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 “
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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”
396: Austrians in Hollywood
Archival Spaces 396 Bernhard Frankfurter’s On the Road to Hollywood (1982) Uploaded 3 April 2026 In April 1980, I began working as a researcher for Bernhard Frankfurter’s Austrian TV film, On the Road to Hollywood (1982), travelling to Vienna to meet the film crew and give them some of my exile research. Later that year,Continue reading “396: Austrians in Hollywood”
391: People On Sunday
Archival Spaces 391 Monograph: People On Sunday Uploaded 23 January 2026 For years, I have been teaching a German film history course. One of the films I have consistently screened is Robert Siodmak’s Menschen am Sonntag/People on Sunday (1929), not only because it is my favorite film of the late Weimar Republic, but also becauseContinue reading “391: People On Sunday”
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