The Founder's Fundfor Student Researchers |
Summer Film InstitutePOSTPONED to 2021! |
REEL Women in East German Film |
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The Founder’s Fund, established in honor of retired founding director Barton Byg, aims to support the work of student researchers interested in East German cinema and DEFA Film Library collections. SEE APPLICATION GUIDELINES! |
We will re-post a call for applications in the fall!
Authority and Alterity in East German Movies: Political Experiments, Rebel Youth and Civil Unrest |
With our REEL Women in East German Film series, we highlight women’s contributions to DEFA and how their work in cinema intersected with questions of cultural and national identification, gender, race and socialism, and the politics of representation in East Germany during the global Cold War. |
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While channel surfing in 2004, Lutz Dammbeck saw the West German TV game-show host Joachim Fuchsberger explain that he had based his successful early-1960s game show, Nur nicht nervös werden (Just Don’t Get Nervous), on an...
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Wartburg Castle
This documentary from the DEFA Studio for Popular Scientific Films traces the history of the Wartburg Castle in Thuringia and explains the landmark's contemporary significance. The castle became famous in the...