MGFM uses digital film historiography to re-visit the historical film exile. The starting point for the three-year research project are the personal files that Günter Peter Straschek has compiled over a period of close to thirty years and which are now stored in the exile archive of the German National Library in Frankfurt. The aim of the project is to make the professional contributions of those who had to flee Nazi Germany more visible for a transnational film history. It engages with two particular case studies: The directors of photography and female writers.The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between film studies and cultural data analytics at Johannes Gutenberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Estate Günter Peter Straschek
For Günter Peter Straschek the German film exile encompasses all individuals who were involved in the German film industry and film culture between 1920 and 1933, and who had to exile before 1945. This includes film critics, employees in the sector of film distribution and exhibition. Based on his own research between 1976 and 2009, Straschek decided who he would include in his collection. His list of film exiles is not to be mistaken as a complete list of exiled film professionals. Straschek’s list of names does also not include the numerous individuals who worked in the film- and cultural industries who were murdered by the Nazis.
- Extent/Format: approx. 125 archive boxes
- Contents: approx. 3500 person files with bio-bibliographical information; correspondence etc.
