PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sebastian Heiduschke
TI  - Emerging from the Niche: DEFA’s Afterlife in Unified Germany
AID  - 10.1353/mon.2013.0104
DP  - 2013 Dec 21
TA  - Monatshefte
PG  - 625--640
VI  - 105
IP  - 4
4099  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/105/4/625.short
4100  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/105/4/625.full
AB  - The cinema of the GDR has seen a steep rise in popularity since German unification. DEFA is now a popular “brand,” with its films being omnipresent on television, in movie theaters, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and online streaming video. Reasons for this success are located in the current infrastructure of DEFA cinema. Since 1999, DEFA-Stiftung, Progress Filmverleih, and Icestorm Entertainment have (re-)introduced the GDR’s cinematic legacy to German culture, where audiences embrace the new media as reminders of a bygone time. (SH)