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“Traugott”37th Turkish Film Festival

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Old black and white photograph of a man sitting on a ledge in front of the sea. He is wearing swimming trunks.
Copyright: Orient Institut Istanbul

This documentary paints a portrait of an idealistic, sensitive man who was also struggling with depression, perhaps the result of unrequited love. Turkey 2024 | documentary | 46 minutes | German with Turkish subtitles | directed by Dirk Schäfer

This event is in the past.

This documentary paints a portrait of an idealistic, sensitive man who was also struggling with depression, perhaps the result of unrequited love. Turkey 2024 | documentary | 46 minutes | German with Turkish subtitles | directed by Dirk Schäfer

The scientist Traugott Fuchs left Nazi Germany in 1934 and found refuge in Turkey. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he remained in his new home after the war’s end, teaching at universities for over fifty years and leaving behind a rich legacy of linguistic works, thousands of sketches and around 400 paintings as well as scores of letters and diaries.

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