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In 2025, Sven Fritz and Jens Geiger-Kiran joined forces as kulturarbeiten GbR to collaborate on innovative projects in the fields of history and political science, remembrance culture, and exhibition design.

Previously, they had already collaborated on the traveling exhibition “Verstummte Stimmen: The Expulsion of Jews from the Opera 1933-1945” and published an anthology on current positions and issues in remembrance culture titled “Viele Schichten Wahrheit.”

They are currently working on the development of innovative digital, hybrid, and analog memorial spaces.

Jens Geiger-Kiran (*1980) is a cinema and exhibition curator based in Hamburg (Germany).

He holds a diploma in political science from the University of Hamburg as well as a master’s degree in curatorial studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.

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Since 2008 he has been curating film programs and exhibitions as an independent curator.

From 2011 – 2020 he worked as a festival programmer, program coordinator and curator for Filmfest Hamburg.

Between 2017 and 2019 he was the artistic director of the Kinemathek in Karlsruhe.

Since 2018 he is active as a program consultant for Dok.Fest Kassel.

In 2020 he co-founded the cinema-based VoD-network “Cinemalovers” and was its CEO from 2021-2024.

In 2025 he joind Grandfilm film distribution and is in charge of their physical and digital home entertainment operations.

He continues to work as an independent curator for cinemas, film festivals and cultural spaces, both digital and analog.

Dr. Sven Fritz (*1980) is a historian, author and exhibition curator based in Hamburg (Germany).