A website dedicated to the history of the “Wende” and contemporary representations of the events. The English version of the website includes: historical data, an encyclopaedia, biographies of key figures and an online shop. The German version of the website includes further resources.

Filmförderungsanstalt / German Federal Film Board

http://www.ffa.de/

The German Federal Film Board controls the German film industry with the intention of promoting German cinema. The Board publishes information and statistics concerning the most successful cinematic productions in Germany. Certain parts of the site are available in English.

German Post-Reunification Cinema Websites:

Biermann, Wolf, ‘Warum Wolf Biermann über den Stasi-Film “Das Leben der Anderen” staunt’ in Die Welt 22.03.2006, Welt Online. Stable URL: http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article205586/Warum_Wolf_Biermann_ueber_den_Stasi_Film_Das_Leben_der_Anderen_staunt.html

A newspaper article concerning Wolf Biermann’s reaction to the release of the film Das Leben der Anderen in 2006 and his reflections on the Stasi.

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / The Federal Office for Political Education

http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/SNA3WX,0,0,Filmhefte.html

The Federal Office for Political Education offers resource packs on German films. The packs contain resources relating to the film, questions for discussion, and further reading material. Noteworthy Content:

Das Leben der Anderen

http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/OLS9BA,0,Das_Leben_der_Anderen.html

Der Rote Kakadu

http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/1B80MJ,0,Der_Rote_Kakadu.html

Alles auf Zucker!

http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/PAXLTF,0,Alles_auf_Zucker%21.html

Good Bye, Lenin!

http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/13J4EY,0,Good_Bye_Lenin%21.html

Rosenstraße

http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/T01VM5,0,Rosenstra%DFe.html

Garton Ash, Timothy, ‘The Stasi on Our Minds’, in The New York Review of Books 54 (31 May 2007). Stable URL: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/may/31/the-stasi-on-our-minds/

Timothy Garton Ash discusses the place of the Stasi in contemporary conceptions of Germany.

Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft

http://www.spio.de/index.asp?SeitID=1

The Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft e.V. (SPIO) is a German umbrella organisation of 16 motion picture, video and television trade associations, which represents over 1,100 companies. Membership is required to access all content, which includes statistics, graphs and monthly reports of German film projects. Noteworthy Content:

Statistics recording cinema visits (in millions) in Germany between 1925 and 2005 with noteworthy events included. Note the figures between 1945 and 1990 represent the Federal Republic of Germanyn only.

http://www.spio.de/media_content/610.pdf

Post-Reunification Cinema Secondary Literature:

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This is in no way an exhaustive list of secondary literature on Cinema. This bibliography mainly contains articles and standard works in English on post-1990 cinema in Germany.

Allan, Seán, ‘1989 and the Wende in East German Cinema. Peter Kahane’s Die Architekten (1990), Egon Günther’s Stein (1991) and Jörg Foth’s Letztes aus der Da Da eR (1990)’, in: 1949-1989: Cultural Perspectives, ed. Clare Flanagan and Stuart Taberner (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 231-309.

Allan, Seán, ‘Good Bye, Lenin!: Ostalgie und Identität im wieder vereinigten Deutschland’ in GFL: German as a Foreign Language (2006) 1, pp. 46-59. Stable URL: http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2006/allan.pdf

Allan, Seán, “‘Seit der Wende hat der Mann nur Pech gehabt. Jetzt soll er auch noch Jude sein’: Theatricality, Memory and Identity in Dani Levy’s Alles auf Zucker! (2004).” in Debatte 15 (2007) 1 pp. 25-42. Stable URL: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a777072827~frm=titlelink

Berghahn, Daniela, ‘Remembering the Stasi in a Fairy Tale of Redemption: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen, Oxford German Studies 38 (2009), 321-33.

Boa, Elizabeth, ‘Telling It How It Wasn’t: Familial Allegories of Wish-Fulfillment in Post-Unification Germany’ in German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse Since 1990, ed. by Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove, and Georg Grote (Rochester: Camden House, 2006) pp. 67-83.

Bock, Hans-Michael and Tim Bergfelder eds., The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema (Oxford: Berghahn, 2009).

Brockmann, Stephen M., ‘The Politics of German Comedy’, German Studies Review 23 (2000) 1 pp. 33-51. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1431428

Cafferty, Helen, ‘Sonnenallee: Taking Comedy Seriously in Unified Germany’ in Textual Responses to German Unification, ed. by Carol Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson and Kristie A. Foell (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2001) pp. 253-272.

Clarke, David ed., German Cinema since Unification (London and New York: Continuum, 2006).

Cooke, Paul, Representing East Germany since Unification: From Colonization to Nostalgia. Oxford: Berg, 2005 pp. 103-176.

Dueck, Cheryl, ‘The Humanisation of the Stasi in Das Leben der Anderen’ in German Studies Review 31 (2008) 3, pp. 599-610.

Elsaesser, Thomas with Michael Wedel, The BFI Companion to German Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 1999).

