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Triumph of the Good Will / Triumph des guten Willens

Triumph of the Good Will / Triumph des guten Willens Documentary, 2016, 95 min German audio with English subtitles The latest part of the series “How to remember?” deals on film with the writings of the publicist Eike Geisel (1945-1997). It focuses on Geisel's criticisms of German politics of memory and his thesis on the “Wiedergutwerdung der Deutschen” (“becoming-good-again of the Germans”). Writings by Geisel from the 1990s, i.a. about the New Guardhouse and the Holocaust memorial in Berlin contrast the current pictures of the memorial sites described. They indicate a normality that should not exist. In addition, extensive interviews (conducted in 2015) with Alex Feuerherdt, Klaus Bittermann, Hermann L. Gremliza and Henryk M. Broder analyze Geisel's theses with regard to social conditions today. Proceeding from the political biography of Eike Geisel, Triumph of the Good Will draws a picture of debates about politics of memory over the last decades and eventually asks for the possibility of criticism in impossible times. Eike Geisel, who in the 1980s and 1990s was one of the harshest critics of the recycling of the German past as well as of the German-Jewish fraternization kitsch, partly caused great controversy through his essays and polemics. He also worked as a translator and publisher for Hannah Arendt's English writings and also appeared as a writer of historical works, i.a. about Berlin's Scheunenviertel and the Jüdischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Federation).