Feuchtwanger and Film- Feuchtwanger und Film

This volume contains a selection of the proceedings of a conference organised by the International Feuchtwanger Society entitled 'Feuchtwanger and Film'. The conference took place in September 2007 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades to explore the link between literature and film, focusing especially on the work of Lion Feuchtwanger. The book opens with three chapters that analyse Feuchtwanger's novel Goya and in particular the powerful film which the East German director, Konrad Wolf, made for DEFA. A second section throws fresh light on another novel, Jud Süss, and the notorious Nazi film of the same name. The book then switches attention to the filming of Feuchtwanger's works by East German television, particularly Die Brüder Lautensack, before opening a window on Feuchtwanger's immense reputation in Russia with a study of Grigori Roshal's film Sem'ia Oppengeim (1939), based on the novel Die Geschwister Oppenheim (1933). A later section discusses the 'filmic' qualities which characterise much of Feuchtwanger's oeuvre, while a final part widens the debate with an investigation of three other émigré authors and their involvement with DEFA (Arnold Zweig) and Hollywood (Franz Werfel and Anna Seghers). The volume concludes with a report on 'Feuchtwanger Relaunched', a web-based project designed to inform media interest in Feuchtwanger's life and work.
Dieser Band beinhaltet ausgewählte Vorträge, die auf einer Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger Gesellschaft zum Thema «Feuchtwanger und Film» gehalten wurden. Die Konferenz fand im September 2007 an der Universität von Südkalifornien (USC) in Los Angeles und in der Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades statt. Im Mittelpunkt der Konferenz standen die Verknüpfungen von Literatur und Film, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Werkes von Lion Feuchtwanger. Die ersten drei Kapitel des Bandes sind der Analyse von Feuchtwangers Roman Goya gewidmet und der