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Schmitz, Helmut (2016) Täter lite – unsere mütter, unsere väter and the manufacturing of empathy with German wartime trauma. German Life and Letters, 69 (3). pp. 365-386. doi:10.1111/glal.12125 ISSN 0016-8777.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glal.12125
Abstract
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, produced by Nico Hofmann’s company TeamWorx for ZDF in 2014, was the most expensive German TV production to date and was successfully sold to a global audience, including the US where it was awarded an Emmy, and China. The article examines the mini-series in the context of its German reception and the previous debates around representations of German suffering. It argues that the film combines two previously separate modes of visual representation, the historicist mode, known from Der Untergang and Dresden, and the traumatised aesthetics of contemporary immersive film and TV productions such as Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. Particular attention is paid to the issue of the manufacturing audience epathy and film’s claim to historical veracity, supported by the two documentaries from Guido Knopp’s ‘Redaktion Zeitgeschichte’ that accompanied the screenings.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war, Motion pictures--Germany--History, Psychic trauma in motion pictures, Violence in motion pictures, Germans in motion pictures, Suffering in motion pictures | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | German Life and Letters | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0016-8777 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 9 June 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 69 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 365-386 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/glal.12125 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 April 2016 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 June 2018 |
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