Yearbooks

The Yearbook of the DEFA Foundation offers articles on East-German film history and contemporary German film, you can find portraits of actors and directors, scripts, a yearly film chronic as well as information about the DEFA Foundation.

apropos: Film 2005 - Yearbook 2005 of the DEFA Foundation


Erika Richter, Ralf Schenk, Claus Löser (Ed.)

328 pages, Hardcover, 27 x 21 cm
€ 19,90 / SFr 35,90
ISBN 3-86505-165-0

 

 

From the content

  • Film-makers of the DEFA: essays on Gerhard Klein, Thomas Brasch, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Helga Schütz, Angel Wagenstein
  • Images of Germany in film: images of fascist Germany and of the GDR in German films, Germans in Russian films, “Good Bye, Lenin!”
  • DEFA film history
  • Information of research on the DEFA film in Great Britain, Japan and the US
  • DEFA Foundation today: annual report, new books, videos and DVDs

 

apropos: Film 2004 – Yearbook 2004 of the DEFA Foundation


Erika Richter, Ralf Schenk, Claus Löser (Ed.)

336 pages, 150 images
Hardcover, 27 x 21 cm
€ 19,90 / SFr 35,90
ISBN 3-929470-29-2

 

From the content

  • Actors and Film: Interviews and essays with and by Egon Günther, Hilmar Thate, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jutta Wachowiak and Dieter Wardetzky on the contemporary German film: the new films by Volker Koepp and German-Turkish movies
  • DEFA film history – the Fifties: essays and researches on Falk Harnack, Slatan Dudow, Wolfgang Staudtes “Der Untertan” and Martin Hellbergs “Das verurteilte Dorf”
  • German-Russian film relations
  • DEFA Foundation today: annual report, new books, videos and DVDs

  

apropos: Film 2003 – Yearbook 2003 of the DEFA Foundation


Ralf Schenk, Erika Richter (Ed.)
336 pages, hardcover, 147 images

ISBN-Nr. 3-929470-28-4
€ 19,90 / SFr 35,90

 

 

From the content

  • DEFA and poets: Staudte and Brecht, Thomas Mann’ „Buddenbrooks“, Stephan Hermelin, Franz Fühmann, Brigitte Reimann, and Günter Kunert
  • Portrait of the film-maker Ulrich Weiß – interviews, essays and filmography
  • On contemporary film: documentaries by Thomas Heise and Thomas Schadt, and Polish cinema between 1990 – 2003
  • Religion in East-German feature films
  • The East German Summer Film Institute 2003 in Amherst/Northampton
  • DEFA Foundation today: annual report, new books, videos and DVDs

  

apropos: Film 2002 – Yearbook 2002 of the DEFA Foundation


Ralf Schenk, Erika Richter (Ed.)
336 pages, hardcover, 142 images
ISBN-Nr. 3-929470-23-3
€ 19,90 / SFr 35,90



 

From the content

  • Jewish topics in DEFA feature films, documentaries, and news reels
  • Portrait of the film-maker Lothar Warneke: essays, interview and filmography
  • Science-Fiction at the DEFA: a genre between social philosophy and action movie
  • On film history and contemporary film: DEFA children’s films, Romuald Karmakar, Hungarian film trends since 1990
  • In remembrance of Rolf Richter: essays, scripts, letters, and documents
  • DEFA Foundation today: annual report, partners and new books, videos and DVDs


apropos: Film 2001 – Yearbook 2001 of the DEFA Foundation


Ralf Schenk, Erika Richter (Ed.)
400 pages, hardcover, illustrated

ISBN-Nr. 3-360-00955-X
€ 6,00

 

 

From the content

  • new material associated with the 11th Plenum: essays, and researches on “Kollektiv 63”, Jochen Mückenberger, Fred Gehler and Frans Buyens
  • Portrait of the film-maker Roland Gräf: interview, filmography, scripts, documents, and letters
  • Crime genre at the DEFA: “Die Glatzkopfbande”
  • On film history and contemporary film: DEFA children’s films, Andreas Dresen, Andreas Kleinert, and East-European cinema
  • DEFA Foundation today: annual report, new books, videos and DVDs

  

apropos: Film 2000 - Yearbook of the DEFA-Stiftung 2000


Ralf Schenk, Erika Richter (Ed.)
Published by DEFA-Stiftung and Verlag Das Neue Berlin. 350 S., III, Berlin 2001

ISBN-Nr. 3-360-00926-6
€ 6,00


 

From the content

  • Portrait of the film-maker Jürgen Böttcher: essays, and filmography
  • Film-makers and Engineers at the DEFA: Egon Günther, Rainer Simon, Alfred Hirschmeier
  • On film history and contemporary film: fascism and reunion as topics in German films, German documentaries in 1999
  • DEFA Foundation today: annual report, new books, videos and DVDs