WHITE ROSE IN THE MEDIA

This article is taken from the wiki site as well and much can be gleaned from it as to what use the media made of the White Rose.

• TV Competition ZDF TV "the 10 greatest Germans of all time"







• Die Letzten Tage the last days of Sophie Scholl-it drew on interviews with survivors and transcripts hidden in East German archives until 90.







• Das Versprechen (The promise) a film not well known outside Germany







• The Last 5 days 1982







• Feb 2006 book Sophie Scholl and The White Rose







• 2/2009 bio published by the History Press [Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman Who Defied Hitler] by Frank McDonough







• The Final Days Ch 4 UK National Television







• The Rose of Treason, a play







• The UK-based genocide prevention student network Aegis Students uses a white rose as their symbol in commemoration of the White Rose movement. (QUOTE)

In the media
In an extended German national TV competition held in the
autumn of 2003 to choose "the ten greatest Germans of all time" (ZDF TV),
Germans under the age of 40 placed Hans and Sophie Scholl in fourth place,
selecting them over Bach, Goethe, Gutenberg, Willy
Brandt, Bismarck, and Albert Einstein. Not
long before, women readers of the mass-circulation magazine "Brigitte" had voted
Sophie Scholl as "the greatest woman of the twentieth century".
In February
2005, a movie about
Sophie Scholl's last days, Sophie
Scholl – Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days), featuring actress Julia
Jentsch as Sophie, was released. Drawing on interviews with survivors and
transcripts that had remained hidden in East German archives until 1990, it was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film in January 2006. An English language film, The
White Rose (film), was in development for a time in 2005/06, to be directed
by Anjelica Huston and
starring Christina Ricci as Sophie
Scholl.
Prior to the Oscar-nominated film, there had been three earlier
film accounts of the White Rose resistance. The first is a film financed by the
Bavarian state government entitled Das Versprechen (The
Promise) and released in the 1970s. The film is not well known outside Germany, and to
some extent even within the country. It was particularly notable in that unlike
most films, it showed the White Rose from its inception and how it progressed.
In 1982, Percy Adlon's Fünf
letzte Tage (The Last Five Days) presented Lena Stolze as Sophie in her
last days from the point of view of her cellmate Else
Gebel. In the same year, Stolze repeated the role in Michael Verhoeven's Die Weiße
Rose (The White Rose).
A book, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, was
published in English in February 2006. An account by Annette Dumbach and Dr. Jud
Newborn tells the story behind the film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days,
focusing on the White Rose movement while setting the group's resistance in the
broader context of German culture and politics and other forms of resistance
during the Nazi era.
In February 2009, a biography of Sophie Scholl, [Sophie
Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman Who Defied Hitler] was published in English
by the History Press. The book by the British historian Frank McDonough,
includes material related to Hans Scholl and featured in the national press in
the UK and rose up the best seller lists. This renewed interest in Hans and
Sophie Scholl led to the first ever showing on UK national television of Sophie
Scholl: The Final Days on Channel 4 in March 2009.
Lillian
Garrett-Groag's play, The White Rose,
premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in
1991.
In Fatherland, an alternate
history novel by Robert Harris,
there is passing reference to the White Rose's still remaining active in
supposedly Nazi-ruled Germany in 1964.
In 2003, a group of students at the University of Texas
in Austin, Texas established The White Rose Society dedicated to Holocaust
remembrance and genocide awareness. Every April, the White Rose Society hands
out 10,000 white roses on campus, representing the approximate number of people
killed in a single day at Auschwitz. The date corresponds with Yom Hashoah, Holocaust
Memorial Day. The group organizes performances of The Rose of Treason, a play
about the White Rose, and has rights to show the movie Sophie
Scholl – Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days). The White Rose
Society is affiliated with Hillel and the Anti-Defamation
League.
In October 2007, the The
Los Angeles National Impeachment Center used the label Operation White Rose in their effort to impeach United States
President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. The White Rose Coalition claims that
constitutional rights in the United States have been abrogated in the aftermath
of the terrorist strikes
of September 11, 2001. The group has since abandoned their website and
cause.
The UK-based genocide prevention student network Aegis
Students uses a white rose as their symbol in commemoration of the White
Rose movement.