Eva Braun on screen : hunters and beyond
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This thesis investigates the depiction of Eva Braun in the US-American streaming series Hunters (2020) released by Amazon Prime. Braun, whose status as Adolf Hitler's unacknowledged wife was revealed after their joint suicide in April 1945, has been the subject of multiple literary and pop cultural works. After examining the genesis and development of several myths and narratives about Eva Braun, from accounts of members of Hitler's inner circle to post-war newspaper articles from the United States to biographies written about her, this work then turns to three turn-of-the-century on-screen depictions: the Russian film Moloch (1999), the Canadian miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003), and the German film Der Untergang (2004). The last chapter is devoted to Hunters and argues that the series responds to many of the aforementioned popular fantasies, breaking with the idea of Braun as a native bystander without agency and opposing narratives that are founded upon a lack of female involvement and participation in the Holocaust.
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M.A.