Panel Participants:

Rüdiger Suchsland studied history, philosophy and political science. Today he works as an author, curator and filmmaker. His latest work is "Hitler's Hollywood. German Cinema in the Age of Propaganda 1933-1945" For a long time editor of artechock (www.artechock.de) - he calls himself a "cultural activist".

Alexandra Gramatke worked as a freelance translator in the field of literature and documentary film after studying Slavic studies and modern German literature. Since 1994 she has been a member of thede, a Hamburg-based collective of documentary filmmakers. Here she realized her own films such as "20 Geigen auf St. Pauli". She has also worked as a production manager and editor. Since 2008 she has been managing director of the Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg. In the context of this activity, she put together short film programs for festivals, Goethe Institutes and many more. From 2009 to 2017 she headed the selection group of the German Competition of the Short Film Festival Hamburg.