Ruth Beckermann
14:30 Workshop 1 September 1999
Against the Identity Fuss
The search for identity has become the ideology of our times, an addiction to separation and exclusion. After assessing our own identities we should contemplate getting rid of them.

(Die papierene Brücke · A 1987 · Written & directed by Ruth Beckermann · Documentary)
Ruth Beckermann was born in Vienna and received her doctorate from theUniversity of Vienna in 1977. She is an Editor for various magazines and founded a distribution and film rental shop. She is active as an author and film-maker.

Books: The Mazzeinsel, Jews in Viennese Leopoldstadt 1918-1938, Vienna 1984.
Excluded: Austrians and Jews since 1945. Vienna 1989.
Without Subtitles: Fragments from a history of cinema (edited with Christa Bluemlinger), Vienna 1996.
The other side of the war. Former Wehrmacht soldiers remember, Vienna 1998.

Films (a selection):Viennese return (1984) · The Paper Bridge (1987) · Towards Jerusalem (1990) · The other side of the war (1996) · A refugee train to the Orient (1999)