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€NRC Handelsblad, Cultureel Supplement 29/11/85, Hans
Beerekamp: Een dorp in Duitsland - kanttekeningen bij het succes
van de filmkroniek Heimat. "It doesn't sound appealing, 15 hours,
40 minutes and 10 seconds of film but it's one of the most
exciting films of the eighties." After being shown on German and
Belgium television it's shown in film art-houses across the
country, either in a marathon or spread over several evenings.
"Heimat is not a television-series but a film" and "what a shame
of all that effort to do it on 35mm". Some biographical elements,
the grandfather of Reitz has also been a watch maker in Morbach
(Hunsrück). "There's an almost physical attraction coming from
this film which can hardly be put in words. The Heimat pleasure
can be shared with other addicts who get a twinkle in their eyes
when you mention the subject".
€de Volkskrant, 5/12/85, Peter van Bueren: De Duitse wortels
blootgelegd in filmgeschiedenis Heimat. Review for the cinema
release of Die Heimat. Premiere in Desmet, Amsterdam.
€de Volkskrant, 5/9/87, Gerdin Linthorst: Unieke kroniek van
kleine Duitse luyden. About the broadcast of Die Heimat.
€de Volksrant, vrijdag 12/10/90, Gerdin Linthorst: In donkere
hoeken, daar werkt de fantasie. About television versus film,
interesting.
€de Volkskrant, vrijdag 12/10/90, Harry Hosman: "Heimat" laat tv
dictaat links liggen. About the mise-en-scene of Die Heimat with
examples in an art-supplement about TV vs. Film.
€de Volkskrant, 15/1/93, Film Extra: De geloofwaardige
personages in de Heimat. TV-guide section about WDR3 and BBC
broadcast of Die Heimat.
€de Volkskrant, vrijdag 22/1/93, Peter van Bueren: Hoe Schabbachs
kinderen Duitsland erfden - Heimat 2, Edgar Reitz herinnert zich
de jaren '60. In relation to the premiere on the Rotterdam
Filmfestival in the theatres Luxor and Venster.
€NRC Handelsblad, Cultureel Supplement, 22/1/93, Joyce Roodnat:
Leven doen ze per moment - Die zweite Heimat, kroniek van de
jaren zestig en zeventig in München. In a special Filmfestival
Rotterdam section.
€Elsevier, 30/1/93, Kennis &;kunst, p. 71-72, Rob van Scheers, In
relation to the Filmfestival Rotterdam screening, the journalist
attended the avant-première in Paris in the Théâtre National de
Chailliot with Reitz present. Nothing we don't already know, a bit
impressionistic what Reitz was like.
€HP/De Tijd, 20/8/93, p. 71-72, Henk van Gelder: Zondagsdrama.
About the marathon broadcast of Die Zweite Heimat. Definitely
not a good idea he thinks: "Who got this idea in heaven's name?
.(...) Roelof Kiers, VPRO-televisie. And why? Because he thought it
would be fun."
With an interesting anecdote about the Dutch movie critics at the
filmfestival in Venice who always met on the same terrass after
seeing another episode to discuss it. "Besides the filmic-poetic
qualities, the choreography of the big scenes and the rich layeredness
of the story, but also (filmcritics are just like ordinary people) the
question what would happen to Hermann, why Evelyn hasn't showed up
for a while and wether things would ever get well for Volker. "What do
you think, Peter?" "I don't know, Joyce"." The article continues with
broadcasting politics, why the multitude of public broadcasters in the
Netherlands couldn't cooperate, the outcome was a marathon or nothing
at all. Too bad.
€de Volkskrant, 4/9/93, Frank van Zijl: Die zweite Heimat bij de
VPRO - televisie-marathon voor video. About the marathon
broadcast of Die Zweite Heimat and ratings etc. It quotes Variety
saying that Die Zweite Heimat is a big flop on TV.
€NRC Handelsblad, 25/9/96 p.9, Hans Beerekamp, episode 43 of a
series of articles about 100 years of cinema, some recollections
about Die Heimat "from all the images in Heimat which stuck to
me in most detail, the one of the road that connects the
(fictitious) town Shabbach with the rest of the world, is the
strongest". And about Die zweite Heimat "Logistically Reitz
repeated this compositional long-arm balance of a
monstrousdrama, but the magical effect, caused by the universal
recognisability of fast urbanisation in this century, was far less
big."
€Uitkrant, 10/96, Annemieke Hendriks, p. 27, with really a lot of
emphasis on all the sixties elements in Die zweite Heimat. For
her it's a film about the sixties. Also very positive off course.
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