Beiträge und Aufsätze zu Film und Kino
I like to write about people, the places they live and the things with which they choose to surround themselves. Here are some of my favorite pieces that made it into Article.
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 …
Saturday 29 January – Fourth day of the festival First program: Fabulous Lola (OT: Die tolle Lola) Today we start at 3 p.m. with Richard Eichberg’s film “Fabulous Lola” (OT: Die Tolle Lola) with Lilian Harvey. In the festival program, the film is the example of German light comedy of the 1920s. A critic of …
First Part 2 months before the start of the 19th Karlsruhe Silent Film Festival At the end of November/beginning of December 2021, the expected course of the pandemic situation was more or less unclear. But we had to make a decision in our small team as to whether we wanted to organize the silent film …
Some weeks ago one could attend a couple quite special cinematographic events in Köln: “Frau im Mond” (1929) and “Spione” (1928) by Fritz Lang have been screened at the Filmforum NRW, right next to the Dom, in the framework of the “Filmreihe Fritz Lang – Ikone der Filmgeschichte mit Livemusik”. The third and last …
A slightly theoretical text about comedy, slapstick and the comic in general
In these last months I have been starting to see my laptop, which is constantly on my desk, in my flat, in Germany, as a sort of timeless and spaceless shuttle: as I sit here, I can suddenly get teleported to an academic conference in a city far away from here, to a meeting with …
A contrasting comparison At the Berlinale 2020 I could see the world premiere of “Rizi” by Chinese director Tsai Ming-Liang, who lives in Taiwan, as well as the screening of the 4K restoration of “Xiao Wu” (Pickpocket), originally shot on 16mm, and debut film of Jia Zhang-ke, who lives in the Chinese Mainland. A comparison …
Jamaica Inn is well-known as Hitchcock’s last British work, for soon after he moved to Hollywood. Also, this film is generally considered the least well directed film by the Master of Suspence – as also stated by Hitchcock himself. But would Hitchcock have succeeded in his following film Rebecca, made in USA, if he had …
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” …
