Table of Contents Acknowledgments v Preface 1 1. Optical Lyric and Shadow Plays: The Early History of German Animation 3 2. The March of the Cigarettes 5 3. Tilo Voss and the Development of German Sound Cartoons 9 4. How Walt Disney Became Walter Distler: Snow White for Greater Germany 12 5. Global Power for German TrickFilm 26 6. Puppet Films: Starevich, Mecki the Hedgehog, the Diehl Brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German "Pal" 28 7. An Animation Pioneer with a ­Non-­Aryan Background: Wolfgang Kaskeline 42 8.

The Phenomenology and Psychology of Cartoons 50 9. Hans Held, Troublemaker 52 10. Kurt Stordel and Purzel: A ­Self-­Proclaimed German Walt Disney and His Dwarf 58 Between pages 64 and 65 are 8 color plates containing 15 photographs. 11. Towards a German Disney Empire 65 12. The Futile Dream of a German Cartoon Factory: Rise and Fall of Deutsche ZeichenFilm G.m.b.

H. 74 13. Snow Man and ­Weather-­Beaten Melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff 110 14. A Surprising Underwater Cartoon from Prague: Wedding at Coral Sea 122 15. Deutsche Wochenshau and the "Collaborators" of the Europäischer ZeichenFilm Ring 126 16. Bavaria, Munchausen and the Town Musicians of Bremen 136 17. Animated Maps to Hail German Victories: Svend Noldan 144 18. ClassiFied Animation: Training the Military 146 19.

The Aftermath: The Postwar Era of German Animation 149 20. The Filmmakers: Biographies 151 21. Select Filmography 173 Chapter Notes 215 Bibliography 219 Index 221.