Rolf Giesen, a former visiting professor of animation at the Communication University of China and president of an animation museum in Changchun, China, has compiled a special effects collection for Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and has co-written several animation features. He is an expert on early fantasy and science fiction films.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface 1. Optical Lyric and Shadow Plays: The Early History of German Animation2. The March of the Cigarettes3. Tilo Voss and the Development of German Sound Cartoons4. How Walt Disney Became Walter Distler: Snow White for Greater Germany 5. Global Power for German Trickfilm6. Puppet Films: Starevich, Mecki the Hedgehog, the Diehl Brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German “Pal”7. An Animation Pioneer with a ­Non-­Aryan Background: Wolfgang Kaskeline 8. The Phenomenology and Psychology of Cartoons9. Hans Held, Troublemaker10. Kurt Stordel and Purzel: A ­Self-­Proclaimed German Walt Disney and His Dwarf Between pages 64 and 65 are 8 color plates containing 15 photographs.11. Towards a German Disney Empire12. The Futile Dream of a German Cartoon Factory: Rise and Fall of Deutsche Zeichenfilm G.m.b.H.13. Snow Man and ­Weather-­Beaten Melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff14. A Surprising Underwater Cartoon from Prague: Wedding at Coral Sea 15. Deutsche Wochenshau and the “Collaborators” of the Europäischer Zeichenfilm Ring 16. Bavaria, Munchausen and the Town Musicians of Bremen17. Animated Maps to Hail German Victories: Svend Noldan18. Classified Animation: Training the Military19. The Aftermath: The Postwar Era of German Animation20. The Filmmakers: Biographies21. Select Filmography Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

Rolf Giesen, a former visiting professor of animation at the Communication University of China and president of an animation museum in Changchun, China, has compiled a special effects collection for Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and has co-written several animation features. He is an expert on early fantasy and science fiction films.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface 1. Optical Lyric and Shadow Plays: The Early History of German Animation2. The March of the Cigarettes3. Tilo Voss and the Development of German Sound Cartoons4. How Walt Disney Became Walter Distler: Snow White for Greater Germany 5. Global Power for German Trickfilm6. Puppet Films: Starevich, Mecki the Hedgehog, the Diehl Brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German “Pal”7. An Animation Pioneer with a ­Non-­Aryan Background: Wolfgang Kaskeline 8. The Phenomenology and Psychology of Cartoons9. Hans Held, Troublemaker10. Kurt Stordel and Purzel: A ­Self-­Proclaimed German Walt Disney and His Dwarf Between pages 64 and 65 are 8 color plates containing 15 photographs.11. Towards a German Disney Empire12. The Futile Dream of a German Cartoon Factory: Rise and Fall of Deutsche Zeichenfilm G.m.b.H.13. Snow Man and ­Weather-­Beaten Melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff14. A Surprising Underwater Cartoon from Prague: Wedding at Coral Sea 15. Deutsche Wochenshau and the “Collaborators” of the Europäischer Zeichenfilm Ring 16. Bavaria, Munchausen and the Town Musicians of Bremen17. Animated Maps to Hail German Victories: Svend Noldan18. Classified Animation: Training the Military19. The Aftermath: The Postwar Era of German Animation20. The Filmmakers: Biographies21. Select Filmography Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

Rolf Giesen, a former visiting professor of animation at the Communication University of China and president of an animation museum in Changchun, China, has compiled a special effects collection for Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and has co-written several animation features. He is an expert on early fantasy and science fiction films.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface 1. Optical Lyric and Shadow Plays: The Early History of German Animation2. The March of the Cigarettes3. Tilo Voss and the Development of German Sound Cartoons4. How Walt Disney Became Walter Distler: Snow White for Greater Germany 5. Global Power for German Trickfilm6. Puppet Films: Starevich, Mecki the Hedgehog, the Diehl Brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German “Pal”7. An Animation Pioneer with a ­Non-­Aryan Background: Wolfgang Kaskeline 8. The Phenomenology and Psychology of Cartoons9. Hans Held, Troublemaker10. Kurt Stordel and Purzel: A ­Self-­Proclaimed German Walt Disney and His Dwarf Between pages 64 and 65 are 8 color plates containing 15 photographs.11. Towards a German Disney Empire12. The Futile Dream of a German Cartoon Factory: Rise and Fall of Deutsche Zeichenfilm G.m.b.H.13. Snow Man and ­Weather-­Beaten Melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff14. A Surprising Underwater Cartoon from Prague: Wedding at Coral Sea 15. Deutsche Wochenshau and the “Collaborators” of the Europäischer Zeichenfilm Ring 16. Bavaria, Munchausen and the Town Musicians of Bremen17. Animated Maps to Hail German Victories: Svend Noldan18. Classified Animation: Training the Military19. The Aftermath: The Postwar Era of German Animation20. The Filmmakers: Biographies21. Select Filmography Chapter Notes Bibliography Index