Jelena Jeremejewa is an artist, author and documentary film director. In her films “Der Ernst des Lebens” (SWR) and “Irgendwo dazwischen” (WDR) she addressed issues of systemic educational injustice and inequality of opportunity among young people with migration experience. Her fields of work are connected to her history of origin – today, in cooperation with various sponsors, she conducts film workshops at schools to sensitize children to radical diversity in addition to anti-Semitism and racism.<\/p>\n
In the current film work, “ORLANDO – a short history of the middle class,” a re-examination of the surviving Soviet and Nazi archives takes place, bringing an invisible history to light and marginalized experiences that were previously overlooked to the center.<\/p>\n
Most recently, she published the war diary “Seit September will ich nach Kiew” (parasitenpresse), Furthermore, she published on diverging memory narratives within the heterogeneous Jewish community in “Neues Judentum – altes Erinnern?” Her current work is at the intersection of research and art, addressing questions of the impact of counterfactual historical narratives within post-socialist cultures of Eastern Europe. She is a guest author of “10 after 8.”<\/p>\n
She completed her PhD at Bauhaus University Weimar on the invisibility of trauma as individual and collective experience in Russian documentary films of the 1990s-2000s in 2019. She teaches documentary film practice at Bauhaus University Weimar and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jelena Jeremejewa is an artist, author and documentary film director. In her films “Der Ernst des Lebens” (SWR) and “Irgendwo dazwischen” (WDR) she addressed issues of systemic educational injustice and inequality of opportunity among young people with migration experience. Her fields of work are connected to her history of origin – today, in cooperation with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19686,"template":"","categories":[7],"class_list":["post-19685","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author"],"yoast_head":"\n