West German Filmmakers On Film

Acknowledgments = xii Introduction: The Writing Out of West German Film History = xiii Ⅰ Manifestos and Declarations 1. The Oberhausen Manifesto (1962) = 2 2. The Mannheim Declaration (1967) = 2 3. The Hamburg Declaration (1979) = 4 4. The Manifesto of Women Film Workers (1979) = 5 5. The Munich Declaration (1983) = 6 Ⅱ The Price of Survival: Institutional Challenges 6. Alexander Kluge, "What Do the 'Oberhauseners' Want?" (1962) = 10 7. Hans Rolf Strobel and Heinrich Tichawsky, "We Have Work to Do" (1965) = 13 8. Vlado Kristl, "Application for Film Subsidy" (1970) = 14 9. Jean-Marie Straub, "Letter to the Export-Union" (1975) = 16 10. Hans Jürgen Syberberg, "We Live in a Dead Country" (1977) = 17 11. Hans W. Geissendörfer, "Dependent Working Conditions: About Directing and Producing" (1979) = 20 12. Herbert Achternbusch, "Something about Nature and Censorship" (1979) = 24 13. Helke Sander, "Men Are Responsible That Women Become Their Enemies: Tales of Rejection" (1980) = 25 14. Alexander Kluge, "Theses about the New Media" (1983) = 30 15. Volker Schlondorff, "Zimmermann's Execution Directives" (1983) = 32 16. Wim Wenders, "The Filmverlag against the Authors" (1985) = 36 Ⅲ Popular Approaches: Generic Models and Utopian Designs 17. Eckhart Schmidt, " ...Preferably Naked Girls'"(1968) = 40 18. Wim Wenders, "Emotion Pictures (Slowly Rockin' On)" (1970) = 42 19. Christian Ziewer, "The Aesthetics of the 'Worker Film'" (1972) = 45 20. Robert Van Ackeren, "Relationships, Reality, and Realism" (1977) = 47 21. Hark Bohm, "Taking Leave of the Security of Esoteric Aesthetics" (1977) = 49 22. Niklaus Schilling, "Cinema, Melodrama, and the World of Emotion" (1977) = 50 23. Walter Bockmayer, "Come Back, Peter Kraus!" (1978) = 51 24. Rudolf Thome, "That's Utopia: The Cinema of My Dreams" (1979) = 52 25. Alexander Kluge, "Utopian Cinema" (1979) = 54 26. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "Michael Curtiz—Anarchist in Hollywood? Unordered Thoughts about a Seemingly Paradoxical Idea" (1980) = 54 27. Sohrab Shahid Saless, "Culture as Hard Currency or: Hollywood in Germany" (1983) = 56 Ⅳ Different Ways of Seeing 28. Ottomar Domnick, "Freeing Oneself from Old Hat" (1965) = 60 29. Wim Wenders, "Kelek" (1969) = 61 30. Klaus Wildenhahn, "The Method of Direct Observation: Two Examples" (1974) = 63 31. Werner Nekes, "What Really Happens between the Frames" (1975) = 66 32. Rosa von Praunheim, "Gay Film Culture" (1976) = 70 33. Klaus Wyborny, "Unordered Notes on Conventional Narrative Film" (1976) = 73 34. Helke Sander, "Feminism and Film" (1977) = 75 35. Alexander Kluge, "The Spectator as Entrepreneur" (1979) = 82 36. Birgit Hein, "Some Notes about Our Film Work" (1980) = 83 37. Jutta Brückner, "Women's Films Are Searches for Traces" (1981) = 85 38. Margarethe von Trotta, "Female Film Aesthetics" (1982) = 89 39. Ulrike Ottinger, "The Pressure to Make Genre Films: About the Endangered Autorenkino" (1983) = 90 40. Alfred Behrens, "New European Film and Urban Modernity" (1986) = 93 Ⅴ Discovering and Preserving German Film History 41. Alf Brustellin, "The Other Tradition" (1971) = 98 42. Wim Wenders, "Death Is No Solution: The German Film Director Fritz Lang" (1976) = 101 43. Volker Schlöndorff, "Rereading Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler" (1980) = 104 44. Alexander Kluge, "The Early Days of the Ulm Institute for Film Design" (1980) = 111 45. Edgar Reitz, "The