Addio, piccola mia
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Addio, piccola mia |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lothar Warneke |
| script | Lothar Warneke |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Red Circle" |
| music |
Johann Sebastian Bach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gerhard Rosenfeld |
| camera | Claus Neumann |
| cut | Erika Lehmphul |
| occupation | |
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Addio, piccola mia is a German film biography by DEFA by Lothar Warneke from 1979. It deals with the life and death of the writer Georg Büchner .
action
Georg Büchner is a medical student in Strasbourg , lives in poor circumstances and loves young Louise. In 1833 he returned to his family in Hesse . Here he witnessed various revolutionary skirmishes of individual small groups, but Büchner suspected that only through the masses and there through the peasants who push the taxes, a revolution can really happen. Among other things, he found a like-minded person in Pastor Friedrich Ludwig Weidig . Other young people, including the son of the President of the Court Court Ludwig Minnigerode , Karl Minnigerode , join Büchner and found the “Society for Human Rights”.
Büchner writes the leaflet Der Hessische Landbote , which is to be distributed among the population. Weidig rewrites it against his will. The group is soon disturbed: Weidig is first transferred to Ober-Gleen, where Büchner seeks him out and charges him with the rewritten leaflet, and later arrested. Minnigerode is arrested while collecting the leaflets, but released after pretending to be mentally ill and sent to America by her parents. Ludwig Minnigerode is dishonorably dismissed from civil service.
At that time Georg Büchner had already fled to Strasbourg, where he met Louise again. Although he completes his work Dantons Tod and writes the spring , he devotes himself mainly to his scientific research on fish. When the German couple Caroline and Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz offered to take him to Switzerland , he agreed. He has to say goodbye to Louise again. In Zurich he gives lectures on the nervous system of fish and works at the Woyzeck , but feels increasingly ill. He finds out himself that he has typhus . Shortly before his death, Louise visits him, whose presence he can still perceive. A little later he dies. Louise and Caroline visit the apartment that Georg Büchner wanted to rent for both of them.
Before the end credits, the titles of the works that Büchner wrote and translated are displayed.
production
The Büchner adaptation Wozzeck was one of the earliest DEFA films in 1947 . “In 1947, Büchner's social tragedy was transferred to the big screen as a result of the rediscovery of a poet whose works were undesirable to the Nazis. Today you can find some parallels to the present of the divided country in the picture of his time, the German Biedermeier, ”said Heinz Kersten in 1979 on the occasion of the premiere of Addio, piccola mia . The film title refers to the last words in Büchner's letter to his lover Wilhelmine Jaeglé (in the film "Louise"), which he wrote on January 27, 1837 before his death.
In a scene in which Büchner is giving a lecture in the Zurich lecture hall, the auditorium was filled with numerous DEFA directors and authors. The audience included: Horst E. Brandt , Heiner Carow , Claus Dobberke , Joachim Hasler , Ralf Kirsten , Gottfried Kolditz , Siegfried Kühn , Kurt Maetzig , Roland Oehme , Konrad Petzold , Günter Reisch , Helga Schütz , Erwin Stranka , János Veiczi , Lothar Warneke , Ulrich Weiß , Konrad Wolf and Herrmann Zschoche .
Addio, piccola mia had its premiere on January 18, 1979 in the Berlin Kino International .
criticism
“Scenarist Helga Schütz [...] kept closely to documents when describing the last three years of the life of the medical doctor, playwright and revolutionary Büchner [...]. Nevertheless, this has not become a biographical film in the conventional sense - rather an atmospheric sheet of images from a time of repression and restoration, at the same time the portrait of a generation of failed revolutionaries, ”wrote the Frankfurter Rundschau in 1979. Other critics saw exactly this rather negatively and wrote that structure and the narrative style of the film “develop fewer processes than moods, paint more moments than uncover connections”, which makes it difficult and hindered to look at the story. The film is therefore not demanding, but rather artistic.
The lexicon of international films wrote: “ Designed as a historical retrospect, biography and timeless study at the same time, the opulently furnished film is completely attached to the time it was made and is not entirely convincing.” Addio, piccola mia is “a film of haunting images, deep moods [ ...], historical self-feeling and thought-provoking, but with this mood also owes a lot to the tragic forte of Büchner's thinking, writing, and failure. "
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 17-18 .
Web links
- Addio, piccola mia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Addio, piccola mia at filmportal.de
- Addio, piccola mia at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heinz Kersten: A Büchner for the post-May generation . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 15, 1979.
- ↑ See filmportal.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Peter Ahrens in: Weltbühne , No. 9. 1979.
- ^ Addio, piccola mia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 232.
