Die Rolle der Medien in den frühen Filmen von Wim Wenders

Die Rolle der Medien in den frühen Filmen von Wim Wenders

In the early works (until 1990) of Wim Wenders the media theme is preeminent. Most of the main heroes in these films are dealing professionally with medias. But sometime the media itself has a role in his films. This can be books, music or photos. But very often Wenders is citing examples from the history of movies, making this history a theme of his movies. Furthermore he likes to combinate medias in an experimentally way, especially pictures and language, to show how different medias preform different perception of people and society. Working with media materials in this way Wenders films are an internal discussion of usual narration which puts medial representation and reality in one