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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)

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DOI: 10.5040/9781839024405

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 BFI FILM CLASSICS
THE LOST HONOUR OF
KATHARINA BLUM THE LOST HONOUR OF
(DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM) B F I F I L M KATHARINA BLUM
C L A S S I C S (DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM)

‘This is an excellent study of this important film. Julian Preece Julian Preece
knowledgably and deftly accounts for the form and style of the film, the
politics of the era in which it appeared, and its reception. Even if you think
you know this film, you stand to learn a great deal from Preece’s book.’
Brad Prager, University of Missouri, USA

‘Julian Preece’s The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum offers fresh

perspectives on a classic for a new generation of scholars, readers, and

T H E LO S T H O N O U R O F K AT H A R I N A B LU M
movie-goers. Based on extensive archival research, Preece produces
unexpected insights on this politically provocative West German film
and its many after-lives.’
Barbara Mennel, University of Florida, USA

Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff’s The Lost Honour of

Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema
movement. Julian Preece considers what makes Katharina Blum new and
radical, in particular in respect of women’s cinema and its portrayal of the
ordeal of its female lead in a world run by men. Drawing on archival material
including drafts of the screenplay, brochures and props, reviews and
interviews, Preece traces the conception of the film and its development
from Heinrich Böll’s original novel.

Preece analyses how the film continues to resonate with our contemporary
moment and has influenced film-makers from the German-Turkish director
Fatih Akin to the British screeenwriter Peter Morgan.

Julian Preece is Professor of German at Swansea University, UK. His

previous books include Günter Grass (2018) and Baader–Meinhof and the
Novel: Narratives of the Nation/Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970–2010
(2012). In 2019 he was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Julian Preece

Cover artwork © Julia Kretschmann

Series design: Louise Dugdale

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