19), and was a Fulbright Fellow at Stockton University NJ (2017), and a Visiting Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton (2019). She is co-editor of Music in Cyprus (Routledge, 2015), editor of a three-volume corpus on tsiattista (Phivos Stavrides Larnaka Archives, 2018-20), author of The Cypriot Fiddler: The Oral History of a Professional Class in the Twentieth Century (in Greek; Psifides, 2022), and producer of The Cypriot Fiddler documentary (thecypriotfiddler.com). She currently serves as director of Cyprus Music Archive, a non-profit organization founded by herself in 2022.
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