Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The writing out of West German film history
  • Manifestos and declarations. The Oberhausen Manifesto (1962) ; The Mannheim Declaration (1967) ; The Hamburg Declaration (1979) ; The Manifesto of Women Film Workers (1979) ; The Munich Declaration (1983)
  • The price of survival: institutional challenges. What do the 'Oberhauseners' want? / Alexander Kluge (1962)
  • We have work to do / Hans Rolf Strobel and Heinrich Tichawsky (1965)
  • Application for film subsidy / Vlado Kristl (1970)
  • Letter to the Export-Union / Jean-Marie Straub (1975)
  • We live in a dead country / Hans Jürgen Syberberg (1977)
  • Dependent working conditions: about directing and producing / Hans W. Geissendörfer (1979)
  • Something about nature and censorship / Herbert Achternbusch (1979)
  • Men are responsible that women become their enemies: tales of rejection / Helke Sander (1980)
  • Theses about the new media / Alexander Kluge (1983)
  • Zimmermann's execution directives / Volker Schlöndorff (1983)
  • The Filmverlag against the authors / Wim Wenders (1985)
  • Popular approaches: generic models and utopian designs. ' ... preferably naked girls' / Eckhart Schmidt (1968)
  • Emotion pictures (slowly rockin' on) / Wim Wenders (1970)
  • The aesthetics of the 'worker film' / Christian Ziewer (1972)
  • Relationships, reality, and realism / Robert Van Ackeren
  • Taking leave of the security of esoteric / Hark Bohm (1977)
  • Cinema, melodrama, and the world of emotion / Niklaus Schilling (1977)
  • Come back, Peter Kraus! / Walter Bockmayer (1978)
  • That's utopia: the cinema of my dreams / Rudolf Thome (1979)
  • Utopian cinema / Alexander Kluge (1979)
  • Michael Curtiz---anarchist in Hollywood?: unordered thoughts about a seemingly paradoxical idea / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Culture as hard currency or: Hollywood in Germany / Sohrab Shahid Saless (1983)
  • Dofferemt ways of seeing. Freeing oneself from old hat / Ottomar Domnick (1965)
  • Kelek / Wim Wenders (1969)
  • The method of direct observation: two examples / Klaus Wildenhahn
  • What really happens between the frames / Werner Nekes (1975)
  • Gay film culture / Rosa von Praunheim (1976)
  • Unordered notes on conventional narrative film / Klaus Wyborny (1976)
  • Feminism and film / Helke Sander (1977)
  • The spectator as entrepreneur / Alexander Kluge (1979)
  • Some notes about our film work / Birgit Hein (1980)
  • Women's films are searches for traces / Jutta Brückner (1981)
  • Female film aesthetics / Margarethe von Trotta (1982)
  • The pressure to make genre films: about the endangered Autorenkino / Ulrike Ottinger (1983)
  • New European film and urban modernity / Alfred Behrens (1986)
  • Discovering and preserving German film history. The other tradition / Alf Brustellin (1971)
  • Death is no solution: the German film director Fritz Lang / Wim Wenders (1976)
  • Rereading Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler / Volker Schlöndorff (1980)
  • The early days of the Ulm Institute for Film Design / Alexander Kluge (1980)
  • The dream of a German film house / Edgar Reitz (1981)
  • Tribute to Lotte Eisner / Werner Herzog (1982)
  • Last words for Wolfgang Staudte / Christian Ziewer (1984)
  • How a film classic becomes a video clip / Robert Van Ackeren (1985)
  • Collective memory and national identity. That's entertainment: Hitler / Wim Wenders (1977)
  • Germany in autumn: what is the film's bias? / Alf Brustellin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, and Bernhard Sinkel
  • The German feature film and reality / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1978)
  • The camera is not a clock / Edgar Reitz (1979)
  • Mein Führer---our Hitler. The meaning of small words / Hans Jürgen Syberberg (1980)
  • The experience of history / Eberhard Fechner (1984)
  • The abode of the gods / Hans Jürgen Syberberg (1984)
  • Bitburg: a text / Jean-Marie Straub (1985)
  • In search of the lost Heimat / Josef Rödl (1986)
  • Finding a home in Berlin / Martin Theo Krieger (1986)
  • Filmmakers and critics. Learning to hear and see / Wim Wenders (1976)
  • Public statement regarding Garbage, the city, and death / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976)
  • Letter to Wolfram Schütte / Herbert Achternbusch (1979)
  • My critics, my films, and I / Helma Sanders-Brahms (1980)
  • Media response to Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Hans Jürgen Syberberg (1980)
  • Response to H.C. Blumenberg / Christel Buschmann (1983)
  • Directors and players. Talking about oppression with Margit Carstensen / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1973)
  • Some thoughts about Ernst / Wolfgang Petersen (1977)
  • David Bennent and Oskar Mazerath / Volker Schlöndorff 1978)
  • Working with Jutta Lampe / Margarethe von Trotta (1979)
  • Erika from Würzburg: a portrait of the actress Magdalena Montezuma / Rosa von Praunheim (1981)
  • Annamirl Bierbichler / Herbert Achternbusch (1984)
  • Fire: Alfred Edel / Jean-Marie Straub (1986)
  • Filmmakers and colleagues. A call to revolt: on Particularly noteworthy and Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach / Hellmuth Costard (1968)
  • Red sun: baby, you can drive my car, and maybe I'll love you / Wim Wenders (1970)
  • Searching for stories in a gray Germany / Doris Dörrie (1978)
  • With fond greetings to Champagne-Schroeter / Rosa von Praunheim (1979)
  • Homage to Werner Schroeter / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1979)
  • A rose for Rainer Werner / Herbert Achternbusch (1982)
  • From beast to beast / Rosa von Praunheim (1982)
  • Taking stock. Love of cinema / Edgar Reitz (1962)
  • A dream / Volker Schlöndorff (1966)
  • Amerika: report to the Goethe Institute / Herbert Achternbusch (1979)
  • Thoughts about filmmaking in the FRG / Rudolf Thome (1980)
  • 'New German cinema, jeune cinéma allemand, good night': a day in Oberhausen, 1982 / Helma Sanders-Brahms (1982)
  • New German cindma, 1962-83: a view from Hamburg / Helmut Herbst (1983)
  • Pact with a dead man / Alexander Kluge (1984).