Nazi German Film Movie Magazines BOUND

NAZI FILM MAGAZINES 1936 - 1943

der deutsche Film - Zeitschrift für Filmkunst und Filmwirtschaft

A RARE FIND FOR
AFICIONADOS OF GERMAN
FILM OF THE NAZI ERA

This has to be a find without equal for someone with the very specific interest of films produced in Germany during the time of the Adolf Hitler government. The magazines we offer here are nearly all the individual issues ever printed of the magazine ,,der deutsche Film - Zeitschrift für Filmkunst und Filmwirtschaft’’ (the German Film - Magazine for Art and Industry of Movies).

The magazine was the official organ of the German Film Industry published in cooperation with the Reichsfilmkammer (State Movie Chamber) of the Reichskulturkammer (RKK or State Chamber of Culture). Thus, this magazine provides the official Nazi Party or NSDAP position on virtually every subject committed to film in Germany during the period.

A new law passed on 22 September 1933 under the Nazi “Enabling Act” created a Reichskulturkammer which exercised complete organizational and administrative power over, “all forms of artistic creation or activity which are made public” and “all activities as soon as they appear in print, in films, or are transmitted through the air”.

That new State Chamber was run by a collaboration of the State Ministry of Economics (Reichswirtschaftsministerium at Wilhelmplatz 1/2 in Berlin, Walther Funk, State Minister from 1937 onward) and the State Ministry for National Community Clarification and Publicity (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda at Wilhelmplatz 8/9 in Berlin, Dr. Josef Goebbels, State Minister). The President of the Reichskulturkammer was Dr. Goebbels, who appointed the Vice President and Secretary.

The first volume of the first year is that of July 1936 when ,,der deutsche Film’’ officially replaced other film magazines on the German market. Average monthly circulation was between 7000 and 12,500 copies so even single copies are very rare today. The 12 issues from July 1936 through June 1937 are professionally hardbound in the form of a book measuring 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches containing over 375 pages. Very good condition.

The magazine circulated to those people who made films, acted in films, directed films and exhibited films - the professionals of the Nazified German film industry. The advertisers were the studios like UfA GmbH, Tobis Tonbild, Syndikat AG, Deutsch-Italianische Film Union, Wien Film, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Terra, Cine Allianz, Paramount Film AG, Bavaria Filme, Carl Froelich, 20th Century Fox, BMW, North German Lloyd, Continental Silenta; costume and uniform companies; film manufacturers like Kodak, Agfa, AFIFA, Perutz, Paul Tesch; equipment manufacturers such as Siemens, AEG, IG Farben Industrie, Osram, Zeiss Ikon, Busch Optics, Neophan Brillen, Askania Werke AG, K. Weinert, Geyer, Klangfilm, Körting und Mathiesen AG, etc.

Actors and actresses such as Lida Baarova, Lilian Harvey, Sonja Henie, Zarah Leander, Marianne Hoppe, Marika Rokk, Renate Müller, Pola Negri, Charlott Daudert, Ruth Eweler, Paula Wessely, Hilde Körber, Brigitte Horney, Kristina Söderbaum, Anny Ondra, Jenny Jugo, Olga Tschechowa, Viktor de Kowa, Gusti Huber, Heinz Rühmann, Louise Ullrich, Willi Fritsch, Hans Albers, Leo Slezak, Karl Valentin, Heinz Rümann, Emil Jannings, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, etc.

Subjects such as Film Posters, Filming the Leni Riefenstahl Movie “Olympia”, Color and Film, Filming the Kriegsmarine (Nazi Navy), the Camera in Japan, Flags over Nürnberg (Reichsparteitag 1936), Film Work of the Nazi Party, Dancers in Training, Films for the WHW, Films for the Hitler Youth (HJ), the Film Work of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), a New Sound Stage, Camera Techniques, the Sound Film Comes to the Village, Filming the Reichsautobahn, the remodeling of theaters, Working for Germany in as Reflected in Movies, German and Austrian Film Cooperation, Film Music, German Film Comedians, the Racial-Political Purpose of Film (making of anti-Semitic films), the International Film Congress in Paris, German Film Music, Theaters - Yesterday and Today, Movie News Features, Color Film, Hitler Youth Film Day, Experimentation in Film, the Movie Pubic of Tomorrow, the First German Film Company (Universum Film AG or UfA), Hollywood Achievement Principles, Triumph of the Will, Building Sets in Studios, ....

.... Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels, the Camera Work on the Film “Olympia”, the Development of the Film Theater in National Socialist Germany, Ein Volk - Ein Reich - Ein Führer!, the Actor, What is Going On in Foreign Countries, Birds Eye View of Film Stock, Film Between the Camera and the Theater, Criticisms of Film Posters, Venice Film Festival, the German Film Academy, Cinecitta, the Roman Film City, 110 New Films for the 1938/39 Film Season, a Look at the English Film Industry, Animated Figures, German Film Technology, I Speak German!, ....

