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It appears that Hanna has been a concentration camp guard.
#THE READER BY BERNHARD SCHLINK ESSAYS TRIAL#
Their summer love affair comes to a sudden end, but seven years later they meet again: Hanna as the accused in a Holocaust crime trial and Michael as a law student. While the two are dating, Michael reads aloud to Hanna, who rewards him with her love. Michael is a schoolboy with an upper middle-class family background. West Germany in the late fifties: Hanna Schmitz, a tram conductor, and 15-year-old Michael Berg become lovers. Might the film function as a commentary on the book, by shedding new light on Schlink’s juxtaposition of trial by love and trial by a court of law? Is it not true that the female perpetrator is presented from an Orientalist perspective? Does the main character, the reader, in fact suffer from a German post-war depression and sexual neurosis? The film may ultimately reveal the revisionist notion contained within Schlink’s novel. In particular, the assemblage of famous Hollywood stars - all of whom, by their presence, refer to other well-known films (Kate Winslet was in the Titanic, Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient, Bruno Ganz in Der Untergang) - makes the film differ from the novel in a striking, even provocative, manner. While Daldry’s previous film The Hours (2002) - about Virginia Woolf - did not carry the earmarks of a typical Hollywood movie, his most recent production The Reader, which was shown at the Berlinale 2009, alludes back to the Hollywood canon and to the particular segment of popular culture that deals with Germany and the Holocaust. The book is considered a didactic example of how conformist thinking on moral issues can be avoided: a perpetrator’s background story may turn out to be complex and even tragic, while, unexpectedly, a victim may turn out to be, in some sense, blameworthy.īut this emphasis on similarities between Holocaust victims and perpetrators comes with an ethical risk, if emotions take over - the overwhelmed audience is supposed to be gradually prepared for the perpetrator’s redemption. Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader ( Der Vorleser 1995 in Swedish, Högläsaren 1997) is an international bestseller and is often included in the curriculum of German public schools.
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