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non and a promotional factor relating to the city’s profitability as a backdrop in films<br />

and commercials.<br />

7. Ilse Wehner, “Ein Jahr Wien-Film,” Der deutsche Film 5, no. 1 (1940): 9.<br />

8. Volkmar Iro, quoted by Walter Fritz, Im Kino erlebe ich die Welt. 100 Jahre<br />

Kino und Film in Österreich (Vienna: Christian Brandstätter, 1997), p. 166.<br />

9. On the cultural films produced by Wien-Film, see Günter Krenn, Die Kulturfilme<br />

der Wien-Film 1938–1945 (Vienna: Schriftenreihe des Österreichischen<br />

Filmarchivs, 1992). The capital was portrayed in two films, Ein Tag in Schönbrunn<br />

(A Day in Schönbrunn, 1940) and Rund um Wien (Around Vienna, 1942).<br />

10. Karl Hartl, “Das künstlerische Programm des Wiener Films,” Film-Kurier,<br />

10 March 1939.<br />

11. As reported by Geza von Cziffra, Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht. Eine Sittengeschichte<br />

des deutschen Films (Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, 1987), p. 177.<br />

12. Gertraud Steiner, Film Book Austria: The History of the Austrian Film from<br />

Its Beginnings to the Present Day (Vienna: Medium for the Federal Chancellery,<br />

1997), p. 39. Reading such continuities in more critical ways (for instance, with an<br />

eye toward Austrofascism), Gottfried Schlemmer has asserted that “the National Socialist<br />

film [in Austria] did not exist at all. Instead certain contents were interpreted<br />

differently, more strongly, under National Socialism.” In Elisabeth Büttner and<br />

Christian Dewald, Anschluß an morgen. Eine Geschichte des österreichischen Films<br />

von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart (Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1997), p. 141.<br />

13. The numbers appear in Anon., “Der deutsche Film im Ausland,” Film-<br />

Kurier, 10 March 1937.<br />

14. Frieda Grafe, “Wiener Beiträge zu einer wahren Geschichte des Kinos,” in<br />

Aufbruch ins Ungewisse. Österreichische Filmschaffende in der Emigration vor 1945,<br />

ed. Christian Carnelli and Michael Omasta (Vienna: Wespennest, 1993), 1:227.<br />

15. See “Emigranten,” Lichtbildbühne, 24 January 1934.<br />

16. Dr. Lanske, “Österreich und Deutschland,” Film-Kurier, 8 April 1937. By the<br />

same author, see “Die weltanschauliche Ausrichtung des österreichischen Films,”<br />

Film-Kurier, 19 May 1937.<br />

17. Anon., “Der Weg ist frei!,” Film-Kurier, 12 March 1938.<br />

18. For an apologetic anecdotal account of the period, see Hans Moser, Ich trag<br />

im Herzen drin ein Stück vom alten Wien, with Georg Markus (Munich: Herbig,<br />

1980), pp. 169–212. The careers of Austrian stage and screen actors during the annexation<br />

have been examined repeatedly in recent years, most famously in the case<br />

of Paula Wessely, with contributions ranging from Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial<br />

play Burgtheater and Axel Conti’s filmic rendition of 1938 to Maria Steiner’s critical<br />

biography Paula Wessely. Die verdrängten Jahre (Vienna: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik,<br />

1996).<br />

19. Klaus Kreimeier, “G. W. Pabst. Der große Unbekannte,” in G. W. Pabst, ed.<br />

Wolfgang Jacobsen (Berlin: Argon, 1997), p. 12.<br />

20. Anon., “Schluß jetzt mit dem Wiener Milieu!,” Lichtbildbühne, 23 October<br />

1934.<br />

Notes to pages 152–156 253

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