A first for Ulm, Germany, and for its namesake, New Ulm, Minn., took place Tuesday (Oct. 9) in the office of the lord mayor of Ulm. A delegation of over 40 fro
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In a few months, pandemic permitting, Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies’s recently completed feature-length documentary
Walter Kaufmann: Welch ein Leben! (Walter Kaufmann: What a Life!) will hit cinemas in Germany. But its subject, a German with an Australian passport, won’t be there for the film’s opening night. He died in Berlin on 15 April.
Kaufmann had turned ninety-seven in January. Virtually anybody who reaches such a ripe old age has led a life worth making into a film or writing about, for that matter. Kaufmann’s story, that of a refugee from Nazi Germany who became an Australian writer and then moved to the old East Germany, was particularly rich.