27 March 2017, 20:30, Goethe-Institut London This screening was introduced by Volker Pantenburg (Freie Universität Berlin). Film: About Narration [Erzählen], Harun Farocki and Ingemo Engström, Germany 1975, digital, 58 minutes, German with English subtitles “Essay, a term from written literature: unity of science and art; unity of social and individual knowledge”, Harun Farocki wrote in a first draft of the project Erzählen, which follows two researchers (played by Engström and Farocki) investigating their respective subjects. One is tracing the involvement of the German heavy industry in the rise of Nazi-Germany, the other is interested in the fate of Larissa Reissner, a young Soviet writer and revolutionary. Both of them struggle with the question of how to organize their research and find a narrative structure. Their paths cross, and the film turns into an essayistic interrogation of structuralist narratology. In the context of this programme, Erzählen, produced by Annelen Kranefuss and Christhart Burgmann for the WDR department “Literatur und Sprache”, shows that it was not only the film department that allowed for experimental and playful forms to blossom. “It should be possible to include anything as in the Nature Theater of Oklahoma.” (Ingemo Engström) In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut London, and with thanks to Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Filmmuseum München, Harun Farocki GbR, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)