Explore histories of migration, citizenship and belonging in Germany and the U.S. over the centuries.
1968
“Guest-Worker Cinema”
In the course of the 1960’s, the so-called “guest worker cinema” evolves in the light of the growing number of migrant workers in the FRG, especially migrants from Turkey. The focus of these movies lies on topics like “otherness”, “foreignness” and oppression. In spite of the fact that these oversimplifying representations support the construction of imagined contradictions and differences between e.g. the “Turkish culture” and the “German culture”, the movies challenge the viewing habits of the German-majority audience.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Regie) gilt als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter des Neuen Deutschen Films, der in seinen Filmen „Katzelmacher“ (1969) und „Angst essen Seele auf“ erstmals Geschichten von Arbeitsmigrant*innen auf die Leinwände der BRD bringt.
Germany
Sources
Göktürk, Deniz (2000a): Migration und Kino: Subnationale Mitleidskultur oder transnationale Rollenspiele? In: Carmine Chiellino (Hrsg.): Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart u. Weimar.
Jenseits der subnationalen Leidkultur: Transnationale Rollenspiele im Kino Deniz Göktürk.