Intermedial / Intercultural: GUNDERMANN film + Gerhard Gundermann songs concert

On 15 April, East-German singer-songwriter and excavator operator Gerhard Gundermann was commemorated in a DAAD, Centre for Transnational Studies & CIGS sponsored day of events in Limerick City. Acclaimed filmmaker Andreas Dresen attended a screening of his feature film GUNDERMANN in the early afternoon. 

After the film screening, there was a panel discussion and Q&A with the director Andreas Dresen and singer/songwriter and Reader in Music Dr David Robb (Queen’s, Belfast), who translated Gundermann’s songs into English. Dave and his band performed their “Post-Industrial Songs of Gerhard Gundermann” in the Belltable that evening. Andreas Dresen then joined the band for a couple of songs in German. The screening and concert were free for UL and Mary Immaculate students. The lovely event was organised by CIGS member Associate Prof Christiane Schönfeld, Mary Immaculate College and was part of the activities of the German Screen Studies Network’s DAAD PGS project.