Corinna Schmidt
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Corinna Schmidt |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Artur Pohl |
| script | Artur Pohl |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Hans-Hendrik Wehding |
| camera |
Eugen Klagemann Rudolf Radünz |
| cut | Hildegard Tegener |
| occupation | |
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Corinna Schmidt is a DEFA feature film by Artur Pohl from 1951 , based loosely on the novel Frau Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane from 1892.
action
In 1878, Mrs. Kommerzienratin Jenny Treibel drove through the streets of Berlin in a carriage to see the professor's daughter, Corinna Schmidt, to invite her to a company. The route takes her through several unemployed craftsmen waiting for the latest issue of job advertisements, past a grocery store that belonged to her parents and where she spent her youth until she was married to the rich factory owner Treibel. When Corinna arrives, Frau Treibel admires her youth, whereupon she lets her understand that youth is good, but a councilor is even better, as is a garden and a landau . But Ms. Treibel replies that it is not the money alone that is important, but that it is the small circumstances that make you happy, which she can confirm from her own experience. At that moment, Corinna's father, Professor Willibald Schmidt, enters the room and goes to another room with Frau Treibel, where they both talk about his former love for her, and the professor finds out when he spoke to her back then, almost 40 years ago had married, however, she would have lost her luck. But Jenny is of the opinion that in simple circumstances, at Willibald Schmidt's side, she would have been happier and she admits that she often cries in a quiet corner because of this.
Kommerzienrat Treibel makes a tour of a production facility in his company, where the color Prussian blue for the uniforms of the infantry is made. When his office manager calls him to a meeting with representatives of the industrialists ' association, the workers gather to find out more about Bismarck's socialist law . In his office, Treibel explains to the manufacturers that he called them over to get money from them for the newly founded Royal Democratic Party. With the hint that the new party will support the protective tariff policy, he also gets the prospect of the expected donations. After saying goodbye to the industrialists, the party chairman also meets Lieutenant a. D. Vogelsang joins Triebel and holds out the prospect of a seat in the Reichstag if he continues to be so committed and donates enough.
Lieutenant Vogelsang is also the first guest to arrive at the ceremony organized by Kommerzienrat Triebel. He uses this invitation to promote his newly formed party. Corinna comes accompanied by her cousin, the senior teacher of a grammar school Dr. Marcel Wedderkopp, whom her father would like to see as a future husband. But she chooses her place at the table so that she can sit next to Treibel's unmarried son Leopold and immediately starts flirting with him. At the dance, Corinna and Marcel get together again, but only until Marcel is supposed to get something to drink during a dance break. Leopold uses this opportunity to invite her to dance, but does not accept Marcel's objection. While Lieutenant Vogelsang is getting drunk more and more, Leopold is in the process of relaxing Corinna from her cousin. When the workers on the night shift walk through the garden of the Villa Treibel to shorten the route, the guests notice that there are also many children among them, which Treibel defends. Marcel contradicts him, a dispute ensues and because of Marcel's social democratic views, the visitors all go home. On the way home, Marcel and Corinna continue arguing and she tells him that if Leopold asked her if she wanted him, she wouldn't say “No” because she would rather wear diamonds on her ears and live in a villa.
The next morning, Herr Treibel, his wife and son Leopold sit together at breakfast and evaluate the renewed letters of appeal from Lieutenant Vogelsang, while Leopold reads an article from the daily newspaper in which the inability of the party chairman and the pointlessness of this party are discussed. Since Leopold only gets one cup of coffee from his mother, he wants to drink his second cup in the egg house , where Corinna surprises him. Here he confesses to her that he would only marry her and not, as his father intended, his sister-in-law Hildegard from Hamburg , which he confirms with a hard kiss. Afterwards, at a meeting with her cousin Marcel, she tells of her firm intention to marry Leopold.
Another article in the press describes the final fall of Lieutenant Vogelsang as party chairman. When Triebel is referred to as a ridiculous figure by Vogelsang's grace and dilettante , he finally separates from his former party chairman, who is about to ask him for new money. On the way out of the house, Vogelsang overheard a conversation between Frau Treibel and her son Leopold, in which she forbade him to interact with Corinna. In response to Leopold's reaction that she shouldn't talk so disrespectfully about his future wife, Jenny only asks what the two of them want to live off of. After Leopold's departure, Dr Treibel came into the room, responded positively to the news of the engagement and that it really wouldn't be a scandal. Even a personal conversation between Jenny and Corinna and her father does not lead to the termination of the engagement. Next, Jenny Treibel asks her daughter-in-law to write to her sister Hildegard to come to Berlin quickly so that she can help her son out of the relationship with Corinna.
In a restaurant, Lieutenant Vogelsang met the editor of a local newspaper, whom he told about the conversation that happened in the Treibels' house about poor Corinna's engagement with the rich Leopold. The news was published the very next day and asked Jenny's new strategy. After congratulations from several sides, she decides to agree to her son's wedding to Corinna in order to preserve the good reputation. A visit to Corinna shows, however, that she has meanwhile rethought, because she no longer wants to know about a marriage with Leopold. Through experiences and conversations with Marcel, she realized that the elegant and rich world does not suit her origins. Although Marcel is expelled from the country by the socialist law, Corinna will wait for him, as she gives him to understand when passing. His social democratic friends will help her with this.
production
Marieluise Steinhauer was responsible for the dramaturgy .
Corinna Schmidt was shot as a black and white film in the Althoff studio and in Berlin and the surrounding area and had its premiere on October 19, 1951 in the Berlin cinemas Babylon and DEFA-Filmtheater Kastanienallee . The film was broadcast on February 16, 1954 by the Berlin TV Center (Adlershof) .
criticism
In New Germany , Herman Müller summarizes:
“The film will help many people to recognize where the progressive people were at the turn of the century, and what that time and its people looked like, and thus inevitably let them see who has inherited the reaction today and who has inherited the Progress. "
In the Neue Zeit , Gerhard Rostin wrote about the director:
"Instead of letting Fontane's superior spirit take over the running of the film, he adds a lot of his own and, unfortunately, a lot of water in Fontane's wine."
In the Berliner Zeitung , Hans Ulrich Eylau said:
“The direct political statement, the evil sharpness of the Simplicissimus caricature, everything loud and intrusive in general, in which the direction indulges, was not Fontane's business. The artistic truth of the film suffers from many internal fractures. "
The lexicon of international films says: Corinna Schmidt would be a
"Atmospherically dense and well-acted film that shifts weights in Fontane's novel Frau Jenny Treibel" from the bourgeois main character to 'class-conscious' elements and thus does not do justice to the literary model. Despite the ingratiation on 'socialist realism', the film was made by the SED sharply reprimanded for corrupting Fontane's legacy. Interesting as a contemporary document. "
Web links
- Corinna Schmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Corinna Schmidt at filmportal.de
- Corinna Schmidt at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946–1955 , pp. 173 f.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from October 20, 1951, p. 4
- ↑ Neue Zeit of October 20, 1951, p. 2
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 23, 1951, p. 3
- ^ Corinna Schmidt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 8, 2019 .