Article:
“I am a historian as well.” - The West German Reception of Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) and Portraying Holocaust Perpetrators in Public Television Drama

dc.creatorJohnson, Nicholas K
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-06T15:22:15Z
dc.date.available2022-10-06T15:22:15Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractDie Wannseekonferenz (1984) portrays the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, where Reinhard Heydrich chaired a meeting of Germany’s ministers to co-ordinate the “Final Solution.” Produced by the public television network Bayerische Rundfunk (BR), Die Wannseekonferenz is neither mere entertainment nor a dry, unsubtle didactic film. Instead, it portrays history in a compelling and disturbing manner. The West German press, however, panned the film, which gained critical acclaim abroad. This article discusses its negative reception within the context of the 1980s television and memory landscapes through a grounding in archival sources.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/view.283
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18975
dc.identifier.urihttps://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/view.283/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20136
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectGermanyen
dc.subjecthistorical filmen
dc.subjecthistorical memoryen
dc.subjectHolocausten
dc.subjectpublic televisionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.title“I am a historian as well.” - The West German Reception of Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) and Portraying Holocaust Perpetrators in Public Television Dramaen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-10-06T17:34:34
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://doi.org/10.18146/view.283
local.source.epage35
local.source.issue21
local.source.issueTitleEducation & TV: Histories of a Vision
local.source.spage19
local.source.volume11

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