Willy Haas Award
shortlist Books shortlist DVD
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 up to six previously nominated titles by an international and independent jury.
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 21st of November 2012.
Willy Haas Award 2012
2012 the international jury consists of Erica Carter (Coventry), Sabine Hake (Austin, Texas), Matle Hagener (Marburg), Francesco Pitassio (Udine) and Andreas Thein (Düsseldorf).The jury has decided on the following candidates for the shortlist:
Books:
Der Caligari-Komplex by Olaf Brill.
Munich: belleville 2012. 432 p.
Cinema and Experience. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Bratu Hansen (†). Berkley / Los Angeles / London: University of California Press 2011. 408 p.
Filmhochschulen in Deutschland: Geschichte, Typologie, Architektur by Peter C. Slansky. Munich: edition text + kritik 2011. 856 p.
Lektionen in Herzog. Neues über Deutschlands verlorenen Filmautor und sein Werk by Chris Wahl. Munich: edition text + kritik 2011. 392 p.
Die rote Traumfabrik. Meschrabpom-Film und Prometheus (1921–1936) ed. by Günter Agde, Alexander Schwarz and Karin Herbst-Meßlinger. Berlin: Bertz + Fischer 2012. 264 p.
Traum und Exzess – Die Kulturgeschichte des frühen Kinos by Klaus Kreimeier. Vienna: Zsolnay 2011. 416 p.
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DVDs
Design for Living. A film by Ernst Lubitsch. Producer: Karen Stetler. 2 DVDs (91 min + Bonus), Extras, Booklet. New York: Criterion Collection 2011.
Die Geschichte des deutschen Animationsfilms I-VI. Curator: Ulrich Wegenast. 6 DVDs (ca. 753 min), Booklets. Berlin: absolut Medien 2011.
Kurt Weiler. Die Kunst des Puppenanimationsfilms. Ed.: Deutsches Institut für Animationsfilm. 2 DVDs (180 min + Bonus), Booklet. Berlin: absolut Medien 2012.
Die "Oberhausener". Provokation der Wirklichkeit. Ed.: Filmmuseum Munich, Internationale Kurzfilmtage oberhausen, Deutsche Kinemathek and Bundesarchiv. 2 DVDs (279 min), inkl. ROM-Bereich, Booklet. Munich: Edition Filmmuseum 2012.
Schloss Vogelöd. A film by F. W. Murnau. (Restored Version of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung). Producer: Craig Keller, et.a. The Masters of Cinema Series # 108. 1 DVD (82 min), Extras, Booklet. London: Eureka Entertainment 2011.
A special mention will be given to the series Taschenkino of Filmarchiv Austria.