Evans, Owen, ‘Taking Stock of the Wende on Screen: Michael Klier’s Ostkreuz and Hannes Stöhr’s Berlin is in Germany’ in GFL: German as a Foreign Language (2006) 1, pp. 60-75. Stalbe URL: http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2006/evans.html

Evans, Owen, ‘Redeeming the demon? The legacy of the Stasi in Das Leben der Anderen’ in Memory Studies 3 (2010) 2, pp. 164-177. Stable URL: http://mss.sagepub.com/content/3/2/164

Fedotov, Barbara, The Capricious Nature of Ostalgie: East Germany in Popular German Cinema, June 2010. Stable URL: http://www.cgs.huji.ac.il/Fedotov.pdf

Foell, Kristie A., ‘History as Melodrama: German Division and Unification in Two Recent Films’ in Textual Responses to German Unification, ed. by Carol Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson and Kristie A. Foell (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2001) pp. 233-252.

Gieseke, Jens, ‘Stasi Goes to Hollywood: Donnersmarcks The Lives of Others und die Grenzen der Authentizität’ in German Studies Review 31 (2008) 3, pp. 580-588.

Halle, Randall, ‘Unification Horror: Queer Desire and Uncanny Visions’ in Light Motives: German popular film in perspective, ed. by Margaret McCarthy (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003) pp. 281-303.

Halle, Randall, German Film After Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008).

Hodgin, Nick 'Berlin is in Germany and Good Bye, Lenin!', Debatte 12 (2004) 1, pp. 25 - 45. Stable URL: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a713618143&fulltext=713240928

Holzer, Michaela, Die deutsch-deutsche Problematik im Spielfilm: Eine Analyse der Komik der Filme SONNENALLEE und GOOD-BYE, LENIN! (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller GmbH & Co. KG, 2008).

Hughes, Helen, ‘Documenting the Wende: The Films of Andreas Voigt’, in DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992, ed. by Seán Allan, John Sandford (New York: Berghahn, 1999) pp. 283-301.

Ivanović, Christine, ‘Wende im Film? Vorläufiger Rückblick auf ein Jahrzehnt

deutscher Einheit im Film’ in Mentalitätswandel in der deutschen Literatur zur Einheit (1990-2000), ed. by Volker Wehdeking (Berlin: Schmidt, 2000) pp. 225-35.

Leal, Joanne, ‘Introduction: German Film since the Wende’ in GFL: German as a Foreign Language (2006) 1, pp. 1-5. Stable URL: http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2006/leal_introduction.pdf

Leal, Joanne, ‘Time, Transformation and Tradition in Oskar Roehler’s Die Unberührbare’ in GFL: German as a Foreign Language (2006) 1, pp. 76-89. Stable URL: http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2006/leal.pdf

Levy, Robert D. and Richard W. McCormick, ‘Mastering the Past and Present: Problems of Memory in Postwar and Post-Wende German Cinema’ in Textual Responses to German Unification, ed. by Carol Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson and Kristie A. Foell (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2001) pp. 193-210.

Lindenberger, Thomas, ‘Stasiploitation – Why Not? The Scriptwriter’s Historical Creativity in The Lives of Others’ in German Studies Review 31 (2008) 3, pp. 557-566.

Marston William, Jennifer, ‘When West Meets East and Decides to Stay: Shared Historical Experience in Volker Schlöndorff's "Die Stille nach dem Schuss (The Legend of Rita, 2000)"’, in German Studies Review 28 (2005) 1, pp.127-40. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30038072

Mittman, Elizabeth, ‘Fantasizing Integration and Escape in the Post-Unification Road Movie’ in Light Motives: German popular film in perspective, ed. by Margaret McCarthy (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003) pp. 326-348.

Reimer, Robert Charles and Carol J. Reimer, Historical Dictionary of German Cinema (Scarecrow Press: 2008).

Rentschler, Eric, ‘From New German Cinema to the Post-Wall Cinema of Consensus’ in Cinema and Nation, ed. by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie (London: Routledge, 2000) pp. 245-261.

Rinke, Andrea, ‘Sonnenallee – ‘Ostalgie’ as a Comical Conspiracy’ in GFL: German as a Foreign Language (2006) 1, pp. 24-45. Stable URL: http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2006/rinke.pdf

Saunders, Anna, ‘“Normalizing” the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie’ in German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke (Rochester: Camden House, 2006) pp. 89-103.

Stein, Mary Beth, ‘Stasi with a Human Face? Ambiguity in Das Leben der Anderen’ in German Studies Review 31 (2008) 3, pp. 567-579.

Taberner, Stuart, ‘“Wie kannst du mich lieben?”: “Normalizing” the Relationship between Germans and Jews in the 1990 Films Aimée und Jaguar and Meschugge’ in Politics and Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany, ed. by William John Niven and James Jordan (Rochester: Camden House, 2003).

Ward, Jenifer K., ‘German-Germanness: On Borders, Hybridity, and Sameness in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen’ in Textual Responses to German Unification, ed. by Carol Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson and Kristie A. Foell (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2001) pp. 225-232.

Webber, Andrew, ‘Falling Walls, Sliding Doors, Open Windows: Berlin on Film after the Wende’ in GFL: German as a Foreign Language (2006) 1, pp. 5-23. Stable URL: http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2006/webber.pdf

Wilke, Manfred, ‘Fiktion oder erlebte Geschichte? Zur Frage der Glaubwürdigkeit des Films Das Leben der Anderen’ in German Studies Review 31 (2008) 3, pp. 589-598.