Deutschland 83: case study blog tasks
Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on Deutschland 83: The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of Deutschland 83 in the reviews. One postie aspect of Deutschland 83 reviews is that Deutschland 83’s first episode of eight was the most-watched foreign-language drama in UK history. One negative review of Deutschland 83 is it doesn’t just make the viewer empathise with a Stasi agent on a human level – in the way The Lives of Others did – it makes us engage with the socialist regime’s worldview, in which a military exercise in West Germany poses a potentially existential threat. Yet as if to make up for such a radical premise, it then backtracks into stereotype. Stasi officers are cruel ideologues who blackmail family members and fake reports for political ends. 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest th...