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East German Film and the Holocaust

Elizabeth Ward (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-747-7 (ISBN)

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By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.

East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner – a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.

Elizabeth Ward is a Lecturer in German Studies and specializes in German film. She is a lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research fellow at the Universität Leipzig. She has published on East German cinema, contemporary Holocaust film and twenty-first century German cinema. She is the co-editor of Entertaining German Culture Contemporary Transnational Television and Film (Berghahn Books, 2023).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

Part I: 1945–1949

Chapter 1. Picking Up the Pieces. Kurt Maetzig’s Ehe im Schatten

Part II: 1949–1961

Chapter 2. The German Democratic Republic’s Ambassador of Good Will. Konrad Wolf’s Sterne

Chapter 3. Reframing Victimhood. Konrad Wolf’s Professor Mamlock

Part III: 1961–1971

Chapter 4. Crimes of the Past and Politics of the Present. Wolfgang Luderer’s Lebende Ware

Chapter 5. ‘In Babelsberg, Nothing New’. Gottfried Kolditz’s Das Tal der sieben Monde

Part IV: 1971–1980

Chapter 6. New Encounters on Well-Worn Paths: Kurt Jung-Alsen’s Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann

Chapter 7. Returning to the Past: Frank Beyer’s Jakob der Lügner

Part V: 1980–1989

Chapter 8. Shifting Identities. Michael Kann’s Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn

Chapter 9. Calendar-Based Shame? Siegfried Kühn’s Die Schauspielerin

Conclusion

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Film Europa
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78920-747-9 / 1789207479
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-747-7 / 9781789207477
Zustand	Neuware