SOFAM Visiting Artists & Speakers Presents Sonya Schonberger
Berlin artist Sonya Schönberger works in video, photography andinstallation to explore questions of memory, identity and trauma especiall
y in relation to the impact of WWII on several generations of Germans. In a
recent work, she met eyewitnesses from the time of World War II and conduct
ed personal interviews with them, exploring the cultural memory of the Germ
an society. She followed these witnesses and memory-keepers into the everyda
y life of the Third Reich: onto the battlefields, in prison camps, into de