“History is not about the facts. It is about the context and who is telling the story.” —Prof. Milton Fine.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." –– George Orwell in his novel "1984."
ABOVE: The Ritter's home in Bavaria near the Austrian border in the early post-war years.
[1] Ritter letter to a Herr Kempter, Damm Verlag, München, of 18-11-1966 (courtesy Dr. Michael Ritter)
[2] Hagemann,P; Karl Ritter, Hausarbeit, Freie Universität Berlin,n.d; S.37
and Author’s correspondence with Dr.Michael Ritter, October, 2014.
[3] Ibid, S.37
[4] Letter of 29.4.1947, Oberaudorf, from Karl Ritter to Felix Lützkendorf, in The Gillespie Collection, Sydney.
[5] Ibid, S.37
[6] Ibid, S.37
[7] letter from Ritter to Kempter –see footnote #1.
[8] Hagemann, S.37
[9] letter from Ritter to Kempter – see footnote #1.
[10] ‘Der deutsche Film wird ausgelacht,’ Deutsche Wochen–Zeitung, Nr.33, 1970, S.13
[11] Hagemann, ibid; S.38
[12] letter from Ritter to Kempter – see footnote #1.
[13] The Argentine original film poster is in The Gillespie Collection, and shown in the Poster Gallery on this website.
[14]‘ Ufa-Regisseur will Südamerika erobern,’ Nürnberger Zeitung, 19 Feb. 1953.
[15] ‘Deutscher Film–Export,’ Haller Kreisblatt, 26.Feb. 1953
[16] Hagemann, ibid; S.39
[17] ‘Der Gast aus Argentinien,’Berliner Montags–Echo, 8 June 1953.
[18] Letter from Ritter to Scheuer, 26 August 1953
[19] Hagemann, ibid, S. 39–40
[20] Letter from Ritter to Haucke, Hotel Lämmle, Würzburg, 9 Nov.1953. Barch R109/I 1868
[21] Barch R109/ I 869.
[22] Hagemann, ibid, S. 40
[23] ‘Begegnung mit Carl Ritter,’ Die Tat, Zürich, 10 Jan. 1954
[24] Letter from Karl Ritter to Scheuer, 1 Feb. 1954, Deutsche Kinemathek.
[25] ibid, S.40
[26] ibid, S.40
[27] The logo of his new film production company from his letter dated 27 December 1955 to Felix Lützkendorf in The Gillespie Collection, Sydney.
[28] Hagemann, ibid, S. 41
[29] ibid, S.41
[30] Hamann, B, Winifred Wagner – A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth, Harcourt, Orlando, 2005, p.467.
[31] ‘Ich vermisse das Erlebnis,’ Lippische Landeszeitung, 25 Sept. 1968. Also see Gillepsie, William; The Making of The Crew of the Dora, GFDN, Potts Point, 2016.
[32] ‘Lautstarke Hurrah-Filme,’ Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf, 1 Jan. 1973
[33] Letter to Hagemann from Ritter, 18 Sept. 1974, Kinemathek
[34] Letters to Hagemann from Ritter, 2 Okt. 1974, 4 Feb.1973, 6 Jan.1975 respectively, Kinemathek
[35] Letters to Hagemann from Ritter, 26 Juli 1975 and 7 Jan. 1977 respectively, Kinemathek