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CONTENTS

0 CREDITS 3

1 SCHOOL OF RESISTANCE 4

2 PROGRAM 5

3 PARTICIPANTS 10

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SCHOOL OF RESISTANCE A FILM AND DISCUSSION SERIES

A PROJECT OF IIPM, NTGENT AND AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, BERLIN IN COLLABORATION WITH MEDICO INTERNATIONAL, MERVE VERLAG, EUROPEAN ALTERNATIVES, ECCHR, ALLIANZ KULTURSTIFTUNG AND HOWLROUND THEATRE COMMONS FUNDED BY DIE KULTURSTIFTUNG DES BUNDES AND DIE BUNDESZENTRALE FÜR POLITISCHE BILDUNG CURATED BY MARTIN VALDÉS-STAUBER AND KASIA WOJCIK DRAMATURGIC COLLABORATION: EVA-MARIA BERTSCHY STAGE DESIGN: ANTON LUKAS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: JENS BAUDISCH PRODUCTION: ELISA CALOSI, MASCHA EUCHNER- MARTINEZ, EVA-KAREN TITTMANN PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS: YVEN AUGUSTIN, TOM DE CLERCQ DESIGN: NINA WOLTERS, THOMAS SCHOOFS THE MONTHLY DISCOURSE SERIES "SCHOOL OF RESISTANCE" IS CURATED BY: ELINE BANKEN AND KASIA WOJCIK

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1. SCHOOL OF RESISTANCE

In search of strategies of resistance, Milo Rau, the IIPM (International Institute of Political Murder) and the NTGent have founded the global network School of Resistance, a series of debates streamed live, in May 2020. This symbolic institution for the future is coming to the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, to examine aesthetic practices of resistance. Critically reflecting on existing projects, activists and artists discuss art as a transformative practice that shapes and creates realities.

Milo Rau and the IIPM have been working on and through the internal contradictions of global capitalism for almost 15 years through installations, plays, films, books and political interventions. In- terweaving activism and art leads to an expansion of the range of artistic strategies and, at the same time, contributes to the progressive dissolution Storming the Reichstag (2017) of the boundaries of the concept of art. How can art react to states of crisis? How can it contribute to strategies of resistance? Six cin- ematic works by Milo Rau are the starting point for this investiga- tion: The Last Days of the Ceausescus (2009/10), The Moscow Trials (2014), The General Assembly (2017), The Congo Tribunal (2017), Orestes in Mosul (2020) and The New Gospel (2020). In reflecting back on these works, the "School of Resistance" at the Akademie der Künste examines the conditions of global art production in general and the artistic strategies of the IIPM in particular.

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2. PROGRAM

24.2. – 17:00 School of Resistance - Opening The General Assembly Film by Milo Rau, D/CH 2017, 17 Min., OV. The film series begins with the documentary recordings of the "General Assem- bly" which took place in Berlin in 2017. Akademie member Georg Seeßlen, theatre author and Vice President of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kathrin Röggla, and Milo Rau discuss the intertwining of activism and art.

The General Assembly (2017)

24.2. - 19:00 Film screening followed by discussion (approx. from 20:30) The Last Days of the Ceausescus Film by Milo Rau, D/CH 2009/2010, 72 Min., OVEnS

The images of the sentencing and execution of the Ceausescus in 1989 have left an indelible mark on the collective unconscious as an event making world history. In the winter of 2009/10, the IIPM brought this foundational event in the fall of communism to numerous theatres. The panel following the screening will discuss possible ways of reconstructing and representing the past as well as opportunities for artistic interventions in the present. Together with Eyal Weizmann (Forensic Architecture), Andrei Ujică (director of Videograms The Last Days of the Ceausescus (2009/10) of a Revolution), historian Silvia Sasse and Akademie member Matthias Lilienthal (dramaturge and curator), Milo Rau

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questions the reenactment as a means of coming to terms with the past and the present.

25.2. – 17:00 “The (Im)possible Art"

Together with philosopher Juliane Rebentisch and documentary filmmaker and Academy member Andres Veiel, Milo Rau talks about art as a transformative practice shaping and creating reality.

