Change the world, it needs it
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Change the world, it needs it - encounters with Hanns Eisler |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Günter and Jutta Lippmann |
| script | Günter Lippmann, Günther Mayer |
| production | GDR television / DEFA studio for short films |
| music | Hanns Eisler |
| camera | Niko Pawloff, Peter Milinski, Karl-Heinz Brömsel |
| cut | Maja Ulbrich |
| occupation | |
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(In the interview :) Paul Dessau, Georg Knepler, Manfred Wekwerth u. a .; (Vocals :) Ernst Busch, Therese Giehse, Gisela May, Helene Weigel and others. a. | |
Change the world, it needs it (subtitle Encounters with Hanns Eisler ) is a documentary television film on GDR television from 1973. This television portrait depicts the life, work and political commitment of the Austro-German composer Hanns Eisler (1898– 1962) redrawn. The title of the film goes back to a song from Bertolt Brecht's didactic play The Measure , which Eisler set to music.
About the film
Hanns Eisler was hardly noticed during his lifetime or after his death in the Federal Republic of Germany (West). The Eisler renaissance noticeable in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, seemed to run the risk of over- accenting the Schönberg pupil Eisler, who had studied with Arnold Schönberg from 1919 to 1924, as a twelve-tone master, while in the GDR it was above all the politically committed musician was celebrated.
In 1973 the television of the GDR , where Eisler lived from 1949 until his death, produced this portrait of the great composer; it shows all facets of his active life and also makes it clear that Eisler's works, ideas and musical conceptions continued to exist, especially in the musical life of the GDR. Statements by cultural workers such as the composer Paul Dessau , the musicologist Georg Knepler and the Brecht student and theater director Manfred Wekwerth round off the Eisler film. Ernst Busch , Therese Giehse , Gisela May and - from the off - Helene Weigel , among others, sing in the portrait . Eisler texts from conversations with Hans Bunge and Nathan Notowicz are also recited on the audio track .
"Dealing with Eisler's life and work," said Bertolt Brecht in his preface to the edition of Eisler's songs and cantatas, means "moving into a great work that changes both the practitioner and the listener in a delightful way."
Transmission data
(First broadcasts)
- July 4, 1973: GDR television
- May 1, 1975: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (3rd TV program)
Remarks
Technical specifications
Format: 16 mm, b / w, 1: 1.37; Length: 87 ′ 30 ″, 960 meters
Synopsis
Film on the occasion of the 75th birthday (and the 10th anniversary of death) of the composer Hanns Eisler. Using the example of his career, the connection between music and politics in the Weimar Republic , Eisler's US exile and GDR society is illustrated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanns Eisler: Collected Works, Conversations with Hans Bunge, “Ask more about Brecht”, Series III Vol. 7, VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1975
- ↑ Nathan Notowicz: We're not talking about Napoleon here. We're talking about you !, Hanns Eisler and Gerhart Eisler, Conversations, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin, Ed .: Jürgen Elsner, Leipzig 1971
- ↑ Hanns Eisler: Songs and Cantatas, Ed .: Deutsche Akademie der Künste Berlin, Music Section, VEB Breitkopf & Härtel Musikverlag, Leipzig 1955/1966 (ten volumes)