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TWA: The Friend from America

In the fall of 1964, during the international film week in Mannheim, film enthusiasts from Frankfurt succeeded in meeting Fritz Lang for an intensive discussion about his film Der Müde Tod (released in the U.S. as Between Two Worlds), which had appeared in 1923, and which had been screened again around 1960 at the center of cineastic culture in Frankfurt, the film studio of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University. To this meeting with young people, Lang brought-as he put it—his "friend from America," Theodor W. Adorno. Hartmut and Herbert Birett reconstructed this meeting from their memories almost twenty years later.² The focal...