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HERE I STAND.
GERMAN PROTESTANTISM IN THE 20TH/21ST CENTURY

Katharina Kunter Production

FILMS FOR SCHOOL,
UNIVERSITY,
AND EDUCATION

1521 became the founding myth of Protestantism: That was the year the monk Martin Luther refused to recant his anti-papal and anti-church writings before the emperor, the empire and the church at the Diet of Worms. It was the birth of »Here I stand and can do no other«.

 

Where are the traces of this religion of conscience in the 20th and 21st centuries? Where have Protestants been courageous and contradicted the powerful of their time? Where has the Protestant Church conformed, been pusillanimous and cowardly? Why one thing, why another – and what role did faith play?

Katharina Kunter und Michael Günther

MAKING OF

Together with Michael W. Günther of Mind-in-Motion in Berlin and in cooperation with other partners, I produce short educational films in German and English about Protestantism in the 20th and 21st centuries. The films are based on current research and are 15 minutes long, making them ideal for use in schools, universities and educational work.

 

New films are produced regularly. They are accompanied by public events and additional materials. All films are freely available on this website and on other linked sites. 

Katharina Kunter und Johannes Paulmann

ABOUT ME – 
KATHARINA KUNTER

Here, my esteemed colleague and media partner Michael W. Günther from the media company Mind-in-Motion and I are on our way to interviews in Berlin. We have become a well-coordinated team by now, yet every new film is a new journey.

with Professor Dr. Johannes Paulmann​

LOOKING FORWARD TO NEW COOPERATIONS!

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Kunter History Productions

Katharina Kunter

Wörtherstraße 32

10405 Berlin

Germany

info@kunterproductions.com

© 2023 by Katharina Kunter

Fight against the Church 

The 1940s and '50s. Filmed at Mansfeld Castle (Saxony-Anhalt) and in Hirschluh (Brandenburg), with former Bishop Dr. Axel Noack and Theologian Dr Ellen Ueberschär

How independent remained the Church in the GDR? 

The 1960s and '70s. Filmed in Potsdam-Hermannswerder (Brandenburg) and Berlin, with Prof. Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz and Christoph Dieckmann

Christians in Opposition and Revolution. The Church in the 1970s and '80s

Filmed in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and Dresden, with Ulrike Poppe and Frank Richter.

Transformations and New Beginnings. The Church in East Germany in the 1990s

Filmed in Joachimsthal (Brandenburg) and Halle with Markus Meckel and Lydia Schubert

Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906 - 1945: An Extraordinary Theologian

Filmed at original Bonhoeffer locations in Berlin, with Dr. Winfried Meyer and Dr. Ellen Ueberschär

Where it all began in 1521

Worms 1521 – 2021, filmed in Worms, in cooperation with the city of Worms on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Luther's dissent before the Diet of Worms.

LATEST FILMS

THE CHURCH IN GDR I-IV

Together with Professor Dr. Johannes Paulmann of the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz and with the support of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany we shot and produced four films on the church in the GDR in 2022/2023.

As a child I wanted to be a detective – now I follow the traces that history has left in our present: Since 2020 I am Professor of Church History at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

ABOUT ME – 
KATHARINA KUNTER

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