Essays
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Essays |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Nestler |
| script |
Peter Nestler Marianne Beutler Kurt Ulrich |
| production | Peter Nestler |
| music |
Peter Nestler Kurt Ulrich |
| camera |
Peter Nestler Kurt Ulrich |
Essays is a documentary film in black and white from Germany by director Peter Nestler from the year 1963 . The film premiered in October 1963. Using school essays, the short film tells about a day in the life of schoolchildren in a village in the Bernese Oberland .
content
The film follows a primary school class from the Bernese Oberland on their way to and from the village school as well as during lessons in the classroom. The pupils themselves comment on what is happening off-screen by reading out school essays that thematically describe their everyday life: the way to and from school, preheating the wood stove, distributing the school milk, the person of the teacher, reading Nils Holgerson , the last brawl. The language of the students is an attempted High German, in which, however, the Bern German language coloring is clearly audible. Every child tells differently, with their own intonation, volume and different pathos. The child's effort to formulate and present their own imagination is audible. The film recordings accompany the lectures over long stretches and stand in strange contrast to the reading of the bumpy text. Peter Nestler avoids comments from a narrator or the original sound of the film recordings. The children stay with themselves and their expression. They present their world.
Nestler's first documentary goes back to a trip to the Bernese Oberland with Kurt Ulrich , who was then a teacher in Frutigen . “We sat in class, learned how a school day works in winter.” In an interview, Nestler said of the unusual assembly technique between sound and image in essays: “I thought that it was very effective to work like this, in it emerged a tension between the sound and the image, which you won't get when working with direct sound. ”(Eng .:“ I thought it would be very effective to work like this, it created a tension between the sound and the image you don't get if you work with direct sound. ")
reception
The broadcasting of essays was initially rejected by the television stations of the Federal Republic of Germany because the Bernese coloring of High German was found to be difficult to understand - a High German dubbing was recommended, which, however, would have fundamentally changed the concept of the film.
In 2012, the film was included in the recommendation list of the Federal Association of German Short Films for use by teachers and media educators with the following reason: "The Swiss-German dialect with its swinging sentence melody turns it into a chant, to which the high-level and essay-like expressions used contradict." the film is an integral part of retrospectives, such as those shown around the world on the occasion of Peter Nestler's eightieth birthday.
Essays are currently available on a DVD with the complete works of Peter Nestler, the 35 mm film has been transferred to DCP ( Digital Cinema Package ).
Web links
- Articles in the Internet Movie Database
- Articles on Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilse Aichinger: Viennale Diary VI. Der Standard, October 29, 2001, accessed on July 27, 2017 (German).
- ^ Stefan Ramstedt: Traces. A conversation with Peter Nestler. November 12, 2012, accessed July 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Julia Melnikova: Peter Nestler: History is in people. 2013, accessed on July 27, 2017 (German).
- ↑ List of recommendations. 100 short films for education. AG Kurzfilm, 2012, accessed on July 27, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Kay Hoffmann: Peter Nestler. Poetic provocateur. Films 1962-2009. In: 5 DVDs in a slipcase with booklet. absolutely media.