25.2. – 19:00 Film screening followed by discussion (approx. from 20:30) The Moscow Trials Film by Milo Rau, D/CH 2014, 86 Min., OVEnS

The Moscow Trials (2013) stage the story of a campaign itself staged by the state and the church against inconvenient artists, restaging it with the means of political theatre. The discussion following the screening explores the potential of artistic strategies as an act of revolt. Curator and dramaturge Florian Malzacher, artist and curator Victoria Lomasko, art historian Sandra Frimmel and Academy member Thomas Ostermeier will discuss the possibility and the limits of resistant art based on The Moscow Trials. The Moscow Trials (2012)

26.2. – 16:00 Aesthetics of Resistance - Part I

As activists and artists in their own ways, Edouard Louis, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie and Milo Rau discuss the possibilities and internal contradictions of politically committed art in three short podcasts. The transcribed conversation will be published as a book by L‘Arche Editeur and serve as a basis for a production by Milo Rau together with Édouard Louis. Moderation: Laura Cap- pelle.

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26.2 - 17 Uhr Transnational (In)justice

In search of strategies of resistance, the IIPM/Milo Rau have founded the global network "School of Resistance" as a series of debates streamed live in May 2020. In this tradition, lawyer and deputy legal director of the ECCHR Miriam Saage-Maaß, curator and artist Lara Staal will discuss the opportunities, conditions and problems of transnational justice together with dramaturge Kasia Wojcik.

26.2. – 19:00 Film screening followed by discussion (approx. from 20:30) The Congo Tribunal Film by Milo Rau, D/CH 2017, 100 Min., OVEnS In their film The Congo Tribunal, IIPM/Milo Rau shed light on the background to the war in the Great Lakes region, which has been going on for 20 years and has already claimed over 6 million lives. The Congo Tribunal paints a harrowing and yet analytically profound tableau of a neocolonial world. In the discussion following the screening, Celine Tshizena, one of the lead investigators of the Congo Tribunals, curator and journalist Dorothee The Congo Tribunal (2017) Wenner, choreographer Nora Chipaumire and sociologist Harald Welzer will discuss the conditions of global art production and the significance of artistic strategies of resistance.

27.2 – 16:00 Aesthetics of Resistance - Part II

In the second conversation, Edouard Louis, Geoffroy de Lagas- nerie and Milo Rau discuss the intertwining of activism and art in particular. How do civil society actors contribute to an expansion of artistic strategies? To what extent does engaged art lead to the dissolution of a narrow conception of art? Moderation: Laura Cappelle.

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27.2. – 17:00 Can there be global art?

Choreographer Lia Rodrigues, writer and director Wajdi Mouawad and director Rabih Mroué discuss the challenges of global art production in conversation with Milo Rau.

27.2. – 19:00 Film screening followed by discussion (approx. from 20:30) Orestes in Mosul Film by Milo Rau, D/CH 2020, 72 Min., OVEnS

As does the hero of the Oresteia, the founding myth of Western civilisation dramatized in Aeschylus' class ical trilogy, the tragic hero Orest ends up before a tribunal in Mosul, as well. A multilingual ensemble composed of European and Iraqi actors, an Iraqi drama school class, musicians and amateurs talk about themselves and their life in a destroyed city. In a discussion with cultural theorist and writer Klaus Theweleit, playwright Mohammad Al Attar and actress Susana Orestes in Mosul (2020) Abdul-Majd, dramaturge Eline Banken interrogates the conditions of global art production as well as the significance of artistic strategies of resistance.

28.2. – 16:00 Aesthetics of Resistance - Part III

The third conversation between Edouard Louis, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie and Milo Rau will discuss the departure from the cave: How can activists and artists, the experts of change, build a repertoire (and archive) of strategies of resistance together? Mod- eration: Laura Cappelle.

28.2. – 17:00 The Revolt of Dignity

In search of strategies of resistance, the IIPM/Milo Rau have founded the global network School of Resistance as a series of debates streamed live in May 2020. In this series, writer and activist Yvan Sagnet, philosopher Lorenzo Marsili and activist

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Luca Casarini speak with dramaturge Martin Valdés-Stauber about the internal contradictions of global capitalism and correlated efforts to resist unbearable suffering and oppression.

28.2. – 19:00 Film screening followed by discussion (approx. from 20:30) The New Gospel Film by Milo Rau, D/CH 2020, 107 Min.,OVgeS In The New Gospel, director Milo Rau documents and and stages a "Revolt of Dignity". Led by political activist Yvan Sagnet, the movement fights for the rights of refugees who arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean only to be enslaved in tomato fields and live in ghettos in southern Italy. After the screening, actress Maia Morgenstern, writer and activist Yvan Sagnet, photojournalist Erik Marquardt (Member of the European

Parliament) and Academy member Georg The New Gospel (2020) Seeßlen discuss artistic strategies of resistance.

