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title: "Chess Stands for Survival and Prison"
date: 2023-09-25
last_modified: 2025-01-21T15:24:23+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-14T23:55:18Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/chess-stands-for-survival-and-prison-context-en/"
description: "In the upcoming DOUBLE FEATURE artist Pınar Öğrenci is screening her video “Aşît”, which was inspired by Stefan Zweig’s “The Royal Game”. She finds the game of chess to offer a symbol for the survival strategies of the exiles and persecuted people that she encounters in a Kurdish region in eastern Turkey."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Header_asit_film_still_002.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Chess Stands for Survival and Prison