14 - World War I Diaries

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Television series
Original title 14 - World War I Diaries
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Country of production Germany , France , Canada
original language German , French , English , Russian , Italian
year 2014
length 8 × 52 minutes
production Gunnar Dedio
Serge Lalou
Laurent Duret
Paul Cadieux
music Laurent Eyquem
camera Jürgen Rehberg
cut Susanne Schiebler (8 episodes)
Martin Schröder (co-editor for 4 episodes)
Jasmin Hoffhaus (co-editor for 2 episodes)
occupation

14 - Diaries of the First World War is the German title of an international documentary drama series that is dedicated to the theme of the First World War with fictional, documentary and animated elements . The concept of narrating a historical documentary formally, stylistically and dramatically like a modern drama series was developed by Jan Peter , who also directed all eight episodes. Series authors were Jan Peter and Yury Winterberg . Dutch producer and screenwriter Maarten van der Duin and BBC author Andrew Bampfield worked as dramaturges on the development. The development of the series is based on an idea by Gunnar Dedio , the producer of LOOKSfilm , and Ulrike Dotzer , the head of the ARTE department at Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

action

The individual episodes of the series tell the story of the First World War not from the perspective of the politicians and military, but from the perspective of soldiers, housewives, factory workers, nurses or children. There are 14 main characters in total. Meaningful scenes from her life are staged in game scenes and interwoven with one another. The result is not just a political or military history of the First World War, but a story that directly captures people's feelings and moods.

production

Construction of the no man's land trenches in Saint-Jerôme, Quebèc
Director Jan Peter and cameraman Jürgen Rehberg during filming in Canada

LOOKSfilm , Les Films d'ici Paris and Filmoption International Montreal are involved in the production .

History of origin

The scripts are mainly based on original quotes from diaries and letters from people from Germany , France , Great Britain , Italy , Austria , Russia and the USA who lived and wrote during the period 1914-1918. More than 1,000 diaries and collections of letters were viewed and 14 moving stories from the First World War were selected. This development work took a total of four years.

What is unusual for a production about the war is that seven of the protagonists are women and seven men and only a small part of the stories are set directly at the front. In total, the protagonists come from eight nations. The principle of multi-perspective narration is unique, in which all stories stand side by side and are interwoven. All actors speak the respective original language without being synchronized. The narrator of the German version is the actor Udo Samel .

Original footage

In total, film and photo material from 71 archives and 21 countries were used. The most abundant sources included British Pathé (Great Britain), Gaumont Pathé (France), Krasnogorsk (Russia), the Federal Film Archive (Germany), the Austrian Film Museum , the National Archives and Records Administration (USA) and the British Imperial War Museum . Often, however, the best material was found in the few amateur films that have survived .

Filming

The fictional parts of the series were filmed in Germany, France and Canada. A total of 50 days of shooting were available for this.

In France, the shooting took place in and around Strasbourg , including in the city's Art Nouveau bath, in a disused brewery and in Frœschwiller's castle .

In Canada, the team filmed in the province of Québec , in an old quarry around 150 km north of Montreal . A trench system including no man's land was built there on an area of ​​5,000 m² .

team

In addition to the director Jan Peter and the authors mentioned above, the following people were significantly involved in the creation of the series.

dramaturgy Maarten van der Duin, Andrew Bampfield
Production design Patric Valverde, Michel Marsolais
costume Valerie Adda
Montage and graphics Susanne Schiebler
Assembly Martin Schröder

main characters

Sarah Broom Macnaughtan

Sarah Broom Macnaughtan was born on October 26, 1864 in Partick, Scotland . She had already gained experience as a nurse during the Boer War . When helpers were sought for the British Army in Belgium in 1914, she volunteered. It was there in 1915 that she experienced the first gas attack near Ypres . Macnaughtan died on July 24, 1916 at the age of 51.

Charles Edward Montague

Charles Edward Montague was born on January 1, 1867, the son of a Roman Catholic priest and grew up in London . After graduating, he became a journalist . Montague was an opponent of the war and a pacifist - until the summer of 1914. Despite his 47 years of age, he volunteered for the war. After the war he initially resumed his journalistic activities. But soon afterwards he retired to spend his retirement years as a writer. Charles Edward Montague died on May 28, 1928 at the age of 61.

Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945)

Käthe Kollwitz was born on July 8, 1867 in Königsberg . The well-known German artist is an avowed socialist and pacifist. But when the war begins, the 47-year-old cannot escape the patriotic spirit of optimism in Germany. Her two sons, Hans and Peter , register as volunteers . Käthe Kollwitz died on April 22, 1945, a few days before the end of the Second World War, in Moritzburg at the age of 77.

Caroline Ethel Cooper

Caroline Ethel Cooper was born on December 24, 1871 in North Adelaide, Australia . Between 1897 and 1906 she studied music in Leipzig , but then returned temporarily to Australia. Leipzig had been her adopted home since 1911. When the war broke out, she was considered an "enemy alien". She was spied on, suffered from hunger and illness, but was refused entry. Caroline Ethel Cooper died on May 25, 1961 in Malvern, Australia at the age of 90.

Louis Barthas

Louis Barthas (1879–1952)

Louis Barthas was born on July 14, 1879 as the son of a barrel maker and a seamstress in the French wine-growing region of Languedoc-Roussillon . He learned his father's trade. At the age of 35 he was drafted as a reservist . At the end of 1914 Barthas came to one of the most dangerous sections of the Franco-German front and experienced the horrors of the trench war there : “I often think of the large number of my comrades who fell by my side. I've heard them curse the war and those who started it. I have seen all of her rebellion against her ominous fate, against her murder. I, as a survivor, believe that I was inspired by their will to fight restlessly and mercilessly until my last breath for the idea of ​​peace and brotherhood among people. February 1919. “After the war he resumed his work as a barrel maker. Barthas died on May 4, 1952 at the age of 72.

Karl Kasser

Karl Kasser was born in Kilb , Lower Austria, in 1889 . Despite a hand injury, the 25-year-old farmer is written as fit. Reluctantly, he had to enter early 1915. During fighting on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner by the Russians. A multi-year odyssey through the tsarist empire begins, which only ends on October 4, 1920. Karl Kasser died in 1976 at the age of 87.

Gabrielle West

Gabrielle West was born around 1890. It is natural for the young woman from a wealthy British family to serve her homeland through voluntary work. She becomes an overseer in an ammunition factory, where she is confronted with the terrible working conditions of the women there. The date of her death is unknown.

Paul Pireaud

Paul Pireaud was born in southwest France in 1890. At the beginning of the war, Marie and Paul Pireaud are a young couple. But then the young farmer is separated from his wife Marie for a long time due to the war. His only connection to her is the field post. In his letters he reports on the suffering of the soldiers at the front. After many years together with his wife, Paul Pireaud died shortly before his 80th birthday in 1970.

Marie Pireaud

Marie Pireaud was born near Paris in 1892 . At the beginning of the war, Marie and Paul Pireaud are a young couple. When her husband goes to war, Marie has to take on the hard work on the farm. In her very personal letters to Paul she writes about her jealousy and her great desire for closeness, tenderness and a child. The couple later had a son. But there are no grandchildren who could remember the love between them. Marie Pireaud died eight years after her husband in September 1978 at the age of 86.

Vincenzo D'Aquila

Vincenzo D'Aquila was born in Sicily on November 2, 1893 . After his parents emigrated, he grew up in the USA. In the spring of 1915, the 22-year-old set off for Europe with a ship full of volunteers. They are young men who want to fight for their old homeland, Italy. D'Aquila died on July 26, 1971 at the age of 78.

Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger (1895–1998)

Ernst Jünger was born in Heidelberg on March 29, 1895 . As a high school graduate, the future writer volunteered for military service in August 1914. He was transferred to the front in France at the end of 1914. Until 1918 he survived various battles, including the bloody battles on the Somme. He died in 1998 at the old age of 102 in the Riedlingen hospital.

