Apr 7, 2021
In this episode of Radio GDR East Germany podcast, Steve Minegar
speaks with Dr. Claudia Sandberg. a film scholar and filmmaker at
the University of Melbourne in Australia and a colleague of Katrin
Bahr.
Born in the GDR and raised watching DEFA films, Claudia’s research
focuses on migration and mobility in European and Latin American
film, Cold War memory and archives. Part of her interest concerns
Chile and Chileans in East German feature films and documentaries
during the 1970s and 1980s. Among other works, she made the
documentary Hidden Films: A Journey
between Exile and Memory (Vimeo password included with the
hyperlink) in 2016 together with Argentine filmmaker Alejandro
Areal Vélez. This project was co-funded by the Berlin-based DEFA
foundation.