Zur Funktionalisierung von Schlagern im deutschen Autorenfilm der 1960er Jahre

Abstract

Films of the German ‘Autorenfilm’ represent aesthetic products, that can be read as a rebellion against the economically established German Post-War-Film per­ceived as being superficial and meaningless; thus representing an attack on what Lot­man described as cultural centre. By strategically incorporating medial products such as the German ‘Schlager’ – a genre that can be understood as a means of escape from social reality in the 1960s – into the setting of the Autorenfilm, cultural phenomena are set in a new context and thus contour an objectionable system of cultural values. The German Schlager is thus being defamed as an unintellectual and ridiculous music genre, which can be interpreted as an attack on a ‘mainstream’ culture that tends to being merely consumed but hardly being reflected