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3. DISKUTANT*INNEN

Susana AbdulMajid is an actress. After studying drama and cultural studies, she first performed as a street theater artist throughout Germany, taught at the Goethe Institute, and worked in various centers for asylum seekers, performing choruses in Ara- bic and German with women from Syria and Iraq. From 2014 to 2016, she was part of the collective Zentrum für Politische Schön- heit. She is a co-founder of the cultural format Poetry Nights Ber- lin. In 2018 she starred in the film JIBRIL by Henrika Kull, for which she was nominated for the Götz-George-Nachwuchspreis as well as the German Acting Award for Best Actress. In 2018/19 she toured Europe with Milo Rau's production of Orestes in Mosul.

Mohammad Al Attar is a Syrian playwright and essayist. He has been involved with the Syrian revolution and the related conflicts since 2011. He holds a literature degree from Damascus University and later received a master's degree in applied theater from Gold- smiths University in London. He is considered an important con- temporary chronicler of Syria during the civil war and lives in Ber- lin.

Eline Banken is dramaturge at NTGent (Ghent, Belgium). She has a master degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Antwerp and has recently taken on a training in Philosophy. As a dramaturge, she has been involved in several productions by a.o. Milo Rau, Lies Pauwels, and Lara Staal. Currently, she's co-curating the livestream debate series School of Resistance.

Laura Cappelle is journalist and publisher. She writes about theatre and dance for the Guardian, the Financial Times and the New York Times.

Luca Casarini is an activist and publicist. He was an advisor to Social Solidarity Minister Livia Turco in the first Prodi government. In 2014, he narrowly missed entering the European Parliament. In March 2019, he led an operation of the ship Mar Jonio in the framework of civilian rescue at sea, when it picked up 49 migrants near the Libyan coast.

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Nora Chipaumire is a choreographer and performer. Since 1998, her artistic work has addressed stereotypes of Africa and the Black body, embracing and simultaneously challenging them. Since 2012, she has been working on the long-term project Nhaka, which designates the technology, practice and process of her artistic work. In this context, she published a digital book based on her research with Anna Morris' tumbuka dance company and Shona masters in Harare. She is a Guggenheim Fellow (class of 2018) and a three-time Bessie Award winner. Sandra Frimmel is an art historian who obtained her P.h.D. from the University of Zurich with a work on court cases against art, artists and curators in Russia after perestroika. She works as a project manager at the artasfoundation in Zurich, a foundation dedicated to peacebuilding through art projects in the South Cau- casus especially. Her research focuses on Russian art from the 19th to the 21st century, and art in relation to power, law, and society.

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie a French philosopher and sociologist. He has been a professor of philosophy at the École nationale supéri- eure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise since 2013. Together with writer and sociologist Édouard Louis, he belongs to a circle of Parisian intellectuals who have raised attention in the French public sphere with actions for gay rights, against a newly arising xenophobia and most recently through their support of Comité Adama, founded by Assa Traoré. He is the editor of the collection à venir at Fayard and blogs for the online daily newspaper Médiapart.

Matthias Lilienthal is a dramaturge and curator. Between 1991 and 1998 he was main dramaturge and deputy artistic director at Frank Castorf's Volksbühne in Berlin, which decisively shaped. In 2002 and 2014, he was program director of the festival Theater der Welt. In 2003, Lilienthal took over the three Kreuzberg thea- ters Hebbel-Theater, Theater am Halleschen Ufer and Theater am Ufer as artistic and managing director and merged them into the three venues of the Hebbel am Ufer (HAU). After his first HAU season, the theater was named Theatre of the Year 2004 in the Thea- ter heute critics' poll, and he received the same award in 2012 for his last season at HAU. From 2015 to 2020, Lilienthal was artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele, which were also voted Theatre of the Year in 2019 and 2020. He has been a member of the Akademie der Künste since 1999.

