Konrad Wolf

2025 marks the centennial of Konrad Wolf, one of the most significant German filmmakers of all time (the lack of East is mine and for emphasis). Sadly, Wolf does not occupy such an important place in film history or in film studies curricula due to his lifelong belief in the Communist project and his East German background. Wolf’s films predominantly permeate German Studies curricula across the world concerned with questions of memory, politics, and history, but his work remains largely…