
German films have captured the
European Film Award -- the
Oscar of Europe -- for 2 years
running now. The comedy
Good bye, Lenin! took the
award in 2003, and Fatih Akin's
drama Gegen die Wand picked
up the 2004 award.
The coveted Golden Bear is awarded
annually to the best film at the
Berlinale, one of the world's top
film festivals and Berlin's largest
cultural event.
The film Lola rennt (1998)
won many international awards.

During the 1920s, German
speakers were pioneers in film
production. When the Nazis
came to power, many German
and Austrian actors, directors,
and cinematographers retreated
to Los Angeles, where they
helped shape the Hollywood
film industry.

The first German Empire lasted
for 1000 years: from the
crowning of the first emperor,
Charlesmagne (or Karl der
Große as he is called in
German) in 800 A.D. to 1806,
when Napoleon invaded.
The Berlin Wall divided the city
of Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
Time magazine named Albert Einstein
the most significant person of the
20th century. Einstein appeared on
the cover of Time magazine 4 times
over the course of 70 years.
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Amazon
has a wide array of books about German language and culture
& German learning software.
For books in German or books published
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for both new and used books from dealers around the globe.
General
The
BFI Companion to German Cinema, by
Thomas Elsaesser, ed., 259 p. (2000)
The
Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema, by
Hans-Michael Bock, Axel Goodbody, 256 p. (2004)
German
National Cinema, by Sabine Hake, 240
p. (2001)
The
German Cinema Book, by Tim Bergfelder,
Erica Carter, Deniz Gokturk, 302 p. (2003)
German
Cinema: Texts in Context, by Marc
Silberman, 322 p. (1995)
Handbook
of German Film, by Bock, 600 p. (2004)
Austrian
Cinema: A History, by Robert von Dassanowsky
(2005)
The
Early History of German Motion Pictures, 1895-1935, by
Douglas B. Thomas, 228 p. (1999)
Periods and Themes in German Film
The
UFA Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945,
by Klaus Kreimeier, Robert Kimber, Rita Kimber, 451 p. (1999)
A
Second Life : German Cinema's First Decades, by
Thomas Elsaesser, ed., 352 p. (1996)
German
Expressionist Films (Pocket Essentials), by
Paul Cooke, 96 p. (2002)
Weimar
Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary, by
Thomas Elsaesser, 480 p. (2000)
Hollywood
in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany, by
Thomas J. Saunders, 332 p. (1994)
From
Caligari to Hitler : A Psychological History of the German Film, by
Siegfried Kracauer, 432 p. (2004)
The
Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood, by
Lutz Koepnick, 332 p. (2002)
Literature
and Film in the Third Reich, by Karl-Heinz
Schoeps, Kathleen M. Dell'Orto, 379 p. (2003)
Propaganda
and the German Cinema, 1933-1945, by
David Welch, 288 p. (2001)
DEFA:
East German Cinema, 1946-1992, by
Sean Allan, John Sandford, 328 p. (1999)
The
New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style, by
Caryl Flinn, 352 p. (2004)
Light
Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective, by
Randall Halle, Margaret McCarthy, 400 p. (2003)
Projecting
History : German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000, by
Nora M. Alter, 232 p. (2002)
Specific Films or Directors
Fritz
Lang: Photographs and Documents. Vienna-Berlin-Paris-Hollywood, by
Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Cornelius Schnauber, 512 p. (2001)
Fritz
Lang: Interviews, by Fritz Lang, Barry
Keith Grant, 240 p. (2003)
Fritz
Lang: Genre and Representation in His American Films, by
Reynold Humphries, 232 p. (2003)
The
Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity, by
Tom Gunning, 528 p. (2000)
Fritz
Lang's Metropolis : Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear, new
ed., by Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann, eds., 340 p. (2002)
The
Films of Leni Riefenstahl, by David
B. Hinton, 128 p. (2000)
Billy
Wilder, by Glenn Hopp, 192 p. (2003)
Conversations
with Wilder, by Cameron Crowe, 400
p. (2001)
Fassbinder's
Germany : History, Identity, Subject, by
Thomas Elsaesser, 360 p. (1996)
Television,
Tabloids, and Tears: Fassbinder and Popular Culture, by
Jane Shattuc, 263 p. (1994)
Herzog
on Herzog, by Paul Cronin (ed.), Werner
Herzog, 400 p. (2003).
