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Vergangenheitsbewältigung and German Cinema

Vergangenheitsbewältigung and German Cinema. Hitler: Eine Karriere (Joachim Fest, 1977). Attempts to evoke fascination of Hitler by showing the carefully choreographed images of parades, speeches and party rallies the union between Hitler and the people as both pseudo-religion and erotic.

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Vergangenheitsbewältigung and German Cinema

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  1. Vergangenheitsbewältigung and German Cinema

  2. Hitler: EineKarriere(Joachim Fest, 1977) • Attempts to evoke fascination of Hitler by showing • the carefully choreographed images of parades, speeches and party rallies • the union between Hitler and the people as both pseudo-religion and erotic

  3. Holocaust (NBC, 1978) • 4 episodes, 8 hrs • US audience: 120 mio • West German audience: • 20 mio (= 50% adult viewers)

  4. Edgar Reitz • ‘The most serious act of expropriation there is, occurs in when people are deprived of their history. With Holocaust, the Americans have taken away our history’

  5. Heimat (Edgar Reitz, 1984) • 11 parts, 16 hrs • Tells story of fictional Simon family from village of Schabbach in the Hunsrück region between 1919 and 1982 • 9 mio viewers per episode

  6. Der Hunsrück (Rheinland-Pfalz) • Rural region between Koblenz, Mainz and Trier

  7. Heimat • Home • Embeddedness in community • Identity through being part of a shared culture • Particular geographical space (often rural) • Implies homogeneous community (i.e. ‘us’ vs. ‘them’) • Since 19thct: concept used to compensate for loss of identity throughmodernisation processes • Exploited by political right (esp. under Nazism)

  8. The post-war Heimatfilm • Arch-German genre under Hitler • National chauvinism, racial ideology, ‘blood and soil’ • In 1950s more than 300 Heimatfilme • Idealised and nostalgic picture of Germany • Sentimental and kitschy image of world

  9. Deutschland, bleicheMutter (Sanders-Brahms, 1980)

  10. Die bleierne Zeit (Margarethe von Trotta, 1981)

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