Hystericizing Germany: Fassbinder, Alexanderplatz

by Manfred Hermes

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist's oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred D blin, a subproletarian apocalypse set in the Weimar Republic, provided Fassbinder with material to historicize the avant-garde of the 1920s and redetermine the relationship between utopianism and popular address. While D blin created his protagonist to be a hysteric,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956790049
• ISBN13: 9783956790041
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"