Eye of the Storm

The Romantics thought of great art as a species of heroism, a breaking through or going beyond. Following them, adepts of the modern demanded of masterpieces that they be, in each case, an extreme case—terminal or prophetic, or both.

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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, the Film Director as Critical Thinker Essays and Interviews

Edited by R. J. Cardullo

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Forewordvii Timothy Corrigan Prefacexi Acknowledgementsxiii List of Figures

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1. Introduction: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Of Fantastic and Magical Worlds; A Career Review Russell Berman

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2. Politics, Aesthetics, and Patriarchy in The Confessions of Winifred Wagner25 Marcia Landy 3. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Our Hitler as Visual Politics Beatriz Schiller

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4. Eye of the Storm: Syberberg’s Hitler47 Susan Sontag 5. Interview with Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Steve Wasserman

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6. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Hitler: An Interview Roswitha Mueller

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7. ‘In the Destructive Element Immerse’: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Cultural Revolution Frederic Jameson 8. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: An Interview Betsy Erkkila 9. Syberberg’s Our Hitler, Wagnerianism, and Alienation: A Re-viewing Hans R. Vaget

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10. Myths for Sale—Reviews of Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King and Karl May131 Stanley Kauffmann

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11. Sustaining Romanticism in a Postmodernist Cinema: An Interview with Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Christopher Sharrett

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12. ‘They Want to Kill Me’: An Interview with the Filmmaker and Theater Director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Die Zeit (Time)

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13. There’s No Place like Heimat: Nazism and the Work of Film Director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Ian Buruma

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14. Germany’s Heart: The Modern Taboo; Interview with German Filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Marilyn Berlin Snell

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15. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and the State of the Ghost Robert Shandley

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16. ‘Adolphe Appia and Me’: A Discussion with Hans-Jürgen Syberberg R. J. Cardullo

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17. The Theater-of-Film of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Parsifal and Die Nacht205 R. J. Cardullo Postscript: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir? Jonathan Bowden

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Filmography (with Credits for All Features, Documentaries, and Shorts)

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Bibliography245 Index249

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FOREWORD

Over the course his career, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg was consistently one of the most prolific and persuasive thinkers about modern German identity. In addition to his many films, the most important of which concern the problem of