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J O R G B U T T G E R E I T ' S N E K R O M A N T I K S : T H I N G S T O D O
I N G E R M A N Y W I T H T H E D E A D

Linnie Blake

We are separated from yesterday not by a yawning abyss, but by the same situation.
- Albert Camus

Everyone bears the guilt for everything, but if everyone knew that, we would have paradise
on Earth.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

NEW GERMAN HORRORS

Surprising as it may seem, these two epigraphs, from the opening and closing titles of Alexander Kluge s
1966 work of Young German Cinema, Yesterday Girl, provide an entirely apposite introduction to
this piece. This is the study of two more recent works of experimental, historically-grounded and
hence political German film - Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantik (1987) and Nekromantik II (1991). The

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