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An evening about the actress Channa Maron with Dr. Ofra Rechter
Lecture and discussion
Channa Maron is a celebrated child star in Germany: in 1931, at the age of just eight, she performs in Fritz Lang’s ‘M- Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder’ and in the same year the legendary role of ‘Pünktchen’ from Erich Kästner’s novel at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Hanna Meierzak fled with her mother via Paris to what is now Israel. Later, as Channa Maron, she is celebrated there as the ‘Queen of the stage’ and experienced further highlights of her artistic career. Her acting career was abruptly interrupted in the attempted hijacking of an air plane assassination attempt at Munich-Riem airport on 10 February 1970, in which she was seriously injured and lost her left leg. Despite this, she was back on stage a year later. Throughout her life, Channa Maron publicly campaigned for peaceful coexistence in the Middle East and, as an artist, remained an important voice on socio-political issues until her death in 2014.
In her lecture performance ‘Waiting in Action’, Dr. Ofra Rechter, professor of philosophy and daughter of Channa Maron, will focus on the opening scene in Fritz Lang’s masterpiece ‘M’. By analyzing various stylistic devices used in the film, Dr. Ofra Rechter will demonstrate the film’s inherent potential to create exclusive realities. Dr Ofra Rechter’s voice also makes her mother’s voice become audible again and multiplies the question of how waiting can become an act of resistance against forgetting and visualisation.