Weimar Cinema

Essays

I. WEIMAR INTERNATIONAL

Thor HoltPreview image for Ibsen and the KammerspielfilmIbsen and the KammerspielfilmAnne Nesbet"Image of Mickey Mouse"Fritz Lang, Sergei Eisenstein, and That Uncanny Mouse: The Work of Clues and Category Crises in M (1931)Paul FlaigPhoto of Chaplain"The Promise of Chaplin"Tatjana HramovaImage for The Letter Kills'The Letter Kills': Samuel Beckett's Debt to Fritz Lang's FilmsPamela HutchinsonCover Image of Weimar NoirWeimar Noir: "Lounge time" in the Cinema of G.W. PabstSo MayerCover Image of Love Has (No) LawsLove Has (No) Laws: Queer Weimar Cinema Across BordersSara F. HallImage of Babylon BerlinBabylon Berlin: Pastiching Weimar Cinema

II. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

NewAndréas-Benjamin SeyfertMetal film cans stacked on steel shelving in an archive vault, many carrying handwritten paper labels recording copy, reel and condition detailsOn the Status of Lost FilmsDaniel WiegandPhoto of Faint Sounds & SilencesListening to Faint Sounds and Silence: Weimar Cinema’s Transition to Sound and the Emergence of a New Auditory Sensitivity[1]Maggie HennefeldErnst Lubitsch's Mephistophela Project from 1920 and the Joys of Counterfactual Feminist CinemaErnst Lubitsch's Mephistophela Project from 1920 and the Joys of Counterfactual Feminist CinemaHoward EilandCover Image of On Benjamin's Theory of FilmOn Benjamin's Theory of FilmKristina KöhlerCover Image of A Dance on FilmA Dancer on Film: Rudolf Laban's Film TheoryLutz KoepnickCover Image of Ripples of SoundRipples of SoundErik BornCover Image of Promise of TelevisionThe Promise of TelevisionLeonardo QuaresimaCover Image of Marketing ExpressionismMarketing Expressionism in Weimar Cinema and the Applied ArtsHeide SchlüpmannCandid Photo of Heide SchlüpmannIn Praise of Silent Cinema and Film HistoryAcceptance Speech for the 2023 Jean Mitry AwardHans Helmut PrinzlerCover Image of IF ONLY I HAD THE CINEMA!!IF ONLY I HAD THE CINEMA!!

III. ARCHIVAL DISCOVERIES

NewPaul CuffGrainy halftone photograph of four men around a table heaped with sheet music, one bent over sorting the scores while another leans across an open score on a standThe Schmidt-Gentner Era: A Lost Musical Legacy, 1920-1930NewIan RobertsFilm still from Der Knabe in Blau: a young man in period costume stands before the moated castle Burg VischeringPaleokinematography and Weimar Cinema’s Lost Treasures: F. W. Murnau’s Der Knabe in Blau (1919)

IV. FILMS REVISITED

NewSara FriedmanPoster for Anders als die Andern (§175), subtitled Ein sozial-hygienischer Film: a colour illustration of a young man in a dark jacket and orange cravat sitting slumped in a blue armchair on a patterned rug, ringed by four smaller sketched figures — a man with a raised arm, a uniformed officer, and two men in capsReflecting on Anders als die Andern TodayNewStefan DrösslerPoster for Genuine, the title hand-lettered in jagged white capitals across the top of a black ground: a pastel-drawn woman in a pale patterned robe, dark hair fanning out behind her, arches back against a coiled snake-like column while a hunched figure in a turban crouches at the lower right amid green fronds and angular strokes. Lettered at the left, MIT FERN ANDRA, REGIE ROBERT WIENEGENUINE: The Tragedy of a Strange HouseNewPhilipp Stiasny and Oliver HanleyViennese release poster for Moral (1928): Ellen Richter in a green coat and red-checked scarf reclining with her knees drawn up, facing four caricatured men in evening dress, under the title Moral nach Ludwig ThomaA Case for Canonization: Rediscovering Ellen Richter's Comedy Moral (1928)Stefan DrösslerPhoto of JoylessThe Joyless Street – An Endless StoryTom GunningRevisiting The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Main ImageRevisiting Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. MabuseNoah IsenbergAmateurs: Rethinking Menschen am Sonntag Main ImageAmateurs: Rethinking Menschen am SonntagMichael Cowan and Anton KaesCover Image of Weimar ShortsWeimar ShortsStefan DrösslerCover Image of Notes on Karl Grune's Die Straße (The Street)Notes on Karl Grune's Die Straße (The Street)Tom GunningCover Image of Ferry Me Across Time and TideFerry Me Across Time and Tide: Fährmann Maria's Weimar Nachklang

V. REVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS

NewBrenda BenthienCover of the book Weimar, weiblich: Filmpionierinnen des Kinos der Moderne, showing a woman in a belted coat hanging from a telegraph wireWeimar, weiblich and the Rediscovery of Female Film PioneersJan-Christopher HorakRewriting Biography: Daniel Kehlmann's The DirectorRewriting Biography: Daniel Kehlmann's The Director (2025)Michael WedelCover Image of Review EssayRomanticism, Occultism, and Hygiene New Literature on Weimar Cinema: A Review EssayBrenda BenthienLichtspiel Main ImageOn Daniel Kehlmann's LICHTSPIELBrenda BenthienG.W. Legacy Main ImageG.W.'s Legacy