Category Archives: Heimat

Heimat Family Tree

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Tobias

Now that we’ve wrapped up our screenings of Heimat, I thought you might find it helpful to see the Simon family tree, which can help us remember how all the various characters were related.  The image below comes from the book Heimat … Continue reading →

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Heimat Beyond 1945

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Tobias

Although we concluded our unit on Heimat, there are still three more episodes remaining, which cover almost 40 years from the end of the Second World War to 1982. These episodes will remain accessible to you via the Hesburgh Library streaming video … Continue reading →

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Coming Home, Forgetting Home

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Zachary

Der Amerikaner. Where’s his home? The viewer sees Schabbach as the home of Paul’s family, but Paul himself is divorced from it by years of experience. We don’t really see him while he’s in America; he only now appears in … Continue reading →

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These Past Twelve Years: The Ghosts of Paul and Wilfried

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Charlie

Long ago, back in episode one, back when Eduard was still a bachelor, there was a member of the Simon family by the name of Paul. Do you remember him? In those days Wilfried Wiegand was just a goofy boy … Continue reading →

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Lucie’s Many Faces

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Caitlin

I couldn’t help but notice the many different faces of Lucie in these episodes. The most obvious one that really bothered me was when she was “sick with worry” when Maria came over. Lucie was dramatically moaning with her handkerchief … Continue reading →

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A Changing Schabbach

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Kaitlin

I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I found this episode of Heimat to be quite different than the last. In this episode, there is a distinct idea of things changing fast. Paul’s siblings, Pauline and Eduard, are … Continue reading →

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Additional Help Playing “Heimat”

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Tobias

If you are having problems playing the Heimat series from a PC, it is probably because you only have Windows Media Player installed.  Heimat is encoded as a streaming .mov file, which is a format that WMP does not support.  To … Continue reading →

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Home sweet home?

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Yoojin

On the first day of class Professor Boes asked us what home means to us. A response I found particularly intriguing said something along the lines of “home is a place where you have a job to do and somewhere … Continue reading →

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Some background information on Heimat

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Tobias

We’ll discuss both the real-world and the fictional backdrop of Heimat during our first class session, but I thought you would appreciate a little bit of information to help get you started. The majority of the show takes place in … Continue reading →

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