Location: Basel

A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss’ journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968, banned […]

The exhibition ‘My very first question to you. An acoustic portrait of the journalist Ruth Weiss’ experimented with historical interview recordings from the BAB archives of the anti-apartheid journalist Ruth […]

In 2014, the BAB launched its ‘in motion’ film series with regular screenings of films from its collections and since then has organised film series, film talks and also a […]