{"id":1011,"date":"2004-10-14T02:10:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:31:39","slug":"the-patriot-die-patriotin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/10\/14\/the-patriot-die-patriotin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Patriot (Die Patriotin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, October 14, 2004, 7:45pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History teacher Gabi Teichert is looking for something. She sets out, spade in hand and begins to dig. Deeper and deeper she digs, determined to uncover German history at last. She is fed up with simply feeding her pupils German events in chronological order, from crusades to Stalingrad, as directed by the curriculum. \u201cGerman history was so moving that it cannot be propagated in a positive sense,\u201d in her opinion. She feels compelled to improve the basic material available for history classes, such as by exerting a direct influence on the spot at a SPD party conference. She is a practical person, curious and incredulous, looking for concrete evidence and not afraid of dirtying her hands during her private archeological digs, carrying out alchemistic experiments in her \u201cwitches kitchen\u201d or using tools to attack fat volumes of history. <em>The Patriot<\/em> is the most perfect demonstration of master filmmaker Alexander Kluge\u2019s theories and a film that totally refuses to bow to narrative cinema\u2019s linearity and casualty, even refusing a stringent account of its contents. Instead, it presents different perspectives, attitudes, opinions and actions in order to encircle Kluge\u2019s central theme: the development of a new awareness of history. In German with English subtitles (Marli Feldvoss\/Daniel Eisenberg). 1979, Alexander Kluge, Germany, 121 min, 16mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 14, 2004, 7:45pm History teacher Gabi Teichert is looking for something. She sets out, spade in hand and begins to dig. Deeper and deeper she digs, determined to uncover German history at last. She is fed up with simply feeding her pupils German events in chronological order, from crusades to Stalingrad, as directed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/10\/14\/the-patriot-die-patriotin\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from The Patriot (Die Patriotin)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[206,211,423,476],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","tag-europe","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-political"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10132,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/10132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}