Office
5415 Dwinelle Hall
Research Interests
Film theory, German cinema
Professor Kaes teaches courses in modern German literature, literary and cultural theory, and cinema. In Berkeley since 1981, he was Director of the Film Studies Program (now the Department of Film & Media) from 1991-98 and Chair of the German Department from 2001-2006. He received a Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities at Berkeley. His research concentrates on interdisciplinary and comparative aspects of Weimar culture and contemporary literature and film; literary theory and theory of cultural studies; exile, migration and multiculturalism; film history and film theory.
Publications
1. Expressionismus in Amerika. Rezeption und Innovation. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1975. 162pp.
2. Literatur für viele. Studien zur Trivialliteratur und literarischen Massenkommunikation. Co-edited with Bernhard Zimmermann. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975. 203pp.
3.Kino-Debatte. Texte zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Film 1909-1929. Edited with introduction and bibliography. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1978; Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, 1978. 200pp.
4. Probleme der Moderne. Studien zur deutschen Literatur von Nietzsche bis Brecht. Festschrift für Walter H. Sokel. Co-edited with Benjamin Bennett and William J. Lillyman. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1983. 498pp.
5. Weimarer Republik. Texte und Dokumente zur Deutschen Literatur 1918-1933. Edited with introduction, notes, and commentaries. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 1983. (2nd edition, 1994). 762pp.
5. Deutschlandbilder. Die Wiederkehr der Geschichte als Film. Munich: Edition Text + Kritik, 1987. 264pp.
6. From ‘Hitler’ to ‘Heimat’: The Return of History as Film. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. (Paperback edition, 1992). 273pp.
7. Geschichte des deutschen Films. Co-edited with Wolfgang Jacobsen and Hans Helmut Prinzler. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1993.. (2nd edition, 2005). 596pp.
8. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Co-edited with Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg. Berkeley/Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1994. (Paperback edition, 1995). 806pp.
10. M. London: British Film Institute, 2000. (2nd edition 2001). 88pp.
11. A New History of German Literature. Co-edited with David Wellbery, Judith Ryan, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Joseph Leo Koerner, Dorothea von Mücke. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 1004pp.
12. Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005. Co-edited with Deniz Göktürk and David Gramling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 614pp.
13. Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009.