Das würde Euch genauso ergehen.

A shared conversation with my “Mima” about her father, my great-grandfather, and the past in the NS regime.

As part of my first independent university film project (P1) on the theme "Encounter with the Foreign - What is Foreign to Me," I interviewed my grandmother about her father, my great-grandfather. Being half German and half Brazilian, I noticed how I was aware of German history as a matter of course, but knew little about my own family's history. Many Germans of my generation find themselves in a similar situation. Either they know nothing about their family's past because it's not talked about, they're afraid to ask, or they're told, "everyone in our family were just doctors." There's a strong feeling that as a German, one should no longer be proud. However, through my grandmother's conversation, I want to show that it's okay to be proud if one carries the guilt and accepts it, instead of hiding it - if there's finally an honest and direct exchange between generations before it's too late. In our conversation, my grandmother herself shows a sense of desperation, which speaks volumes for the post-war generation. She herself can't explain certain things and doesn't realize how she slips into familiar phrases born out of paternal love and automatism. A convers tion of three and a half hours and four hours of archival research is worth it to understand and question the past, because otherwise, one remains in the dark.

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