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Landscapes of Memory: A Documentary about Ruth Kluger

A film screening of a documentary film about UCI Professor Emerita Ruth Kluger.

Ruth Kluger is the author of "Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered," an extraordinary memoir which has become a standard text in many university courses and which has contributed to her receiving numerous prestigious prizes and awards, including the Prix de la Shoah, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Goethe Medaille, the Heinrich Heine Medaille, and the Austrian Danubius Prize. Austrian Filmmaker and Talk Show host, Renata Schmidtkunz, who is the 2012 recipient of the Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik, spent over three years filming Kluger in four significant places in her life: Vienna, Irvine, Göttingen, and Israel. The film premiered in October 2011 in VIenna and was shown on Austrian television. Since that time, Kluger and Schmidtkunz have screened it in locations throughout Europe and Israel, conducting discussions and question and answer sessions. They are now on a tour of a number of US universities.