Marina Yurlova

Marina Yurlova was born around 1900 in a small village north of the Caucasus . The daughter of a colonel of the Kuban - Cossacks was just 14 years old, pulled her father in August 1914 in the war. In search of him, she became a child soldier in the Russian army . In 1917 she got caught up in the turmoil of the October Revolution , but eventually fled to the United States . Marina Yurlova died there in 1984 at the age of 84.

Elfriede Alice Kuhr

Elfriede Kuhr (seated) in 1915 with (from left to right) her mother, her brother and her grandmother

Elfriede Alice Kuhr (called Piete) was born on April 25, 1902 in Schneidemühl , about 100 kilometers from the border with what was then Russia. At the beginning of the war, the 12-year-old girl who lived with her grandmother still celebrated the German victories, but then Elfriede saw how the war brought more and more suffering and misery. In 1981 she said: “That may make up a large part of my own time as a Tippelschickse, namely really a limitless, yes a brotherly-sisterly relationship with those who were so terrible without a hold. I felt drawn to them and that, I swear to you, that is exactly the same today! ”Later she took the stage name Jo Mihaly and became a dancer and writer. In 1982 she published her war memoirs. She died on March 29, 1989 at the age of 86.

Yves Congar

Yves Congar was born on April 8, 1904 in Sedan , in northern France, where he grew up in a sheltered manner until he was ten years old. In 1914 he saw the Germans invade his hometown and begin a four-year occupation. He later became a Catholic theologian and cardinal. Yves Congar died on June 22, 1995 at the age of 91 in Paris.

occupation

The 14 main characters of the series are embodied by the following actors.

main character actor
Charles Edward Montague David Acton
Marie Pireaud Emilie Aubertot
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan Celia Bannerman
Louis Barthas Mikaël Fitoussi
Caroline Ethel Cooper Megan Gay
Käthe Kollwitz Christina Große
Paul Pireaud Lazare Herson Macarel
Ernst Jünger Jonas Friedrich Leonhardi
Vincenzo d'Aquila Jacopo Menicagli
Elfriede Kuhr Elisa Monse
Karl Kasser David Oberkogler
Yves Congar Antoine de Prekel
Gabrielle M. West Naomi Sheldon
Marina Yurlova Natalia Witmer

Budget and charisma

The series is one of the most elaborate docu-fiction formats ever co-produced in Germany and was sold in more than 25 countries around the world before it was broadcast. The budget for the German version alone is around 6 million euros, and for all international versions around 8 million euros.

On the occasion of the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, ARTE will broadcast the eight-part series from April 29, 2014 in parallel in Germany and France. In addition to ARTE, partners in the series include SWR, NDR and WDR in Germany, ORF in Austria and the BBC in Great Britain. The ARD / ORF is the series in four episodes of broadcast 45 minutes.

On August 2, 2014, the BBC launched the British version of the “14 Diaries” under the title “Great War Diaries”. A completely new, three-hour series was created from the film material under the direction of Jan Peter. The commentary was completely omitted, the stories are told exclusively fictionally and from the perspective of the main characters. For this, a new dramaturgy as well as new graphic elements were created.

The broadcast of the series received very high approval ratings from viewers. The Audience Appreciation Index recorded after the broadcast was 87 (out of 100), which is well above the average.

The series was also well received in the British press.

The BBC also publishes its own DVD for its version.

Episode list

This list of episodes contains the eight episodes of the drama series 14 - Diaries of the First World War, sorted according to their first broadcast on ARTE.

