The Lost Honor of Katariina Bloom

Japanese: 《カタリーナ・ブルームの失われた名誉》 - かたりーなぶるーむのうしなわれためいよ
The Lost Honor of Katariina Bloom

...Following this, he produced a succession of masterpieces, including "Slam Dunk at Nine-Thirty" (1959), which showed an experimental willingness in the composition of the work, as he sought to find the moral foundation of postwar German citizens' lives in self-criticism of their actions before and during the war, "The Clown's Opinion" (1963), which strongly criticized the lifestyle of Catholics, and "Portrait with a Woman" (1971), which features a woman whose lover was a Russian prisoner of war. When a part of the anti-establishment movement became radicalized and gave rise to terrorism, he challenged popular newspapers that were using this to incite anti-communist sentiment among citizens, and the long and difficult struggle he experienced in this resulted in "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1974), a work criticizing the modern mass media. [Atsuo Fujimoto]...

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…その後も,戦後のドイツ市民の生き方の道義的基盤を,その戦前戦中の行動への自己批判に求めようとする姿勢から,作品構成にも実験的意欲を見せた《九時半の玉突き》(1959),カトリック信徒の生態への批判が強い《道化の意見》(1963),戦時のロシア人俘虜を恋人にもった女性を主人公とする《婦人のいる群像》(1971)などの大作がつぎつぎに生まれる。反体制運動の一部が過激化してテロリズムを生んだとき,これを利用して市民の反共意識をあおり立てようとした通俗大衆紙に論戦を挑み,そのために経験した長期にわたる苦しい闘いからは《カタリーナ・ブルームの失われた名誉》(1974)という現代マス・メディア批判の作品が生まれた。【藤本 淳雄】。…

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