„Eine Explosion der Sprache.“ Zur Filmbiografie der taubblinden Marie Heurtin (1885–1921). Schwerpunkt: Medikalisierte Kindheiten. Die neue Sorge um das Kind vom ausgehenden 19. bis ins späte 20. Jahrhundert

In 2015, Jean-Pierre Améris brought the life of Marie Heurtin (1885–1921), a deaf-blind French woman, on the big screen. Améris’ biographical film tells the story of a girl who first developed an understanding of linguistic signs and communication at the age of ten. Focusing both on the film’s aesthetic-narrative level and its medical-historical dimension, this article aims to delineate the potential of films as an aesthetic mass medium to convey notions of deafblindness to a general public; beyond that, I will analyze and discuss the views on deafblindness in children that become apparent in the context of Heurtin’s biography