Werner
Herzog, by Herbert Achternbusch, Beat
Presser, Werner Herzog, 126 p. (2003)
The
Cinema of Wim Wenders, by Alexander
Graf, 192 p. (2002)
The
Films of Wim Wenders : Cinema as Vision and Desire, by
Robert Phillip Kolker, Peter Beicken, 211 p. (1993)
From
Alice to Buena Vista: The Films of Wim Wenders, by
Roger Bromley, 136 p. (2001)
Volker
Schlöndorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the Movie-Appropriate, by
Hans-Bernhard Moeller, George Lellis, 369 p. (2002)
Margarethe
von Trotta, by Renate Hehr, 128 p.
(2000)
Doris
Dorrie, German Filmmaker and Author, by
Franz Birgel, Klaus Phillips, (2004)
German History
The
Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany, by
Martin Kitchen, 352 p. (2000)
Germany:
A New History, by Hagen Schulze,
368 p. (2001)
A
Concise History of Germany, 2nd
ed., by Mary Fullbrook, 296 p. (2004)
The
Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990, by
J. M. Dennis, 352 p. (2000)
German
History Since 1800, by Mary Fullbrook,
640 p. (1998)
Rereading
German History: From Unification to Reunification 1800-1996, by
Richard Evans, 272 (1997)
Unchained
Eagle: Germany After the Wall, by
Tom Heneghan, 245 p. (2000)
The
Fall of the GDR, by David Childs,
216 p. (2001)
Austrian History
Introducing
Austria: A Short History, by Lonnie
Johnson, 196 p. (1989)
Austria-Hungary
& the Successor States: A Reference
Guide from the Renaissance to the Present, by Eric Roman, 480
p. (2003)
Modern
Austria: Empire and Republic, 1815-1986, by
Barbara Jelavich, 354 p. (1987)
The
Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918: A History
of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, by A. J. P. Taylor,
280 p. (1976)
The
Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815, by
Charles W. Ingrao, 284 p. (2000)
State
and Society in Early Modern Austria, by
Charles W. Ingrao, 360 p. (1994)
Swiss History
The
Making of Modern Switzerland, 1848-1998, by
Michael Butler, Malcom Pender, Joy Charnley (eds.), 184 p. (2000)
Swiss
Foreign Policy, 1945-2002, by Jurg
Martin Gabriel, Thomas Fischer, 214 p. (2003)
The
Rise of the Swiss Republic, by W.
D. McCrackan, 420 p. (2002)
Switzerland:
A Village History, by David Birmingham,
225 p. (2004)
History of Lichtenstein
Liechtenstein:
A Modern History, by David Beattie,
399 p. (2004)
Pre-Modern History (Germanic)
The
Early Germans, Malcolm Todd, 304
p. (1995)
Early
Germanic Literature and Culture, Camden
House History of German Literature, vol. 1, by Brian Murdoch, Malcolm
Read (eds.), 344 p. (2004)
The
Germanic Realms in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe 400-750, by
Herbert Schutz, 472 p. (2000)
Kings
and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England, by
Barbara Yorke, 224 p. (1997)
The
Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, by
Herwig Wolfram, Thomas Dunlap, 361 p. (1997)
Barbarians
and Romans, A.D. 418-584, by Walter
A. Goffart, 296 p. (1987)
Germanic
Warrior: AD 236-568, by Simon MacDowall,
Angus McBride, 64 p. (1996)
Tacitus:
Germania, by Cornelius Tacitus,
J. D. Rives, 360 p. (1999)
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