Gollance, Sonia;
(2023)
Dancing at the Hotel Adlon: Queer, Black, and Jewish Characters in Contemporary German Television.
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Abstract
This article discusses Das Adlon: Eine Familiensaga (Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga), a 2013 German miniseries about one of the most exclusive addresses in Germany’s capital. This miniseries about the quintessentially upper-class German location chooses to portray minority characters whose story arcs are developed through dance scenes that reveal the complexity of representing queer, Black, and Jewish characters in a miniseries designed for mass consumption. In this way, the miniseries and its dance scenes raise important questions about who belongs in Germany. I contend that the dance floor is an arena through which the miniseries Hotel Adlon and its characters negotiate changing notions of what it means to be German.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dancing at the Hotel Adlon: Queer, Black, and Jewish Characters in Contemporary German Television |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/leobaeck/ybac022 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybac022 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) (2023). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Leo Baeck Institute. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166051 |
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