{"id":9213,"date":"2025-01-20T09:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/?post_type=events&#038;p=9213"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:29:28","slug":"whose-story-asylum-narratives-in-contemporary-german-film","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/events\/whose-story-asylum-narratives-in-contemporary-german-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Story? #My Escape &#8211; Asylum Narratives in Contemporary German Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#Tuesday Spotlight by <a href=\"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/karolin-machtans-2\/\">Karolin Machtans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The task we ask asylum applicants to perform in the asylum hearing is supposedly simple: to convince the legal representatives of the receiving country that their fear of persecution is real and their story credible. Yet asylum narratives are never just individual stories. Rather, they are shaped and co-constructed by various actors throughout the asylum process, including other refugees, asylum lawyers, decision-makers, and interpreters. How does contemporary German film engage with the co-constructed nature of the asylum narrative?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this #Tuesday Spotlight Karolin Machtans shares insight into her current research, using films as a.o. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-producers.de\/en\/project\/myescape\/\"><em>#My Escape <\/em>by Elke Sasse<\/a> (WDR, DW, 2015) and discusses the draft chapters of her new publication as work in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-plus-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This event is addressed to HIAS Fellows and Tandem Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide Pattern-Image-Credits Accordion Accordion--accordionList Accordion--imageCredits has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide Accordion__list is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__item has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f36ac205 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading Accordion__title has-xlarge-font-size\">Image Information<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poster &#8220;#My Escape&#8221; &#8211; a documentary by Elke Sasse (2016, WDR, DW) \u00a9 berlin producers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","event_type":[103],"class_list":["post-9213","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","event_type-tuesday-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/9213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}