Death Metal Grandma

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Old people are excluded from life," says Inge Ginsberg, a 97-year-old
Holocaust survivor, in Leah Galant’s short documentary. "You have to
have a chance to be heard."

Ginsberg found her chance through an unlikely avenue: heavy metal.
Though her lyrics are actually about fighting fascism and saving the
environment, Ginsberg shouts them into the mic to her millions of fans
on YouTube with the requisite fervor that the genre demands. Death
Metal Grandma is a lively portrait of the spunky woman, who refuses to
be silenced by a society that she sees as patriarchal and
youth-dominated. And she has a lot to say.

Originally from Vienna, Ginsberg, who is Jewish, was a spy during
World War II. Facing the possibility of being sent to a concentration
camp, she fled to Switzerland, where she landed in a refugee camp with
her husband, Otto Kollmann. After the war, they immigrated to America
to build new lives. They composed music for some of the most popular
singers of their generation—including Nat King Cole, Doris Day, and
Dean Martin.