Olympics and Politics – Opening Event

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Berlin Summer Olympics and the Olimpíada Popular, Blinken OSA Archivum presents the exhibition, “Olympics and Politics – Berlin/ Barcelona 1936”. The Berlin Games are viewed through the lens of their counterpart, the Workers’ Olympics, and depicts the war that the Nazi ideology so pompously and magnificently promoted through the Olympic Games. 

Opening Remarks by
István Rév, Director, Blinken OSA Archivum
Michael Müller-Verweyen, Director, Goethe-Institut Budapest
Inaki Abad Leguina, Director, Instituto Cervantes Budapest

Music and film screening:
Richard Strauss: Olympische Hymne (recorded by Leon Botstein & American Philharmonic Orchestra) with a short sequence from a Hungarian home documentary (OSA, Forgács- Archives), Richárd Deutsch: “My German Journey, 1936”
Live Choir Performance and film screening
Hanns Eisler: The Anthem of the Olimpíada Popular (Barcelona) by the OSINGERS Small Choir, conductor Nikolett Hajzer and a 1936 Newsreel about the start of the Civil War in Barcelona