The Relationship between Film and History in Early German Postwar Cinema

Abstract

My deliberations begin with these questions: to what extent do films themselves create history, and, if indeed they do, then how? To what extent are films an arena in which one experiences the tension between historical events and individual historicity?

Keywords

• postwar cinema
• aesthetic experience
• german cinema
• rubble film
• ruins
• walter benjamin
• siegfried kracauer
• zwischen gestern und morgen
• die mörder sind unter uns
• film ohne titel