The concept of post-migration along with its potential and limitations is presently under heated debate. "Jenseits der Zentrifuge", the latest publication by Till Kadritzke (Research Area 4: Literary Currencies), addresses the notion of post-migrant spaces while also incorporating the perspective of relational differences. Drawing on two examples from the West German audiovisual archive of migration dating from long before the current discussion, Kadritzke demonstrates that the TV production Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße (1973) and the short film Inventur Metzstraße 11 (1975) enact, perhaps more so than prominent contemporary productions such as Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul or Helma Sanders-Brahms’ Shirin’s Wedding, a highly complex negotiation of migration and German identity.

A product of Kadritzke’s project "Moving Images, Transforming Germanness: Race, Migration and Filmmaking in Germany, 1968–1989" at EXC 2020, the text forms part of the edited collection Matters of Difference. Filmische, mediale und diskursive Differenzverflechtungen, published in a newly launched series with Neofelis, which engages with questions, processes and perceptions pertaining to difference. Both, the volume and the series are co-edited by Sabine Nessel, Research Area 2: Travelling Matters.

   

Till Kadritzke: "Jenseits der Zentrifuge: Postmigrantische Räume und Figurationen von Differenzen in Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße (1973) und Inventur Metzstraße 11 (1975)". In Matters of Difference. Filmische, mediale und diskursive Differenzverflechtungen, edited by Sabine Nessel, Tullio Richter-Hansen and Natalie Lettenewitsch, 109–26. Figurationen – Filmische und mediale Verflechtungen von Differenz 1. Berlin: Neofelis 2025.