Dream of a German Film House" (1981) = 112 46. Werner Herzog, "Tribute to Lotte Eisner" (1982) = 115 47. Christian Ziewer, "Last Words for Wolfgang Staudte" (1984) = 118 48. Robert Van Ackeren, "How a Film Classic Becomes a Video Clip" (1985) = 121 Ⅵ Collective Memory and National Identity 49. Wim Wenders, "That's Entertainment: Hitler" (1977) = 126 50. Alf Brustellin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, and Bernhard Sinkel, "Germany in Autumn: What Is the Film's Bias?" (1978) = 132 51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "The German Feature Film and Reality" (1978) = 134 52. Edgar Reitz, "The Camera Is Not a Clock" (1979) = 137 53. Hans Jürgen Syberberg, "Mein Führer—Our Hitler. The Meaning of Small Words" (1980) = 141 54. Eberhard Fechner, "The Experience of History" (1984) = 142 55. Hans Jürgen Syberberg, "The Abode of the Gods" (1984) = 145 56. Jean-Marie Straub, "Bitburg: A Text" (1985) = 146 57. Josef Rödl, "In Search of the Lost Heimat" (1986) = 146 58. Martin Theo Krieger, "Finding a Home in Berlin" (1986) = 149 Ⅶ Filmmakers and Critics 59. Wim Wenders, "Learning to Hear and See" (1976) = 152 60. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "Public Statement Regarding Garbage, the City, and Death" (1976) = 154 61. Herbert Achternbusch, "Letter to Wolfram Schütte" (1979) = 155 62. Helma Sanders-Brahms, "My Critics, My Films, and I" (1980) = 156 63. Hans Jürgen Syberberg, "Media Response to Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980) = 162 64. Christel Buschmann, "Response to H. C. Blumenberg" (1983) = 163 Ⅷ Directors and Players 65. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "Talking about Oppression with Margit Carstensen" (1973) = 168 66. Wolfgang Petersen, "Some Thoughts about Ernst" (1977) = 172 67. Volker Schlöndorff, "David Bennent and Oskar Mazerath" (1978) = 176 68. Margarethe von Trotta, "Working with Jutta Lampe" (1979) = 178 69. Rosa von Praunheim, "Erika from Würzburg: A Portrait of the Actress Magdalena Montezuma" (1981) = 179 70. Herbert Achternbusch, "Annamirl Bierbichler" (1984) = 182 71. Jean-Marie Straub, "Fire: Alfred Edel" (1986) = 182 Ⅸ Filmmakers and Colleagues 72. Hellmuth Costard, "A Call to Revolt: On Particularly Noteworthy and Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach" (1968) = 186 73. Wim Wenders, "Red Sun: Baby, You Can Drive My Car, and Maybe I'll Love You" (1970) = 187 74. Doris Dörrie, "Searching for Stories in a Gray Germany" (1978) = 188 75. Rosa von Praunheim, "With Fond Greetings to Champagne-Schroeter" (1979) = 191 76. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "Homage to Werner Schroeter" (1979) = 196 77. Herbert Achternbusch, "A Rose for Rainer Werner Fassbinder" (1982) = 199 78. Rosa von Praunheim, "From Beast to Beast" (1982) = 201 Ⅹ Taking Stock 79. Edgar Reitz, "Love of Cinema" (1962) = 206 80. Volker Schlöndorff, "A Dream" (1966) = 207 81. Herbert Achternbusch, "Amerika: Report to the Goethe Institute" (1979) = 209 82. Rudolf Thome, "Thoughts about Filmmaking in the FRG" (1980) = 213 83. Helma Sanders-Brahms, "'New German Cinema, jeune cinéma allemand, Good Night': A Day in Oberhausen, 1982" (1982) = 220 84. Helmut Herbst, "New German Cinema, 1962-83: A View from Hamburg" (1983) = 225 85. Alexander Kluge, "Pact with a Dead Man" (1984) = 234 Sources = 243 Selected Further Readings = 247 Index of Names and Films = 255

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