Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

A GAMS research colloquium session with award-winning crime novelist, screenwriter and film director Merle Kröger on Friday, 22nd of December at 10am (c.t.), room 217 at IAAW, Invalidenstrasse 118.

Merle Kröger will present THE FIFTH WALL - a fascinating multi-media archive, non-linear biography and research platform which was conceptualised by her and Mareike Bernien together with news anchor, editor, foreign correspondent for ARD, documentary filmmaker and author Navina Sundaram.

"The archive The Fifth Wall gathers films, reportages, moderations, texts, letters and photos by the filmmaker and editor Navina Sundaram from over 40 years of her work in television. To take Sundaram’s perspective, to focus on her reportages, features and moderations, means simultaneously looking at West German television history from the inside and the outside. She is thus the prime focus as an author who takes a journalistic stand: on internationalism and decolonisation, the question of class, racism, immigration, on Indian and German politics. Sourced from ARD archives and Sundaram’s private archive, The Fifth Wall is a curated look at German migration and media history. What is the significance of looking at this material from today’s perspective? And what gaze does it cast back upon us?"

https://die-fuenfte-wand.de/en