Brother Gereon: A forgotten hero in the fight against the Nazi regime!

Brother Gereon: A forgotten hero in the fight against the Nazi regime!

Innsbruck, Österreich - An exciting film project illuminates the fate of Brother Gereon, an often forgotten Nazi victim from East Tyrol. The Tyrolean director Hermann Weiskopf has a half -hour educational film in progress with “#Gereon”, which is aimed at the youth and is to be completed by the end of the year. Gereon, with a bourgeois name Josef Ausslechner, was a resistance fighter who died in 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp. The film is shot in various locations, including Innsbruck and its home town of Kartitsch. Weiskopf describes Gereon's story as a "little hero's journey" and would like to promote tolerance and humanity in today's context, as [kathpress.at] reports.

The film is told in a modern documentary drama style, with a fictional framework story in which a Tikotokian researches the story of Gereon and illuminates the atrocities of the Nazis. Weiskopf, who already caused a sensation with the film about the Tyrolean martyr Otto Neururer, sees this as a way to make complex historical topics accessible to young people. The filming is planned for the summer and the premiere could collapse with the opening of a memorial for Tyrolean Nazi victims in the Wilten Abbey, as [krone.at] informed.

commitment to historical awareness

The story of Brother Gereon, a lay brother from Kartitsch, shows how an ordinary person remained brave in the face of National Socialism. After years of forgetting, his life story was rediscovered by Martin Riederer's commitment, a premium road in the Wilten Abbey. Riederer describes how young people became aware of Gereon's fate, which ultimately led to this film project. With the aim of not only documenting the events of the Nazi era, but also reflecting, the filmmakers will design the sequences so that they can be built into class well and attract more attention.