Department of Germanic Studies
University of Texas at Austin
E.P, Schoch 3.134
US
78712 Austin, Texas
hake@austin.utexas.edu
5122326379
Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture (2004-)
work-in-progress for a book manuscript on Berlin architecture, literature, and cinema during the stabilization period, titled: “Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin.” Approx. 400 ms. pp., to be completed by the end of 2006.
Professsor of German, University of Pittsburgh (1988-2004)
Film in Deutschland: Geschichte und Geschichten ab 1895. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2004. German National Cinema. London: Routledge, 2002. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. The Cinema's Third Machine: German Writings on Film 1907-1933. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton. N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
“Leaving the Bunker: On Downfall and the Historicization of the Nazi Past” forthcoming in English and German, 43 ms. pp.
Take Two: German Cinema of the Fifties. Co-edited with John Davidson. New York: Berghahn Press, 2007.
German film (all periods), Weimar culture, cultural theory, modernism and mass culture, 20thc. working-class culture