Irmi Horn (Dipl.Päd.in) Künstlerische Leitung und Geschäftsführung Irmi Horn
As part of kunstGarten’s ongoing series “Women’s Empowerment”, Irmi Horn reads excerpts from the German translation of “Too Many Men” (2001). (Translation: Melanie Walz, Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-216-30508-2) and compares the literature with the film.
“Too Many Men” was filmed in 2024 by director Julia von Heinz.
Ruth Rothwax is in her early forties, staunchly single and notoriously on a diet. she torments herself while jogging whenever she finds time for it as the head of a correspondence office, as typical for many New Yorkers in 1991. But Ruth, daughter of two Jewish Auschwitz survivors, grew up in Australia and only later moved to New York. Questions arising from her European roots give her no rest, and thus, after the fall of the Berlin wall she decides to travel to Poland with her widowed father Edek and together they go in search of clues. It is a journey to the places of his past and a deep immersion in the traumas of the second generation, into the speechlessness and the unspoken, and into deep love between father and daughter.
About the author:
Lily Brett OAM (born 5. September 1946 in Feldafing; born Lilijahne Breitstein; also Luba Brajsztajn) is an Australian-American writer. She was born in Feldafing. Her parents, who at that time lived in the DP camp Feldafing (at Lake Starnberg), a camp for displaced persons, had survived an odyssey as Jews through various forced labor camps. They had married in the forced ghetto Litzmannstadt, were separated in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and found each other again after the liberation. In 1948, the family emigrated to Australia.
(from Wikipedia)
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