Victoria Lomasko is an artist and curator. She developed the genre of graphic reportage and creates graphic works about politi-

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cal trials in Moscow and social processes that shape modern Rus- sia. In 2003, she graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing (MGUP) with a major in book arts. In addition to her artistic and research work on social graphics, Lomaski volunteers as an instructor in drawing for the Center for Support of the Criminal Justice Reform. In Germany, Lomasko gained notoriety for the publication of the graphic novel Verbotene Kunst. Her works have won many awards. In 2014, the internet platform Artgid named her one of the twenty most influential artists in Russian art. Édouard Louis is a French writer. His autobiographical debut novel The End of Eddy, in which he recounts his childhood and escape from socially precarious circumstances in a village in north- ern France caused quite a stir in 2015. The book became an international bestseller and made Louis a literary shooting star. His second novel, History of Violence, was published in 2016 and is being adapted for the screen. Édouard Louis’ books have been published in 30 countries. In the summer of 2018, he was Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he coined the term "confrontational literature". At the same time, Thomas Ostermeier adapted Louis’ History of Violence for his production Im Herzen der Gewalt for the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin. Édouard Louis lives in Paris.

Florian Malzacher is a freelance curator, dramaturge and author. After working as a theatre critic (e.g. for Theater Heute, Frankfur- ter Rundschau, and the taz), he was head dramaturge/curator of the festival steirischer herbst in Graz from 2006 to 2012. From 2013 to 2017, he was artistic director of the Impulse Theatre Fes- tival (Düsseldorf, Cologne and Mülheim/Ruhr). As a dramaturge, he has worked with Rimini Protokoll, Lola Arias, Mariano Pensotti or Nature Theater of Oklahoma, among others. Florian Malzacher is the editor and author of numerous essays and books on theatre and performance art, as well as on the relationship between art and politics. Most recently, he published Gesellschaftsspiele. Politi- cal Theatre Today (2020).

Erik Marquardt is member of the European Parliament (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and photojournalist. He was spokesman for the Green Youth and has been a member of the party council of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen since November 2015. Since the 2019 Eu- ropean elections, he is a member of the European Parliament as part of the Greens/EFA group. As a photojournalist, Marquardt has made multiple trips along refugee routes and to Afghanistan and presented his images and experiences in lectures nationwide. He

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participated in the Sea-Eye relief mission and was able to help over 1,000 people on the Mediterranean.

Lorenzo Marsili is a philosopher, author, and political activist working for a future beyond the nation-state. He is co-founder of the transnational NGO European Alternatives and was one of the initiators of the pan-European movement DiEM25. He earned his degrees in philosophy and sinology from the University of London and currently serves on the board of the global NGO CIVICUS.

Maia Morgenstern Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress. Florin Mitu of AMOS News describes her as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film". In the English-speaking world, she is best known for the role of the Virgin Mary in Mel Gibson's The Pas- sion of the Christ. She collaborated with Milo Rau in EMPIRE (2014) and THE NEW GOSPEL (2020).

Wajdi Mouawad, born on 16 October 1968 in Dair al- Qamar/Lebanon, is a Canadian playwright and theatre director. He writes in French. Mouawad directed the Centre national des Arts in Ottawa, Canada from 2007 to 2012, served as artistic advisor for the Festival d'Avignon in 2009, and in the same capacity for the GrandT-Nantes since 2011. In France, Mouawad has been awarded numerous prizes. Since 2016, he has directed the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris.

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, visual artist and writer. He works at the interface of performance and visual art. In his performances, he often combines real everyday materials with fiction- al narratives that he develops himself as an author and writer of his performances, combining aesthetic and political research. Rabih Mroué is the editor of the journal The Drama Review / TDR (New York) as well as co-founder of the Beirut Art Center Associa- tion (BAC). His works include Borborygmus (2019), Kill the Audi- ence (2018), Sand in the eyes (2017), Rima Kamel (2017), Ode to Joy (2015), Riding on a clou“, (2013), 33 RPM and a Few Seconds (2012), The Pixelated revolution (2012), The Inhabitants of images (2008), Who’s Afraid of Representation (2005).

Thomas Ostermeier is a director and artistic director of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin (since 1999). After studying directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin, he became artistic director of the Baracke of the Deutsches Theater, which was named Theater of the Year in 1998. Among numerous other awards, he has received the Golden Lion of the Venice Bien- nale in 2011 for his life's work, and the degree of Commandant

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dans l'Ordre des Art et des Lettres in 2015. His multiple award- winning productions tour the world. On 9.2.2021, he has received the GOGOL CENTER PLAKETTE from Kirill Srebrennikov, with whom he has a long-standing collaboration.

