From the dreams of a kitchen maid
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | From the dreams of a kitchen maid |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 200 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Engel |
| script | Richard Engel Petra Kelling Christine Boyde |
| production | Richard Engel |
| music | Sebastian Reichel Mucchi |
| camera |
Uwe Bohrer Pepe Planitzer Richard Engel |
| cut | Christoph Dechant |
From the Dreams of a Kitchen Maid - Approaching Käthe Reichel is a documentary by Richard Engel and Petra Kelling from 2014 . He portrays the actress Käthe Reichel .
action
The film begins in front of Käthe Reichel's house in Buckow am Schermützelsee , which she bought in 1952 from Bertolt Brecht , to whom she lost herself early. The garden is full of snow and there are many artificial flowers in a roundabout; she liked it that way. These recordings were made after her death.
Käthe Reichel is preparing for a reading. Since 2000/2001 she has performed Brecht's Die Heiligen Johanna der Schlachthöfe in its own reading version as a one-person play. To do this, she always took her own standing desk with her, thought carefully about what to wear, and was picked up in a car. During the rehearsals and the reading she appeared concentrated, but kept her distance from the audience. It also happened that she offered to wait until a spectator who seemed unfocused was to be with him again.
Käthe Reichel was politically interested and active all her life. The film shows that too, because she never stopped doing that. During a large demonstration there was the usual unrest. But even here she demanded that thousands listen when she spoke. But her heyday, when everyone knew her and hung on the lips, was over. Building a village in Vietnam was a major concern of hers. For the company "100 Houses for Vietnam " she completely worked, dreamed and lived for it. When she decided to see the result for herself in Vietnam, she broke up with the film people. Her anticipation was greater than the result she saw. The mayor's house, the largest and most beautiful house in the village, had been chosen to hold the festivities. Even the pigs, which she wanted to give as a present, were brought to the celebration by the farmers themselves. She had certainly noticed that something was being played to her here. That led to the break with the team, it offended them so much. She stayed in her hotel for the remaining days until the return flight. Filming could only be continued after more than a year.
Käthe Reichel loved her Bertolt Brecht all of her life. She got the child from the painter Gabriele Mucchi , which she actually wanted from Brecht. Once, as a young boy, her child was given a water pistol and aimed at her mother. She let herself fall, lay there for minutes, as if dead, she could do that, she was an actress. The boy screamed, screamed, screamed, she held on. Peace education as soul torture. Her son Sebastian couldn't cope with his mother's demands and later took his own life.
Käthe Reichel also talks about her childhood in the working-class neighborhoods of central Berlin . She does not talk about her mother, only about her father, who died in a concentration camp . It also tells the story of a roommate in the tenement house who threw his dog off the 4th floor because he could no longer buy food for him. These stories shaped her.
production
The following friends and colleagues from Käthe Reichels were available as interview partners: Rainer Simon , Holger Franke , Adolf Dresen , Dagmar Manzel , Christian Grashof , Kurt Groenewold , Horst Lebinsky, Ilona Schleicher, Horst Lenz and Anneliese Schultze.
The film was shot in color over a period of 13 years and premiered on October 26, 2014 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . The filmmakers wanted to accompany Käthe Reichel without a specific time budget. Since the intended financial limit was exhausted after a short time, the rented technology and the associated team could no longer be paid for. Since the new Japanese digital, semi-professional cameras were now on the market, work continued with them and the film could be completed.
Web links
Richard Engel in Ossietzky magazine No. 21 from 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Dieter Schütt in Neues Deutschland from October 28, 2014