German 265                                   Silke von  der Emde, CH 133
The Cinema of the Other Germany              Tel.: x 5618
                                             e-mail: vonderemde

	Times: T, Th: 3:10 - 4:25
	Office Hours: T, W, Th: 2:00 - 3:00

Week 1: September 1 - 3: INTRODUCTION
Brief Overview of German Film History
Read (for Thursday): Hans-Michael Bock, "East Germany: The DEFA Story"

Week 2: September 8 - 10: HISTORY AS MELODRAMA ?
Frank Beyer, Nikolaikirche (1995: 133 min)

Read (for Tuesday): Barton Byg "DEFA and the Tradition of International Cinema"
Henry Krisch, The German Democratic Republic:: The Search for Identity, 1-22, 129 - 45.

Week 3: September 15 - 17: ANTI-FASCIST FILMS
Wolfgang Staudte, The Murderers Are Among Us (1946, 91 min.)Poster

Read (for Tuesday): Barton Byg, "Nazism as Femme Fatale"

Week 4: September 22 - 24:
Konrad Wolf, I Was Nineteen (1968, 120 min.)

Read (for Tuesday): Marc Silberman, "The Authority of Autobiography:
Konrad Wolf's I Was Nineteen"

Week 5: September 29 - October 1:
Frank Beyer, Jacob the Liar (1975, 101 min.)Poster

Read (for Tuesday): Jurek Becker, Jacob the Liar.

Week 6: October 6 - 8: FORBIDDEN FILMS
Frank Beyer, Traces of Stones (1966: 139 min)Poster

Read (for Tuesday): Joshua Feinstein, The Triumph of the Ordinary:
Depictions of Daily Life in East German Cinema. Excerpts.

Week 7: October 13 - 15:
Metzig, The Bunny Rabbit, That's Me (1965/89, 110 min.)Poster

Read (for Tuesday): Barton Byg, "What Might Have Been: DEFA Films of the Past and the Future of German Cinema"
October 18 - 25: FALL BREAK

Week 8: October 27 - 29: POPULAR CULTURE
Gottfried Kolditz, Apache Indians (1973: 94 min.)Poster

Guest Lecture by Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College), "Between Karl May and Karl Marx: The DEFA Indianerfilme (1965-1983)"

Slide Show: DEFA PostersGerd Gemünden

Week 9: November 3 - 5:
Egon Gunther, When You Grow Up, Dear Adam (1966/90: 78 min)

Read (for Tuesday): David Bathrick, "Little Red Riding Hood in the GDR:
Folklore, Mass Culture, and the Avant-Garde"; Uta Poiger, "Rock'n'Roll, Female Sexuality, and the Cold War Battle Over German Identities"

Week 10: November 10 - 12: DOCUMENTARIES
Helke Misselwitz, Goodbye to Winter (1988, 115 min.)

Read (for Tuesday): Interview with Helke Misselwitz

Week 11: November 17 - 19:
Sybille Schonemann, Locked-Up Time (1991, 90 min)

Read (for Tuesday): Marc Silberman "Post-Wall Documentaries: New Images from a New Germany?"

Week 12: November 24 - 26:
Tamara Trampe and Johann Feindt, Black Box (1992, 90 min.)

Read (for Tuesday): Michelle Stone, "Documentary and Subjectivity: Documentary Practice in Two Recent East German Films"

Week 13: December 1 - 3: COMEDY
Frank Beyer, The Break (1988, 111 min.)

Read (for Tuesday): Sigrun D. Leonard, "Testing the Borders: East German Film Between Individualism and Social Commitment."

Week 14: December 8: Course Summary and Conclusion(s)

 

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