How will we live?: The spaces of post-war German cinema

从第二次世界大战结束到德国国家建立之间的这段时间，是一个介于结束和开始之间的时期，当时的问题是“我们将如何生活？既紧迫又有争议在这段时间里，一批新的德国小说电影被发行，这些电影以现在或不久前为背景，探索了在彻底改变的环境和环境中的生活方式。这些电影中描绘物理空间的方式构成了我研究的基础。通过对所代表的空间的关注，我的目标是进一步理解这些电影，这些电影排练了德国居民在这个变化的世界中如何生活的方式-例如，他们如何一起建立家园，他们如何使用城市街道，他们如何娱乐自己。在电影中，生活方式是在个人或小社区的层面上展示的，但这些警示也涉及到当代更大的辩论，即德国和她被摧毁的城市如何重建（或是否应该重建）。在我的研究中，我将把这些电影放在当代讨论的背景下--无论是在国内还是在占领盟国--关于德国居民可能如何生活。

The years between the conclusion of the Second World War and the establishment of the German states were a time between an ending and a beginning when the question 'how will we live?' was both pressing and contentious. In this time a group of new German fiction films were released that were set in the present or recent past and explored ways of living in radically altered circumstances and surroundings. The way physical space is depicted in these films forms the basis of my research. Through attention to the spaces represented, I aim to further understanding of these films as vehicles that rehearse the ways the inhabitants of Germany could make their lives in this changed world - for instance, how they might set up homes together, how they could use the city streets, how they might entertain themselves. In the films, ways of living are shown at the level of the individual or small community, but these depictions also relate to larger contemporary debates about how Germany and her ruined cities might be rebuilt (or whether they should be rebuilt at all). In my research I will place the films within the context of contemporary discussions - both within the country and by the occupying allies - about how the inhabitants of Germany might live.