- Title Pages
- Author’s Note
-
Introduction Individualist in a Totalitarian State -
1 The Father -
2 The Son -
3 Youth Culture -
4 Lights, Camera, Action -
5 Kunz versus Cohn -
6 The Interview -
7 Telling Others How to Act -
8 Learning the Alphabet -
9 Prestige -
10 Politics -
11 The Girl in the Water -
12 Adultery -
13 The Trap -
14 The Catastrophe of Success -
15 Blood and Soil -
16 The German Soul -
17 Frenzy -
18 Opfergang -
19 Perseverance -
20 In the Ruins of the Reich -
21 The Trial -
22 The Second Trial -
23 Heimatfilm Noir -
24 Exile -
25 Youth Culture Revisited -
26 Exhaustion - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
-
Appendix Quotes on Harlan - Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Plates
The Interview
The Interview
- Chapter:
- (p.64) 6 The Interview
- Source:
- Veit Harlan
- Author(s):
Frank Noack
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter deals with Harlan’s life and career following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as the German Reich’s chancellor on January 30, 1933. He gives an interview to the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter in which he denounces Jewish colleagues and one Jewish critic (Alfred Kerr, who has consistently praised him) and falsely claims to come from a family with a military background. Whether he is quoted correctly or not, as he would later insist, the interview doesn’t further his career. He remains a supporting actor, however much in demand, whose boy-next-door image seems increasingly risible. When fellow actor Gustaf Gründgens, who is the same age, is handed over the direction of the State Theater and thus becomes Harlan’s superior, a frustrated Harlan decides not to renew his contract and to try his hand at directing at a different theater.
Keywords: boy-next-door image, denouncing Jewish colleagues, frustration, interview, Völkischer Beobachter, Nazi takeover, professional jealousy, Gustaf Gründgrens
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- Title Pages
- Author’s Note
-
Introduction Individualist in a Totalitarian State -
1 The Father -
2 The Son -
3 Youth Culture -
4 Lights, Camera, Action -
5 Kunz versus Cohn -
6 The Interview -
7 Telling Others How to Act -
8 Learning the Alphabet -
9 Prestige -
10 Politics -
11 The Girl in the Water -
12 Adultery -
13 The Trap -
14 The Catastrophe of Success -
15 Blood and Soil -
16 The German Soul -
17 Frenzy -
18 Opfergang -
19 Perseverance -
20 In the Ruins of the Reich -
21 The Trial -
22 The Second Trial -
23 Heimatfilm Noir -
24 Exile -
25 Youth Culture Revisited -
26 Exhaustion - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
-
Appendix Quotes on Harlan - Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Plates
