The Eternal Anti-Semite (film)
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| Original title | The eternal anti-Semite |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 80 minutes |
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| Director | Joachim Schroeder |
| script |
Henryk M. Broder , Joachim Schroeder |
| production | Joachim Schroeder, Preview Production GbR (Munich) |
| camera | Mathias Benzing, Florian Krauss, Stefan Skwara, Sophie Hafner |
| cut | Sophie Hafner, Sina Jüngst, Tobias Streck |
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The Eternal Anti-Semite (subtitle: The Story of an Unrequited Love ) is a documentary by the film producer and director Joachim Schroeder and the journalist and writer Henryk M. Broder . The film was made in 2017 parallel to the controversial work of Schroeder's Chosen and Excluded - The Hate of Jews in Europe , which was originally produced for WDR , which was controversially discussed in the media and in public . The first broadcast of the documentary, designed as a road movie , was on November 8, 2017 on Bavarian television . The film and the film title go back to the 1986 book Der Ewige Antisemit by Henryk M. Broder. Actors include Henryk M. Broder, the Dutch writer and filmmaker Leon de Winter , the German - Egyptian political scientist and publicist Hamed Abdel-Samad and Schroeder himself.
action
Henryk M. Broder embarks on a journey from Dresden via Paris up to Malmö in Sweden . The aim of his road trip is to take stock of Jewish life in Europe today . In doing so, he asks himself and the people who accompany him and whom he meets and seeks out on the way, including the fundamental question of the origin of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism and also talks about what the current immigration from Muslim countries has for Jewish culture in Europe means. He is accompanied by his longtime friends Leon de Winter and Hamed Abdel-Samad.
In the first few sequences of the film, Broder recalls the journey they made with Abdel-Samad five years earlier in a brightly painted Volvo for the political satrie series Entweder Broder . Both were accompanied by Broder's late West Highland Terrier bitch Wilma, whose role is now taken on by Broder's mixed breed dog Chico, who, like Wilma, is assigned a role in the film. A look back shows Broder giving a laudation to Abdel-Samad, who receives a prize from the Düsseldorf Jewish Community and is accompanied by the German- Israeli author and psychologist Ahmad Mansour . Broder reports that a fatwa has now been imposed on Abdel-Samad because he had accepted an award from a Jewish community and since then he has only been able to move around the clock in the company of bodyguards in Europe. Broder asks himself what all this means for Germany and Europe and what effects this has on “the handful of Jews in Germany”.
The first stage of the journey takes Broder to Dresden, where he meets for a chat with his old friend Leon de Winter in a café. They talk humorously about what it means to be Jewish in Europe these days and realize that they may belong to the last generation that grew up knowing the old Jewish community. You ask yourself what happened in a very short time, where before there was talk about can deposit and waste separation and today the reality of life questions such as the compatibility of Sharia and human rights would flow into one's own everyday life. They come to the conclusion that one should not be afraid of acting unethically, but that it is legitimate to make judgments and make differences (between culture, values and traditions). Free thinking would be limited if one avoided these evaluations out of fear. The two part with the request that everything should and should be questioned.
Broder then visits the Jewish quarter of the Marais in Paris, in which only a few Jews still live and where tourists dominate the streetscape, next to small, heavily armed units of the French army that patrol there following the attack on the Bataclan in November 2015. He meets, among others, the Jew Alain Korcarz, who is also of Polish origin and who has taken over a coffee house from his parents who emigrated to Paris from Poland shortly after the war, which is continued in the Jewish tradition and which is exemplary for the Jewish residents of the Marais. Broder meets several French Jews with whom he philosophizes about their self-image as Jews.
Back in Germany, Broder meets Abdel-Samad, who is accompanied by four bodyguards from the Federal Police . Broder answers the rhetorical question of what Hamad has done wrong, that he can no longer move freely in Germany, by interpreting the Koran differently than the Muslim Brotherhood . Since neither Broder nor Abdel-Samad want to drive the car, Joachim Schroeder gets behind the wheel and chauffeurs the two of them, escorted by the heavy police limousines and heavily guarded, to Naumburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
Naumburg you are looking to the local Court of Appeal, which a year earlier in the third instance of the due Holocaust denial condemned former SPD - local politicians and today's NPD -Funktionär Hans Püschel was acquitted. Broder and Schroeder had asked the court whether someone would be willing to explain the judgment to them, which was answered negatively.
They then meet with Püschel in a garden bar. Broder and Abdel-Samad discuss with Püschel why he called the mass extermination of the Jews a "fairy tale" and a "myth". In the conversation, Püschel insists that the murder of the Jews, for example in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, never took place and justifies this with the technical impossibility. When Abdel-Samad interjects that Püschel offends the children of murdered Jews very much when he confronts them with such allegations as eyewitnesses to the murder of their parents, Püschel explains that it was claimed that the children were also murdered, and asks the question as they could report as eyewitnesses. Broder states that now even Chico is bad and it is better to get up and go. It remains inexplicable how one could “acquit this man”.
