9 Historicising the Story Through Film and Music
9 Historicising the Story through Film and Music An Intermedial Reading of Heimat 21 Abstract Chapter 9 focuses on Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation (Die zweite Heimat: Chronik einer Jugend, 1992), the second part of the monumental Heimat TV and cinema series, scripted and directed by German filmmaker Edgar Reitz. The project, spanning over 60 hours, has in Heimat 2 its longest instalment, with 13 episodes totalling more than 25 hours of film. My objective here is to evaluate the ways in which the Heimat 2 series, as part of a ‘total-history’ project, i.e. the retelling of the history of Germany from the nineteenth century to today, presents history in the making by means of intermediality, that is, through the use of music as theme, diegetic performance and organisational principle of all episodes. Keywords: Heimat series; Edgar Reitz; German Cinema; New German Cinema; New Music; Intermediality This chapter focuses on Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation (Die zweite Heimat: Chronik einer Jugend, 1992), the second part of the monumental Heimat TV and cinema series, which started with Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (Heimat: eine deutsche Chronik, 1982) and continued with Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (Heimat 3: Chronik einer Zeitenwende, 2004) and Home from Home: A Chronicle of Vision (Die andere Heimat: Chronik einer Sehnsucht, 2013), all scripted and directed by German filmmaker Edgar Reitz. The project, spanning over 60 hours so far, has in Heimat 2 its longest instalment, with 13 episodes totalling more than 25 hours of film. 1 I would like to thank Suzana Reck Miranda and John Gibbs for their technical advice on this chapter.
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