ABF memoir

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Movie
Original title ABF memoir
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1993
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Karlheinz mouth
production Brandenburger Filmbetrieb - DEFA -Studio for Documentary Films GmbH
music Dmitri Shostakovich
camera Christian Lehmann
Wolfgang Dietzel
cut Angela Wendt

ABF-Memoiren is a documentary film made by the Brandenburger Filmbetrieb - DEFA-Studios für Dokumentarfilm GmbH by Karlheinz Mund in 1993 .

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“Workers 'and peasants' children to the university!” With this appeal, after the Second World War, the aim was to set an example in eastern Germany for a more just world. The film shows some of the 20,000+ graduates who answered the call and some of their teachers. In 1962, the workers and farmers faculties (ABF) founded in 1949 , which u. a. in Berlin , Leipzig , Greifswald , Karl-Marx-Stadt and Weimar , closed again.

In the almost 90 minutes, a large number of former students and lecturers can be seen in historical photographs and film clips. But Karlheinz Mund, himself a graduate of the ABF, also manages to get several of them in front of the camera for this film. These include the students at the time:

  • Erich Loest (writer) - According to him, he was not a student at the ABF, but only there for research. He reads from his book The Year of Trial .
  • Hermann Kant (writer) - Between his stories, excerpts from the theater recording of his novel Die Aula from the State Theater Halle from 1972 are shown.
  • Dieter Mann (actor) - originally wants to become a teacher and comes to acting through a so-called speaker group in the ABF, under the direction of Horst Hawemann .
  • Christiane Opitz (nee Meier) - a doctor from Hohen-Neuendorf who did not have a good previous education, but which she can acquire at the ABF and who still raves about meeting Bertolt Brecht in the dining room.
  • Joachim Rohde (theologian) - despite only having a two-class elementary school in a village in Western Pomerania , got a doctorate through the ABF.
  • Veronika Schmidt (professor and Germanist) - spent five hours a day on the way from Rüdersdorf near Berlin to the ABF and back, which she used to study.
  • Otto Eck (retired local council from Essen) - on May 15, 1953, due to his hostile attitude towards the GDR and its leading force in the working class, he is de-registered from the German Theater Institute Weimar at Belvedere Palace with immediate effect .
  • Helmut Bleiber (professor and historian)
  • Helios Mendiburu (former district mayor of the Berlin-Friedrichshain district ) - is recruited as an agent by the east office of the SPD and therefore punished with prison.
  • Guntram Borkowski (legal advisor) - Since he has no proof of proletarian or party membership, he is out of the question for the judiciary, public prosecutor and the legal profession.
  • Adalbert Stamborski (actor) - Felt as if he had been directly involved in the ABF, in a renewal, a kind of revolution.
  • Karlheinz Lohs (professor and chemist) - After the Second World War he was an assistant laboratory technician in a hospital until a union official told him that this could not be his future.
  • Helmut Jachnow (Professor and Slavist)

Several lecturers also have their say in the discussions:

  • Hans Mayer (professor and literary scholar) - It was a great and enriching experience for him.
  • Dieter Schlenstedt (literary scholar)
  • Elli Mohrmann - Was called the break-away stealer because she constantly overshoots her lessons.
  • Heinz Mohrmann (professor and former ABF director)

Production and publication

ABF memoirs was under the working title The ABF - A Review of 16 mm color film, with frequent black and white film - sequences from the DEFA -Dokfilmarchiv, ADN GmbH photo archive, IFGA, Central Party Archive, German Broadcasting Archive and the Federal Film Archive manufactured. The production took place with funds from the cultural film funding of the state of Brandenburg and the film funding of Berlin.

The scenario comes from Helga Schütz and Karlheinz Mund.

The first performance took place on February 13, 1993 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival .

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