Affected and with the usual sarcasm, Broder and Abdel-Samad talk about the encounter in the car as they drive on. Broder then drives on to Regensburg alone with Schroeder . Slightly upset, he explains to Schroeder that they should both stop looking for the causes of anti-Semitism because there is no explanation. In addition, some of the Jews believed that they themselves were the cause. Broder refers to Christian theologians and philosophers who claimed that anti-Semitism is always a harbinger of another calamity. In the conversation Broder refers to the left-wing politician Diether Dehm , who is of the opinion that the term anti-Semitism should be reserved for the Holocaust and should not be used outside of this definition. Broder explains that Dehm is giving today's anti-Semitism a carte blanche.
Schroeder and Broder continue to Hildesheim to the University of Applied Science and Art . You will visit the Faculty of Social Work and Health, where there was a seminar on the social situation of young people in Palestine , which is now being discussed and discussed in a panel discussion under the aspect of anti-Semitic content. Broder and Chico sit down in the audience and follow the discussion. Students had brought their criticism of this anti-Israel and anti-Jewish content to the faculty management, which only reacted after the media reported on the allegations. Christiane Dienel , the president of the university, defends the seminar and its contents, whereupon Broder speaks up from the audience. He starts an open argument with Dienel and accuses her of the naivety and "anti-Semitic contamination that has taken place with you." Broder sums up the event, which he leaves visibly concerned, with the realization: "In a country where one had no trouble It is difficult to determine what a Jew is by recognizing anti-Semitism. You can't. Or you don't want to. "
Back in Munich, Abdel-Samad joins them again and they visit Florian Gleibs, the operator of the former Jewish restaurant Schmock . Hamed describes on the trip that the real scandal is not that his freedom is taken away if he is constantly accompanied by bodyguards and has to plan every step, but that people in Germany ask him if he is not could do without once again publishing a book with the tenor that the Koran is a man-made book. At the table Gleibs explains why he closed his Jewish restaurant. People from the educated, well-off middle class would have held him liable on behalf of the State of Israel. Broder closes the encounter with the thought that anti-Zionism has long since arrived in the middle of the German population.
A flashback leads back to the conversation at the table with Leon de Winter. Leon states that it is unacceptable for leftists to defend themselves. Better to perish. Something tragic happened to the left. Broder sums up the conversation ironically with the view of the left: Jews who live in Israel are responsible for the misfortune of the Palestinians. If they had stayed where they came from, there would be no Middle East conflict today . Jews who lived in Europe were still responsible for the misfortune of the Palestinians because they showed solidarity with Israel.
The next stage shows Broder and Chico on a ferry crossing to Malmö. He received a message from the head of the “Department for Combating Democracy and Hate Crimes” of the Malmö police. She cancels the agreed appointment for an interview with the film team without good reason. When the ferry arrives, Broder meets Abdel-Samad again, who is also in Sweden accompanied by police personnel. You will visit downtown Malmö and a synagogue there . The American rabbi explains that for most Jews in Malmö it is no longer an option to let their children grow up here. He himself had experienced specific hostility and attacks on the street. Broder notices the synagogue's bulletproof glass. When Abdel-Samad asked, it had become part of the daily routine to always look around and plan what to do. The visit to a Jewish teacher of Hungarian origin shows, according to his descriptions, that the migrants brought their conflicts with them from their countries of origin, which makes coexistence difficult. The teacher reports on shootings and gang wars. He talks about his pupils who showed the Hitler salute in class when they were 11 years old and that hatred of Jews was instilled in them. The scheduled meeting with the mayor of Malmö is also canceled at short notice by her office. You don't want to see the film team anymore. Broder and Abdel-Samad wonder how they should report in a balanced way if they only got to know the perspective of the “offended Jews”. The visit to Malmö ends with a meeting with the security manager of the Jewish community in Malmö.
At the end of the film, Broder looks for a good final word like “Hope dies last”. Schroeder and Broder let Leon de Winter have their say, who says: “What did our parents and ancestors love this Europe? The bourgeois ideal. Few groups have embraced this with so much devotion when, in the early 19th century, the doors of the ghettos were opened, obsessed, and incredibly hungry. I think we are currently experiencing the final phase of Jewish existence in Europe. It was actually a love that was never answered. I think in forty or fifty years there will actually be no more Jews in Europe. ”Before the credits roll, Broder and de Winter look deep into each other's eyes, sad and concerned.
background
The documentary The Eternal Anti-Semite was created parallel to the film Chosen and Excluded - The Hatred of Jews in Europe . The film does not see itself as an inventory, but as a snapshot of Jewish life in Europe.