.... Walt Disney, America - the Super Power of Film, Snow White, Reichs Film Day of the Hitler Youth, UfA Stadt Babelsberg - Home of the German Film Academy, Pour Le Merit - a German Film!, Animation in Advertising Films, the Export Version of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” and the Zarah Leander Film “Heimat”, the World Market for German Film and Movie Technology, the Reichsautobahn Movie “Mann für Mann”, Is The Movie “We Travel to America” an Advertising Film or a Cultural Film?, Advertising for German Movies, Movies Make Fashion, Filming From The Air, Ships of the DAF, the 50th Birthday of Adolf Hitler, the Führer Principle in Art, die Wochenschau, Television - Friend or Enemy of Movies?, Wien Film, Broadcasting Culture Films, New Ground Rules for Culture Film Production, Colonies in Films, the Latest Film Theaters, Munich and the German Film, German Culture Films in Venice, the Hero in Films, Films of War, Editing Movies, Film in Service of English War Propaganda, Untermensch, the Military Assault in Poland, the Eternal Jew, the Combat Theaters of Today, German Socialism in Film, the Effects of War on Movie Production, Film Advertising from the Perspective of the Censor, ....

.... Our Wehrmacht in Film, War and Movies, the German Landscape, the New Face of German Movies, With the Film Camera over London, Das Wunschkonzert, Natural Catastrophy, Japanese Films Today, the 52nd Birthday of the Führer, the War as a Subject of New German Movies, the War Duties of the Reichsfilmkammer, Portrayal of German Soldiers in Film, the Instruction Film in the Service of the Wehrmacht, Men and Weapons, Ten Years of Film Work of the Nazi Party, the Work of the Propaganda Company Cameramen, Reorganization of the German Film Industry, a Day in the Berlin Film Studios, Berlin in Films, Venice 1942, Film Theaters at the War Front, Salzburg in Film, etc.

Each issue reviews several of the latest films at length and there are also reviews of new books about film. There are numerous full-page ads for specific movies such as Die Geierwally, Befreite Hände, Der Ostmeister, Der Fuchs von Glenarvon, Die gute Sieben, Bal Pave, Wiener Geschichten, Die 3 Codonas, Ein Robinson, Jud Süß, Das Herz der Königin, Krambambuli, Wie konnest du, Veronica!, Das Fräulein von Barnhelm, Koraterry, Kleider machen Leute, Ein Leben Lang, ....

.... Bismarck, Rosen in Tirol, Wunschkonzert, Feinde, Der Liebe Augustin, Das Mädchen von Fanö, Sieg im Westen, Mein Leben für Irland, Unser Fräulein Doktor, Operetta, Auf Wiedersehen Franziska!, Carl Peters, Über Alles in der Welt, Ohm Krüger, Kampfgeschwader Lützow, Die Schwedische Nachtigal, Der Weg ins Freie, Jungens, Hauptsache Glücklich, Dreimal Hochzeit, etc.

The second volume from July 1937 through June 1938 consists of 12 individual magazines the same size as the previous year, containing over 350 pages. They are enclosed in but not bound into a professionally made hard cover. Very good condition.

The third volume from July 1938 through June 1939 consists of 12 individual magazines the same size as the previous years, containing over 365 pages. They are enclosed in but not bound into a professionally made hard cover. Very good condition.

The fourth volume from July 1939 through June 1940 consists of 12 individual magazines the same size as the previous years, containing 250 pages. They are enclosed in but not bound into a professionally made hard cover. Of these twelve magazines, eight have some damage to the bottoms of the front and back covers from having stuck together, apparently from some defect in the coating on the covers. That small amount of damage is confined entirely to a small portion of the front and/or rear cover only. There is no damage to the internal pages. Otherwise all these magazines are in very good condition.

The fifth volume from July 1940 through June 1941 consists of 11 individual magazines (the May 1941 issue is the “new/Juni” issues combined) the same size as the previous years, containing over 245 pages. These 11 magazines all exhibit some rust on the staples but no pages stuck together and no damage from the rust. Very good condition. These are loose magazines with no hard cover binder (there was no binder made for the 1941/42 year).

The sixth volume from July 1942 through February 1943 consists of 7 individual magazines (the August 1942 issue is the “August/September” issues combined) the same size as the previous years, containing over 200 pages.

By the 1942/43 year ,,der deutsche Film’’ was published with color covers and a good deal of color content on the inside. Of these seven magazines, two have had the front color covers removed and one of those has had half of the rear cover removed. The last of these magazines has had a picture on page 20 cut out. Otherwise these magazines are complete and in good to very good condition.

This unique lot consists of a total of 64 magazines containing over 1775 very heavily illustrated pages of the most important kind of pictures and information regarding German Film of the Third Reich period.

A remarkable find, sold only as a lot is **SOLD**.

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