{"id":57284,"date":"2017-03-11T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T11:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troeller-deffarge.com\/?page_id=57284"},"modified":"2022-06-18T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T10:23:48","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.troeller-deffarge.com\/en\/home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two tireless travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row remove_bottom_col_margin=“true“][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since the early 1950s, Gordian Troeller (1917-2003), from Luxemburg, and the French Marie-Claude Deffarge (1924-1984) made up a journalistic team. The demise of European colonial power was their main focus of attention which they observed and commented on in writing and through photographical evidence. They analyzed the structures that grew out of colonial hegemony and which led to the so-called \u201cunderdevelopment of the third world\u201d- first in Iran and the Middle East and later on in Africa and Latin America, too.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row remove_bottom_col_margin=“true“][vc_column width=“1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Ahead of time<\/h3>\n

From 1959 on they worked for the German magazine \u201cStern\u201d and their socio-politically engaged coverage from abroad replete with elaborate photo works set new standards in German journalism. Thus, a 25-part series in \u201cStern\u201d about the position of women in different cultures caught the attention of the general public in 1964 \u2013 long before the onset of the \u201csexual revolution\u201d of the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The focus on developmental themes was strengthened during the 1970s through a close cooperation with the French economist Fran\u00e7ois Partant and the German educator Ingrid Becker-Ross.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=“1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Issues of relevance<\/h3>\n

In over 80 documentary movies for television, they displayed for a general public how those predominant aspects in developmental politics \u2013 namely belief in progress and the western ethno-centrism \u2013 will lead inevitably to material poverty, cultural disruption and social disintegration in the Third World. In their films they denounced the modern capitalist structures which will lead to unforeseen risks for both due to the close interlinkage of the First with the Third World.
\nSince 1974 the team worked explicitly for the First German Television (ARD). Until 1999, a total of 70 films as part of three series were broadcasted by ARD:
\nIn the Name of Progress, Women of the World, Children of the World. This corpus of films has been awarded with prizes on several occasions.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

The pursuit of Zeitgeist<\/h3>\n

The reports and documentary films of Troeller\/Deffarge are still topical in many respects. It was only in the current century, under the impression of failed states, ethnic upheaval,\u00a0 wars and refugee streams as well as the global effects of climate change, ecological destruction, financial crises and lastly the spread of terror in industrial countries, that a new consciousness arose in Europe of the dangers that are an outcome of the path taken.<\/p>\n

All of the preserved films are digitalized and may be obtained from this site.\u00a0The archive of photographs that grew out of the work with \u201cStern\u201d and later film documentations will be handed over to the Folkwang Museum in Essen.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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