- 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
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Appendix Quotes on Harlan - Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Plates
Epilogue
Epilogue
“Hitler, Harlan, Honecker”
- Chapter:
- (p.365) Epilogue
- Source:
- Veit Harlan
- Author(s):
Frank Noack
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter deals with Harlan’s legacy, beginning with the obituaries written about him, followed by a controversial reissue of Kolberg in 1965 and the posthumous publication of Harlan’s autobiography in 1966. For two decades, it is left to two opposing camps to remember him: apolitical, conservative or even right-leaning nostalgists to whom he represents a “good old time” that never was and followers of Siegfried Kracauer’s ideology criticism who use Harlan’s name as a possessive pronoun to refer to someone who happened to direct several Nazi propaganda films as opposed to a true auteur who is able to impose on his material an aesthetic form. It is only in the 1980s that he gains a cult following among younger cineastes who are able to combine ideology criticism with a feeling for aesthetics. This chapter also documents the further lives of Harlan’s wives and children as well as the novels written and the films produced about him.
Keywords: autobiography, cult following, family history, ideology criticism, legacy, nostalgists, obituaries
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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