Beiträge und Aufsätze zu Film und Kino
Preliminary Remark The following text is an expanded version of the text that was published in “A look at history – Contributions to Karlsruhe city history” (OT: Blick in die Geschichte – Karlsruher stadthistorische Beiträge), No. 135, on June 17, 2022. The text aims to depict the first years of early cinema in Karlsruhe; i.e. …
Preliminary remark: This text was mostly written in the course of 2021. Many references to the entries refer to this, e.g. B on filmportal.de etc. In the meantime, the level of information regarding Fanny Carlsen has changed fundamentally. The following text explains how this happened. I probably first became aware of Fanny Carlsen when I …
Some basic thoughts on genre film, especially german genre film – but still no theory of genre film. To be more precise, I am concerned with the relation of the genre film to external reality. This text was created after I saw the documentary by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert “Open Wound German Film” …
… was for me in every conceivable way the event for the fortieth anniversary of the Karlsruhe Kinemathek, which, as I have explained elsewhere *, should better be called “Municipal Cinema”. The event took place in September 2014 and I haven’t thought about it for a long time. Or rather: I had probably repressed …
The following text is a comment, a response to a contribution by Lars Henrik Gass, which was published on filmdienst.de on October 22, 2020. Ursprünglich war beabsichtigt, diesen Text dort als Kommentar einzufügen. That was not possible because the text is obviously too long. Therefore the text is published here. Based on the current problems …
