JULIAN PÖLSLERS Verfilmung von MARLEN HAUSHOFERS Roman Die Wand als unabgeschlossener Wandlungsprozess
JULIAN PÖLSLER’S Film Adaptation of MARLEN HAUSHOFER’S Die Wand as an Unfinished Process of Transformation

Summary/Abstract: In 2012 the Austrian screenwriter and film director JULIAN ROMAN PÖLSLER adapted his “life book”, MARLEN HAUSHOFERʼS novel The Wall, first published in 1963, for the screen. Because PÖLSLER wanted to stay faithful to the novel, he decided to use Voice-over, which was strongly criticized. As a result the film was attacked for being merely “a well-illustrated audiobook”. Reviewers claimed the production was devoid of originality. In contrast, the article tries to point to the personal input of the film director in the interpretation of the source text, through a comparison between film and novel; and also analyses the function of differences between film and literary versions in terms of the film’s structure.

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