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Bücher und Artikel

Below is a non-exhaustive list of books and articles that were useful to me as I put together “From Caligari to Hitler: The Story of Weimar Cinema,” the first (and heretofore only) season of The Haunted Screen, starting with the pair of absolute classics whose titles I swiped along the way:

• The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt by Lotte Eisner, 1952 (English translation, 1969)

• From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film by Siegfried Kracauer, 1947
  

And here are all the rest. Some were for finding facts, and others just for picking up Berlin vibes. Article links are to the articles. The book links will send you to the Bezos & Co., who promise me a cut for my complicity. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, a guy needs to eat, transparent self-justification, etc., etc., etc.

• Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis, 2009 — *

• G.W. Pabst by Lee Atwell, 1977

• The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic: The Rise of the Third Reich by Rüdiger Barth & Hauker Friederichs, 2018 (English translation, 2020)

• “A Son of His Class” by Marcel Bois, Jacobin, 2016

• Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks, 1974 — *

• “The Nazi shame of the first ever Best Actor winner at the Oscars” by Martin Chilton, The Independent (UK), 2020

• “Neher, Caorla (1900 - 1942)” by Anne Commire, Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia, 2000

• German Expressionist Films: Pocket Essentials Film Series by Paul Cooke, 2002

• Marlene by Marlene Dietrich, 1987

• Fritz Lang by Lotte Eisner, 1976

• Murnau by Lotte Eisner, 1964 (English translation, 1973) — *

• Metropolis: BFI Film Classics by Thomas Elsaesser, 2000 — *

• Weimar Cinema and After: Germany’s Historical Imaginary by Thomas Elsaesser, 2000

• November 1918: The German Revolution by Robert Gerwarth, 2020

• The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors, and Its Enduring Legacy by Rolf Giesen, 2019

• Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon, 2000 — *

• From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer’s Life in the International Film Wars by Ursula Hardt, 1996

• The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett, 2018 — *

• Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora): BFI Film Classics by Pamela Hutchinson, 2017 — *

• The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, 1945 — *

• Nosferatu — Eine Symphonie des Grauens: BFI Film Classics by Kevin Jackson, 2013 — *

• Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene by Uli Jung & Walter Schatzberg, 1999

• “The Invisible Man Behind ‘Caligari’: The Life of Robert Wiene” by Uli Jung & Walter Schatzberg, Film History, 1993

• M: BFI Film Classics by Anton Kaes, 2000 — *

• Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Era (1919 - 1933) by Bernadette Kester, 2003

• The UFA Story: A History of Germany’s Greatest Film Company, 1918 - 1945 by Klaus Kreimeier, 1992 (English translation, 1996)

• The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian Ladd, 1997

• Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image by Kate C. Lemay, 2018

• Hitler’s Rival: Ernst Thälmann in Myth and Memory by Russel Lemmons, 2013

• Berlin by Jason Lutes, 2018 — *

• Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries by Rory MacLean, 2014 — *

• Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast by Patrick McGilligan, 2013 — *

• Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe by Bruce Murray, 1990

• “Bombshells: How Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl divided a world between them” by Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 2015

• The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel): BFI Film Classics by S.S. Prawer, 2002 — *

• Berlin Blues by Sven Regener, 2003

• The Films of G.W. Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema edited by Eric Rentschler, 1990

• Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari: BFI Film Classics by David Robinson, 1997 — *

• Fun in a Chinese Laundry by Josef von Sternberg, 1965

• Hitler: Ascent, 1889 - 1939 by Volker Ullrich, 2013 (English translation, 2016) — *

• Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric Weitz, 2007

• “Choosing the Lesser Evil: The German Social Democrats and the Fall of the Weimar Republic” by Heinrich August Winkler, Journal of Contemporary History, 1990

Asterisk (*) denotes books that I found particularly wunderbar.

Filme

These are the films that are discussed at some length in the podcast, listed in the order I touch on them. All except The Blue Angel are available to stream for free, so I’m directing you to the cost-free platforms where possible.

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) directed by Robert Wiene, 1920

• The Golem: How He Came into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) directed by Paul Wegener, 1920

• Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu — Eine Symphonie des Grauens) directed by F.W. Murnau, 1922

• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler) directed by Fritz Lang, 1922

• Destiny (Der müde Tod: ein deutsches Volkslied in sechs Versen) directed by Fritz Lang, 1921

• Die Nibelungen directed by Fritz Lang, 1924

• Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, 1927

• The Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse) directed by G.W. Pabst, 1925

• The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney) directed by G.W. Pabst, 1927

• Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) directed by G.W. Pabst, 1929

• Westfront 1918 directed by G.W. Pabst, 1930

• The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper) directed by G.W. Pabst, 1931

• Kameradschaft directed by G.W. Pabst, 1931

• Spies (Spione) directed by Fritz Lang, 1928

• Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) directed by Fritz Lang, 1929

• M directed by Fritz Lang, 1931

• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse) directed by Fritz Lang, 1933

• The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) directed by Josef von Sternberg, 1930
  

And here are some films from German and Austrian filmmakers of the 1910s, 20s, and 30s that I wish I’d had the time to cover. I really did Murnau dirty.

• The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag) directed by Stellan Rye, 1913

• From Morn to Midnight (Von morgens bis mitternachts) directed by Karlheinz Martin, 1920

• The Street (Die Straße) directed by Karl Grune, 1923

• The Last Laugh (Der letze Mann) directed by F.W. Murnau, 1924

• New Year’s Eve (Sylvester: Tragödie einer Nacht) directed by Lupu Pick, 1924

• Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) directed by Paul Leni, 1924

• Tartuffe (Herr Tartüff) directed by F.W. Murnau, 1925

• Faust — A German Folktale (Faust — Eine deutsche Volkssage) directed by F.W. Murnau, 1926

• Secrets of a Soul (Geheimnisse einer Seele) directed by G.W. Pabst, 1926

• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt) directed by Walter Ruttmann, 1927

• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans directed by F.W. Murnau, 1927
  

Finally, some relevant films—both narrative and documentary—made after the Weimar Era. Their copyrights are still in force, so I’m funneling you toward whoever’s streaming them.

• Cabaret directed by Bob Fosse, 1972

• Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture directed by Gary Conklin, 1976 (sadly, this fascinating doc isn’t streaming anywhere—I had to use Interlibrary Loan to get a VHS and bought a VCR off eBay to watch it)

• Berlin Alexanderplatz directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980 (promise I’ll totally watch this saga next time I’ve got 15½ spare hours on my hands)

• From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen) directed by Rüdiger Suchsland, 2014 (not streaming, but Jeffy B’s got DVDs)

• Babylon Berlin, a TV show but we’re counting it, 2017 - Present

• The Meaning of Hitler directed by Michael Tucker & Petra Epperlein, 2020

• Prisoner of Paradise directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender, 2002