The establishment of the magazine film criticism 1957 by Enno Patalas and Wilfried mountain cock was a conscious break with that traditional form of film criticism, which dominated up to then in postwar Germany. The desire at writing and reading should feed itself from the joy in recognizing. "“Straight line the criticism would have to cause Brechts "“desire of our age"” to understand everything in such a way that we can intervene."”

An important point of reference of the film criticism were from the national socialists from Germany refugees authors such as Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte H. Eisner. The film criticism did not only discuss individual films, but became partly by translation of contributions from the Cahiers you partly by own contributions an important spreading organ of film-theoretical beginnings such as Auteur theory and category theory.

To the authoresses and authors to the film criticism among other things Hartmut Bitomsky, wolf Eckardt Harun Farocki, Helmut Frieda Grafe, Ulrich Gregor, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Peter Nau, Susanne and Wim of Wenders belonged.

Literature

• "“Aesthetic left ones"” and "“political left ones"” of the magazine "“film criticism"” in the 60's with special consideration Jean Luc Godards/submitted of Peter Kessen. - 1996. - 365 S., Munich, Univ., Diss., 1996

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