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 …
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
This pandemic year 2020 is pushing intermediality very far, and very fast. Speaking of cinema and of the academic environment, of symposia, conferences and festivals, countless new exchange modalities are being experimented these days. Though this has been generally driven by the global emergency status, it must be said that there is also a widespread, …
