Archival Spaces 335 Alfred Zeisler Uploaded 24 November 2023 I first interviewed Alfred Zeisler in April 1983, when he attended a Berlinale Retrospective; I was in the final throws of writing my dissertation which included a chapter on Zeisler’s biopic of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Enemy of Women (1944). Zeisler had been a powerful producerContinue reading “335: Alfred Zeisler”
Tag Archives: German Exile Literature
313: Irmgard Keun
Archival Spaces 313 Irmgard Keun: Child of all Nations Uploaded 20 January 2023 A couple of weeks ago, my colleague, Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert, announced on Facebook that a previously lost German film from the early 1930s, Eine von uns (1932), starring Brigitte Helm, had turned up on YouTube. The film was an adaption of the sensational,Continue reading “313: Irmgard Keun”
272: Boschwitz The Passenger
Archival Spaces 272 Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz: The Passenger (1939/2020) Uploaded 25 June 2021 I recently finished reading Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s “lost” novel. Der Reisende, published for the first time in German in 2018, and recently republished in English in a new translation as The Passenger, eighty years after its first quickly forgotten appearance; it has been hailed by critics asContinue reading “272: Boschwitz The Passenger”
256: Hannah Arendt
Archival Spaces 256 Hannah Arendt – the Movie (2012) Downloaded 20 November 2020 There is a scene near the end of Margarete von Trotta’s masterful biopic, Hannah Arendt (2012), in which Prof. Arendt’s academic colleagues move away from her as she sits down in the faculty cafeteria, after in February 1962 she has published her controversial reportage, EichmannContinue reading “256: Hannah Arendt”
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