New German Filmmakers: From Oberhausen Through the 1970s PDF
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New German Filmmakers New German Filmmakers Edited by Klaus Phillips From Oberhausen in 1962 came the mes¬ sage: “The old cinema is dead. We believe in the new.” It was the challenge of twenty-six young filmmakers, frustrated by the sorry state of film production in the Federal Repub¬ lic of Germany. Some twenty years later much of the “Oberhausen Manifesto” has become reality, even as much remains unfulfilled. German feature films are in¬ creasingly presented in American com¬ mercial theatres and shown on college campuses. How did this impressive transformation take place? New German Filmmakers explores these twenty years of achievement as it concentrates on the work of twenty-one filmmakers —directors whose films con¬ vey a sense of the forces that shaped the new German cinema and brought it to in¬ ternational prominence. Such familiar names as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders are here, along with some not so well known, among them Reinhard Hauff, Peter Lilienthal, and Jean-Marie Straub, and others largely unknown. All articles were written expressly for this work by spe¬ cialists in the German film. continued on back flap Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/newgermanfilmmakOOOOunse NEW GERMAN FILMMAKERS UNGAR FILM LIBRARY Selected Listing Academy Awards: An Ungar Reference Index, Second Edition, updated Edited by Richard Shale American History I American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image Edited by John E. O’Connor and Martin E. Jackson American History I American Television: Interpreting the Video Past Edited by John E. O’Connor America’s Favorite Movies: Behind the Scener/Rudy Behlmer The Classic American Novel and the Movies Edited by Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin The English Novel and the Movies Edited by Michael Klein and Gillian Parker Film Study Collections: A Guide to Their Development and Use Nancy Allen From Quasimodo to Scarlett O’Hara: A National Board of Review Anthology (1920-1940)/Edited by Stanley Hochman Hollywood’s Image of the Jew!Lester D. Friedman Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present!Peter Bondanella Loser Take All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen!Maurice Yacowar The Modem American Novel and the Movies Edited by Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin Modern European Filmmakers and the Art of Adaptation Edited by Andrew Horton and Joan Magretta Movies for Kids: A Guide for Parents and Teachers on the Entertainment Film for Children!Ruth M. Goldstein and Edith Zornow On the Verge of Revolt: Women in American Films of the Fifties Brandon French Other Ungar titles of interest: Great Film Epics: The Stories Behind the Scenes/Michael Munn Lorrimer Classic Screenplays (Over 50 titles including such classics as Jules and Jim, Bonnie and Clyde, and Wild Strawberries) A Pictorial History of Television. Second, enlarged edition Irving Settel Complete list of film titles available on request NEW GERMAN FILMMAKERS From Oberhausen Through the 1970s Edited by Klaus Phillips Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. New York To Debbie and Nicole Dawn, for much patience and love Copyright © 1984 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. Printed in the United States of America Designed by Nancy Sugihara Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: New German filmmakers. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Moving-pictures—Germany (West)—History—Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Moving-picture plays—History and criticism—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Phillips, Klaus. PN1993.5.G3N48 1984 791.43'0943 84-2606 ISBN 0-8044-2688-0 ISBN 0-8044-6648-3 (pbk.) Contents INTRODUCTION ix by Klaus Phillips HERBERT ACHTERNBUSCH Celebrating the Power of Creation by Eric Rentschler 1 HARK BOHM Films Addressing Questions by Christian-Albrecht Gollub and Dagmar Stern 20 ALF BRUSTELLIN and BERNHARD SINKEL A Uniquely Utopian Aura by Ruth McCormick 44 HELLMUTH COSTARD The Undisturbed Course of Events by Russell A. Berman 63 RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER The Alienated Vision by Anna K. Kuhn 7® HANS W. GEISSENDORFER A Precise Craftsman 124 by Eric Rentschler VI CONTENTS REINHARD HAUFF A Cinema of Darwinism by Klaus Phillips 143 WERNER HERZOG In Quest of the Sublime by Brigitte Peucker 168 ALEXANDER KLUGE Mediating History and Consciousness by Theodore Fiedler 195 PETER LILIENTHAL Decisions Before Twelve by Lynne Layton 230 EDGAR REITZ Liberating Humanity and Film by Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart and Ruth McCormick 247 VOLKER SCHLONDORFF and MARGARETHE VON TROTTA Transcending the Genres by Christian-Albrecht Gollub s \ 266 MAY SPILS and WERNER ENKE Beyond Pure Entertainment? by Christian-Albrecht Gollub 303 ULA STOCKL How Women See Themselves by Marc Silberrnan 320
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