This e-book is part of a twelve-volume series documenting the history of German film from its beginnings in 1895 to the present day using the collection holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Each volume in ePUB format focuses on a decade and offers a concise overview of the cinematic masterpieces and milestones of that era, highlights famous films and films to be rediscovered, and pays tribute to the cinema, its audience and the creative minds behind the diversity of German film.

The complete work, which comprises over 2,700 objects from all areas of the collection and spans 130 years, is also available as a printed book and as a PDF in German and English.



The DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK is one of the world's leading institutions for the collection, preservation, and presentation of audio-visual heritage. Hundreds of thousands of objects are permanently preserved in its archives and are available for research into film and television history. In addition to scripts, photos, posters, costumes and designs, the collection also includes film equipment. The Kinemathek curates film series and exhibitions and restores and digitizes films. Its diverse activities, including installations, publications, educational formats, and conferences, encourage visitors to discover the world of moving images.



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Contents

Introduction

Coming to Terms with the Past in East and West

Utopian Film: Science Fiction at DEFA

DEFA Film Language in an International Format

A Cold War Comedy: One, Two, Three

Toward Self-Determination: Lots Weib

Architecture and Criticism of the Nazi Era: Brutalität in Stein

Divided Berlin and the Building of the Wall in 1961

Film Stars (II/VI) (FRG and GDR)

The Oberhausen Manifesto

Spearheads of the New German Cinema: Hansjürgen Pohland, Herbert Vesely, and Wolf Wirth

Westerns "Made in Germany": The Karl May Film Adaptations of the 1960s

The Opening of the Deutsche Kinemathek in 1963

The Film Critic Joe Hembus

Early Heinrich Böll Adaptations

Film as "Optical Literature": The Films of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

The Relationship between Film and Television

Posters from the Film Distributor Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner

Posters from Atlas Filmverleih

Versatile: The Director Frank Beyer

James Bond Hunts German Villains

The Protection of "Moral Sensibilities" by the FSK

New Departure in the GDR (I/II): Banned DEFA Films

New Departure in the GDR (II/II): Reconstructions

The Edgar Wallace Films

Chronicler of a Red-Light District: Jürgen Roland in St. Pauli

Signs of the Present in the New German Cinema

Kafka on the Big Screen

The Awakening of Women Filmmakers in 1966

Posters of DEFA Entertainment Films, 1960–1964

Posters of DEFA Entertainment Films, 1965–1969

The Documentarist and Chronicler Peter Nestler

Films from the Police Historical Collection, Berlin

The Collection of Film Extracts from the Estate of Gerhard Lamprecht

The DEFA Adventure Films and Westerns

The Kuratorium junger deutscher Film

Experimental Film Work: Dore O.

Experimental Films by Werner Nekes

The Genesis of the Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative

In the Shadow of Bavaria: New Munich Cinema

Film Restoration (IV/IV): Neun Leben hat die Katze

The Sex Wave in the East and West German Summer Films of 1968

1969: The Year of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Film and Television Converge

Charles Wilp: Advertising Productions of the 1960s