Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture

GERMAN CINEMA: FROM DIVISION TO POST-UNIFICATION

Course hours: Th 7-11pm in 101 BCSB Course instructor: Claudia Pummer ([email protected]) Office hours: Th 6-6:45pm and by appointment in W241 AJB

COURSE DESCRIPTION Designed as a weekly screening series followed by a one-hour discussion the course focuses on German films made between 1946-2004. By tracing the political and historical trajectory from the postwar era of reconstruction to the cold war to German unification, we will take a look across a divided and reunited screen-scape in order to critically reflect on concepts of German nationality, cultural identity, and the politics of representation.

REQUIREMENTS Students can register for 1 s.h. and will receive either a mark of Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory (S/U). In order to pass this course, you are required to attend the screenings and participate in the discussions. You are further encouraged to engage with a small number of recommended readings (see attached bibliography). A few introductory readings are available for download at the ICON course website. Go to: http://icon.uiowa.edu/index.shtml. Log in using your hawkID and password, click on link "Proseminar in Cinema and Culture" where the readings can be found under "Content."

ACCOMODATIONS Anyone with a disability who may require modification of seating or other requirements should notify me immediately by email or see me during my office hours.

COMPLAINTS Students with complaints regarding this course should first attempt to discuss their concerns with me. If we cannot come to a resolution, you should contact the course supervisor Prof. Corey Creekmur ([email protected], W211 AJB, (319) 335-2824) or the CCL department chair Prof. Steven Ungar ([email protected], (319) 335-0330).

DROPPING THIS COURSE This course is given by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Class policies on matters such as requirements, grading, and sanctions for academic dishonesty are governed by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Students wishing to add or drop this course after the official deadline must receive the approval of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Details of the University policy of cross enrollments and all other information on students' rights and responsibilities can be found in the College’s Student Academic Handbook http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/students/academic_handbook/ix.shtml. Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture

Course Schedule

Jan 18 The Murderers Are Among Us / Die Mörder Sind Unter Uns (Wolfgang Staudte, Germany, 1946, 87 ', 35mm)

Jan 25 Berlin-Schönhauser Corner / Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser (Gerhard Klein, , 1957, 82 ', 35mm) The Hooligans / Die Halbstarken (Georg Tressler, West Germany, 1956, 89 ')

Feb 1 The Divided Heaven / Der Geteilte Himmel (Konrad Wolf, East Germany, 1963, 109', 16mm)

Feb 8 The Trace of Stones / Spur der Steine (, East Germany, 1966/1990, 138', 35mm)

Feb 15 Oskar Langenfeld (Holger Meins, West Germany, 1966, 13 ') Inextinguishable Fire / Nicht Löschbares Feuer (Harun Farocki, West Germany, 1969, 25 ') Not Reconciled or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules / Nicht Versöhnt oder Es Herrscht Nur Gewalt, Wo Gewalt Herrscht (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany, 1965, 55', 35mm)

Feb 22 All-around Reduced Personality-REDUPERS / Die Allseitig-reduzierte Persönlichkeit ReDuPers (Helke Sander, West Germany, 1977, 98', 16mm)

Mar 1 The Legend of Paul and Paula /Die Legende von Paul und Paula (Heiner Carow, East Germany, 1972, 106', 35mm)

Mar 8 Winnetou II – Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl, West Germany, 1964, 94') Apaches / Apachen (Gottfried Kolditz, East Germany, 1973, 98')

Mar 22 Schtonk! (Helmut Dietl, Germany, 1992, 115')

Mar 29 Between (Claudia Schillinger, West Germany, 1989, 10') The German Chainsaw Massacre / Das Deutsche Kettensägenmassaker (Christoph Schlingensief, Germany, 1991, 63') Former East/Former West (Shelly Silver, USA/Germany, 1994, 62')

Apr 5 Konrad! The Mother Said / Konrad! Sprach die Frau Mama (Ramona Köppel-Welsh, East Germany, 1989, 1989, 10') I'll show you my Life – Marieluise, A Child of Golzow / Da Habt Ihr Mein Leben Marieluise Kind von Golzow (Barbara & Winfried Junge, (East)Germany, 1961-1997, 141', 35mm)

Apr 12 September, September (Gino Hahnemann, East Germany, 1989, 6') No Place To Go / Die Unberührbare (Oskar Roehler, Germany, 1999, 100', 16mm)

Apr 19 Head-On / Gegen die Wand (Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey, 2003, 118')

Apr 26 A Miracle / Ein Wunder (Stanislaw Mucha, Germany, 1998, 7') Distant Lights / Lichter (Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany, 2003, 105 ', 16mm)

May 3 Go For Zucker! / Alles Auf Zucker! (Dani Levy, Germany, 2004, 90') Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture

Bibliography

German Cinema – Overview

Bergfelder, Tim, Erica Carter and Deniz Göktürk, ed. The German Cinema Book. London: BFI Publishing, 2002.

Elsaesser, Thomas and Michael Wedel. The BFI Companion to German Cinema. London: BFI Publishing, 1999.

Frieden Sandra et al., eds. Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Providence: Berg, 1993.

Ginsberg, Terri and Kirsten Moana Thompson. Perspectives on German Cinema. New York: G.K. Hall and London: Prentice Hall International, 1996.

Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. London & New York: Routledge, 2002.

Halle, Randall and Margaret McCarthy, eds. Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.

Majer O'Sickey and Ingeborg von Zadow, eds. Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Shandley, Robert R. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

West German Cinema

Corrigan, Timothy. New German Film: The Displaced Image. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.

Davidson, John E. Deterritorializing the New German Cinema. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Elsaesser, Thomas. New German Cinema: A History. London: BFI & Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1989.

Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler. Chapel Hill: University of Carolina Press, 1995.

Flinn, Caryl. The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Kaes, Anton. From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Knight, Julia. New German Cinema: Images of a Generation. London & New York: Wallflower, 2004.

Knight, Julia. Women and the New German Cinema. London & New York: Verso, 1992.

Pflaum, Hans Günther. Germany on Film: Theme and Content in the Cinema of the Federal Republic of Germany. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990. Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture

Rentschler, Eric. West German Filmmakers on Film: Visions and Voices. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988.

Santner, Eric L. Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

East German Cinema

Allan, Seán and John Sanford, eds. DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999.

Berghahn, Daniela. Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2005.

Bock, Hans-Michael. "East Germany: The DEFA Story." The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffery Nowell-Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 627-632.

Byg, Baron and Betheny Moore. Moving Images of East Germany: Past and Future of DEFA Film. AICGS Humanities Volume 12, 2002. [can be accessed online: http://www.aicgs.org/documents/gdr.pdf]

Feinstein, Joshua. The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Silberman, Marc. What Remains? East German Culture and the Postwar Republic, AICGS Humanities Volume 2, 1997. [can be accessed online: http://www.aicgs.org/documents/silberman.pdf]

German cinema since the Unification

Clarke, David, ed. German Cinema: Since Unification. London & New York: Continuum, 2006.

Naughton, Leonie. That Was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification, and the 'New' Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Online Resources

DEFA Film Library University of Massachussetts, Amherst http://www.umass.edu/defa/

Goethe Institute New York – Film Archive http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/flm/enindex.htm

AICGS-Reports on German Culture The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, John Hopkins University http://www.aicgs.org/analysis/publications/culture.aspx

German Films Service and Marketing http://www.german-films.de/

German Film Guide and movie indeces http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa021010a.htm