Bonner Pitaval: The Heyde-Sawade Affair
| Episode of the series Bonner Pitaval | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Heyde-Sawade affair |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
DEFA on behalf of the DFF |
| length | 101 minutes |
| classification | Episode 2 |
| First broadcast | June 3, 1963 on DFF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Luderer |
| script | Wolfgang Luderer |
| music | Wolfgang Pietsch |
| camera | Günter Marczinkowsky |
| cut | Use Peters |
| occupation | |
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The Heyde-Sawade Affair (series title: Bonner Pitaval : The Heyde-Sawade Affair ) is a German TV radio film by Walter Jupé and Friedrich Karl Kaul about the criminal case of Dr. Werner Heyde , produced in the Defa studio for feature films (Gruppe Berlin).
action
After being involved in more than 100,000 euthanasia crimes during the Nazi era , the former SS psychiatrist and medical doctor Dr. Werner Heyde lived an undisturbed life in West Germany after the war under a false name ("Fritz Sawade"). With the help of those who knew it, he was able to get a job as a medical expert. His true identity remains in the dark for many years. His wife had him pronounced dead and is receiving the pension of a widow of a psychology professor. After going undetected for ten years, Dr. Heyde one day exposed and arrested and found dead in his cell shortly before the start of the trial. The film plot is based on the authentic case of Dr. Werner Heyde .
background
The series title Bonner Pitaval ties in with the early days of crime fiction. Friedrich Schiller had published the works of the French lawyer François Gayot de Pitaval (1673-1743), who between 1734 and 1743 had published a series of 22 individual volumes entitled Causes célèbres et intéressantes (“Famous and Interesting Criminal Cases”). In it, curious and sensational court cases were presented in an understandable way for the general public. Pitaval was not only concerned with the background of the crime, but also with the psychology of the perpetrators.
Friedrich Karl Kaul wanted to build on this with the name of his GDR film series. He started with the Heyde-Sawade affair, as it was the clearest way of demonstrating what he believed to be the abuses in the Federal Republic of Germany. The GDR lawyer and screenwriter does not leave the interpretation of the documentary feature film about Werner Heyde to the viewer. Rather, in a final reading from his book published one year before the television broadcast about the case, Kaul once again explains in detail the background, participants and people who knew about the events and explains the political significance of the case. For Kaul, the National Socialist legacy was a genuine element of West German society and the Heyde case was just one of many in the Federal Republic of the Adenauer era . Although the film has a clearly propaganda style and thrust, like most of the episodes from Kaul's Bonner-Pitaval series, it is one of the more sophisticated crime film adaptations of GDR film art.
criticism
The film-dienst described The Heyde-Sawade Affair as “a television film in the popular series 'Das Fernseh-Pitaval', which illuminates authentic political criminal cases against the background of historical developments and always targets the 'class justice' in the Weimar Republic and the Federal Republic . "
literature
- Heidi Stecker: Victims and perpetrators: Aunt Marianne and so on . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 103 (issue 28-29, July 17, 2006), pages A-1982 / B-1703 / C-1647.
- Jürgen Schreiber : A painter from Germany. Gerhard Richter : The drama of a family. Pendo-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86612-058-3 .
- Eckhart Gillen: Gerhard Richter: Herr Heyde or the Moerder are among us. Dealing with the trauma of suppressed history in West Germany . In: Eckhart Gillen: "Difficulties in searching for the truth" (...). Berlin 2002, pp. 186–191.
- Christiane Rothmaler: Sterilization according to the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring" of July 14, 1933 . An investigation into the activity of the Hereditary Health Court and the implementation of the law in Hamburg between 1934 and 1944. Matthiesen-Verlag, Husum 1991. (= Treatises on the history of medicine and natural sciences 60) (also: University dissertation, Hamburg 1986) . ISBN 3-7868-4060-1 .
- Ernst Klee: What they did - what they became . (= Fischer Taschenbuch 4364). Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 3-596-24364-5 .
- Karl Heinz Roth : Film propaganda and extermination of the mentally ill and handicapped in the Third Reich . Hamburg 1986.
- Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schuettke: The Heyde / Sawade affair . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5717-7 .
- Friedrich Karl Kaul: Dr. Sawade is making a career. The case of the euthanasia doctor Dr. Heyde . Frankfurt 1971.
- Alexander Mitscherlich / Fred Mielke (ed.): Medicine without humanity. Documents of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial . (= Fischer library 332). Frankfurt am Main 1960.
Web links
- Bonner Pitaval: The affair Heyde Sawade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Television of the GDR film data
- Pitaval in Bonn: The Heyde-Sawade affair at filmportal.de
- Foundation of the German Broadcasting Archive Babelsberg . Find at the German Broadcasting Archive (DRA; PDF file; 348 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation of the German Broadcasting Archive Babelsberg. Archive number IDNR 03581.
- ^ Bonner Pitaval: The Heyde-Sawade Affair. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .