Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Graml, Gundolf

Titel

Destination Heimat: Mobilizing Identity Discourses in Der Hofrat Geiger (Privy Councilor Geiger) (1947)

Ist Teil von

• Revisiting Austria, 2020, Vol.28, p.55

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United States: Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Tourists are everywhere in postwar Austrian films. From Géza von Cziffra’s Glaube an mich (Believe in Me) (1946), the first Austrian film produced after World War II, to the travel comedy Zwei in einem Auto (Two in One Car) (1951), and from Der Hofrat Geiger (Privy Councilor Geiger) (1947) to Eva erbt das Paradies (Eva Inherits Paradise) (1951), Austrian postwar cinema features almost frantic travel activity. And the phenomenon is not limited to the genre of the “tourist film.” The widely popular Heimatfilm genre of the 1950s and a number of costume films also thematize traveling in various ways. In