Female City Walking, DEFA, and East Berlin‘s Postwar Urban Space: heute abend und morgen früh (1977), Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre (1982) and Die Beunruhigung (1982)

Ehrig, S. (2020) Female City Walking, DEFA, and East Berlin‘s Postwar Urban Space: heute abend und morgen früh (1977), Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre (1982) and Die Beunruhigung (1982). Modern Language Review, 115(2), pp. 380-402. (doi: 10.1353/mlr.2020.0171)

Abstract

This article investigates and problematizes female flânerie/city walking in East German film, discussing three Deutsche Film AG (DEFA) productions through Michel de Certeau's explorations of urban space from The Practice of Everyday Life (1980) and recent expansions thereof. On a second level, in the context of DEFA's so-called 'Alltagsfilme' and 'Frauenfilme', the article analyses female city walking and its relation to the representation of modernist architecture and urban space, focusing on Dietmar Hochmuth's heute abend und morgen früh (1979), Helmut Dziuba's Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre, and Lothar Warneke's Die Beunruhigung (both 1982).

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Ehrig, Dr Stephan
• Authors: Ehrig, S.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German
• Journal Name: Modern Language Review
• Publisher: Modern Languages Research Association
• ISSN: 0026-7937
• ISSN (Online): 2222-4319