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CineFest 2007 – 4th International Festival of German Film Heritage and the 20th International Film History Conference, will focus on the multifaceted historical relations between German-speaking and Czecho-Slovakian film-making. Cinefest 2007 and the International Film History Conference are organized by CineGraph Hamburg and Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin, together with the National Film archive Prag, and Charles University of Prague.
German, Austrian and Czech cultures share an intensive and problematic history. Two World Wars led to drastic changes and cultural conflicts which have a continuous effect on the countries’ relations. Nowhere are the ever-changing developments and various facets of these precarious relations more explicitly projected than in film. CineFest 2007 and The Film History Conference will discuss the careers of stars on both sides of the border, look at production structures, and explore film-historical correlations between Berlin, Vienna, and Prague, from the early 20th century until today.
One main focus will be the cooperation and inter-migration of filmmakers and personell between Czechoslovakia Germany and Austria. Also discussed will be the contribution of German-speaking authors and filmmakers from the Prague milieu such as Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Egon Erwin Kisch, Willy Haas, or Franz Schulz to film productions in these countries. In addition, we will discuss the economic, artistic and political motifs, which caused Czech filmmakers like Anny Ondra (Ondráková), Karel/Carl Lamač, František Cáp or Vojtěch Jasný to migrate to and work in German-speaking countries .
Another important emphasis will be on the economic and institutional links between the countries and the effect on film production. The motifs and aims of German-Czechoslovakian and Czech-Austrian Co-Productions in different eras and political systems will be examined such as EIN MÄDEL VON DER REEPERBAHN / LIDÉ V BOURI (1930) and JAHRGANG 21 / ROČNÍK 21 (1957). We will also focus on the impact of cultural, social, and political rivalry between the nationalities on the production and reception of German-speaking films and German-Czech Language Versions in Czechoslovakia such as DER K.U.K FELD-MARSCHALL (1930) or DAS GÄSSCHEN ZUM PARADIES (1936). Another important topic at the conference will be film production under Nazi rule in the “Reichsprotektorat” of Bohemia and Moravia, where not only the organizational set-up is of interest but also the content control during filmmaking and the strategies of Czech filmmakers between emigration and collaboration.
The conference will examine how Czechoslovakian, German and Austrian people have stereotyped each other in films. In doing so, the development and changes of stereotypes, clichés and thematic motifs throughout the 20th century will be explored. The “Golden City” on the Vltava inspired early German films such as DER STUDENT VON PRAG or DER GOLEM. Films like HANGMEN ALSO DIE! (1942), NĚMÁ BARIKÁDA (1949), TRANSPORT Z RÁJE (1962), DER MÄDCHENKRIEG (1976/77), HILDE, DAS DIENSTMÄDCHEN (1985/86), and MUSÍME SI POMÁHAT (1999) display the continuing interest of German and Czech film directors in dealing with the experiences of occupation, war and displacement.
The conference is supported by the Adalbert Stifter Association, Munich
[There will be simultaneous translations in German/Czech]
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
Conference Opening
Metropolis-Kino (Dammtorstr. 30a)
19:00
Opening film: ADELHEID (CS 1969, František Vláčil), 99 min, OV, engl. subtitles
Introduction: Tereza Dvořáková, Prague
Join us after the film for a drink at Metropolis. Sponsored by Becherovka.
Conference at the University Guesthouse (Rothenbaumchausee 34)
Thursday, 22 November 2007
09:15 am
Welcome
09:30 – 12:30
Panel 1: PRAGUE – BERLIN – VIENNA
Peter Becher, Munich: Koexistenz und Konkurrenz – deutsche und tschechische Kultur in der Tschechoslowakei. Ein Überblick
Jan-Christopher Horak, Los Angeles: Anny and Schweijk: The German Reception of Czech Silent Cinema
Gernot Heiss, Vienna: Filmproduktion zwischen Prag und Wien bis 1938
1:30 – 4:30 pm
Panel 2: SOUNDFILM GERMAN - CZECH
Petr Szczepanik, Brno/Prague: German Electrical Corporations and Czechoslovak Film Industry in the 1930s
Kevin Johnson, Seattle/Prague: Kulturelle Mischungen: Nation, Ort und Identität in den deutsch-tschechischen Sprachversionen
Horst Claus, Bristol: Die Ufa und der tschechische Markt 1927-1938 im Spiegel der Ufa-Vorstandsprotokolle
Friday, 23 November 2007
09:15 am – 12:30 pm
Panel 3: CINEMA DURING OCCUPATION
Tereza Dvořáková, Prague: Cinematographic Power Structures in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Petr Bednařík, Prague: Die Karriere des deutschen Filmfunktionärs Karl Schulz als Okkupationsgewinnler
Hans-Joachim Schlegel, Berlin: Otakar Vávra und G. W. Pabst in Barrandov 1942/43
1:30 – 4:30 pm
Panel 4: WAR EXPERIENCES
Petr Mareš, Prague: Tschechen und Deutsche in Fritz Langs Hangmen Also Die
Pavel Zeman, Prague: Sudetendeutsche und Vertreibung in tschechoslowakischen Filmwochenschauen und Dokumentarfilmen 1945-1948
Petr Koura, Prague : Die Entwicklung des Bildes der Deutschen im tschechoslowakischen Film nach 1945
Metropolis-Kino
7:00 pm: HILDE, DAS DIENSTMÄDCHEN (DDR 1985/86, Günther Rücker, Jürgen Brauer)
Presentation: Elke Schieber, Potsdam: Geliebte und verlorene Heimat - Lust und Verantwortung zu erzählen, wie es war
Saturday, 24 November 2007
09:15 am – 12:30 pm
Panel 5: CO-PRODUCTIONS
Ivan Klimeš, Prague: Co-Produktionen als Politikum. Zur Filmzusammenarbeit zwischen DDR und ČSSR nach 1969
Ralf Forster, Potsdam / Volker Petzold, Potsdam: Ungleiche Partner im Animationsfilm. Deutsch-tschechische Kooperationen am Beispiel der Serie Rübezahl (1974-84)
Helena Srubar, Linz: (West) German-Czech co-productions in children’s films of the 1970ies and 1980ies: Pan Tau et al.
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Panel 6: STILISTIC INFLUENCES
Thomas Ballhausen, Vienna: Die Tücken der Objekte. Eine Notiz zu Jan Švankmajers in Österreich produzierten Filmen.
Rudolf Jürschik, Berlin: DEFA und Barrandov: Aspekte der ddr-deutsch – tschechischen Filmbeziehungen
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Final Discussion
Metropolis-Kino
9:00 pm: MAMITSCHKA (BRD 1955, Rolf Thiele)
Presentation: Stefan Zwicker, Mainz/Bonn: »Frommes Herz, entwurzelte Jugend« – zur Darstellung einer sudetendeutschen Vertriebenenfamilie in Rolf Thieles MAMITSCHKA
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