DEFA fairy tale film
In the early 1950s began in the GDR with the production of the DEFA - fantasy films . The films were followed by millions of viewers in the cinema and are therefore among the most important German films . Over the decades, the films developed into cult films and are regularly shown in KiKA - Sunday Fairy Tales and at Christmas time in the third programs . Above all, the cooperative production of Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella (1973) with the ČSSR became well known.
background
DEFA was the first film studio in the four occupation zones to receive a license after 1945, but did not produce any fairy tale films during the occupation . The DEFA children's film production approached the fairy tale heritage only slowly at first, also because the Grimm collection was not undisputed in the Soviet zone of occupation . The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm appeared on the one hand to be too illusory, romantic and mystical, on the other hand to be too cruel and bloody. In 1948, Wolff von Gordon proposed a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Cold Heart by Wilhelm Hauff to DEFA . It wasn't until two years after the founding of the GDR that the first fairy tale film, The Cold Heart , which is also the first DEFA color film in Agfacolor , was shot under the direction of Paul Verhoeven in the Babelsberg studios in spring and summer 1950, and thanks to 9,779. With an audience of 526 it also became one of the most successful DEFA films ever. In 1953, the audience record was broken with DEFA's second fairy tale film, The Story of Little Muck by Wolfgang Staudte , with 12.9 million moviegoers, which is also due to the elaborate production and the special effects that were not so common at the time . This makes the Wilhelm Hauff film adaptation of the GDR cinema film with the most visitors.
The following fairy tale productions reached an average of four to five million viewers. In 1961 a fairy tale film was banned for the first and last time with a film adaptation based on Hans Christian Andersen , which was entitled The Dress . In July 1989, Hannelore Unterberg's production Verflixtes Misgeschick! , in which Carmen-Maja Antoni plays the title role, the last DEFA fairy tale film shown on the big screen.
Overview of DEFA fairy tale films
- 1950: The Cold Heart - Director: Paul Verhoeven , Based on: Wilhelm Hauff
- 1953: The story of little Muck - director: Wolfgang Staudte , template: Wilhelm Hauff
- 1955: Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg - Director: Herbert Ballmann , based on: Harzsage
- 1956: The brave little tailor - director: Helmut Spieß , template: Brothers Grimm
- 1957: The singing, ringing tree - Director: Francesco Stefani , based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1958: The story of poor Hassan - Director: Gerhard Klein , based on: Uyghur fairy tale
- 1959: Das Feuerzeug - director: Siegfried Hartmann , template: Hans Christian Andersen
- 1960: Hatifa - director: Siegfried Hartmann, template: Willi Meinck
- 1960: The Magic Man - directed by Christoph Engel and Erwin Anders , based on: Rumpelstiltskin by the Brothers Grimm
- 1961: Snow White - Director: Gottfried Kolditz , based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1961: The Golden Yurt - Director: Rawsha Dorshpalam
- 1961: Das Kleid - Director: Konrad Petzold , based on: The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
- 1961: The wooden calf - director: Bernhard Thieme , template: Das Bürle by the Brothers Grimm
- 1962: Rotkäppchen - Director: Götz Friedrich , based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1963: Frau Holle - Director: Gottfried Kolditz, based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1964: The Golden Goose - Director: Siegfried Hartmann, based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1965: König Drosselbart - director: Walter Beck , template: Brothers Grimm
- 1967: Turlis Abenteuer - Director: Walter Beck, based on: Pinocchio's adventures by Carlo Collodi
- 1969: How do you marry a king? - Director: Rainer Simon , template: The clever farmer's daughter from the Brothers Grimm
- 1971: Sleeping Beauty - Director: Walter Beck, based on: Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault
- 1972: Sixes come through the world - Director: Rainer Simon, based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1973: Three hazelnuts for Cinderella - director: Václav Vorlíček , based on: Božena Němcová
- 1974: Hans Röckle and the Devil - Director: Hans Kratzert , based on: Karl Marx
- 1976: The Blue Light - Director: Iris Gusner , Template: Brothers Grimm
- 1977: The shoes that were danced to pieces - Director: Ursula Schmenger
- 1977: Who'll run away from the devil - director: Egon Schlegel , template: The devil with the three golden hairs by the Brothers Grimm
- 1978: Dwarf Nose - Director: Karl-Heinz Barls
- 1979: Snow White and Rose Red - Director: Siegfried Hartmann, based on: Brothers Grimm, The Three Cursed Princes by Božena Němcová
- 1979: The Cat Prince - Director: Ota Koval
- 1980: The Mirror of the Great Magus - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg
- 1982: The Prince behind the Seven Seas - Director: Walter Beck, Original: The singing, jumping little Löweneckerchen by the Brothers Grimm
- 1984: The exchanged queen - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg , template: The shoemaker's wife as Tsarina by Andrej Platonow
- 1985: The story of the golden thaler - director: Bodo Fürneisen , template: Hans Fallada
- 1985: Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns - director: Jürgen Brauer , template: Gisela von Arnim
- 1985: A Magical Legacy - directed by Zdeněk Zelenka and Michael Kahn
- 1986: Der Bärenhäuter - Director: Walter Beck, based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1986: Jorinde and Joringel - Director: Wolfgang Hübner , based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1988: Froschkönig - Director: Walter Beck, based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1988: Der Eisenhans - Director: Karl Heinz Lotz , based on: Brothers Grimm
- 1989: The story of the goose princess and her faithful horse Falada - Director: Konrad Petzold , based on: The Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm
- 1989: Darned misfortune! - Director: Hannelore Unterberg
literature
- Eberhard Berger , Joachim Giera : 77 fairy tale films. A movie guide for young and old. Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3362004473 .
- Ingelore König , Dieter Wiedemann , Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 .
- Frank-Burkhard Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films. The complete documentation of all DEFA feature films from 1946 to 1993. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 .
- DEFA Foundation (Ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins , Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032589-2 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Sabine Hake: Film in Deutschland. History and stories since 1895. Reinbek b. Hamburg 2004, p. 161.
- ↑ See Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera: 77 fairy tale films. A movie guide for young and old. Berlin 1990, p. 19.
- ↑ Cf. Kristin Wardetzky: Fairy tales in education and teaching. In: fairytale mirror. Journal for international fairy tale research and fairy tale care. 1/2014, pp. 3-14.
- ↑ See Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera: 77 fairy tale films. A movie guide for young and old. Berlin 1990, p. 19.
- ↑ Cf. Joachim Giera: Vom Kohlenmunk-Peter, the little Muck and his people. Fairy tale films from the DEFA film studios. In: Helge Gerndt, Kristin Wardetzky: The art of storytelling. Festschrift for Walter Scherf. Potsdam 2002, pp. 293-300.
- ↑ The most successful GDR films in the GDR . Insidekino.com.
- ↑ The most successful GDR films in the GDR at Insidekino.com.