No. Original title First broadcast Director script
1 The abyss Apr 29, 2014 Jan Peter Yury Winterberg, Jan Peter
In the records of the young Cossack woman Marina Yurlova, the Austrian farmer Karl Kasser and the children Yves Congar and Elfriede Kuhr, who witness the outbreak of war at home, there is little room for jubilant patriotism. Marina Jurlowa follows her father on a train to the front. The artist Käthe Kollwitz lets her 17-year-old son go to war voluntarily. The Austrian Karl Kasser is sent to the front despite an injury that initially caused him to be retired. 10-year-old Yves Congar from Sedan believes France will win quickly. He feels safe in his family until German troops are at the door. The 12-year-old Elfriede Kuhr experienced the beginning of the war in Schneidemühl on the border with Russia. French words are now forbidden in school lessons and the Battle of Tannenberg is celebrated with a day off. Soldiers from various nations believed that we would be back at Christmas. In fact, by the end of 1914, a million men had fallen. Even more are wounded or imprisoned. Nobody expected such a scale of war.
2 The attack Apr 29, 2014 Jan Peter Jan Peter
The Briton Charles Edward Montague is actually a pacifist. After the outbreak of war, however, the war appears to him as a struggle between German barbarism and Western civilization, in which he does not want to stand idly by. That's why he fakes his age and volunteers to go to war. However, the reality of war teaches him better. Montague soon doubts his decision. The Cossack Marina Jurlowa goes in search of her father. She meets the Cossack Kosjol, who takes her into his troop. She is given a uniform and is named a horse girl. Louis Barthas is drafted into the dangerous sections of the Franco-German front. He has to leave his wife and child behind. The Austrian Karl Kasser is wounded on the Eastern Front and then taken prisoner by the Russians. In order to escape school and the Abitur, Ernst Jünger voluntarily goes to war. After being caught asleep at his post, he has to patrol the "no man's land" between the trenches as a punishment.
3 The wound May 6, 2014 Jan Peter Jan Peter, Yury Winterberg
Elfriede Kuhr helps her grandmother in the Red Cross station at the Schneidemühler train station. She has to see how many soldiers die. Meanwhile, the Scottish Sarah MacNaughtan moves to the front with other women and wants to support the British army. She takes care of the first aid for the seriously injured. In April 1915 the first poison gas attack in history took place near Ypres in Belgium. Sarah MacNaughtan is one of the first helpers to be confronted with the devastating consequences. The Cossack Marina Jurlowa has meanwhile become a child soldier. More or less voluntarily, she volunteers to blow up a bridge. As a result, she is seriously injured and barely escapes the amputation of her leg. Louis Barthas experiences the flamethrowers in the trenches. A French comrade burned to death lies helplessly next to him, but is not ready to die. Many people seek hope in faith. So does Vincenzo d'Aquila. The native Sicilian lives with his father in New York. In the spring of 1915 he volunteered to serve his homeland - a decision he quickly regrets. When he was wounded in the hospital, he spoke out vehemently against the war. He immediately ends up in psychiatry.
4th The longing May 6, 2014 Jan Peter Jan Peter, Yury Winterberg
Käthe Kollwitz learns that her son Peter died only a few days after the start of the war in the so-called first battle of Flanders. She is left alone with her feelings of guilt. Marie and Paul Pireaud were only recently married. But Paul too has to go to war. Only Paul's letters can help against Marie's longing. Although the French army command has forbidden the soldiers to have contact with their wives, Marie decides to go to the front: she wants her husband to have a child. Elfriede Kuhr is 14 years old. She falls in love with one of the young flight officers who are being trained in Schneidmühl for the front line. Shortly afterwards he had a fatal accident during a training flight. Ernst Jünger secretly meets with the Frenchwoman Jeanne Sandemont. Love relationships between enemies are considered treason. But the longing for human warmth is stronger. In her search for her father, the 16-year-old Marina Yurlowa ended up at the front. Your search remains unsuccessful. Captain Rossinsky makes her advances. But Marina Jurlowa doesn't want to be a girl, just a soldier.
5 The destruction May 6, 2014 Jan Peter Jan Peter, Yury Winterberg, Stephan Falk
The unit to which Charles Edward Montague belongs is set to fight on the Somme. But she refuses to follow. Marina Jurlowa, who was the bearer of the St. George's Cross at the age of 16, experienced a gas attack as a medic and was buried in a grenade explosion. Sarah MacNaughtan returns to Russia. On the way she witnesses the Armenian genocide. A short time later she dies. Ernst Jünger is now a lieutenant on the Western Front and witnessed the Battle of the Somme. There he gets lost on the battlefield. Louis Barthas made it to the corporal of the French infantry on the western front after two tough years.
6th Homeland May 13, 2014 Jan Peter Yury Winterberg, Jan Peter
The Australian Ethel Cooper has lived in Leipzig for many years. She earns her living by taking piano lessons. The war has made her an undesirable person in her adopted home, Germany. Nevertheless, she is refused to return home. Every eighth soldier is taken prisoner of war. So does Karl Kasser. The Russians send him on a train transport. At first, Kasser believes in a return home. In reality, however, the train goes to Siberia. The war forced the Englishwoman Gabrielle West to secure her own income. She becomes a cook in an ammunition factory. But she fails because of the structures and gives up after a short time. Yves Congar experiences everyday life under German occupation. The Germans are squeezing the last of the money and supplies out of the residents of Sedan. Men are held hostage for days. Yves father is among them. Elfriede Kuhr helps in the children's home. The need is great, many children die.
7th The riot May 13, 2014 Jan Peter Jan Peter, Florian Huber
Marina Jurlowa served as an adjutant in the Caucasus in March 1917. The seventeen year old experienced the two Russian revolutions, the uprising of her troops and the death of her captain. Gabrielle West volunteers for a female police force. When additional double shifts are to be run in the ammunition factories, the workers go on strike. 20-year-old Gabrielle refuses to take action against the angry women. Vincenzo d'Aquila becomes a witness and a victim of the cruel “therapies” in the mental hospital Sant'Osvaldo near Udine. Most military doctors consider their traumatized patients to be simulators or weaklings. Many mentally ill are sent back to the front. Louis Barthas survived the battles of Verdun and the Somme. At the end of their tether, more than 500,000 French soldiers mutinied for two months. More and more men are deserting. The military leadership reacts drastically. In the French army alone, thousands of soldiers stand before the court martial, many are sentenced to death. But the decline in morale in war can no longer be stopped. Ernst Jünger is a highly decorated lieutenant who led a company for the first time when he was only 23 years old. He drives his war-tired soldiers with weapons.
8th The decision May 13, 2014 Jan Peter Jan Peter
Yves Congar's father is brought to Germany as a forced laborer. The family is left without support. Yves experienced the end of the war in the basement of his parents' house while the machine guns rattled outside. Ernst Jünger led his troop through numerous fights. Now the men give up completely exhausted. When Jünger returned to Germany, the revolution broke out there. At 52, Charles Edward Montague is too old for active service. In a roundabout way, he ended up with the British censorship authority and is now taking American photographers to a photo session with German prisoners. Marina Jurlowa is celebrating her 18th birthday in a Red Army prison. Since the October Revolution of 1917, the Cossack has been considered an enemy of the state. Tens of thousands are imprisoned as enemies of the revolution. Russia is in a civil war. Marina Jurlowa barely escapes execution. Elfriede Kuhr can only vaguely remember peace. On October 5, 1918, she first heard of a possible defeat at school. Elfriede reacts relieved and hopes out loud that nobody has to die anymore. The teacher threatens consequences. She leaves school feeling liberated. On November 11, 1918 at 11 a.m. the bells began to ring again across Europe. The guns on the fronts are silent. The great war is over.

