Films by Sonya Winterberg

Germany 2022, 29 min
by Sonya Winterberg, Susanne Dzeik

Sonya Winterberg, an award-winning author from Germany, is the writer-inresidence in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipeda during the summer of 2022. Her temporary home: the district library in a place rich with German heritage and even a German name: Memel. Together with documentary filmmaker Susanne Dzeik, she sets out on a tour of the region, discovering traces of the past in the most unlikely places. Here, bordering Russia’s Kaliningrad region, contemporary politics play into the exploration

Germany 2019, 73 min
by Sylvia Nagel, Sonya Winterberg

The untold story of the women of Block 10. Some 70 years ago, gynecologist Carl Clauberg conducted sterilization experiments in Auschwitz on women and girls. Were German companies involved in these crimes? Most of the few women that survived became sterile, only some could later still bear children. Clauberg's cruel research on birth control and infertility is part of the medical canon to this day. Meet the last survivors of the infamous Block 10 who speak candidly about their experience and how

Germany 2017, 52 min
by Sylvia Nagel, Sonya Winterberg

Children from around the globe cross borders on the promise of a better life – with Western Europe being a prime destination. Instead they find themselves on a horrific journey into forced labour, prostitution and abuse – sold into modern day slavery.We meet victims as young as nine years old who sometimes were sold by their own families into an uncertain future. Trails lead us to the illegal corners of the internet where anything can be bought. From the Darknet to our streets and neighborhoods