Film Screening
Love, Deutschmarks and Death

Feature Film

Fri, 12.07.2024
6:00 PM Goethe-Institut Irland

Around 60 years after Germany’s agreement with Turkey to bring migrant workers into the country, Cem Kaya’s documentary Liebe, D-Mark und Tod (Love, Deutschmarks and Death, 2022) traces developments within the Turkish music scene in Germany from niche entertainment to today’s pop culture, and from a divided Germany to a unified one. With interviews with various key figures and archive footage from shows and concerts, Kaya guides viewers through the changing styles and politics of Turkish music in the German diaspora. Liebe, D-Mark und Tod deservingly won the Panorama Audience Award at the 2022 Berlinale.

Join us for a free screening of the film, organised as part of the conference Artistic Residency: A Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Anwerbestopp, 12-13 July 2024. The screening will be followed by a discussion afterwards with Dr. Leila Mukhida (Film Studies Scholar, Cambridge). There will also be light refreshments. 

Cem Kaya (born 1976 in Schweinfurt) is a filmmaker from Bavaria. After studying communication design at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart, he first worked as a producer, editor and director for commercials and music videos. Together with the Ludwigsburg film producer Jochen Laube, he made his first two feature-length documentaries Arabeks (2010), a film about the musical genre of Turkish arabesque, and Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014).

Presented by UCD Humanities Institute and UCD College of Arts and Humanities and Goethe-Institut Irland.