When she was young, Lin had a dream: she wanted to live in a socialist country. As a child she survived the Holocaust, now everything is supposed to get better. Their dream had a name: “German Democratic Republic.” After all, Karl Marx wrote that a socialist state cannot be anti-Semitic. But that was all a long time ago. Now, at some point in the present, Lin (Ursula Werner) is an old woman and is getting on her daughter Clara’s (Anastasia Gubareva) nerves with her bossiness.
“Mother tongue Mameloschn” by Sasha Marianna Salzmann: How a dream becomes a trauma – culture
