Movie evening on May 18, 6 PM: “Green is the Heath”
Framework program for the special exhibition
“Starting anew, but how? Espelkamp and other ‘refugee cities’ in the 1950s”
On Saturday, May 18, 2024, the German Emigration Center invites you at 6 PM to a free movie evening followed by a discussion round in the in-house Roxy cinema of the migration museum. In the context of the current special exhibition “Starting anew, but how? Espelkamp and other ‘refugee cities’ in the 1950s”, the film “Green is the Heath” from 1951 will be shown. Afterward, the exhibition curator Isabella Pianto and Marie Grüter, a research associate at the DAH, will speak with Kerstin von Freytag Löringhoff and Rüdiger Ritter from the 50s Museum in Bremerhaven about the film. The audience is also warmly invited to join the discussion: What does the film say about flight and displacement? What does it tell us about how these issues were dealt with in the young Federal Republic? These are the central questions posed about the film against the backdrop of the special exhibition.
The film “Green is the Heath”, released in 1951, directed by Hans Deppe, was one of the most popular films of the young Federal Republic. Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack starred as the iconic on-screen couple of the early 1950s. The film, set in the Lüneburg Heath and addressing the current theme of displaced persons, is considered genre-defining and emerged during the golden age of the so-called German Heimatfilm.
Date: May 18, 2024, 6:00 PM · Roxy Cinema of the German Emigration Center
(Entrance via ACOMIS)
Admission is free. Due to limited seating, registration at info@dah-bremerhaven.de or 0 471 / 90 22 00 is recommended.