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SUMMARY:THE RESTLESS HUNGARIAN Film Screening and Conversation with Director Tom Weidlinger
DESCRIPTION:The Restless Hungarian (2021) is a personal narrative set against the backdrop of the Hungarian Jewish diaspora\, the rise of Modernism\, and the Cold War. The film centers on Paul Weidlinger\, one of the most important structural engineers of the twentieth century who created the strength behind iconic skyscrapers\, churches\, museums\, embassies\, and monumental sculptures by Picasso\, Noguchi\, and Dubuffet. Early in his career\, he broke from mainstream modernism with his concept of the “Joy of Space”. \n\n\nBehind his professional success\, however\, was a deeply troubled private life marked by loss\, denial\, and family tragedy. As the filmmaker—his son—begins to explore Paul’s past\, the story shifts into a deeply personal journey across continents\, uncovering hidden Jewish roots and the family’s suffering during the Holocaust. Through this process\, he confronts painful memories\, including mental illness and suicide within his family\, and ultimately arrives at a more compassionate understanding of his father. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetween June 17 and 25 you can view The Restless Hungarian on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\nREGISTER HERE\nYOU CAN WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: \n\n\nOn April 24\, join film director Tom Weidlinger in conversation with Rachel Stern about The Restless Hungarian\, a documentary film about his father Paul Weidlinger\, one of the most important structural engineers of the twentieth century.\n\n\n\nTom Weidlinger is a writer and filmmaker with over 35 years of experience directing and producing documentaries—from the emotional development of boys to humanitarian aid in Congo—often centered on social justice. He produced six full-length documentaries for public television with support from the Lillian Lincoln Foundation\, including Jim Thorpe\, The World’s Greatest Athlete\, which aired more than 4\,000 times and explores Thorpe’s assertion of his American Indian identity in the face of cultural erasure. \n\n\nIn the 1990s\, Weidlinger received a major grant from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) to create Making Peace\, a four-hour series on grassroots efforts to address the roots of violence\, along with a pioneering online activism campaign. Earlier\, inspired by Václav Havel\, he documented post-communist Czechoslovakia in After the Velvet Revolution\, filmed over four years in Prague. After founding Moira Productions in 1987\, he transitioned to independent filmmaking and produced archival documentaries for PBS’s The American Experience\, including The Great San Francisco Earthquake\, which premiered in the series’ first season. \n\nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\nThe documentary film is based on the book The Restless Hungarian:Modernism\, Madness and the American Dream\, which was published in April 2019 by Spark Press. The book won a Gold Medal for Biography from the Independent Book Publishers Association. \n\nYOU CAN ORDER THE BOOK HERE\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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SUMMARY:Visibility Practices: Women Photographers of the BauhausPresentation by Carla Maria Huttenloher\, Berlin (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Carla Maria Huttenloher  will bring women’s photographic agency to the forefront of the Bauhaus story\, uncovering the rich and long-underexplored links between their lives and their powerful bodies of work. \n\nImage above: Grit Kallin-Fischer\, Self-portrait with cigarette\, around 1928. Courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin \n.\n\nREGISTER HEREWomen have worked behind the camera since photography’s beginnings\, but their contributions have been sidelined in art‑historical narratives. The Bauhaus offers a clear case: during the Weimar Republic women engaged with and shaped photographic modernism in multiple ways\, yet their work is insufficiently acknowledged to date. In the 1920s and early 1930s\, the social figure of the New Woman — ideologically linked to greater independence\, professional visibility\, and new sartorial and social freedoms — converged with the experimental aesthetics of the New Vision\, so that photography became for many modern women a means of self‑representation and social participation. At the Bauhaus\, students and associates responded to László Moholy‑Nagy’s teachings and to the school’s emphasis on technical experimentation\, and numerous women studied\, practiced\, or produced photographic projects there; nevertheless\, their careers and oeuvres have often been treated as peripheral in the canon. \n\n\nHilde Hubbuch\, Women in traditional attire\, 1930s. Courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin \n\n\nBeyond the school\, many Bauhaus‑affiliated women practiced photography professionally: the medium’s growing importance for magazines\, advertising\, and documentary projects opened routes to travel\, commissions\, and public visibility\, enabling independent engagement with social life and making these women sharp observers of life. At the same time\, the political visibility of some women photographers — through socially engaged reportage and avant‑garde affiliations — made their positions precarious after 1933\, contributing to exile\, displacement\, or the disruption of careers; the history of Bauhaus women is therefore also a history marked by fight and flight. \n\n\nIrene Hoffmann\, Metal plate and gum tree\, 1929. Courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin\n\n\n\n\nCarla Maria Huttenloher is a scholar of art and imagery\, focusing on modernism\, photographic media\, research-based art and digital imagery. She studied history of art and visual studies in Munich and Berlin\, obtaining a Master of Arts. She is currently serving as assistant curator for the exhibition project New Woman\, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus\, which opened at the Museum of Photography in Berlin in April 2026. \nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\n\nThe exhibition New Woman\, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus (17 April–4 October 2026\, Museum für Fotografie\, Berlin) foregrounds these women photographers of the Bauhaus and their range of practices — from studio portraiture and formal experiments to documentary and publication work — centering women’s photographic agency within the Bauhaus context. While some figures\, such as Lucia Moholy and Marianne Brandt\, are familiar to those in the know\, many others represented in the show — for example Etel Mittag‑Fodor\, Hilde Hubbuch\, Ise Gropius and Grit Kallin‑Fischer — remain almost unknown outside archival holdings\, leaving constellations between careers and bodies of work underexplored while falling outside dominant narratives. \n\nMORE EXHIBITION INFORMATION\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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