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

从第二次世界大战结束到德国建立，这段时间是结束和开始之间的一段时间，在这段时间里，人们提出了一个问题：“我们将如何生活？”这句话既紧迫又有争议。在此期间，一组新的德国小说电影上映，这些电影以现在或最近的过去为背景，探索在急剧变化的环境和环境中生活的方式。这些电影描绘物理空间的方式构成了我研究的基础。通过对所呈现空间的关注，我的目标是进一步理解这些电影作为一种工具，它排练了德国居民在这个变化了的世界中如何生活——例如，他们如何共同建立家园，如何使用城市街道，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，但这些描绘也与当代更大的争论有关，即德国和她的废墟城市如何重建（或者它们是否应该重建）。在我的研究中，我将把这些电影放在当代讨论的背景下——既有国内的，也有占领盟友的——关于德国居民如何生活的讨论。

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.