Key Concepts
This type of film focuses on everyday life in the GDR.
What is Gegenwartsfilm?
This character becomes pregnant, symbolizing responsibility and hardship.
Who is Angela?
How is West Berlin shown in the film?
Hostile and dangerous.
Which film studio made Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser?
DEFA
East German Filmmaking at DEFA changed after the death of who?
Joseph Stallin
This official style of filmmaking emphasized heroic workers and idealized socialism.
What is Socialist Realism?
These 3 young friends are drawn into petty crime and tempted by West Berlin.
Who is Dieter, Karl-Heinz, and Kohle?
Why do young East Germans want to go West?
For consumer goods and fun
What year was Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser released?
1957
Which one of the 4 main young characters have a job?
Dieter
After 1953, this political shift gave East German filmmakers more space to critique society.
Post-Stalin thaw
What serious crime happens in West Berlin during the movie?
A murder.
How is East Berlin portrayed?
Homeland/responsibility
Even during the thaw, who had to approve films?
East German authorities (SED/FDJ)
Angela dream man has to look like who?
Marlon Brando
How many sectors was berlin divided into and what nations were they?
4. France, UK, US, soviet union
What are the family dynamics of the 4 young main characters
angela: mother
khole: mother, stepfather
carl heinz: mom and dad
dieter: only brother
What crimes are shown in east berlin?
Id theft
breaking a street light
How did teenagers watch films they couldn't see on the east side of Berlin?
Go to west Berlin to watch them
What is Dieters dream?
owning a motorcycle
Name 3 recurring themes that make berlin schonhauser corner a rebel film intended to both re-educate east Germany's teenage rebels and to allow older generations insight into the mindset of young people
Establishing east germany as homeland
Notion of the state as paternal substitute
Affirmation of socialism as the right path to a better life for everyone
Who passes away from self poisoning with coffee and tabacco?
khole
At the time the film was shot approx. how many east germans immigrated to west Germany every year?
300,000
Creation of the genre gegenwartsfilme(film addresssing contemporary life) expressed shortcomings of east germany in a nuanced way between what years as a way to help socialism evolve.
1954-1961
Who owns 2 houses in West Berlin?
Carl Heinz parents