Millennial Essays on Film and Other German Studies

Contents: Jon Hughes: 'Ein neuer Weg des Films': Joseph Roth's Reviews of Documentary Films - Daniela Berghahn: Liars and Traitors: Unheroic Resistance in Antifascist DEFA Films - Claudia Fellmer: The Communist who Rarely Played a Communist: The Case of DEFA Star Erwin Geschonneck - Julie Gregson: East or West - A Straight Choice? Representations of Masculinity and Constructions of National Identity in Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Gerhard Klein's Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser - Gabriele Müller: 'Links is wat, rechts is wat, und wir sind mittendrin' - The Representation of Teenage Identity in Helmut Dziuba's Film Jana und Jan - Osman Durrani: Virtual Paradises? A Brief History of the Postwar Schlager - Anna Richards: 'Halb Tier, Halb Engel': Women, Animals and Vegetarianism in the Fiction of Helene Böhlau (1856-1940) and Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) - Bram Mertens: The Anxiety of Influence: Benjamin, Scholem and Molitor - Peter Graves: Novel Developments in Germany: Reflections on the 1990s - Heidi Zojer: Warum wird an der Konzeptlosigkeit des Übersetzungsunterrichts festgehalten? Hinweise zu einer Überarbeitung und Neugestaltung - Peter Hohenhaus: Taking the Risk: Using Humour in Language Teaching.

The Editors: Daniela Berghahn is Principal Lecturer in German and European Studies at Oxford Brookes University. She has published books and articles on Modernism, European culture, and East and West German cinema. She co-organises the Media, Society and Institutions panel of the CUTG.
Alan Bance is Research Professor of German at the University of Southampton. His books include work on Theodor Fontane, Weimar Germany, and the cultural legacy of the British occupation in Germany from 1945. He is a former Germanic Editor of the Modern Language Review, and a former president of the CUTG.