Homo Politicus - A short film by Hacı Orman

In 1915, Europe was on the brink of disaster. The First World War rages with all its horrors. But even in the Ottoman Empire, there was an unprecedented excess of violence. The Armenian people are to be systematically expelled and murdered. The humanist and theologian Johannes Lepsius (Peter von Strombeck) therefore travels to a meeting with the Ottoman Young Turk Minister of War Ismail Enver (Mehmet Yilmaz) to discuss the situation of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. A conversation that also shows the limits of a critique of inhumanity and has set a literary monument to Franz Werfel in his novel “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.”

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After the film screening, Hacı Orman, Tessa Hofmann and Roy Knocke will discuss the possibilities and challenges of civilian aid under conditions of war and genocide.

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In cooperation with the Working Group Recognition — Against Genocide, for International Understanding e.V. (AGA)

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