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Cultural Scientist
Country of origin
Hungary

Alexandra Ell (*1975) is a doctoral researcher in the Interdisciplinary Social Research Programme at the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, where she specialises in social and cultural memory. Drawing on a background in linguistics, literature, and Jewish studies, her current research focuses on the typology of Holocaust memory-regimes, dissident memory-regimes, the representation of the Holocaust in Hungarian cinema, and comparative analysis of Hungarian and German National Socialist propaganda films. Alongside her academic research, she works as an editor and translator, contributing regularly to scholarly and public discussions on historical and cultural memory in both English and Hungarian.

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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