Reading
Paranoia in Hollywood
03 Jun, 2026, 6.30 PM @ Festival Centre: Lounge 19
Event language: German
Tickets
Reading
03 Jun
6.30 PM
Lounge 19
Program Info
Live Reading
Guest
Jan Jekal
Jan Jekal, born in Kiel in 1993, is a freelance writer and cultural journalist. He studied North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His articles on film and music have appeared in publications such as Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung. He also hosts the pop culture podcast Rolling Stone Weekly. Paranoia in Hollywood, his first book, was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the Best Nonfiction category. Jekal lives in Berlin.
Moderation
Lea Wohl von Haselberg
Prof. Dr. Lea Wohl von Haselberg is head of the Center for Jewish Film & Audiovisual Memory at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, where she also co-developed the Memory Media Lab. Together with Bernd Buder, she serves as Program Director of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB). Her research focuses on the intersection of media studies and Jewish studies, with a particular emphasis on representations of Jewish themes in postwar German discourse.
Media in this event
Paranoia in Hollywood unfolds in 1940s Los Angeles, tracing how artists who fled Europe find themselves once again subjected to political repression in their Californian exile. Amid the hysteria of the Cold War, figures such as Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann are denounced as communists.
Live-Stream
Tickets
Reading
03 Jun
6.30 PM
Lounge 19
Festival Centre: Lounge 19
Eichhornstraße 3
10785 Berlin
10785 Berlin
