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Informationen zum Autor 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 Sklodowska-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). Klappentext "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 Lèugner - 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"-- Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
