This book provides a comprehensive account of German animation history, as well as an analysis of the current state of the industry in competition with American and cheaper international products in the face of dwindling budgets.
Covering film and TV, 2D and 3D animation, this book considers how Europe has lost its domestic territory of narratives to international competitors. A connection is made between film history and contemporary history: World War I, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, World War II, the Federal Republic and German Democratic Republic, Reunification, the European Union, Digitalization and Globalization, and a turn of eras initiated by pandemic, war, and inflation. This book will be of great interest to academics, students, and professionals working and researching in the field of animation.
Author(s): Rolf Giesen
Series: European Animation
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Golem Anticipates Fantasia
A Great Symphonic Fantasy Animated
A Dystopian World War of Fleas, Lice, and Rodents
The Art of Silhouette Plays and Films
Notes
Chapter 2 Mickey Who?
Trolley Troubles
Who is “Mickey”?
King of a Lost World
Mr. Mouse Steps Out on German Screens
Technicolor Dreams
Disney Toys and Merchandising
Comic Strips and Picture Books
Songs and Records
Notes
Chapter 3 Puppetoons
The Artist as Don Juan
George Pal’s Cigarette Parade
Notes
Chapter 4 A German Fairy Tale “Disneyfied”
Disney in Munich
Notes
Chapter 5 Herr Hitler and Mister Mouse
A Meeting that Never Happened
Mission Impossible: Get Snow White Back to Germany
Clash of the Titans: UFA Versus Bavaria
How Disney Was Germanized and Became Distler
Toccata and Fugue
The Story of the Children’s Barack of Auschwitz
Notes
Chapter 6 The German Sense of Humor
The New Objective: Worldwide Recognition for German Trick Film
A Mixture of the Sublime and the Banal: The First Doctoral Thesis on Animation in Germany
Let the Puppets Dance
Gold-Donkey and Cudgel-Out-of-the-Sack
Notes
Chapter 7 The Dangerous Freedom of a Quarter Jew in Magicland
The Struggle for Aryanness
Purzel the Dwarf Binds a Fairy-Tale Wreath
Blown to Death with a Jazz Trumpet
The Apprentices and their Mentor
Notes
Chapter 8 Somersault to Dachau
The Snow Man
Prague
The Chair for Humor
Notes
Chapter 9 The Denazification of German Trick Film
Small, but Not Great!
Just Get Out of Here!
Animated Continuity in East and West
Fischerkoesen’s Renaissance
Notes
Chapter 10 Comic Strips in Germany (West and East)
Youth Ahead!
It Came from Entenhausen
Walt Disney’s Mickey Maus GmbH
Mickey Mouse Comic Books in East Germany
Snow White and Sleeping Beauty
Walt Disney’s Death
Notes
Chapter 11 Go East
The Strange Historia of DEFA Trickfilm
Notes
Chapter 12 Big Tattoo for Little Men
Mushroom People and Garden Gnomes
Papa’s Cinema Is Dead
Try Taking It Easy
The Conference of Animals
Himmlerick and Hullberick
Stories of Laughter and Facts
Two Disney Artists from Germany
Asterix Conquers Germany (But Not America)
German Producers Go Feature-Length
Notes
Chapter 13 Bölkstoff for Preschoolers
A Trip to the Moon
Vomit Later!
Shrek in Good German
Hitler’s Favorite Bee
Laura’s Star Shines Brightly into Children’s Rooms
Felix – Ein Hase auf Weltreise (Felix Around the World, 2005)
Worry Eaters
Greetings from China
Animation that Moves
Moonbound
Notes
Chapter 14 Star Wars Worship
Notes
Chapter 15 The Essence of Animation in Germany
The Sobering Reality beyond Flickering Dreams
Education in Animation
Film University Babelsberg “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg
The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animation Institute
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
Tightrope Walkers
The Puppeteer
The Lost State of the Art
Notes
Timetable
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Name Index
Title Index
