page_title: Hermann Häfker
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Hermann Häfker / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Book cover by Friedrich Kurt Fiedler, author Hermann Häfker, editor Dürerbund Deutsch: Der Jugend gewidmet vom Dürerbund: H. Häfker, Das Sternbilder-Buch, Ein Buch von Himmel und Weltanschauung, Verlag von Georg D.W.Callwey, München, 191 Seiten, sechs farbige Steindrucke, zwei Sternkarten und vier Zeichnungen von Kurt Fiedler
context_page_description: Hermann Wilhelm Häfker was an important film theoretician as well as an acknowledged Esperantist and writer.
  Häfker published essential contributions to film theory. Like Sergei Eisenstein he saw film as a comprehensive artwork. Häfker is considered the most important representative of the film reform movement in Germany. He recognized early the cultural potential of cinema, but also the dangers of "low taste" resulting from commercial film production. His work can be seen as part of the aesthetic movement initiated by Deutscher Werkbund and Dürerbund.
  During his years in Dresden he was closely connected to Ferdinand Avenarius and his Dürerbund. He wrote popular books on history, sexual education and science. His presumably most successful book, Das Sternbilder-Buch, contributed to educating the youth to love of stars and astronomy. Häfker created it in collaboration with graphic designer Kurt Fiedler for the Dürerbund. Häfker's Weltgeschichte in einem Band was banned by the Nazis.
  Because of his resistance against Nazi culture policy, they imposed Berufsverbot on Häfker.
context_section_description: Kino und Kunst. Mönchengladbach: Volksvereins-Verlag 1913
  Kino und Erdkunde. Mönchengladbach: Volksvereins-Verlag 1914
  Die Aufgaben der Kinematographie in diesem Kriege. Munich: Callwey Verlag 1914
  Der Kino und die Gebildeten. Mönchengladbach: Volksvereins-Verlag 1915
  Gilgamesch. Eine Dichtung aus Babylon. in German by Hermann Häfker. Munich: Callwey 1924 (in the Open Library)
  Das Sternbilder-Buch. Ein Buch von Himmel und Weltanschauung. Munich: Callwey 1926
  Weltgeschichte in einem Band. Dresden: Kaden 1928
  Jarmiloj pasas. Universala historio. Verkita originale en Esperanto. Cologne: Heroldo de Esperanto 1930/31
caption: Das Sternbilder-Buch, edited by the Dürerbund and designed by Kurt Fiedler
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