Enthusiastic Spectators: On German Film Preferences during the Third Reich

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Joseph Garncarz
• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 2015 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 275102007

The research project will, for the first time, systematically analyse the film preferences of the German cinema audience during the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 to 1945. To this end, charts ranking films according to their box office success will be compiled for each season, and then interpreted in terms of the patterns formed by the top hits. The research project aims to identify the cultural specificity of German film preferences during this period. So as to determine whether these preferences were distinctive, the charts for Nazi Germany will be compared synchronically with annual hit lists of other European countries and diachronically with German charts before 1933 and after 1945. season

• DFG Programme: Research Grants