Golem Caligari Nosferatu - A Chronicle of German Film Fantasy (hardback)

<p>Nightmares and children's stories fairies witches and warlocks giants dragons and talking animals golems living statues doppelgänger vanishing shadows and the incarnation of the Devil Nosferatu the iconic vampire epitome of the Spanish Flu that followed WW1 robots alchemists and mad scientists occultism and stories of the supernatural miracle weapons rockets and spaceships aliens zombies and post-apocalyptic fiction.</p><p><br></p><p>Paul Wegener Conrad Veidt Fritz Lang F. W. Murnau Paul Leni Werner Herzog Klaus Kinski Udo Kier Roland Emmerich - these are the names usually associated with the German Cinema of the Fantastic. But there are more-many more.</p><p><br></p><p>This book is the first attempt to chronicle German film fantasy year by year: birthdays dying days special events and film premieres of fairy tales animation science fiction and horror - from its origin </p><p>till nowadays.</p><p><br></p><p>DR. ROLF GIESEN has written 60 books mostly devoted to animation VFX horror fantasy and science fiction. He lectured in Germany and China and amassed a huge collection of movie artifacts stored at Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin and Filmmuseum Dusseldorf.</p><p><br></p>