RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Emerging from the Niche: DEFA’s Afterlife in Unified Germany
JF Monatshefte
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 625
OP 640
DO 10.1353/mon.2013.0104
VO 105
IS 4
A1 Sebastian Heiduschke
YR 2013
UL http://mon.uwpress.org/content/105/4/625.abstract
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)