Traces are routes, roads and tracks - geographic links which lead from one town to the next. But traces are also recollections and remnants, indications of former times and pieces of bygone history. They are sources of remembrance. On two evenings, we will seek traces of Bulgaria and travel through the past and present, through the country's history and personal memories.
Traces of borders and links
Traffic routes between Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania
Screening of the documentary ‹Corridor No 8› (directed by Boris Despodov, 74 min.), short break and subsequent panel discussion (19.30h)
Traffic routes have always been the key to trade and are always an expression of political conditions. Bulgaria's history and importance in the Balkan region is explained through the construction of the railway in the South-Eastern Balkans at the beginning of the 20th century and the construction of the ‹Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 8› roughly 100 years later. The documentary ‹Corridor No. 8› by Boris Despodov (2008) deals with the similarities and differences between the individual countries in the Balkans, thus generating important points for discussion. The aim of the large ‹Pan-European transport corridor› project presented in the documentary was to create a major international route between Bulgaria, Albania and Macedonia, while linking the Adriatic and the Black Sea. The question today is: Which results has this ambitious project achieved?
The participants in the discussion are: Tatjana Simeunovic, slavicist and film scholar, Georg Häsler, TV journalist, documentary maker and Balkans expert and Albena Mihaylova, a Bulgarian-Swiss artist and film maker
CHF 20.-/13.-
PART 1 takes place on: Mo 11.11., 19.00h
