Published reviews
Reception in Germany
- FAZ, 10/9/92, Feuilleton, Hans-Dieter Seidel: Das Leben, wie es
sich begibt - Chronik einer Jugend in dreizehn Filmen: "Die Zweite
Heimat" von Edgar Reitz.
- Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 149, Freitag 2. Juli 1993: "Dieses
Fernsehen ist nicht mehr meine Heimat" - Edgar Reitz, Regisseur
des preisgekrönten Mehrteilers 'Zweite Heimat', ist enttäuscht,
weil sich die ARD nicht mit dem internationalen Erfolg
identifizeren will. Mit Edgar Reitz sprach Thomas Thieringer.
Andrew Blom:
- Spiegel: Sep 10, 1984: "Lifetime, a New Time, the Center of the
World", Mar 18, 1985: "Broken Silence"
- FAZ: Oct 20, 1984: "Finally them Foreigners know what's there"
(dialect), May 2, 1985: "Outrage: 'Heimat' in New York", May 2,
1986: "Clueless Applause"
The above five articles comprise the extent of my haul. Frankly, it's a
pretty poor haul at that. The first article is probably the one referred
to by the rumors we had heard; far from being a cover story, it's a mere
three pages tucked into the back of the magazine, and then it
doesn't do much more than present the story and the story of the
filming to the hasn't-yet-seen-it public. (One might imagine a Time
magazine look at "Holocaust" for an idea of its depth and insight.)
Ironically enough it's both preceded and eclipsed in the arts-film rubric
by a much longer retrospective on the career of Arnold
Schwarzenegger...
The rest (except for the fleetingly amusing "chaw-grinding Iowa farmer
reflects on hen-brained Madison County tourists" FAZ article) is all
pretty much old hat.
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