feminist elsewheres 2026 Film and Workshop Series
We Shall Not Be Moved: Conversations with Fasia Jansen
May 16-17, 2023
Arsenal Filminstitut and
feminist elsewheres Project Space

Saturday, May 16, 2026, We Shall Not Be Moved: Conversation with Fasia Jansen, Arsenal Filminstitut

Since 2023, feminist elsewheres has been organizing events that update and contextualize feminist film and art history. This year, a film and workshop series will take place at the Arsenal cinema and the Tempelhof Project space. After screening Ali* Benecke’s Darf man etwa nicht so egozentrisch sein und seine Erfahrungen für sich behalten? Diasporisches Erinnern an Fasia Jansen (2021) at the first feminist elsewheres festival 2023, the first program this year is also dedicated to Fasia Jansen (1929–1997). Jansen became famous as a singer and left-wing feminist activist during the wildcat strikes and Easter peace marches that took place in Germany in the 1970s and '80s. A Black lesbian woman, Jansen survived the Holocaust and fought her entire life for a better world. This program was named after We Shall Not Be Moved, an African-American spiritual and protest song that became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement and, through Jansen, played a role in the labor struggles of West Germany. This program brings together films and documents, research and memories of Fasia Jansen, inviting activists, artists and filmmakers Jasmin Eding, Marny Garcia Mommertz, Christel Priemer and Ina Wudtke to discuss her work and life, moderated by Anujah Fernando.

FASIA JANSEN – SÄNGERIN (FASIA JANSEN – SINGER,Christel Priemer) was the first film portrait of Fasia Jansen and made as part of a television series called "Frauengeschichten" or "Women’s stories." It comprises interviews with the singer, interspersed with footage of her performances. The artist Ina Wudtke and ADEFRA e.V. co-founder Jasmin Eding will present their work on the audio installation Black Lives Audio Triptych, which will subsequently open as FASIA (G 2024, May 16–31, in the basement foyer). In it, Wudtke explores the lives of the three Black communists Fasia Jansen, Hilarius Gilges and Joseph Ekwe Bilé. On May 17, Marny Garcia Mommertz together with Tmnit Ghide will lead a workshop, offering an insight into her research for What would Fasia say? (2025).

The installation will be freely accessible from May 16–31 during Arsenal's opening hours.

Sunday, May 17, 2026, A Listening Session with Fasia Jansen, feminist elsewheres Project Space

On May 17, Marny Garcia Mommertz and Tmnit Ghide invite you to an experimentally guided and collective listening session on Fasia Jansen. The session will put Fasia Jansen’s music in central focus and contextualize her career and artistry within the German music landscape. The aim is to create a space in which a conversation with Fasia Jansen about her music career can emerge. Ghide, who is the founder of Black Music Archive (Vienna), a project bringing together the legacy of earlier generations and the voices of those shaping the German speaking music scene today, will provide invaluable insights into the history of Black musicians in the German context and the industry at the time of Jansen’s career. Mommertz, who began her research on Fasia Jansen in 2020 together with Princela Biyaa, will share material that she has been using in her work, to help deepen the understanding of Jansen’s legacy.

The workshop will take place on May 17 from 1–4 p.m. in the project space feminist elsewheres; it is free and open after registration.

The program has received support from the Capital Cultural Fund.

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Brochure Design: Nilay Beser

Fotos: Ceren Saner

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