Wed 28 May – Wed 11 June 2025, Goethe-Institut London & Online
THOMAS BRASCH: A LIFE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Born just a few months before the end of World War II, playwright, poet, translator, and film director Thomas Brasch emerged as one of the most distinctive intellectual voices of the German post-war period. In the year of his 80th birthday, we present Andreas Kleinert’s acclaimed 2021 fictional portrait DEAR THOMAS (LIEBER THOMAS), Annekatrin Hendel’s 2018 archive and interview-based documentary THE BRASCH FAMILY (FAMILIE BRASCH), and Thomas Brasch’s 1981 directorial debut ANGELS OF IRON (ENGEL AUS EISEN), an anarchic gangster tale set in divided Berlin during the Airlift of 1948/49, that catapulted him directly into the First Film Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26662310
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SCHEDULE
Wed 28.05.2025 7:00 PM, Goethe-Institut London
ANDREAS KLEINERT: DEAR THOMAS
Shot in black and white, Andreas Kleinert’s powerful biopic featuring a tour-de-force performance from Albrecht Schuch distills Brasch’s divided life between East and West into real and imaginary moments, capturing his charismatic personality and the familial and historical contradictions that shaped it.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26604036
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Sat 31.05. – Sat 07.06.2025, online
ANDREAS KLEINERT: DEAR THOMAS
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26604909
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Wed 04.06.2025 7:00 PM, Goethe-Institut London
ANNEKATRIN HENDEL: THE BRASCH FAMILY
A moving portrait of author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch’s family told through archive footage and interviews with his sister Marion, with friends and lovers, including Christoph Hein, Bettina Wegner and Katharina Thalbach.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26604963
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11.06.2025 7:00 PM, Goethe-Institut London
THOMAS BRASCH: ANGELS OF IRON
Thomas Brasch’s gripping directorial debut about a criminal gang operating between East and West during the Berlin Airlift, shows the city between World War II and the Cold War, but from a perspective informed by the spirit of disillusion and resistance that emerged in the 1960s on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26605290
