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 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 20th of November 2013.
Willy Haas Award 2013
2013 the international jury consists of Erica Carter (London), Malte Hagener (Marburg), Adelheid Heftberger (Vienna), Heike Klippel (Braunschweig) and Andreas Thein (Düsseldorf).The jury has decided on the following candidates for the shortlist
Books:
DEFA International. Grenzüberschreitende Filmbeziehungen vor und nach dem Mauerbau. Edited byMichael Wedel, Barton Byg, Andy Räder, Skyler Arndt-Briggs und Evan Torner. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013.
Denkmal Film (2 Bd.), by Anna Bohn. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2013.
Edition Gerhard Lamprecht (3 Bd.), by Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen und Eva Orbanz. Munich: edition text + kritik 2013.
A New History of German Cinema. Edited by Jennifer M. Kapczynski und Michael D. Richardson. Rochester / New York: Camden House 2012.
Das Prinzip Neugier. DEFA-Dokumentarfilmer erzählen, Edited by Ingrid Poss, Christiane Mückenberger und Anne Richter. Berlin: Neues Leben 2012.
Screen Nazis. Cinema, History, and Democracy, by Sabine Hake. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2012.
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DVDs
Brüche und Kontinuitäten. Zwischen Ufa und DEFA 1942-1948, Box Nr. 1. Hg. DEFA-Stiftung & Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. 6 DVDs (ca. 533 min), Extras, Booklet. Hamburg: Studio Hamburg Enterprises 2012.
Die Nibelungen. Masters of Cinema Series. 2 DVDs (281 min), Extras, Booklet. London: Eureka Entertainment 2012.
Riki Kalbe – 15 Filme. 2 DVDs (263 min), Booklet. Berlin: filmgalerie 451 2013.
Die Weber. Transit Classics – Deluxe Edition, Hg. Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung. (96 min), Booklet. München: Universum Film, 2012.
Zeichen der Zeit – Beobachtungen aus der Bundesrepublik 1956–1973. Die Filme der Stuttgarter Schule. Hg. Kay Hoffmann. 5 DVDs (733 min), Extras, Booklet. Berlin: absolut Medien 2011.
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