Pamela Katz (born April 16, 1958) is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for her collaborations with director Margarethe von Trotta, including Rosenstrasse and Hannah Arendt.
[1] She began her career as a filmmaker with her debut short In a Jazz Way, a thirty minute film co-directed with Louise Ghertler about dance documentarian Mura Dehn.
When asked about her longtime collaboration with von Trotta, Katz said in a 2004 interview with FF2 Media's Jan Lisa Huttner that:In the course of working with Margarethe, I discovered that Germans artists feel they have to be very careful about how they present Jews.
A big part of our tension, the creative back and forth between us, came about because I kept saying: “You can do it any way you want to.”[6]Remembrance (2011) is a love story Katz wrote for director Anna Justice which begins with a Polish prisoner (Tomasz) rescuing his Jewish girlfriend (Hannah) from Auschwitz in 1944.
The film specifically deals with Arendt's coverage of the trial of Nazi Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann and the subsequent controversy in academic circles.