Wankostättn

Karl Stojka stands in a light-colored suit with elegant hat and tie on Quellenstraße, a street in Vienna’s Favoriten district, a former working class neighborhood in Vienna. We are drawn into the pull of his memories. The short documentary Wankostättn is based on interviews that Karin Berger carried out with Karl Stojka in 1997. As a twelve-year-old child, he was deported with his five siblings to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He survived, as did his younger sister Ceija Stojka, whom Karin Berger already portrayed previously in two poignant films. The current film resulted from a close personal bond between the filmmaker and Ceija and Karl Stojka, and is an unparalled film about a lost site of memory.