Willy Haas Award
The Willy Haas Award is an award for an important international print and DVD publication not older than two years on German cinema, chosen from five previously nominated titles.
Willy Haas was an author, filmcritic and screenwriter who was born in Prague and died in Hamburg.
The award is presented at the opening night of the International Film History Conference on the 17th of November 2010 by an international and independent jury.
Willy Haas Award 2010
2010 the international jury consists of
Thomas Ballhausen (Vienna),
Erica Carter (Coventry),
Sabine Hake (Austin, Texas),
Kay Hoffmann (Stuttgart) and
Roel Vande Winkel (Ghent).
The jury has decided on the following candidates for the shortlist:
Books:
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. Anton Kaes. Princeton and
Oxford:
Princeton University Press 2009. 326 pages
Das Kino und der Krieg. Deutschland 1914-1929. Philipp Stiasny. Munich: edition text + kritik, December 2009. 443 pages
From Grain to Pixel. The Archival Life of Film in Transition. Giovanna Fossati.
Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press, 2009. 336 pages
Dismantling the Dream Factory. Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Hester Baer. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009 (Film Europa). 304 pages
Kooperation oder Konkurrenz? Das Verhältnis von Film und Fernsehen in der DDR. Thomas Beutelschmidt. Berlin: DEFA-Stiftung, 2010. 449 pages
DVDs:
Klaus Wildenhahn Edition. (1965-1991)
absolut medien
Box with 5 DVDs with 14 Films + ROM-section, Booklet.
Welt am Draht. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. (1973)
Kinowelt/Arthaus
2 DVDs (204 min), Booklet.
Tresor I 1. Saturn Filme 1906-1910. Die erotischen Anfänge der österreichischen Kinematografie.
Filmarchiv Austria
1 DVD (90 min)
Werner Schroeter-Collection. (1980-2008)
Filmgalerie 451
Box with 4 DVDs with 3 Films, Booklet.
Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Abfallprodukte der Liebe, Diese Nacht Nuit de chien.
Wunder der Schöpfung. (1923 +1925)
Edition Filmmuseum 43
1 DVD (92 min) + ROM-section, Booklet.