Andreas Dresen
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Andreas Dresen

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  1. 260 pages
  2. English
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Andreas Dresen

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About this book

Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose Ɠuvre now spans three decades and includes some of the most acclaimed German films of recent times, such as Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002), Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005) and Halt auf freier Strecke (Stopped on Track, 2011). The essays collected in this volume by leading scholars from the USA, UK and Ireland place him in the tradition of auteur cinema while emphasising his roots in the pre-1990 film industry of DEFA in the GDR. Dresen works with an established team of performers, technicians and scriptwriters, uses improvisation and non-professional actors, and makes music and song an integral component of many of his films. He is a scholar-filmmaker who pushes at the boundaries of his chosen modes and genres (documentary, neo-realism, films about films or literary adaptation); he is socially committed, casting a Brechtian eye on interpersonal encounters in neoliberal environments; and he is always interested to tell universal stories from the localities he knows best, the working-class milieus of Germany's east.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Selected Filmography, 1991–2017
  5. Introduction (Julian Preece)
  6. ‘Every time a film gets made, an amazing miracle has occurred’: Interview with Andreas Dresen (Julian Preece / Andreas Dresen)
  7. Der falsche Kino-Osten / The Wrong Eastern Cinema (Andreas Dresen)
  8. Self-Reflexivity and Films within Films: From Stilles Land (1992) to Whisky mit Vodka (2009) via Halbe Treppe (2002) and Sommer vorm Balkon (2005) (Julian Preece)
  9. Alternative GDR History in Raus aus der Haut (1997) (Reinhild Steingröver)
  10. Shaping the Nation and the New Capital on the Eve of the Millennium: Nachtgestalten (1999) (Stephen Brockmann)
  11. Exploring the East German Past and the DEFA Film Legacy in Die Polizistin (2000) (Rosemary Stott)
  12. Coming to Terms with the Present: Andreas Dresen’s Wichmann Films (2003/2012) (Helen Hughes)
  13. Women at Work: Reflections on Social Identity and the Private Self in Die Polizistin (2000), Willenbrock (2005) and Steigerlied (2013) (Jean E. Conacher)
  14. Connecting with the Real: Death, Dying and Displacement in Andreas Dresen’s Halt auf freier Strecke (2011) and Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012) (Brigid Haines)
  15. Visions of the Wende in Adaptations of Contemporary Fiction by Jurek Becker, Christoph Hein and Clemens Meyer (Julian Preece)
  16. Lost at Home: Als wir trĂ€umten (2015), Liminal Space and GDR Cinema Tradition (Mary-Elizabeth O’brien)
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Notes on Contributors
  19. Index