Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Babylon; Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (1993) 97-112
Keywords:
Wolf, Konrad,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Konrad Wolf, son of the German Jewish dramatist Friedrich Wolf and brother of Markus, grew up in his family's Moscow exile and returned to Germany in 1945 as a Soviet soldier. He became a film producer who, while daring in style, worked within the limits of East German ideology, including the party's re-interpretation of the Holocaust. Thus, in "Sterne" (1959) he describes solidarity between a German soldier and a young Jewish woman who is being deported to Auschwitz, and calls for resistance; in his 1961 adaptation of his father's 1933 drama "Professor Mamlock", he implies that the Jewish doctor is himself to blame for his fate because of his failure to fight injustice. The autobiographical "Ich war neunzehn" (1968) describes his return to Germany and his visit to Sachsenhausen, without mentioning Jews. His films project present-day demands into the past and express the split between his German, Soviet, and Jewish identities.
Note:
An English version appeared in "New German Critique" 60 (1993).
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