2. History
• WW1 – (1914 – 1918)
• Outbreak of Spanish Influenza – 1918
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• The Golem (1920)
• Freud (1856 – 1939)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• The Women’s
movement (1920’s)
3. German Expressionism
• Anger a bitterness, death and suffering
• Shapes, angels, distortion and shadow
• Fairytales, the Grimm brothers
• Aspires to be an art form – not just
entertainment
• Comes from expressionist theater, literature
and paintings
4. Features of German Expressionism
• The outsider/Insider
• Double/Split personalities
• Lack of continuity
• Anxiety
• Insanity
5. Nosferatu and the Great War
• Murnau (Director) and Albin Grau
(co-scriptwriter), soldiers of the war
• Buried Soldiers
• The young being sent to die
• The returning soldiers
• Uncertainty of the future of Germany
6. Nosferatu and the Spanish Influenza
• 1917 – 1919
• 50 million dead
• 3 outbreaks in Germany
• The Rat and the spread of
disease
