Above the roofs of Berlin

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Above the roofs of Berlin is the title of a march in six-eight time that Allan Gray wrote for the sound film Berlin - Alexanderplatz . The illustration music also comes from him. Directed the film adaptation of the 1929 published big-city novel by Alfred Doblin for Allianz-talkies GmbH producer Arnold Pressburger led Piel Jutzi . His film, for which Hans Wilhelm wrote the script together with Döblin, premiered on October 8, 1931 in Berlin.

Artur Guttmann conducted the orchestra during the filming . The march at the beginning of the film, the lyrics of which were written by the writer Erik Ernst, musically translates the confusion of the protagonist Franz Biberkopf on his journey through Berlin.

The Marek Weber Orchestra played the march in 1931 in an arrangement by Walter Borchert on a gramophone record.

song lyrics

The
stars shine above the roofs of Berlin .
A
distance beckons above the roofs of Berlin .
There must be a bit of heaven over Berlin too,
over Berlin, yes over Berlin!
Just don't stay downstairs when it's too stuffy in the mess.
Strive upwards, man, the here shines above, the
shine of existence, a silver happiness,
over the gray roofs of Berlin,
of Berlin, yes of Berlin!

Sound document

Electrola EG 2413 (60-1754) Above the roofs of Berlin. Six-Eight from the Allianz sound film “Berlin - Alexanderplatz” (Allan Gray, arr. Walter Borchert - text by Erik Ernst and K. Schwabach) [sic] Marek Weber and his orchestra. The unnamed chorus singer is Max Mensing .

literature

  • Helga Belach, Hans M Bock (Ed.): Berlin Alexanderplatz. Screenplay by Alfred Döblin and Hans Wilhelm for Phil Jutzi's film from 1931. Ed. Text + kritik, 1995, ISBN 3-88377-510-X .
  • Thomas Gayda: Allan Gray . In: LexM. Hamburg (2010, updated April 22, 2013)
  • Markus Grassl, Reinhard Kapp (eds.): The teaching of musical performance in the Vienna School: Negotiations of the international Colloquium Vienna 1995 (= Viennese publications on music history. Volume 3). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-98891-4 , p. 639.
  • Peter Jelavich: Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film and the Death of Weimar Culture. Berkley University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 0-520-24363-3 . (English)
  • Erich Kleinschmidt: Berlin Alexanderplatz. Screenplay by Alfred Döblin and Hans Wilhelm zu Piel Jutzi's film from 1931. With an introductory essay by Fritz Rudolf Fries and material on the film by Yvonne Rehhahn. FILMtext, Munich 1996.
  • E. Life: Erik-Ernst Schwabach. at ÖBL (Austrian Biographical Lexicon ÖBL 1815–1950, Volume 11 (Lfg. 54, 1999), p. 407)
  • Julia Mülling: The novel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin and its film adaptation in 1931. A comparative analysis based on the figure of Miezes. Term paper (advanced seminar), WS 2012/13, 25 pages. Free University of Berlin, Institute for German and Dutch Philology. HS 16704: August 30, 2013. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2013.
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ...: History and stories of popular music up to 1945 - Part one. Books on Demand , 2015, p. 330.
  • Nadine Rossol: Review of: Jelavich, Peter: Berlin Alexanderplatz. Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture. Berkeley CA 2006, in: H-Soz-Kult, April 12, 2007
  • Mira Alexandra Schnoor: The transformation of Franz Biberkopf. Alfred Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz in a novel, radio play and film. In: Katarina Agathos, Herbert Kapfer (Ed.): Radio play. Authors' talks and portraits . Munich 2009.
  • Georg Seeßlen: Berlin-Alexanderplatz. Broken down in Berlin . filmzentrale.com, first published in: filmspiegel , 02/2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curt Arens movie poster 1931. filmposter-archiv.de, accessed on September 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Erik Ernst Schwabach, writer, playwright (1891–1938), cf. filmportal.de and SBB
    have no connection to the well-known songwriter Kurt Schwabach (1898–1966), whose real name was Schneider, cf. Volker Kühn in the German biography
  3. ↑ Jelavich p. 232 and filmmuseum.at ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : “After four years in prison, Biberkopf gets on the tram - and in a virtuoso montage sequence, the big city symphony breaks down on him as a nightmare.” Under this sequence, symphonically prepared, is the march. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmuseum.at
  4. ↑ Listen to it on youtube