Herbert Gerdes
- Born
- 1884 · Blexen.
- Died
- 1957 · Esslingen am Neckar.
- Occupation
- director
- Languages
- German
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Herbert Gerdes, a filmmaker, merchant, “Schmalfilmer” and director, was born on 1 April 1884 in Blexen and died on 17 October 1957 in Esslingen am Neckar.
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded places of activity of Herbert Gerdes are Berlin, Kraków and Oldenburg (Oldenburg).
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Blexen.
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Esslingen am Neckar.
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- 1.Michaela Rethmeier: Die Funktion und Bedeutung Fritz Hipplers für das Filmschaffen im „Dritten Reich“, p. 25 (dissertation, University of Münster, 2006)
- 2.Original title: Seele des Lichtspiels – ein Bekenntnis zum Film, by Dr Walter Julius Bloem (1898–1945), Verlag Grethlein, Leipzig, 1922.
- 3.Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 526 (Translation by James Vincent Murphy).
- 4.Original title: "Im Banne des Films. Die Weltherrschaft des Kinos", by Dr. Hans Buchner (1896–1971), Boepple publishing house, Munich, 1927.
- 5.Geschichte des deutschen Films, edited by Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes, Berlin, Stuttgart, Weimar, 1993, p. 73.
- 6.Alles Leben Ist Kampf, cine-holocaust.de; accessed 7 April 2018.
- 7.Erbkrank, cine-holocaust.de; accessed 7 April 2018.
- 8.Hans Traub, Der Film als politisches Machtmittel, Munich, 1932, p. 29. Original German text: "Ohne Zweifel ist der Film als Sprache ein vortreffliches Mittel der Propaganda. Die Beeinflussung fordert von jeher solche Spracharten, die in der einfachen Erzählung einprägsame und bewegte Handlung gestalten. … Aus dem weiten Gebiet der Sprache aber, die unmittelbar durch technische und wirtschaftliche Vorgänge an den Empfänger herangetragen wird, ist die wirksamste Art das Laufbild. Es verlangt eine ständige Aufmerksamkeit; es ist voller Überraschungen im Wechsel von Handlung, Zeit und Raum; es ist unausdenkbar reich im Rhythmus der Gefühlssteigerung und der Gefühlsverdrängung."
- 9.Klaus Kreimeier: Die Ufa-Story. Geschichte eines Filmkonzerns. S. Fischer Verlag, 2002. , pp. 309–310, Original, Goebbels: "Scham- und Geschmacklosigkeiten".
- 10.Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p. 13;
- 11.Michaela Rethmeier: Die Funktion und Bedeutung Fritz Hipplers für das Filmschaffen im „Dritten Reich“, p. 194 (dissertation, University of Münster, 2006)
- 12.Same source, p. 224. Original in German: "nicht das bloße Erdichten, sondern das zweckmäßige Erdichten einen schöpferischen Geist beweise."
- 13.Emil Jannings: "Über den Film", „Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte“, Volume 147, June 1942, pp. 342–343.
- 14.Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p. 9;
- 15.Source: filmportal.de
- 16.Senses of Cinema. The Skladanowsky Brothers: The Devil Knows.
- 17.Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Battle for Global Supremacy. Erich Schwartzel. 2022. .
- 18.Episode 1: "The Golden Door" (Beginnings–1938) The U.S. and the…. The U.S. and the Holocaust Ken Burns PBS. 1:41:25.
- 19.Hitler in Hollywood. The New Yorker. 2013-09-09.
- 20.The U.S. and the Holocaust "Yearning to Breathe Free" (1938–1942) Episode 2.
- 21.Ursula Saekel: Der US-Film in der Weimarer Republik – ein Medium der "Amerikanisierung"?: Deutsche Filmwirtschaft, Kulturpolitik und mediale Globalisierung im Fokus transatlantischer Interessen. Verlag Schoeningh Ferdinand, 2011, , pp. 169, 255, 258
- 22.Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p. 2
- 23.Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich pp. 2–3
- 24.Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p. 86
- 25.Fritz Hippler: Betrachtungen zum Filmschaffen, 1942, pp. 23–24, 29. Original in German, Hippler: "über Wesen und Unwesen des Startums ist genug gesagt und geschrieben worden, aber Startum hin Startum her: es ist nicht zu leugnen, daß die Menschen der ganzen Welt ein Hauptmotiv ihres Filmbesuches in dem Wunsch sehen, ihnen bekannten und beliebten Gesichtern wiederzubegegnen"; "europäisches Format"; "deutschen Schönheitsideal".
- 26.Klee, Kulturlexikon, S. 227.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Albrecht, Gerd (1969). Nationalsozialistische Filmpolitik. Munich: Hanser.
- Leiser, Erwin. Nazi Cinema. Macmillan Publishers. 1974. 0025702300.
- Kelson, John. Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions held in Zonal Film Archives of Film Section, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany, (BE). Greenwood Publishing Group. 1996. 0948911190.
- Routledge. Made in Europe: The Production of Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century. 2014. 978-1138794443.
- Niven, Bill. Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion. Yale University Press. 2018. 9780300200362.
- Orlow, Dietrich. The History of the Nazi Party: 1919–1933. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1969.
- Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films In America, 1933–1942. McFarland & Company. 2008. 9780786438617.
- Welch, David. Propaganda and the German Cinema: 1933–1945. I.B. Tauris. 1983. 9781860645204.
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