Berlin film festival report reveals founding director alfred bauer furthered the nazi agenda

Berlin Film Festival Says Founder Alfred Bauer Furthered Nazi Regime You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content September 30, 2020 4:47am SERVICES TO SHARE

THIS PAGE. The Berlin Film Festival has published research showing that its founding director Alfred Bauer contributed to the “functioning, stabilisation and legitimation” of the Nazi regime

in Germany. Bauer’s name was stripped from the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize in February after German newspaper Die Zeit published a story alleging that he held a previously unknown

“high-ranking position in the Nazi film bureaucracy.” Berlinale commissioned the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History to investigate the allegations, culminating in a research paper by

PD Dr. Tobias Hof published today. Hof found that Bauer was an advisor to the Reichsfilmintendant, a Joseph Goebbels-created propaganda institution that controlled film production in the

Nazi regime. Summarising the findings, Berlinale said: “Alfred Bauer must have been aware of the important role of the Reichsfilmintendanz in the propaganda apparatus of the Nazi regime. His

employment in the Reichsfilmintendanz contributed to the functioning, stabilisation and legitimation of the Nazi regime.” WATCH ON DEADLINE The study also showed that he joined various

National Socialist organizations from 1933, while after World War II he “tried to conceal his role in the Nazi regime through deliberately false statements, half-truths” and presented

himself as an opponent of Hitler’s ideals. Berlinale executive director Mariette Rissenbeek said: “The new and now scientifically researched findings about Alfred Bauer’s responsibilities in

the Reichsfilmintendanz and his behaviour in the denazification process are startling. Nevertheless, they constitute an important element in the process of dealing with the Nazi past of

cultural institutions which were founded after 1945.” You can read Hof’s study for the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History study here. 6 Comments JavaScript is required to load the

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