Soon he’s tearing up YouTube and on every talk show. (The first thing he Googles is “world domination.”) To everyone’s shock, Hitler-who in his first appearance goes off script into a stirring excoriation of contemporary German television, which he characterizes as a Nietzschean “abyss”-is a huge hit. Meanwhile, Hitler is given his own office at the station and learns all about the internet. The film was a great artistic and commercial success, over 1 million viewers saw it in German-speaking cinemas.“Give me one-liners about Jews, gays, immigrants, concentration camps,” the showrunner instructs his horrified writing staff. David Wnendt's second film, FEUCHTGEBIETE, an adaptation of the Charlotte Roche bestseller, premiered in 2013 at the Locarno IFF. Wnendt received the German Film Award for Best Screenwriter, the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Director, and the First Steps Award. KRIEGERIN was awarded the German Film Award in Bronze and the Actor Award for Alina Levshin in 2012. The drama is about a right-wing girl from East Germany (Alina Levshin), who turns into a courageously sensitive humanist by acquaintance with a girl from a middle-class house (Jella Haase) and a youthful refugee from Afghanistan (Sayed Ahmad Wasil Mrowat). Wnendt was awarded with his graduation film, KRIEGERIN (2011) at the Filmhochschule.
In 2007 he realised the 60-minute feature film KLEINE LICHTER which was broadcast in 2008 by the German-French TV channel ARTE. Wnendt won a first prize at the International Short Film Festival in Berlin in 2006. During his studies, he directed the 17-minute short film CALIFORNIA DREAMS. There, he was educated until 2011 as a film and television director. After his master, Wnendt was admitted to the Konrad Wolf College of Film and Television in Potsdam. After completing his first short film as an 18-year-old, he studied for a year at the prestigious Prague Film School FAMU. Thesescenes are recorded documentary, to show the reality beside the fiction.īorn in 1977 in Gelsenkirchen (Germany), David Wnendt studied Business Administration and Journalism at Freie Universität Berlin. This is why the protagonist interacts with normal people. LOOK WHO'S BACK puts the finger on this wound. Er ist wieder da both in book form and as movie would be. Hitler’s crude theories, his world view and the simple answers he would give could meet with many people's approval. It even makes the Hitler greeting legal, provided that it takes place within an art installation. Not in the fictional world of the book, but in reality. Racial hatred, anti-Semitism, democracy sullenness are on the rise. Hitler becomes a catalyst who lets us learn something about ourselves. Would it be possible for Hitler to rise nowadays again? LOOK WHO'S BACK shows us our reflection in the mirror. For me, the book is not about Hitler’s psychograph, but about society, about contemporary Germany and about us. Sometimes you don’t know if you should laugh or cry. The question, of whether it is allowed to laugh at Hitler, has been answered with “yes” since Chaplin’s THE GREAT DICTATOR. There are moments when we laugh at him and some in which we laugh with him. As readers we catch ourselves agreeing with him in many ways. He is enthusiastic about Wikipedia and complains about the lousy evening program on TV. He finds good Turks, likes the Green Party, and cannot relate to the far-right party NPD. Moreover, he is depicted not as a caricature or a buffoon, but authentic and at the same time different from what we expect. The book is a tightrope walk, because the main figure is Adolf Hitler.