"Related in theme and form, these three documentaries Germany Dada (1969), John Heartfield: Photomontage Artist (1977) and 1968: Art, Protest, Happening (1981) can be seen as a trilogy on the history of art in the 20th century. Art historians focus on those rare moments in our German history when radical aesthetics and radical politics briefly went hand in hand. Then the movement of authoritarian political sects on the one hand and the reaction of the authoritarian establishment combined with the voracity of the art market on the other put an end to this beautiful commonality." (Helmut Herbst) The 2-disc DVD set also offers unpublished audio documents of talks with artists like Richard Huelsenbeck, Raoul Hausmann, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow and Al Hansen.
The films
Deutschland Dada - West-Germany 1969 - Directed, photographed and edited by: Helmut Herbst - Written by: Helmut Herbst, Carlheinz Caspary - Voices: Ingeborg Felsner, Jörg Falkenstein, Günther Lippert, Peter Weiss - Produced by: Cinegrafik, Hamburg
John Heartfield, Fotomonteur - West-Germany 1976 - Directed by: Helmut Herbst - Written by: Eckhard Siepmann, Helmut Herbst - Photogrphed by: Axel Brandt - Edited by: Heide Breitel - Voices: Carlheinz Caspary, Jörg Falkenstein - Produced by: Cinegrafik, Hamburg
Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968 - West-Germany 1981/2016 - Directed by: Helmut Herbst - Written by: Helmut Herbst, Friedrich Heubach - Photographed by: Helmut Herbst, Irina Hoppe - Edited by: Renate Merck - Voices: Brunhild Geipel, Jörg Falkenstein - Produced by: Cinegrafik, Hamburg
DVD features
DVD 1
- Deutschland Dada 1969, 63'
- John Heartfield, Fotomonteur 1976, 63'
- Gespräche mit Raoul Hausmann 1968, 111' (audio)
- Gespräche mit Richard Huelsenbeck 1968, 37' (audio)
- Photo documentation John Heartfield
DVD 2
- Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968 1981, 75'
- Gespräch mit Joseph Beuys 1980, 8' (audio)
- Gespräch mit Bazon Brock 1980, 19' (audio)
- Gespräch mit Allan Kaprow 1980, 10' (audio)
- Gespräch mit Wolf Vostell 1980, 21' (audio)
- Gespräch mit Al Hansen 1980, 22' (audio)
- 20 page trilingual booklet with texts by Daniel Kothenschulte, Helmut Herbst, Raoul Hausmann and Richard Huelsenbeck
Edited by: Filmmuseum München and Goethe-Institut München
DVD authoring: Gunther Bittmann, Tobias Dressel
DVD supervision: Stefan Drössler, Michael Farin
First edition October 2018
