Table of Contents

Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Preface

Chapter 1. DEFA: An Historical Overview
Seán Allan

Chapter 2. DEFA and the Traditions of International Cinema
Barton Byg

Chapter 3. 'Letting the Genie out of the Bottle': DEFA Film-Makers and Film und Fernsehen
Rosemary Stott

Chapter 4. The Anti-Fascist Past in DEFA Films
Christiane Mückenberger

Chapter 5. Discussion with Kurt Maetzig
Martin Brady

Chapter 6. Rebels with a Cause: The Development of the 'Berlin-Filme' by Gerhard Klein and Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Horst Claus

Chapter 7. DEFA: A Personal View
Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Chapter 8. Representations of Work in the Forbidden DEFA Films of 1965
Karen Ruoff Kramer

Chapter 9. Censorship and the Law: The Case of Das Kaninchen bin ich (I am the Rabbit)
Stefan Soldovieri

Chapter 10. Paths of Discovery: The Films of Konrad Wolf
Anthony S. Coulson

Chapter 11. From Models to Misfits: Women in the DEFA Films of the 1970s and 1980s
Andrea Rinke

Chapter 12. The Concept of 'Heimat-DGR' in DEFA Feature Films
Harry Blunk

Chapter 13. The Re-evaluation of Goethe and the Classical Tradition in the Films of Egon Günther and Siegfried Kühn
Daniella Berghahn

Chapter 14. Idealism takes on the Establishment: Social Criticism in Roland Gräf's Film Adaptations of Märkische Forschungen (Exploring the Brandenburg Marches) and Der Tangospieler (The Tango Player)
Detlef Gwosc

Chapter 15. The Documentary Work of Jürgen Böttcher: A Retrospective
Richard Kilborn

Chapter 16. Documenting the Wende: The Films of Andreas Voigt
Helen Hughes

Notes on Contributors

Appendix: Research Sources for East German Cinema

Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Seán Allan is senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Warwick. 

Reviews

"... the lucid style of all contributions ... makes this volume an accessible read to students ... this volume has also the bonus of offering an excellent appendix on sources for future research ... this collection of essays illustrates precisely why the quality of DEFA film-making should not be confined to the archives of history."  · Journal of European Areas Studies "A useful appendix provides research sources. Written in clear prose, these essays should interest undergraduates and generalists as well as scholars and faculty."  · Humanities