Gabi Teichert in the New Millennium
April 1, 2022
At the outset of The Patriot, the eighth installment in Camden House’s German Film Classics series, I ask the question: Why is Alexander Kluge’s The Patriot (1979) a film for… READ MORE
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Books to Look out for in April 2022
April 1, 2022
An innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa. A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre. A… READ MORE
Wings of Desire
March 31, 2022
Whenever I mentioned to people that I am working on a monograph on Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire, I would either hear, “Oh, that’s (one of) my favorite film/s!” or… READ MORE
John Cruso of Norwich: a man of many parts
March 31, 2022
John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3) is a fine example of an early modern self-made man. This study of his life and work illustrates well that fundamental tenet of the… READ MORE
Fitzcarraldo
March 30, 2022
Few films in German film history have generated more buzz and speculation long before their actual release than Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, only a handful have left as many legends about… READ MORE
Warning Shadows
March 30, 2022
When I first saw Artur Robison’s Warning Shadows (1923), I was interested in it as part of a project focused on gender and film, so I watched it with an… READ MORE
Toni Erdmann
March 29, 2022
“Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand,” the French film historian Christian Metz once noted. This observation is all the more appropriate for those kinds of… READ MORE
An Unseen Classic: Ula Stöckl’s The Cat Has Nine Lives
March 29, 2022
On February 26, 2020, I sat in a crowded café outside the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin recording an interview with filmmaker Ula Stöckl. Stöckl, who had recently… READ MORE
Coming Out is a First and a Last
March 28, 2022
If people have heard of the East German film Coming Out (1989, directed by Heiner Carow), they usually know one of a few things about the film. First, it was… READ MORE
Camden House German Film Classics series
March 28, 2022
We are excited to kick off our week-long celebration of our Camden House German Film Classics series with this post by our series co-editor Johannes von Moltke, who talks about… READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History