Arnold Zweig (film)

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Movie
Original title Arnold Zweig
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1963
length 20 minutes
Rod
Director Joop Huisken
script Renate Drescher
Heinz Kamnitzer
production DEFA studio for documentary films
music Kurt Grottke
camera Joop Huisken
cut Inge Dochow
occupation

Arnold Zweig is a documentary film by DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Joop Huisken from 1963.

action

Arnold Zweig sits with his wife in the garden of his house in Berlin-Niederschönhausen . Beatrice Zweig gets up and goes into the house to set the coffee table. Some time later her husband follows. A look through the room shows pictures of the painter Beatrice Zweig, a lot of books, the desk with several ceramic figures on it and various photographs, including a photo of Glogau , Arnold Zweig's birthplace, a picture with his father in front of his saddlery and a picture his parents. It continues with pictures from Katowice , where he spent another part of his youth up to high school, which is proven by recordings.

Now comes the first works by Arnold Zweig, which consist of poems and prose: “Before your window” and “Tronende Liebe” as well as the stories “ Notes about a Klopfer family ” and “Das Kind” - published by the Kleine Bibliothek publishing house Langen Munich (1911) and “ Novellen um Claudia ” (1912). But then the First World War comes , Arnold Zweig also becomes a soldier and has to go to the front as a Landsturmmann . This period, which made him a committed pacifist , is underlaid with historical images.

A portrait photograph shows him as a writer after the war. His first major novels are written. They are "The Dispute about Sergeant Grischa" (published 1928); “ Young Woman from 1914 ” (Gustav Kiepenheuer-Verlag 1931) and “Education before Verdun” (created in 1935 while in exile in Palestine ). During his time in exile in Palestine, Arnold Zweig, who was almost blind, later wrote his novel "Dream is expensive", which was completed in 1962, with the help of a secretary.

Further images of the film show historical documents and evidence of his life, some of which he has deposited in an archive in the cellar of the house in alphabetically arranged and labeled archive boxes. This also includes articles that he wrote in exile, various portraits and Johannes R. Becher's invitation to come back to Germany. He justified his return to the eastern part of Berlin in 1948 with the establishment of a genuine German liberal and tyrannical culture. The social functions assumed here occupy a large area: since 1957 President of the German PEN Center ; Member of the People's Chamber (1949–1967); Member of the German Peace Council and many others.

At the end of the film, the living room in the house is shown in the evening. His wife portrays the writer seated in front of her with a charcoal drawing.

production

The black and white film Arnold Zweig was shown for the first time on April 19, 1963.

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