Deutshchland 83 - Language

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Deutschland 83 / Language

Context:
  • Fictional Drama - Based on Real Historic Events
  • What was happening in Germany / Berlin in 1983
  • Narrative made up
  • Produced by The Sundance Channel + UFA Fiction
  • American Company
  • Created by Anna and Joreg Winger
  • Anna Winger - Showrunner
  • Anna Winger is American born, she wrote the show in English before having it translated.
  • Her husband is german, they created the series together
  • Importance of America in the creation of Deutschland 83, it's kind of as American as it is german.
  • Premiered in 2015
  • Show on Channel 4 in the UK.
  • Channel 4 - Early 1980s, same time as Deutschland is set, we get Channel 4.
  • Channel 4 is a PSB (Public Service Broadcaster)
  • Not in the same way as the BBC, but they do have PSB criteria they have to follow
Set the exact same time as Stranger Things. Different representations of the time, USA was western had very capitalist ideas and Deutschland 83 depicts Berlin in 1983, which was split in half by a wall (Berlin Wall) between communism and capitalism.

One is about historical reality, the other is about an imagined fiction. The key difference between these two.

Cold War:
  • Indirect warfare, proxy warfare, nothing really happened.
  • Not the sort of 'hot' war where people would kill each other with tanks and guns.
  • There was still violence, but it was a war about tension.
  • Two different areas of the world: West + East
  • Two different ideologies: Capitalism + Communism
  • Nuclear Warfare, USA + Russia had nuclear weapons and both were saying they intended to use them if they needed to.
  • Germany + Berlin are the pinpoints of all these clashes of ideologies
  • 1983 - the flashpoint of when we came as close as ever of a nuclear war.
Media Language:
  • Differences in terms of mise-en-scene
  • Conservative way of dressing
  • There are some differences but cinematography and editing, they're made in similar ways. 
  • Use the conventional language of long-form tv drama; establishing shots, close-ups etc.
  • They don't look very different. 
  • Stranger Things probably cost more money to make; post-production effects in Stranger Things don't really exist 
  • The money would've probably gone to the setting of trying to get it more authentic of 1983, shooting in Berlin but making it look like it did 37 years go.

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