Brutality in stone

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Movie
Original title Brutality in stone
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 12 minutes
Rod
Director Alexander Kluge
Peter Schamoni
script Alexander Kluge
Peter Schamoni
production Alexander Kluge
Peter Schamoni
Dieter Lemmel
music Hans Posegga
camera Wolf Wirth
Rob Houwer
cut Heidi Genée

Brutality in Stein is a German short documentary by Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni from 1961 .

action

The film shows architectural details of the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg . In often static settings, the "uniformity", the lack of decoration and at the same time the dominance of corners and edges are emphasized. At the same time, various audio documents are played, including calls for salvation, the sound of marching masses, Hitler speeches and excerpts from the memories of Rudolf Höß , who was commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1940 to November 1943 . In addition to the pictures of the Nazi party rally grounds, Hitler's sketches of the finished site are shown as well as Nazi models of future German cities, including the capital Berlin as the future “ world capital Germania ”. The film ends with shots of rubble from the site in Nuremberg.

intention

The film aims to clarify the connection between architecture - especially the party and prestige buildings - and the ideology of National Socialism . The legacy of Nazi architecture (buildings, ruins, models, blueprints, sketches), so the thesis of the film, can bring the ideology of the Nazis and the memory of the Nazi era to life and make the viewer "from the spirit of their builders" ( Quote from the film ) witness.

production

Brutality in Stein was filmed in Nuremberg in 1960 and had its premiere on February 8, 1961 at the IFF in Oberhausen. The film's narrators are Hans Clarin and Christian Marschall .

The short film was released on DVD in 2007 as part of the overall exhibition of works by Alexander Kluge. Michael Kloft took over the short film title in 2002 for his Spiegel TV documentary Brutalität in Stein - The buildings of the Nazis yesterday and today .

criticism

"Seldom has a political topic been translated so directly into pictorial symbolism as in this extraordinary work by Shamoni," wrote Die Welt in 1961.

Awards

At the IFF Oberhausen, Brutality in Stein received the City of Oberhausen Prize in 1961. He also received an award in Prague in the early 1960s.

literature

  • Brutality in stone . In: Hilmar Hoffmann (Ed.): Peter Schamoni. Film Pieces . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 102-103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Müller-Klug: "Brutalität in Stein" - The connection between architecture and ideology of National Socialism in a film by Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni. Clio Berlin Blog, November 25, 2015, accessed on November 25, 2015 .
  2. ^ Hans Sahl: German short films in the New York Goethehaus . In: Die Welt , December 1, 1961.
  3. ↑ Short processes . In: Der Spiegel , No. 49, 1962, p. 118.