Dossier on Heimat

Fortrængninger og fortællinger

“…Under Hitlers militante ideologisering af den sunde tyske saeregenhed, udgjorde 'Heimat' kraften bag den samlende identitetsfølelse, 'heim ins Reich'. 7 Film, billedkunst og litteratur blev brugt til at propagandere nationalsocialisternes bud-skab og til at hylde den idealtypiske ariske race. Billeder af den sunde tyske bondekultur befordrede udbredelsen af deres grundsyn.…”

Memory of Everyday Life: A Study of Edgar Reitz’s Heimat

“…32 Miriam Hansen has claimed that 'unlike any other "new" German film, Heimat relates to [these] crucial changes in the West German public sphere'. 33 While situated in these historical processes, Reitz set out to explore, in his opinion, the seeming impossibility that ninety percent of the German population collaborated with Hitler in a morally conscious way. 34 One of his methods was to interview people in his birth province, where Heimat is set.…”