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Weimar Uncensored, 1918-1920. An Online Archive

Curated by Tony Kaes

Josef Fenneker's 1919 poster for Die Prostitution: a woman with bobbed hair and heavily shadowed eyes looks upward, a striped wrap slipping from her bare shoulders, against a dark ground crowded at the lower corners by rows of leering faces. "DIE PROSTITUTION / SOZIALHYGIENISCHES FILMWERK" is lettered across the top, "RICHARD OSWALD / UNTER MITARBEIT VON SAN. RAT DR. MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD" at the left, and "MARMORHAUS / KURFÜRSTENDAMM 236, DIR. SIEGBERT GOLDSCHMIDT" across the foot

Chapters

  1. Introduction
  2. Basic Dates
  3. The Rise and Fall of the Aufklärungsfilm
  4. Censorship Decisions
  5. Secondary Literature