- “‘Can You Prefigure Reality?’: A Conversation with Christoph Hochhäusler on His New Film, Bis ans Ende der Nacht (Till the End of the Night.” Senses of Cinema 106 (August 2023): 12,000 words.
- “West Germany Was Stolen from us: Dominik Graf on the Role of German Unification in His Films.” Senses of Cinema 104 (January 2023): 5,500 words.
- “Ästhetische Weigerung: Kein leicht konsumierbares Abbild eines ‘modernen’ Deutschlands.” Interview with me and Jaimey Fisher on the Berlin School.
Berliner Gazette, January 11, 2023: 3,700 words
- Conversation with German-language podcast CUTS-DER KRITISCHE PODCAST on the films of the Berlin School. “Was ist die Berliner Schule?” Episode #129 (November 24, 2022).
- Conversation with German film critic Rüdiger Suchsland on German cinema, past and present (including the Berlin School and the New Munich Group), for the LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International’s podcast, “Zukunft Deutscher Film,” episodes #10 and #11, released May 20, 2022:
- “Im Geburtsloop: Zur Realisierung und Intensivierung des neoliberalen Potenzials im ‘wilden Osten’.” Interview mit Marco Abel zu Filmen von Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäusler und Christian Petzold. Berliner Gazette, February 24, 2021: 3,300 words.
- Reprinted in Entkoppelte Gesellschaft—Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90
Vol. 6 (“Zeugnisse Teil II: Film”), ed. Yana Milev et al (Peter Lang International Publishers, 2023): page – page.
- Reprinted in Entkoppelte Gesellschaft—Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90
- “‘I Am No Moralist’: An Interview with Dominik Graf on the Role of German Unification in His Films.” Goethe Institute USA, “Wunderbar: A Celebration of German Film,” October 2, 2019: 2,500 words. No longer available.
- “Filmgespräch mit Dominik Graf zu Morlock: Die Verflechtung (1993),” moving history Film Festival, September 25, 2019.
- “Interview mit Klaus Lemke.” Translated and modified from “‘Being Smart Does Not Make good Films’.” Revolver 40 (June 2019): 88-119.
- To commemorate Klaus Lemke’s passing on July 7, 2022, REVOLVER published the uncut German-language version of the interview on its web site on July 9, 2022.
- “‘Being Smart Does Not Make Good Films’: An Interview with Klaus Lemke.” In Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968, edited by Christina Gerhard and Marco Abel (Rochester: Camden House, 2019): 292-312.
- “‘The Film is the Sweat’: An Interview with João Moreira Salles.” Senses of Cinema 89 (December 2018): 16,600 words
- “‘It’s a Battle of Stories’: Christoph Hochhäusler’s The City Below and The Lies of the Victors.” Introductory essay and interview. Cineaste 41.1 online (winter 2015): 13,800 words.
- “‘I Build a Jigsaw Puzzle of a Dream-Germany’: An Interview with German Filmmaker Dominik Graf.” Senses of Cinema 55 (July-September 2010): 22,500 words.
- A modified version is reprinted in translation as “‘Ich bedaure viele Dinge’: Interview mit Dominik Graf.” In Im Angesicht des Fernsehens: Der Filmemacher Dominik Graf, edited by Chris Wahl, Marco Abel, Michael Wedel, and Jesko Jockenhövel (Munich: text + kritik, 2012): 11-31.
- “‘There is no Authenticity in the Cinema’: An Interview with Andreas Dresen.” Senses of Cinema 50 (April-June 2009): 16,000 words ms.
- “‘The Cinema of Identification Gets on my Nerves’: An Interview with Christian Petzold.” Cineaste: America’s Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema online 33.3 (Summer 2008): 12,500 words.
- Reprinted in Portuguese as “O cinema de identificação me irrita: Entrevista com Christian Petzold,” Escola de Berlim (Rio de Janeiro: Jurubeba Produções, 2013): 56-83.
- Reprinted in Christian Petzold: Interviews, ed. Marco Abel, Aylin Bademsoy, Jaimey Fisher (University Press of Mississippi, 2023): 73-92.
- “Tender Speaking: An Interview with Christoph Hochhäusler.” Senses of Cinema 42 (January-March 2007): 11,000 words.
- This interview, expanded by an introductory essay, is my translation of the original interview I published in German as “Das Seltene und Kostbare. An Interview with German filmmaker Christoph Hochhäusler.” Filmtext.com (May 2006): 7,200 words, now defunct.
As part of various research projects, I have also conducted extensive interviews with Thomas Arslan, Werner Enke, May Spils, Roger Fritz, Jessica Hausner, Benjamin Heisenberg, Ulrich Köhler, Martin Müller, Rudolf Thome, and Max Zihlmann.
