East German Film and the Holocaust

Elizabeth Ward is a Lecturer in German Studies and specializes in German film. She is a lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research fellow at the Universität Leipzig. She has published on East German cinema, contemporary Holocaust film and twenty-first century German cinema. She is the co-editor of Entertaining German Culture Contemporary Transnational Television and Film (Berghahn Books, 2023).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms



Introduction



Part I: 1945–1949



Chapter 1. Picking Up the Pieces. Kurt Maetzig’s Ehe im Schatten



Part II: 1949–1961



Chapter 2. The German Democratic Republic’s Ambassador of Good Will. Konrad Wolf’s Sterne

Chapter 3. Reframing Victimhood. Konrad Wolf’s Professor Mamlock



Part III: 1961–1971



Chapter 4. Crimes of the Past and Politics of the Present. Wolfgang Luderer’s Lebende Ware

Chapter 5. ‘In Babelsberg, Nothing New’. Gottfried Kolditz’s Das Tal der sieben Monde



Part IV: 1971–1980



Chapter 6. New Encounters on Well-Worn Paths: Kurt Jung-Alsen’s Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann

Chapter 7. Returning to the Past: Frank Beyer’s Jakob der Lügner



Part V: 1980–1989



Chapter 8. Shifting Identities. Michael Kann’s Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn

Chapter 9. Calendar-Based Shame? Siegfried Kühn’s Die Schauspielerin



Conclusion



Filmography

Bibliography

Index