Bambule (TV play)

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Movie
Original title Bambule
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1970
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Eberhard Itzenplitz
script Ulrike Meinhof
production Dieter Waldmann
music Rolf A. Wilhelm
camera Ulrich Burtin
cut Helga Brüning
occupation

Bambule is a German television game broadcast by Südwestfunk from 1970 ; Directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz , the screenplay comes from Ulrike Meinhof .

Summary

The film criticizes the authoritarian methods of home education ( welfare education ) in a girls' home. In the course of the action, the home residents revolt against the oppressive structures. The plot of the film is often understood as a parable of the social conditions of the time, which must be countered by a new, intensified form of class struggle .

language

In the dialogues, a broader Berlin dialect and sociolect (for example “Trebe” for “running away”, “Peikern” for “tattooing”, “Bunker” for “detention cell”) are used, which seems authentic, but makes it difficult to understand. The girls also sing several songs typical of the scene.

action

The complex plot takes place over 24 hours in a West Berlin girls' home for adolescent girls. Right at the beginning two of them flee. Monika is immediately caught again because of a foot injury, Irene manages to escape on the second attempt. While Monika is sitting in the "bunker" (the detention cell of the home) as a punishment, she tells an understanding and liberal-minded teacher, Mrs. Lack, how she was put into the home by her stepmother as a small child and harassed by nuns there; especially after they discovered their lesbian tendencies. Irene, who is also a lesbian, with the scene name “Pampas”, is initially turned away by her mother and finally finds accommodation with two former residents who are meanwhile living in prostitution. A meeting with her friend, a resident of the home, who now works outside the home as a saleswoman, fails due to a misunderstanding. The attempt with a former home inmate also fails. That is why Irene is also returning to the home. Meanwhile, Monika was deported to the monastery sisters against her will, but provoked them to send her back to the home by return mail. The third main character, Evelyn, instigates a cell riot ("Bambule") the following night, which leads to a police operation. In the morning Evelyn and Irene sit together in the bunker and think about other ways of resisting the situation.

Film music

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publication

The broadcast of the film was planned for May 24, 1970 on ARD , but was canceled on May 14 because screenwriter Ulrike Meinhof was involved in the liberation of Andreas Baader . The script appeared as Bambule. Care - care for whom? as early as 1971 in book form.

It was not until 1994 that the film was shown in the third ARD programs. The film and screenplay are the authentic reproduction of the conditions that she described in her reports on home education and are important documents today for assessing the educational practice in youth welfare institutions from the 1940s to the 1970s.

In 1979, at the beginning of the directorship of Claus Peymann, the play Welfare Zöglinge (director: Raymund Richter, collaboration: Bruno Klimek ) was premiered at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .

See also

literature

  • Ulrike Marie Meinhof: Bambule . Care - care for whom? In: Rotbuch Nr. 24, Klaus Wagenbach , Berlin 1971 first edition (as a paperback in the series: Wagenbach's Pocket Library , Volume 428, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8031-2428-9 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marita Schölzel-Klamp, Thomas Köhler-Saretzki: The blind eye of the state: The home campaign of 1969 and the demands of the former home children , 2010. P. 89 .
  2. ^ Manfred Kappeler : Welfare and home education. Scandalization and consequences of reform. In: Meike Sophia Baader / Ulrich Herrmann (ed.): 68 - Engaged Jugend und Kritische Pädagogik. Impulses and consequences of a cultural upheaval in the history of the Federal Republic . Weinheim 2010, pp. 65, 80 .