On 14 May 2025, Deputy Director Dr Viviane Dittrich attended the high-level opening event and vernissage of the exhibition “Filming in the courtroom: From Nuremberg to the Chilean dictatorship” at the University of Regensburg. The exhibition addresses the evolving role of cameras in legal proceedings and examines how the medium of film shapes public perceptions of law and justice. Six trials are featured in the exhibition: the Nuremberg trial at theInternational Military Tribunal (1945/46), the trials against Adolf Eichmann (1961), Klaus Barbie (1987), Paul Touvier (1994) and Maurice Papon (1998), as well as trials against perpetrators of the Pinochet dictatorship (2010). The exhibition was curated by Martine Sin Blima-Barru, Archives nationales de France.
Professor Dr Stefanie Bock, Director of the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials at Philipps-Universität Marburg, gave the keynote speech as part of the “Cameras in the courtroom” interdisciplinary lecture series. Speakers also included Professor Dr Udo Hebel, President of the University of Regensburg, Talya Lador-Fresher, General Consul of Israel in Munich, Pierre Clouet, Vice General Consul of France in Munich, Professor Dr Eva Martha Eckkrammer, President of the Franco-German University (DFH), as well as Professor Dr Isabella von Treskow, Professor Dr Anne Bernzen and Professor Dr Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack, University of Regensburg.
The exhibition is open to the public and on display at the university library in Regensburg until 12 July 2025. (vd)