music

The film music comes from the French-Canadian composer Laurent Eyquem, who works in Hollywood. The voices of the 14 main characters symbolically form a choir, which is also reflected in the film music. The choir was recorded in Prague .

Audience ratings

Channel country Airtime Target of the sender
for sending slot		 Average market share of
the episodes broadcast (in%)		 Average viewership of
the episodes broadcast
ARTE Germany Tuesdays, 8.15 p.m. - 10.50 p.m. 1.0% 1.4% 401,000
ARTE France Tuesdays, 8:50 p.m. - 11:35 p.m. 2.0% 2.2% 493,000
ARD Germany Tuesdays from 9.45 p.m. + Wednesdays from 9.45 p.m. 12.0% 8.1% 1,713,000
ORF Austria Tuesdays from 10:35 p.m. + Fridays from 10:50 p.m. 12.2% 14.0% 172,000
NTR Netherlands Saturdays, 8:20 p.m. - 9:10 p.m. 7.0% 6.1% 367,000
SRF Switzerland Wednesdays 13.5% 10.0% 51,000
YLE Finland on Monday 2.5% 6.0%
SVT Sweden Thursdays 4.0% 369,000
RAI Storia Italy Fridays, 9:30 p.m. - 10:20 p.m. 0.2% 0.3% 65,000
BBC United Kingdom Saturdays from 6.10 p.m. 6.1% 4.8% 823,000

