The Oberhausen Manifesto was a declaration by a group of 26 young German filmmakers at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia on 28 February 1962. The manifesto was a call to arms to establish a "new German feature film". It was initiated by Haro Senft and among the signatories were the directors Alexander Kluge and Edgar Reitz. The manifesto was associated with the motto "Papas Kino ist tot" (Papa's cinema is dead), although this phrase does not appear in the manifesto itself.

The signatories to the 1962 manifesto became known as the Oberhausen Group and are seen as important forerunners of the New German Cinema that began later in the decade.[1] Their names are:

The Oberhausen Group were awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis in 1982.

A second 'Oberhausen manifesto' was published in 1965, partly in reaction to perceptions of continued conservatism in the German film industry.[2] Led by the radical French director Jean-Marie Straub, this declaration was also signed by Rodolf Thome, Dirk Alvermann, Klaus Lemke, Peter Nestler, Reinald Schnell, Dieter Süverkrüp, Kurt Ulrich, and Max Zihlmann.

References

  1. ↑ Rentschler, Eric (2012-06-01). "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENTS: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTO". Artforum. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
  2. ↑ MacKenzie, Scott (2014). Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 153–54. ISBN 9780520957411.


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