Curling for Eisenstadt

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Movie
Original title Curling for Eisenstadt
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Andreas Schmied
script Marc Schlegel ,
Peter Hengl
production Florian Gebhardt
music Iva Zabkar
camera Anna Hawliczek
cut Alexandra Loewy
occupation

Curling für Eisenstadt (working title: Curling for Eisenstadt ) is an Austrian comedy film from the ORF television film series Stadtkomödie from 2019 by Andreas Schmied with Katharina Straßer , Marlene Morreis , Veronika Polly and Maddalena Hirschal . The film was shown for the first time on September 13, 2019 on ORF. The preview took place on September 10, 2019 in Esterházy Palace. The first broadcast on the first was on October 16, 2019.

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The young tourism manager Vicky is a spoiled woman who has so far made headway in life thanks to the good reputation of her father, the influential winemaker Hubert Kapfensteiner. When she makes a mistake while presenting a new advertising line for the agency she works for and unintentionally insults the mayor, her boss Joe Baumgartner fires her. She is also through with her father and now has to learn to stand on her own two feet. After a short slack, she starts again and tries to bring the women's curling world championship to Eisenstadt, the capital of Burgenland .

For a successful application, however, she lacks a curling team from Eisenstadt, and Vicky has no idea about the sport of curling herself and has to raise the registration fee and the equipment. Actually a hopeless undertaking. She is doing everything she can to set up her own women's curling team. Association president Robert Weber promises her to make Eisenstadt the venue for the World Cup if she and her team win against the state champions from Kitzbühel . The mayor is open to the project, her former boss Joe Baumgartner is threatened with losing the contract to Vicky.

In addition to Vicky as Skip , the team includes her friend, the surveying technician Melanie as well as Emma, ​​an employee of her father, and Geri, a surf instructor, whom she happens to meet while surfing. Her former boss Joe tries to sabotage her, among other things by getting her to be banned from the training ground. On the other hand, she receives support from Hendl Kaiser, who acts as a sponsor and makes his hall available for training. He suggests Chicken Nugget Queens as the team name . Vicky can win the former GDR curler Petra Glewitz as a trainer, the opposing team's coach is the former FRG curler Silke von Staremberg, who prevented Glewitz from joining the team after the fall of the Berlin Wall . After that, Glewitz never touched a curling stone again. After Glewitz initially wanted to give up, Kaiser managed to get her back into the team. A romance develops between the two.

After Vicky had a one-night stand with David Kovac, on whom Melanie had also previously cast an eye, Vicky and her friend got into an argument during the tournament with the Kitzbühel team. Melanie wants to give up everything and get out of the team. After a reconciliation, the Eisenstädter continue the tournament. A stone breaks in the process. Although the coach of the opposing team, Silke von Staremberg, provided them with a defective replacement stone, the Eisenstadt-based team finally managed to win the tournament.

Production and Background

The shooting took place from November 6th to December 7th 2018 in Burgenland and Vienna . Filming locations were among others Eisenstadt , Illmitz and Frauenkirchen .

The film was produced by Gebhardt Productions , the Austrian and Central German broadcasters were involved , the production was supported by the cultural funding of the state capital of Freistadt Eisenstadt. Torsten Heinemann was responsible for the sound, Enid Löser for the production design, Monika Buttinger for the costumes and Marcus Zenaty and Carmen Schneider for the mask.

After Harri Pinter, Drecksau this is the second city ​​comedy from director Andreas Schmied . Katharina Straßer already played the leading role in the city comedy Herrgott for Beginners .

The curler Karina Toth has an appearance as the skip of the opposing team.

reception

Reviews

Wilfried Geldner wrote in the Weser-Kurier : “A long stretches of entertaining comedy Kaiserschmarrn , with lots of gag raisins and icing sugar on top, which can only work so well in the Ösi dialect.” That the Eastern trainer ended up with the Burgenland Hendl-König wedded, would look "really cracking". How they then come together in the fair play called "Spirit of Curling", the Eisenstadt residents and those from Kitz, already have their tear glands value.

Thomas Klingenmaier said in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten : “Where German TV films often die miserably because the characters can't quite get away from written German, the provincials here creak, grumble , poison and brag, as so often in Austrian films, in dialect and energetically gruff. One likes to watch and listen to them, even while curling, the most boring sport in the world after golf. "

Sidney Schering said onquotemeter.de that the film would make use of the gag and story pots from which films like Mighty Ducks , Cool Runnings or Tin Cup have already nibbled. Unlike Eddie the Eagle, however , this film would not find a new directional lever. Many of the dialogues lived solely “from the Austrian humiliation of the heroines, the Leipzig snout of Maria Simon-Lade and the sleek harshness with which Esther Schweins puts on the opposing trainer.” But director Andreas Schmied gives the banter a solid pace. Alexandra Löwy's editing lets the narrative slide smoothly towards the goal despite some dramaturgical cracks, the soundtrack with its colorful hit mix is ​​fun. The film is by no means a great television film, but an easy pleasure with no regrets.

Susanne Haverkamp wrote in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung : “Absurd and warm-hearted. Tragic and weird. Superficial and deeply meaningful. Sporty and romantic. Good entertainment on Wednesday evening. ”The idea is absurd and so is the film. “But lovingly absurd. With weird characters [...]. "

Audience rating

The premiere in the first on 16 October 2019 in Germany seen by 3.11 million viewers and a market share of 11 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ORF City Comedy: Curling for Eisenstadt (E07). Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Curling for Eisenstadt at Fernsehserien.de
  3. ^ City comedy made in Eisenstadt. In: ORF.at . September 12, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Wilfried Geldner: Wonderful Kaiserschmarrn. In: Weser Courier . September 20, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b c Straßer, Böck, Morreis and Krutzler are "Curling for Eisenstadt". November 9, 2018, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Shooting: "Curling" in Eisenstadt. November 16, 2018, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Eisenstadt becomes a winter sports metropolis for ORF. November 15, 2018, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  8. ^ Curling for Eisenstadt at crew united . Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  9. ^ "Curling for Eisenstadt" - premiere for the new city comedy on September 13th on ORF September 1st , 2019, accessed on September 11th, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Klingenmaier: TV tip: “Curling for Eisenstadt” in the first: women's team meets fried chicken emperor. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . October 14, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  11. ^ Sidney Schering: The Critics: "Curling for Eisenstadt". In : quotemeter.de . October 15, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Susanne Haverkamp: Absurd and warm-hearted: Comedy about a marginal sport. In: Noz.de . October 16, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: Quotas: false start for ZDF show "Mein Lied für Dich", "Wollnys" make RTL Zwei happy. In: Wishlist.de . October 17, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .