Brecht evening
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Brecht evening |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Wolf Kaiser (theater) Manfred Mosblech (television) |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music |
Paul Dessau Hanns Eisler Hans-Dieter Hosalla Rudolf Wagner-Régeny Kurt Weill |
| camera |
Harry Valek Hans-Georg Henschel Lutz Wruck Harald Swiercz Angelika Finke |
| cut | Dieter Heyn |
| occupation | |
Brecht-Abend is the GDR television recording made in 1971 of the staging of a guest performance program by Wolf Kaiser .
action
Angelica Domröse and Wolf Kaiser sit at a table in the studio where they meet again and again to read connecting texts. Wolf Kaiser begins the event with a reading from O Lust des Beginnings and Angelica Domröse then sings two love songs by Bertolt Brecht and the music by Paul Dessau from 1950.
In the first complex we hear songs from Bertolt Brecht's house postil :
- Domröse: Ballad by Hanna Cash
- Kaiser: Morning speech to Baum Green
- Domröse: Song of the depraved innocence of folding laundry
- Kaiser: Ballad of the pirates
From the play The Round Heads and the Pointed Heads , Frau Domröse sings the song about the invigorating effect of money . The ensuing complex concerns The Threepenny Opera :
- Kaiser: Mackie Messer’s morality
- Domröse: The pirate Jenny
- Kai / Dom: love song (Do you see the moon over Soho)
- Domröse: Barbaralong
- Kai / Dom: The pimp ballad
- Kaiser: Ballad of the Pleasant Life
The following works from exile:
- Domröse: Ballad by the Jewish whore Marie Sanders
- Kaiser: Chased away for a good reason (reading)
- Domröse: And what did the soldier's wife have?
- Kaiser: The soldier of La Ciotat (reading excerpt)
- Domröse: The Song of the Moldau
The performance ends with two songs from the play The Days of the Commune .
production
The piece, with which both actors have been touring the GDR and abroad for a long time , was recorded in the studio with a small audience. The intermediate texts were written by Hans Bunge and the musical accompaniment came from an instrumental group of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra .
It was first broadcast on the first program of GDR television on June 5, 1971.
criticism
Manfred Heidick wrote in the Berliner Zeitung on the occasion of a performance in the Berlin Congress Hall on Alexanderplatz on October 2, 1970:
“The strong applause at the end, which forced encores, seems to confirm that both artists have succeeded in their own interpretation of these texts. Angelica Domröse has a natural musicality that clearly reveals how much she enjoys singing. "
Web links
- Brecht evening in the online dictionary of television in the GDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit of June 5, 1971, p. 9
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 7, 1970, p. 8