Introductions

In the spring of 2006 every other Friday Ivan Mansley wrote an introduction to each episode to the Heimat123-mailinglist to evoke discussion and to enrichen the viewing experience of our collective, worldwide viewing Heimat 3, like we did earlier with Die Heimat and Die Zweite Heimat.

The English discussion of Heimat 3 took place in 2006 from January 20 until April 28, under the assumption everyone had access to either the Artificial Eye DVD release or recordings of the BBC 4 broadcast. For the exact dates check the schedule and you can still subscribe to the heimat123-mailinglist.

You can read the introductions for Heimat, die Zweite Heimat and Heimat 3 below or you can download the entire discussions as formatted, printable PDF-files. You can choose to download each single episode/chapter or the whole book, 129 pages in A4 format for Heimat (504Kb) or the whole book, 166 pages in A4 format for Die Zweite Heimat (500Kb) or the whole book, 310 pages in A4 format for Heimat 3 (1.1Mb). If the downloading of the PDF-files gives errors, you might want to try clicking on the link with the mouse button pressed in order to have a menu pop-up that says something like 'download to disk' or 'save to disk'.

Angela Skrimshire wrote her own reflection after the discussions we had about Reitz' trilogy in a 2009 publication. In 2012 she revised this and you can download it both here as 'Heimat' of Memory, Imagination and Choice: An appreciation of Edgar Reitz' Heimat films, and on Thomas Hönemann's mostly German website about Reitz' work heimat123.de. Citing the previous version would have the location heimat123.net/Appreciation_of_Heimat_16Jan2009.pdf and heimat123.net as a publisher, but you can also use heimat123.de as source. Both locations are mirroring each other. The 2012 version on heimat123.net has Appreciation_of_Heimat_2012.pdf as filename.

Heimat 3 was first discussed in German, also resulting in a book. You can download it from Thomas' website as a PDF-file.

The Heim@t-book is also given to Edgar Reitz as a present at the occassion of the premiere of Heimat 3 with pictures of the contributors on the second page. You can download that copy also, but it is significantly bigger (13,8Mb).


Ivan Mansley is not in these pictures. From left to right: Thomas Hönemann, Edgar Reitz, ReindeR Rustema and Raymond Scholtz.

Die Heimat

• Die Heimat, #1, Fernweh (1919-1928), 119 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #2, Die Mitte der Welt (1928-1933), 90 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #3, Weihnacht wie noch nie (1935) 58 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #4, Reichshöhenstrasse (1938), 58 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #5, Auf und davon und züruck (1938-1939), 58 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #6, Heimatfront (1943), 58 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #7, Die Liebe der Soldaten (1944), 58 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #8, Der Amerikaner (1945-1947), 102 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #9, Hermännchen (1955-56), 138 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #10, Die Stolzen Jahre (1967-1969), 82 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Heimat #11, Das Fest der Lebenden und der Toten (1982), 100 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)

Die Zweite Heimat

• Die Zweite Heimat #1, die Zeit der Ersten Lieder (1960), 121 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #2, Zwei Fremde Augen (1960/61), 116 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #3, Eifersucht und Stolz (1961), 117 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #4, Ansgars Tod (1961/62), 110 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #5, des Spiel mit der Freitheit (1962), 120 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #6, Kennedys Kinder (1963), 110 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #7, Weihnachtswölfe (1963), 111 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #8, die Hochzeit (1964), 120 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf). There is also an introduction in Dutch to episode 8, written by Gert Jan Jansen for the Dutch mailinglist heimat123-nl
• Die Zweite Heimat #9, die Ewige Tochter (1965), 119 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf). There is also an introduction in Dutch to episode 9, written by Gert Jan Jansen for the Dutch mailinglist heimat123-nl (also as pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #10, das Ende der Zukunft (1966), 132 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #11, Zeit des Schweigens (1967/68), 118 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #12, die Zeit der Vielen Wörte (1968/1969), 120 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)
• Die Zweite Heimat #13, Kunst oder Leben (1970), 138 minutes, introduction and discussion (pdf)

Heimat 3

The discussion of Heimat 3 took place in 2006 according to this schedule. Angela Skrimshire compiled the entire discussion in this PDF-file for easy viewing in printed format.

Such a discussion had already taken place in German, also available as a downloadable PDF-file (121 pages, 1.17Mb) on the German-mailinglist from Thomas' Heimat pages. And when you are a member (free!) you can also read the archives of the heimat123-de mailinglist. Or the English heimat123 and the Dutch heimat123-nl mailinglists if you want.

For the Dutch amongst us, Gert Jan Jansen wrote introductions to Heimat 3 and a summary of comments and reviews already out there at the time, like the discussion in German. This is available for download by episode or as a downloadable PDF-file (49 pages, 0,6Mb). He also made a timeline to track the events in episode 1 day by day.

• Heimat 3, voorwoord en verantwoording and as a PDF
• Heimat 3, #1 Het gelukkigste volk ter wereld (1989) and as a PDF
• Heimat 3, #2 De wereldkampioenen (8 juni Ð 8 juli 1990) and as a PDF
• Heimat 3, #3 De Russen komen (1992-1993) and as a PDF
• Heimat 3, #4 Het gaat iedereen goed (1995) and as a PDF
• Heimat 3, #5 De erfgenamen (1997) and as a PDF
• Heimat 3, #6 Afscheid van Schabbach (1999-2000) and as a PDF