When asked by the Jüdische Allgemeine why the film was being broadcast on Bavarian television and not, for example, on the Arte channel , Broder replied: “At Arte, I wouldn't even dispose of my old tea bags. Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) is a different number. They let us do it. ”The broadcaster Arte, together with WDR Schroeders, did not broadcast the previous report on anti-Semitism because of alleged one-sidedness.
The documentation is available until September 28, 2020 in the media library of Bayerischer Rundfunk and can also be viewed on YouTube . '' The Eternal Anti-Semite '' was neither discussed nor reviewed in the usual media. A similarly controversial public debate as on the film `` Chosen and Ostracized '' did not take place on this topic-related documentary. The film was not mentioned in the press.
Henryk M. Broder plays in the first feature film Schroeders, Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! , which will appear in spring 2019, in the role of a journalist.
Quotes
«Our film only has 90 minutes. But I can say it in one sentence. Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are part of the European DNA. It has always been, still is and will continue to exist. He just changes his costume. " (Henryk M. Broder, from an interview on the film)
«If I were a horse, I would write about horses. But because I am a Jew, I write about Jews. " (Leon de Winter, quote in the film)
“It's funny: there are two Jews sitting at a table in Dresden and talking about how sad it is that Germany has given up. [...] It's completely absurd. Did we smoke or something? " (Broder an de Winter, quote in the film)
“Large parts of the progressive political milieu are contaminated. I think you really encounter more anti-Semites at the party congress of the left than at the Oktoberfest. " (Broder zu Schroeder on the way after the panel discussion in Hildesheim, quote in the film)
“What I learned today is: there is anti-Semitism, but it has decreased. Because the Jews either emigrate or hide their Star of David and do not show themselves to be Jews. Thank God!" (Abdel-Samad cynically on his way home from Malmö, quote in the film)
“In a country where one has had no trouble determining what a Jew is, it is difficult to recognize anti-Semitism. You can't. Or you don't want to. (Broder in the film, after attending the panel discussion)
«What did our parents and ancestors love this Europe? The bourgeois ideal. Few groups have embraced this with so much devotion when, in the early 19th century, the doors of the ghettos were opened, obsessed, and incredibly hungry. I think we are currently experiencing the final phase of Jewish existence in Europe. It was actually a love that was never answered. I think in forty or fifty years there will actually be no more Jews in Europe. " (Leon de Winter, quote in the film)
“And I don't know why this topic has to be an issue until today. It annoys me all the more that in truth the majority of people don't care. Anti-Semitism is perceived as an annoying topic that, in case of doubt, has to be dealt with on memorial days. " (Joachim Schroeder on the film)
Web links
- The eternal anti-Semite in the BR media library
- The eternal anti-Semite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anti-Semitism film - "It has a very clear propaganda line" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Juden-Hass - BILD shows the documentary that ARTE does not want to show . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ The eternal anti-Semite. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Fatwa against Hamed Abdel Samad: The Sheikh's Fatwa Wahn . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ n-tv news: Salafist calls fatwa against Germans . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
- ^ Frank Brunner: Püschel party conversion: How an SPD mayor became an NPD icon . In: Spiegel Online . January 30, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Patrick Bahners: acquittal for NPD politicians: The Holocaust as a "bad fairy tale" . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 25, 2018]).
- ^ NDR: acquittal for Holocaust deniers. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Querfront: Anti-Semitism is a German tradition . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Left Party: The unassailable Diether Dehm . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
- ^ Tribunal for a university president. Retrieved November 25, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Heiko Jacobs: Freedom of Research or Hate Propaganda? In: Weekly newspaper for politics, culture, religion and Jewish life | Jewish general . September 16, 2016 ( juedische-allgemeine.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
- ^ Alan Posener: HAWK Hildesheim: Anti-Semitic Propaganda in the seminar “Social Situation of Young People in Palestine” . In: THE WORLD . November 14, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Munich restaurant "Schmock" closes - "Jew hatred has become socially acceptable again" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Jewish landlord pulls rip cord and closes his Schmock . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ DWDL.de GmbH: "The freedom of producers to be restricted" - DWDL.de . In: DWDL.de . ( dwdl.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Philipp Peyman Engel: "Hatred of Jews is part of Europe's DNA" . In: Weekly newspaper for politics, culture, religion and Jewish life | Jewish general . November 7, 2017 ( juedische-allgemeine.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
- ^ Programm.ARD.de - ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany: The eternal anti-Semite. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
- ↑ «The Eternal Anti-Semite» - Broder's classic now as a documentary film . In: something different . November 10, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed November 25, 2018]).