Press reviews

The German and international press received the series very positively: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “Gripping and touching and perceptible. A milestone for European television. " Süddeutsche Zeitung :" A story of destruction and the future of television. " Zeit Online :" A European mentality story . " Focus Online :" [...] the documentary series also clearly proves that television can not be a flashy entertainment medium, but can still be a terrific educational tool. When it is done by people who have mastered its keyboard. " Stuttgarter Zeitung :" Knit like a modern series. " Berliner Zeitung :" The special thing about the eight-part series is the combination of docu-drama and series. The 14 diary writers become series heroes who appear again and again in the eight episodes. " Neue Zürcher Zeitung :" [Production] is able to fascinate in its amalgamation of the most varied observations at various locations, which condenses into a tremendous mood. " Blick in the evening : “The“ diaries ”are […] among the best that television can do.” Le Monde : “The impossible achieved grandiose.” Le Figaro : “A virtuosity never seen.” Direct Matin : “An extraordinary quality.” NRC Handelsblad : "Fantastic television [...] We ride a roller coaster of emotions, as if we shouldn't understand history but experience it for ourselves."

Awards

On June 17, 2014, the series received the prestigious special prize from the jury of the Robert Geisendörfer Prize of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The reasoning of the jury said u. a .: “The multinational perspective of '14 - Diaries of the First World War 'symbolizes how in every war not only enemies fight against each other, but above all people suffer and die together. With its global approach, '14' is a universal anti-war film. Filmmakers from 28 nations and TV stations from 18 countries together turned the series, which was broadcast across Europe, into a global television event. "

The series was nominated for the German Television Prize 2014 in the newly created category “Best Multi-Part Documentation” and for the Japan Prize (Contest for Educational Media) in the category “Continuing Education”.

The French web project for the series entitled 1914 - Day by Day was awarded the main FIPA d'or prize at the 2014 Biarritz film festival. The German web project of the series was nominated for the Prix Europa 2014.

The series ran at various festivals around the world, including the 2014 Shenzhen Fringe Festival (China) and the Istanbul International 1001 Documentary Film Festival (Turkey).

Companion books

The illustrated book 14 - Diaries of the First World War , accompanying the series, was published by Bucher Verlag at the end of April 2014 . The book and the color photographs are divided into eight chapters, each with an extract from the diary or letter and explanatory historical facts: from the “World before the War” to “Man and Machine”, “Home Front” and “Everyday War at the Front” to the end". Peter Englund wrote the foreword .

The book accompanying the series The Great War by Oliver Janz was published by Campus Verlag in October 2013 .

Listening documentation

Since March 9, 2014, WDR has been broadcasting an audio documentation of the same name by Christine Sievers and Nicolaus Schröder in six parts, which is also based on the diaries and letters of the main characters and in collaboration with LOOKS Film Leipzig and the ARTE drama series by Jan Peter and Yury Winterberg was created.

DVD and Blu-ray publishing

The series was released on May 14, 2014 in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .

Accompanying exhibition

The Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr Dresden showed in the special exhibition "14 - People - War" from August 1, 2014 to February 24, 2015 the 14 biographies and their perspectives on the First World War. Two sections documented on 1200 m² on the one hand the eve of the war and on the other hand the extent and forms of suffering of the soldiers and the civilian population. The exhibition took stock of the war and ended with a preview of the subsequent Second World War. The focus was not on retelling the political and military history of the war. Rather, it should be examined how the war not only became a human catastrophe, but also manifested itself in countless human catastrophes.

The basis for this approach to the history of mentality was provided by the cooperation with the eight-part documentary series by arte and Das Erste . For the first time in a television documentary about World War I, the focus was not on events and battles, but on the experiences of those involved - mothers, fathers and children. The large special exhibition in the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden was devoted to the same biographies and perspectives on the First World War. They made it possible, beyond the Franco-German narrative thread that led through the entire exhibition, to include many other theaters of war and areas of experience of the war in the exhibition.

Web links

Remarks

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