Ruth Beckermann [German-language Edition] Children's & teenage literature studies From tempting canapes and inspiring

From tempting canapes and inspiring salads to comforting suppers and indulgent cakes

the weight of a few coins in the hand

desperate for a community of her own

the menorah chief among them

this book distills just the clinical strategies

Ruth Beckermann [German-language Edition] Children's & teenage literature studies From tempting canapes and inspiringWith her documentaries and essay films since the late 1970s, Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann has created an exciting and widely recognized body of personal political cinema. Her work reflects on the relations between history and contemporaneity, on her life as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria and Europe, and on travelling and migration as modes of staying alive literally as well as artistically. Beckermann's films speak about identity conflicts