Workshop

**14:30 Workshop 1 September 1999**
Past / Present

The Film Totschweigen tells the story of a long search. In a little village close to the Austrian-Hungarian border, 180 Jewish slave labourers were shot and buried, only a few days before the end of the war. Nearly 50 years later, the search for the place of this mass grave continues. But nobody wants to remember. (Totschweigen A/G/NL 1994 · Written & directed by Eduard Erne and Margareta Heinrich · 88 min.)

Eduard Erne was born in 1958 in Bregenz in Austria. He studied directing at the Mozarteum Academy of Salzburg, and worked as an actor and director in the Vienna Playhouse and also at the Turm Theatre in Frankfurt. Theatre works (in conjunction with Elke Lang and Ulrich Waller): 1990-The Mission-memories of a revolution, A historic day 1991-There was war then, but there's peace now, the "Opdracht" Quartet. Since 1992 he is a writer/director/producer of documentaries for Extrafilm Vienna and Cineteam Frankfurt/M, Arte, ZDF, ARD. Films include: 1993 Don't be Afraid. 1994 Deathly silent, Hello! Hello?- 33 moments on the phone. 1997 'Agro' and passion: the Offenbach kickers and their fans, On the trail of the war. Also: Train carriage Munich-Belgrade. A journey between hope and hate. Since 1997 he has been working as a writer and editor for Hessen Radio for the political magazine programme "Tuesday- highlight of the week." In 1995/96 he was a jury member for the "Prix Europa": European TV programme of the year.