The Rhine Flows to the Mediterranean Sea · A Film by Offer Avnon
On the Film
The texts marked with [*] are suitable
for a more in-depth discussion of the film
after viewing it.
Silvia Richter
Ambivalent neighborhoods
Changing Cultures of Remembrance
About Offer Avnon's documentary The Rhine Flows to the Mediterranean Sea (Israel 2021) *
This text appeared in the volume Religion and Politics. Or: What Holds Europe Together, edited by Martin W. Ramb and Holger Zaborowski, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2026, in the series Koordinaten Europas, Vol. 3.
The book and further information are available directly from Wallstein Verlag (German).
https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835359079-religion-und-politik.html
Download: [Ambivalent Neighbourhoods] (German)
The Rhine flows to the Mediterranean Sea
Author: Laura Ross *
In the summer term of 2024, the film *The Rhine Flows into the Mediterranean* formed part of the seminar *Topics in Jewish Ethics in the Modern Era*, led by Dr Silvia Richter at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Philosophy student and seminar participant Laura Ross chose to write her term paper about the film. Thanks to her kind permission, the paper can be made available here as a PDF document.
Download: [The Rhine flows to the Mediterranean Sea] (German)
School screening
Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium Bad Tölz
Bettina Brunner
School screening at the Capitol Theatre in Bad Tölz
As part of an event organised by Bettina Brunner, the film was screened at the Capitol Theatre for the Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium in Bad Tölz. This was the film’s first school screening.
The event was organised in such a way that the pupils were actively involved. Young students took responsibility for both moderating the event and operating the sound equipment.
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Interview
with Dr Hilla Lavie
(on behalf of the Goethe-Instituts Tel Aviv)
The interview took place in April 2023 as part of the Goethe-Institut’s support for the film’s cinema release, under the direction of Dr Carola Dürr.
It accompanied a special screening to mark Shoah Remembrance Day, which took place in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.
interview
with Gabriele Schoder
(Badische Zeitung)
The interview was conducted in January 2024 in connection with the first two film screenings at the Freiburg municipal cinema.
Interview Link (German)
Interview
with Louise Zbiranski
(Schnittstelle Religion)
Discussion accompanying the film screening in November 2024 at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main as part of Shaping Spaces of Discourse.
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