Berggasse 19

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Movie
Original title Berggasse 19
Country of production Austria ,
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1979
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Ernst Haeusserman
script Henry Thinker
production Walter Schmidt
camera Felix Kränkl ,
Ulfried Feuerstein ,
Ernst Meyer
cut Helmut Schlosser
occupation

Berggasse 19 (more rarely also: Berggasse 19 - Wounds of the Soul ) is a German television film from 1979 by Ernst Haeusserman , with the actor Curd Jürgens in the leading role as Sigmund Freud . The film is a recording of the play of the same name , which was played in the same year at the Theater in der Josefstadt .

The drama , which also offers some cheerful moments, deals with the life and work of Sigmund Freud.

action

Sigmund Freud, a practicing neurologist at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, is visited by a young man named Friedrich Wohlmuth. His sister-in-law suffers from rheumatic pain in her legs. The pain began after her father, whom she cared for a year and a half, passed away. Shortly after her death, Elisabeth began to look after her sister, Wohlmuth's wife. After three years she died too, and the pain became significantly worse. The young woman can now only walk with crutches. Reluctantly and with great discomfort, Sigmund Freud accepts the new patient. But his treatment, including hypnosis , which is frowned upon in specialist circles , does not work.

When Freud reads a work entrusted to him by his colleague Josef Breuer , the " Anne O. " case , he regains hope of healing his patient. Like Elisabeth von Ritter, the young hysteric Anne O. had to look after her sick father. She then suffered severe coughing fits while listening to music that brought her close to suffocation. Breuer tried to hypnotize her during his treatment, which failed. Therefore, at a loss, he just let her talk, which led to her telling from her memories. One day she told him that she had been watching on her father's deathbed when she suddenly heard dance music from the neighboring house. The music animated her to dance the waltz . At the same time, however, she woke her father with a cough, who stared at her in amazement and asked her what she was doing there. She told him that her cough woke him up. May he go back to sleep. Moments later the father died.

With the discovery of this spiritual cause of suffering, the coughing attacks ceased. The young woman was now temporarily healed. But there were complications. The young woman had fallen in love with Breuer, and as he did not want to endanger his marriage, he broke off the treatment. But when the treatment was stopped, the symptoms came back. In addition, the patient now imagined she was pregnant. Breuer should be the father of the unborn child. Despite his patient's crisis, Breuer did not resume treatment. Soon afterwards she was taken to a closed institution.

Freud now lets Elisabeth also tell her memories. He's trying to find out when her pain started. But the symptoms are not alleviated, they actually get worse. Elisabeth seems to be on the verge of needing a wheelchair. But then Freud manages, despite the unwillingness of his patient, to expose the causal memory. Elisabeth tells him that when she went to visit her sister on her deathbed in the hospital, she was already dead and her face was already covered. The first thing she thought on her sister's deathbed was that she could now marry her brother-in-law. She fell in love with him while walking at the time her father was on his deathbed. Nothing had happened between the two of them, but the shame of having thought such a thing caused pain in her leg. After uncovering the psychological cause, Elisabeth is able to walk again. The most important part of the treatment is now complete. Elisabeth later married and had children. But her husband was not Friedrich Wohlmuth.

About fifty years later, the development of psychoanalysis made Sigmund Freud known worldwide. After Austria was annexed to National Socialist Germany, he had to leave Berggasse 19 and his country, now often sitting in a wheelchair. But he takes the steps out of his apartment, in front of SA men , without the aid of crutches or a wheelchair. He spent the last days of his life in England , knowing that the USA would also have taken him in. President Roosevelt had personally offered him this in a letter, with appreciative words.

background

The play Berggasse 19 is based on the play A Far Country by the American writer Henry Denker . The play, staged by Ernst Haeusserman (1916–1984) at the Theater in der Josefstadt , had its Austrian premiere on June 7, 1979. In January 1980 there was a resumption for four evenings.

The 63-year-old actor Curd Jürgens , who played both the young and the old Freud at the side of Mijou Kovacs (Elisabeth), was not sure in an interview at the time whether he was still up to the role of the young Freud. In Berggasse 19 , Jürgens played one of his last leading roles in the theater. He died in 1982.

The piece was recorded for television in the form of a joint production by ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk . The film was broadcast on the 3sat TV station on April 22, 2006 on the occasion of Sigmund Freud's 150th birthday (May 6, 2006) .

The film was released on DVD in 2007.

media

  • DVD: Berggasse 19. Edition Josefstadt, Hoanzl

References and comments

  1. ↑ Checked by means of a recording from April 22, 2006 by the television station 3sat .
  2. ↑ Hans Heinz Hahnl : Henry Denker's "Berggasse 19" in Josefstadt: A cup of coffee for Dr. Freud . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 9, 1979, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ Curd Jürgens Freud again in Josefstadt . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1980, p. 12 , above ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ Personal details (...) Curd Jürgens . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24/1979 , June 11, 1979, ISSN  0038-7452 , pp. 218 ( Spiegel Archive [accessed September 5, 2012]).
  5. ↑ na press portal

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