Milo Rau born in 1977 in Berne, Switzerland, is a director and author. He has been the artistic director at NTGent in Belgium since the 2018/19 season. Rau studied sociology as well as Ger- man and Romance language and literature in Paris, Berlin and Zur- ich under scholars including Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov. Critics have called him, among other things, the ‘most influential’ (Die Zeit), ‘most distinguished’ (Le Soir), ‘most interesting’ (De Standaard), ‘most controversial’ (La Repubblica), ‘most scandal- ous’ (New York Times) and ‘most ambitious’ (The Guardian) artist of our time. His output since 2002 encompasses over fifty plays, films, books and initiatives. His theatre productions have been staged at all major international festivals, including the Berliner Theatertreffen, the Festival d’Avignon, the Biennale di Venezia, the Wiener Festwochen and the Brussels Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and have toured to over thirty countries worldwide. Rau has been hon- oured with many awards, such as the 2017 3sat-Preis, the 2017 Saarbrücker Poetik-Dozentur für Dramatik and, as the youngest artist since Frank Castorf and Pina Bausch, the prestigious Welttheatertag’s ITI-Preis in 2016. In 2017 Milo Rau was chosen ‘theatre director of the year’ in the survey conducted by Die Deutsche Bühne, in 2018 he received the Europe Theatre Prize for his lifetime achievement and in 2019 he was named, as the very first artist, Associated Artist of EASTAP, the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance. He was awarded honor- ary doctorates from Lund University (Malmö) in 2019 and Ghent University in 2020. In 2020 he received the renowned Münsteraner Poetikdozentur for his oeuvre, and his plays have been selected among the ‘best of the year’ in critics’ polls in over ten countries. In September 2020, the book "Why Theatre?" was published, in which Rau asked 100 leading intellectuals and artists from all over the world to answer this question. Milo Rau is currently staging "La Clemenza di Tito" in Geneva - Mozart's last opera and Rau's first. Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach and has been a member of the faculty at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research since 2014. She was Vice President of the HfG Offenbach from 2014 to 2020 and President of the German Society for Aesthetics from 2015 to 2018. Her most recent publications are Theories of the Present (2017) and Aesthetics of Installation (2018).

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Lia Rodrigues is a choreographer. She studied classical ballet and history at the University of São Paulo and worked for several years in Maguy Marin's company in France. In 1990, she founded the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças. Rodrigues has always combined her artistic work with social commitment. This concern culminated in 2004 in the decision to move the center of her company's work to the Favela Maré on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The cultural center and dance school she founded there are now central institu- tions in an area ignored by the city administration. Kathrin Röggla is a writer. She has been active in the literary sphere since 1988. After moving to Berlin in 1992, she wrote her first novels, as well as works of short prose. Since 1998, she has also been writing and producing works for the radio - radio plays, acoustic installations, net radio- both in collaboration with Bayrischer Rundfunk and as a member of the net radio collective convextv. Since 2002, she has also been writing theater texts. She has been a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 2012 and vice president since 2015. Miriam Saage-Maaß is a lawyer and vice legal director at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), where she coordinates the Business and Human Rights program. She has worked on various cases against corporations, including proceedings against Lidl relating to the exploitation of workers in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and against companies trading in cotton picked by forced child labor in Uzbekistan.

Sylvia Sasse teaches Slavic literary studies at the University of Zurich and is a co-founder and member of the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK). She is editor of novinki and of the online journal Geschichte der Gegenwart.

Yvan Sagnet is an activist. In 2011, he became the spokesman for the farm workers' strike at Boncuri Farm in Nardó. He worked as a trade unionist for the agricultural workers’ union FLAI-CGIL and is one of the founders of the international anti-caporalato association NO-CAP. In 2017, Yvan Sagnet was awarded the Italian Medal of Merit "Cavaliere dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica" by Italian President Sergio Mattarella. In The New Gospel, Yvan per- forms as himself and as Jesus Christ.

