Book contents
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- 1 American Cultural Policy Toward Germany
- 2 The Third Pillar of Foreign Policy: West German Cultural Policy in the United States
- 3 The Study of Germany in the United States
- 4 American Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1990
- 5 In the Shadow of the Federal Republic: Cultural Relations Between the GDR and the United States
- 6 American Literature in Germany
- 7 The American Reception of Contemporary German Literature
- 8 The Americanization of the German Language
- 9 Between Blight and Blessing: The Influence of American Popular Culture on the Federal Republic
- 10 Popular Music in Germany: Experimentation and Emancipation from Anglo-American Models
- 11 Hollywood in Germany
- 12 New German Cinema as National Cinema
- 13 Transatlantic Reflections: German and American Television
- 14 Performance Theater in the Age of Post-Drama
- 15 Beyond Painting and Sculpture: German-American Exchange in the Visual Arts
- 16 The Rediscovery of the City and Postmodern Architecture
- 17 Modernity and Postmodernity in a Transatlantic Perspective
- 18 Confrontations with the Holocaust in the Era of the Cold War: German and American Perspectives
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
11 - Hollywood in Germany
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- 1 American Cultural Policy Toward Germany
- 2 The Third Pillar of Foreign Policy: West German Cultural Policy in the United States
- 3 The Study of Germany in the United States
- 4 American Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1990
- 5 In the Shadow of the Federal Republic: Cultural Relations Between the GDR and the United States
- 6 American Literature in Germany
- 7 The American Reception of Contemporary German Literature
- 8 The Americanization of the German Language
- 9 Between Blight and Blessing: The Influence of American Popular Culture on the Federal Republic
- 10 Popular Music in Germany: Experimentation and Emancipation from Anglo-American Models
- 11 Hollywood in Germany
- 12 New German Cinema as National Cinema
- 13 Transatlantic Reflections: German and American Television
- 14 Performance Theater in the Age of Post-Drama
- 15 Beyond Painting and Sculpture: German-American Exchange in the Visual Arts
- 16 The Rediscovery of the City and Postmodern Architecture
- 17 Modernity and Postmodernity in a Transatlantic Perspective
- 18 Confrontations with the Holocaust in the Era of the Cold War: German and American Perspectives
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
Summary
Translated by Sally E. Robertson
The Third Reich forced a third of the German film industry to emigrate - producers and theater owners, directors and actors - most of them Jews who, given the racial ideology of Hitler's regime, had no future in Germany. Already in the 1920s, noted directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and F. W. Murnau had made their way from Berlin to Hollywood. Neither before nor since have the major American studios experienced a qualitatively or quantitatively more significant infusion of talent. German immigration clearly gave American film an indisputable artistic shot in the armin areas from comedy and film noir to drama and the biopic (or biographical picture). The ranks of those who emigrated included directors Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Wilhelm Dieterle, Henry Koster, Detlef Sirk, Curtis Bernhardt, and Max Ophuls; cinematographers Curt Courant, Karl Freund, Franz Planer, and Eugen Schüfftan; and actors Marlene Dietrich, Alexander Granach, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Albert Bassermann, Curt Bois, Felix Bressart, Reinhold Schunzel, and others. Few of them returned from their film exile after the end of World War II. The most prominent of those who did so was probably Erich Pommer, who, as an American film officer, helped to rebuild production in the Western occupation zones. Authors, producers, directors, and actors who had worked in the industry before 1945 were active in the industry after the war, and it is clear that it was not only Nazis who worked in the film industry of the Third Reich.
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- The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990A Handbook, pp. 349 - 355Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004