unperson

Non-person is the term used for an undesired person or someone who is considered bad or has been declared a person. This could mean that the person is being ignored by the media. Ignoring can also be ordered by government agencies. Thus (not only in dictatorships) people can be banned from speaking or publishing, or they are no longer mentioned in public statements or removed from earlier publications.

"Unperson" also has a similar meaning as a novel in Newspeak from 1984 for people to whom any memory has been deleted. It is pretended that the person never existed.

Non-characters in the film

The Kiel Lexicon of Film Terms defines the concept of the non-person as "a minor character whose death indicates the state of the narrated world, the size and proximity of danger or the approaching end." According to Andrew Sarris , non-persons have no particular sympathy.

See also

• Damnatio memoriae
• persona non grata

Web links

• Unperson in the film lexicon of the University of Kiel

Wiktionary: Unperson  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden, Die deutsche Rechtschreibung, 22nd edition 2000, p. 1007.
2. ↑ See forfeiture of fundamental rights , Art. 18 GG.
3. ↑ Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 19th ed. 1994, Vol. 22, p. 658.
4. ↑ http://filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de/index.php?action=lexikon&tag=det&id=1909