Georg Seeßlen is an author, journalist, cineaste, and film and cultural critic with a special focus on film and media culture. He was a lecturer at various universities in Germany and abroad and currently works as a freelance author for Die Zeit, Frankfurter

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Rundschau, taz, epd-Film, Freitag and others. He has also au- thored numerous books on cinema. Seeßlen has been a member of the Akademie der Künste since 2013. Lara Staal is a researcher, writer and curator. Between 2013 and 2016, she worked as a programmer for the theater producer Fras- cati where she developed various projects between art and other fields on the basis of shared urgencies (e.g. International Law, whose Law? or Out of State). Since 2017 she has been working as a freelance curator in realm of the performing arts and has real- ized projects such as The Evening of Anger (together with rapper Gideon Everduim) and Europe on Trial (together with human rights activist Yoonis Osman Nuur). In addition to her work as curator and programmer, she writes for professional journals such as rekto:verso, Theatermaker, Mister Motley and Etcetera. Since 2018, she is involved at NTGent with various artistic projects. Klaus Theweleit is a writer, university lecturer and cultural theorist. Between 1998 and 2008, Theweleit was Professor of Art and Theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. His 1977 dis- sertation Freikorpsliteratur. Vom deutschen Nachkrieg 1918-1923 (Free Corps Literature. On the German Postwar 1918-1923) was the basis for the two-volume, extensively and unusually illustrated monumental work Männerphantasien (Male Fantasies). The book examines soldierly and fascist literature and asks the ever topical question of how a person can become a Nazi or a soldier ready to kill.

Celine Tshizena is a human rights activist and lawyer. She participated in the "Congo Tribunal" of the IIPM (2015) as an investiga- tor. In the following years, she continued the investigations, most recently in relation to the Swiss giant Glencore, which operates two of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world in the Ka- tanga region in the south of the D.R. Congo. In over 20 hearings of witnesses and experts, she investigated the responsibility of political elites, multinational companies and the international community in a series of human rights violations, cases of envi- ronmental pollution and corruption.

Andrei Ujică is a Romanian screenwriter and director. In 2010, Ujică was invited to the 63rd Film Festival of Cannes with his mov- ie »Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu«. Since 2001, Ujicǎ is a professor for film at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He is the founder and director of the ZKM (centre for art and media Karlsruhe) Film Institute in 2002.

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Martin Valdés-Stauber is a dramaturge and sociologist. After studying economics and sociology in Munich, Friedrichshafen and Berkeley, he completed a research master at the University of Cambridge on issues of flight and migration. He then joined the Münchner Kammerspiele as a dramaturg in 2017, which was voted "Theatre of the Year" in 2019 and 2020 under the artistic direction of Matthias Lilienthal. He has worked with Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Philippe Quesne, Rimini Protokoll, Rabih Mroué and Pro- dromos Tsinikoris, among others. As a dramaturge, Martin Valdés- Stauber devotes himself to international collaborations, projects in public space, the interface "Arts meet Technology" and alliances with civil society. Andres Veiel is a director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most distinguished representatives of a politically engaged art. He develops his own screenplays and films for the cinema and has received more than 50 national and international awards. In addition, Veiel writes and directs for the theater, including at the Theater Basel, the Schauspiel Stuttgart, the Gorki Theater and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. His plays and productions have toured numerous places (including the Theatertreffen Berlin), have been translated into more than ten languages, and have won numerous awards. He is a member of the European as well as the German Film Academy and the Academy of Arts since 2007.

Eyal Weizman is the founding director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, Univer- sity of London. He has held positions in many universities worldwide including the University of Princeton, ETH Zurich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court and the Centre for Investigative Journalism. In 2019 he was elected life fellow of the British Academy and appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). In 2020 he was elected the Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Bosch Academy. Harald Welzer is a sociologist, social psychologist, the director of Futurzwei - Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit and professor of transfor- mational design at the University of Flensburg. He also teaches at the University of St. Gallen.

Dorothee Wenner is a curator, critic and filmmaker. She studied German and History at the University of Hamburg and began her career as a freelance journalist, author and filmmaker in 1985. Since 1990 she has been a member of the selection committee of the International Forum of Young Cinema / Berlinale. In 2007 and

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2008 she directed the Talent Campus of the Berlinale. Her own films include DramaConsult (D 2012) and PEACE MISSION (D 2008). Kasia Wojcik Wojcik is a theatre professional, poet and activist. Medical studies and the humanities. Research stay in Santiago de Chile. She is a member of the artist collective “Staub zu Glitzer” and worked with the director Gesine Danckwart as well as for the Performing Arts Programm of LAFT Berlin. She is a board member of the “European Alternatives” and since 2016 a committed progressive activist for transnational solidarity. Since 2017 she is part of the IIPM – International Institute of Political Murder/Milo Rau. As a dramaturg she was involved in General Assembly, The New Gospel and School of Resistance.

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