Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others

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Index aesthetics, 145 Akhmatova, Anna, 35 Alltag film genre, 145 Anderson, Sascha, 214 angst, 143–44 anticommunism, 202 apparatchiki, 59–60, 117 Arendt, Hannah: on “banality of evil,” 207–8, 216; on Bertolt Brecht, 45, 47; on loneliness, 29; on totalitarianism, 29, 207 Aristotle, 86, 111–12, 123; Poetics, 112, 128n2; and the tragic, 111–20 art: and politics, 79 Ash, Timothy Garton: on The Lives of Others, 2, 20, 104n2, 105n7, 160, 207–9, 218; on Stasi, 205–6, 215–16; on totalitarianism, 22 Auden, W. H., 97 Bautzen II prison, 246 beauty, 30, 70–71, 79 Benjamin, Walter, 43 Berg, Hermann von, 177–78 Berghofer, Wolfgang, 180 Berliner Ensemble, 114 Berlin Wall, 7, 172–73; construction of, 233, 240, 250; fall of, 69, 87–88, 123, 138–39, 181, 189 Bernstein, Matthew, 2 Besançon, Alain, 32; on communist moral corruption, 58–59, 76 Biermann, Wolf: as dissident, 12, 160–61, 188, 213–15; on The Lives of Others, 13, 50–51, 183–88 Blair, Tony, 221 bohemian, 42 Bolshevik Revolution, 175, 232 Brecht, Bertolt, 90, 97, 114, 162; and compassion, 44; criticism of GDR, 45–46, 90; and ethics, 100–101; exile of, 45; on June crisis, 106n16, 221; and Life of Galileo, 112, 166– 67; and Memory of Marie A., 209; and moral absolutism, 126; and Mother Courage and Her Children, 93, 100–101, 112; rejection of realism, 93; and social satire, 93; support of communism, 36, 44, 47, 90; and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 66; and The Good Person of Szechwan, 66, 80n9, 91–98; and The Threepenny Opera, 100–102; use in The Lives of Others, 91; views on National Socialism, 42–43 Brockmann, Stephen, 7 Brown, Gordon, 219, 221 Bruce, Gary, 4–9, 216 bureaucratic terror, 236–37 Cameron, David, 221 Central Coordination Group, ZKG, 249–50 Central Party Control Commission, 238 central planning, 140 Charter 77, 36 Cheka (All-Russian Commission to Combat Counterrevolution and Sabotage), 175–76, 232, 242 263 264 Index collaborator, 156 Communications Data Bill, 218. See also United Kingdom communism: moral corruption, 58–60, 76–77; role of intellectuals in, 42; symbols of, 43, 67, 80n10, 115. See also Third Way Communist Party, 4. See also communism compassion, 44–45, 125, 151 corruption, 72, 84, 118 Czechoslovakia, 156, 165; secret police of, 243; under Nazi occupation, 157 Delsol, Chantal, 60–61 denazification, 6 Dennis, Mike, 21, 214 Dertinger, Georg, 237 de-Stalinization, 223, 240 détente, 209, 239 Deutsches Theater, 173–74 Divided We Fall, 156 Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel von: and art, 78; and Brecht, 109n31; DVD commentary, 2–3, 43; on ethics, 99–100; inspiration for The Lives of Others, 24, 44, 57, 147, 174; response to criticism, 86–87; usage of Brecht, 91 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 162 Dreyman, Georg: as Brechtian, 43, 52n23, 66, 90; moral corruption of, 72–76; political views of, 37, 41, 65–67 Dueck, Cheryl, 215, 218 Eastern bloc: regimes of, 67; security services in, 4 East Germany. See German Democratic Republic Eichmann, Adolf, 242 Eisler, Hanns, 46 epic theater, 112 Esther, John, 2 Euro-socialist, 42 Evans, Owen, 207 FC Dynamo Berlin, 232 Federal Republic of Germany, 30, 37; foreign service of, 237; and guilt, 191 Feinstein, Joshua, 145–46 Field, Noel, 238 Freud, Sigmund, 48–49 Fries, Rudolf Fritz, 36 Fuchs, Jürgen, 177, 185 Fulbrook, Mary, 5; on totalitarianism, 206, 217 Funder, Anna, 7; criticism of The Lives of Others, 8, 9, 20–21, 31–32, 85, 204–5 Gauck, Joachim, 6, 189; on everydayness, 192; interview of, 189–202 Gedeck, Martina, 40, 169, 229 German Book Export and Import Company, 212 German Democratic Republic: art in, 71, 89; criminal code of, 176– 77, 179, 238; economy of, 140; foreign policy of, 243; founding of, 42; and human rights, 234, 243–44; emigration from, 36, 38; intellectuals in, 213, 240; as post-totalitarian, 21; prisons of, 235; suicide in, 177, 214; theater’s role in, 115; and West Germany, 234 German People’s Police, 231–32, 234–35, 239, 246 Gestapo, 4, 40, 48, 194 Index 265 glasnost, 69 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 90 Good Bye Lenin!, 7–8, 83, 198, 204; and Wolfgang Becker, 8, 11; as posttotalitarian , 137; as reaction to Alltag, 146; summary of, 138–40 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 68–69, 123, 180, 215 Gorky, Maxim, 24, 44, 174 gray zone, 156–57 Grieder, Peter, 20 Grossman, Vasily, 35 Grubitz, Anton, 163. See also apparatchiki Hager...