We are delighted that GUMELAB scholarship holder Anika Rosczyk has successfully completed her Master's thesis. In her work, entitled "We all know such mechanisms." German-Chilean reception of history and gender roles of Colonia Dignidad based on the historical-fictional television series Dignity, she analyses the representation and reception of gender and history based on the German-Chilean co-production Dignity. The television series stages the German sect Colonia Dignidad and follows its co-operation with the Chilean military dictatorship. Rosczyk used an interdisciplinary approach for her analysis and combined memory, gender and reception studies. She focussed on different groups of viewers in Chile and Germany and conducted interviews with students, film producers, psychologists, lawyers and Colonia Dignidad experts. Congratulations on the successful completion of the Master's thesis.

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