Stefan Soldovieri

Teaching Interests

German Cinema and Cinema Studies, 20th-Century German Literature and Cultural Studies, Cold War Culture, Popular Culture.

Recent course titles: "Reviewing the 50s: German Cinemas under Reconstruction," "The Cinematic City: Screening Berlin," "Buildings and Ideas: Erich Mendelsohn's Architectural Travels"

Current Research Interests

I am presently researching a project tentatively entitled "Cold War Diversions: Inter-German Film Relations and Popular Cinema," in which I am concerned with uncovering the narrative, visual, production-related, and ideological dimensions of dialogue between the cinemas of the FRG and GDR.

Selected Recent Papers

"DEFA's Revisioning of the 'Heimatfilm' in Alter Kahn und junge Liebe (Hans Heinrich,1957)." German Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, 18-21 September 2003.

"Introduction to the Work of Frank Beyer." Holocaust Education Week. Goethe Institute Toronto, 7 November 2002.

Session Commentator: "Revisiting East German Subculture." German Studies Association Conference, Washington DC, 4-7 October 2001.

"Revue um Mitternacht (Gottfried Kolditz 1962) and the Struggle for Genre Film in the GDR." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington DC, 24-27 May 2001.

"Managing Stars: Manfred Krug and the Politics of Entertainment in the GDR Cinema." Moving Images of East Germany: The Past and Future of DEFA Film. American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Workshop, Washington, D.C. 7-8 December 2000.

"Star Wars: East German Film and the Cold War." Cold War Culture: Film, Facts, and Fiction. Indiana University/West European Studies National Resource Center, Bloomington, Indiana. 18-21 February 1999.

Selected Recent Publications

"The Politics of the Popular: Trace of the Stones (Frank Beyer 1966/89) and the Discourse on Stardom in the GDR Cinema." German Popular Film. Eds. Randall Halle and Maggie McCarthy. Wayne State UP: Detroit/MI, 2003. 220-236.

"Managing Stars: Manfred Krug and the Politics of Entertainment in the GDR Cinema." Moving Images of East Germany: The Past and Future of DEFA Film. Ed. Barton Byg. American Institute for Contemporary German Studies: Washington, D.C, 2002. 46-61.

"Film Censorship and the Law: Kurt Maetzig's Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965) and the Discourse on Jurisprudence in the GDR." DEFA History. Eds. Sean Allan and John Sanford. London: Berghahn, 1999. 146-163.

"Socialists in Outer Space: East German Film's Venusian Adventure." Film History 10 (1998): 382-398.

"War-Poetry, Photo(epi)grammetry: Brecht's Kriegsfibel." Bertolt Brecht: A Reference Companion. Ed. Siegfried Mews. Westport/New York: Greenwood Press, 1997. 140-167.

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