Autor: Anjeana K. Hans

The Weimar period in Germany was a time of radical change, when the traditions and social hierarchies of Imperial Germany crumbled, and a young, deeply conflicted republic emerged. Modernity brought …

New essays examining the differences and commonalities between late Weimar-era and early Nazi-era German cinema against a backdrop of the crises of that time. Hitler’s Machtergreifung, or seizure of …

Artur Robison’s Warning Shadows – in German simply Schatten, shadows – premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This story of a fateful dinner party at which a flirtatious wife, her jealous husband, an …

A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema – now restored and widely available – as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film. Artur Robison’s War …

New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective. Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number …

Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, ‘expressionist film, ‘ ha …