Archival Spaces 403: Weimar Germany’s Most Popular Unknown Film Star Uploaded 10 July 2026 Despite having starred in ca. 70 films, despite having been one of the most popular actresses in Weimar Germany, and despite operating her own production company throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Ellen Richter is invisible in the canons of classicContinue reading “403: Ellen Richter”
Tag Archives: German cinema
400: Novels to Film
Archival Spaces 400: Frank Borzage’s Little Man, What Now? (1934) Uploaded 29 May 2026 I recently read Hans Fallada’s world bestseller, Kleiner Mann – was Nun? (Little Man, What Now?), published in June 1932, just months before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. The version now available in paperback in German is 25% longer (100 pages)Continue reading “400: Novels to Film”
398: Germany, 1 May 1951
Archival Spaces 398: German Cinema’s Low Point Uploaded 1 May 1951 Today is my birthday. I (and my twin brother, Michael) were born in a medieval town in Germany’s Rhineland, Bad Münstereifel, seven months preemies and weighing 3 lbs each. Since we were born in a convent, not a hospital, we were given an emergencyContinue reading “398: Germany, 1 May 1951 “
397: German Film Exile in Argentina
Archival Spaces 397: Eternal Mask’s Art Director Uploaded 17 April 2026 I have been catching up on the films of Werner Hochbaum on YouTube, a filmmaker best known for his leftist feature, Brothers (1929), about a dock strike in Hamburg. Politically in danger after 1933, Hochbaum moved to Austria, where he directed several films, includingContinue reading “397: German Film Exile in Argentina”
Archival Spaces 