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
Category: Film and Theatre
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
Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo
September 16, 2019
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
Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968
June 14, 2019
New from Camden House is Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968, which provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period’s epoch-making… READ MORE
Was the Sturm und Drang a Radical Movement?
April 25, 2019
New from Camden House is Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz: Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems—the first representative English collection of the Sturm und Drang writer J. M. R…. READ MORE
Austria Made in Hollywood: “But the Austrians were never so bad as the Germans”
April 12, 2019
Just out from Camden House is Austria Made in Hollywood, which focuses on films set in an identifiable Austria, examining them through the lenses of the historical contexts on both… READ MORE
An extract from Ernest Josef Aufricht’s ‘And The Shark, He Has Teeth’
September 27, 2018
Brecht, Weill and The Threepenny Opera are names practically synonymous with each other. However, little is known about the great theater producer behind its staging, Ernst Josef Aufricht, whose memoir, And… READ MORE
And The Shark, He Has Teeth Extract
May 31, 2018
Brecht, Weill and The Threepenny Opera are names practically synonymous with each other. However, little is known about the great theater producer behind its staging, Ernst Josef Aufricht, whose memoir,… READ MORE
The Arms and Armour of Death