Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Guidelines for using Filmographies
List of Abbreviations

Encyclopaedia: Names A-Z

Appendix: Historical and Thematic Contexts

• Pioneers and Early Film: Wilhelmine Cinema
• Weimar
• Nazi Cinema
• Rubble Films
• DEFA and East German Cinema
• West German Film
• German Cinema Since Unification
• Austria
• Switzerland
• Exile and Transnational Traffic
• Other Themes, Genres, and Professions
   

About the Author

Hans-Michael Bock, General Editor, is editor of the encyclopaedia CineGraph - Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film, a reference work for German language film history published since 1984. He is also co-founder and board member of the research institute CineGraph - Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung which was founded in 1989 by the editors of the CineGraph encyclopaedia in order to intensify research of German film history in the European and transcontinental context.

Reviews

"Imposing in its impeccable scholarship and impressive in its literate accessibility, this is a magisterial who's who of German cinema - a superb resource and students and cineastes alike will find much excellent and accurate information on such key names as Fritz Lang, GW Pabst, Ernst Lubitsch, FW Murnau, Leni Riefenstahl, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Michael Haneke and Fatih Akin. It's also an irresistible browse that soon has one wishing that more German cinema was available on DVD in this country." * Oxford Times "It's a godsend that they have brought out this wonderful document...Hardcore information of this sort is incredibly important for the film historian and film students and sometimes even the film-maker, and it is gaining in value as the practitioners of 20th-century cinema disappear." * Kevin Brownlow, film historian, author, and filmmaker