Representation of East German Identity in Frank Beyer's 'Spur Der Steine'

Download or read book Representation of East German Identity in Frank Beyer's 'Spur Der Steine' written by Kathrin Marisa Leimig and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 2.0, University of Southampton (School of Humanities), course: Language, Discourse and Identity, language: English, abstract: Frank Beyer's Spur der Steine (Trace of Stones) is a controversial 1966 film production released in East Germany that had long been anticipated by Party officials, film artists and the general public. Not only was it the most expensive DEFA- production of the day, but its story had caused debate within the studio in the months leading up to its short-lived release. Beyer's work presents multiple perspectives on a construction site crisis and thereby openly questions the possibility of "communion between individual destiny and collective destiny predicated by socialism's utopian goals."