HERE I STAND.
GERMAN PROTESTANTISM IN THE 20TH/21ST CENTURY
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?
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.
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
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Katharina Kunter
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10405 Berlin
Germany
© 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
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.
