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”
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267: Ufa’s Aryanization
Archival Spaces 267 The „Aryanization“ of the Ufa Uploaded 16 April 2021 Some historians have always understood the Third Reich as a dictatorship that suppressed democratic institutions and oppressed, even murdered its citizenry without due process, but as the example of Germany’s largest film company, the Universum Film A.G. (Ufa) demonstrated, a significant portion ofContinue reading “267: Ufa’s Aryanization”
262: International Holocaust Day
Archival Spaces 262 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Uploaded 5 February 2021 On 1 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” in order to commemorate the liberation by Soviet Russian forces of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945. According to the website of theContinue reading “262: International Holocaust Day”
257: Cinefest Hamburg
Archival Spaces 257 Cinefest: Cinema, War and Tulips Downloaded 4 December 2020 The 17th International Festival of German Film Patrimony, sponsored by the Hamburg Cinegraph, screened online from 14 to 22 November: “Cinema, War and Tulips. German-Dutch Film Relations;” it was accompanied by a film historical conference (20-22 November). I’ll discuss the conference in my nextContinue reading “257: Cinefest Hamburg”