In the interview podcast Café Exil, host Shelly Kupferberg welcomes prominent figures from film, literature, art and culture and talks with them about questions of exile in history and the present: about the relationship to one’s homeland, identity, democracy and human rights.
Extraordinary voices from a range of fields have their say:
Director Christian Petzold talks about his film “Transit,” based on Anna Seghers’ novel of exile of the same name, about Marseille as a place of waiting, and about characters who are “cast out of the world.”
Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller reflects on dictatorship, language, homeland and the need to make experiences of exile visible.
Artist Parastou Forouhar speaks about her home country of Iran, the murder of her parents by the Iranian secret service, and art as resistance against forgetting.
Princess Konstanza zu Löwenstein talks about her parents’ escape from National Socialism, their commitment in exile, and how it shaped her life as well.
In very different ways, the conversations revolve around questions of loss and belonging, homeland and foreignness, memory and responsibility. They show that exile leaves ruptures, opens up new perspectives and raises fundamental questions about freedom, democracy and human dignity.
The podcast is hosted by the renowned journalist and author Shelly Kupferberg. For more than 20 years, she has addressed topics related to culture, civil society, democracy, migration and the culture of remembrance in her journalistic work.
Café Exil is a joint production of the Exilmuseum Foundation and the
