The mine - Franz Fühmann
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| Original title | The mine - Franz Fühmann |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 85 minutes |
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| Director | Karlheinz mouth |
| script | Karlheinz mouth |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music | Dietmar Diesner |
| camera | Wolfgang Dietzel |
| cut | Ingeborg Marszalek |
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The mine - Franz Fühmann is a documentary of Provobis Society of Film and Television under the direction of Karl Heinz mouth from the year 1998 .
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This detailed film essay is a portrait of one of the most versatile GDR writers and children's book authors, Franz Fühmann (1922–1984). It deals with the last decade of the author's life and his mammoth project Im Berg , which was to become his magnum opus . Fühmann's early death left the book unfinished with 129 pages of text and 20 pages of material. Under the typescript he wrote, already drawn by death: “Report of a failure. Fragment. “The director Karlheinz Mund takes up this thought, traces the life of Fühmann with interviews, pictures of the work underground and text quotes.
The film begins with his childhood and with retrospective reflections on his sister. Then there are film clips from 1974 in which he visits a school class in Märkisch Buchholz , a place not far from his home in the middle of the forest, to talk to them about Prometheus . The children of that time still fondly remember him today. Already here the thought of a novel about mining in the Harz takes shape. In order to research , Fühmann decides to go underground in the Mansfeld region , in copper mining. He tells how it begins, that he drives underground with a guard for the first three days, how his working day goes and that he goes to bed early in a dormitory. Former colleagues have their say, who remember how Fühmann is assigned to the service in a completely normal way, like any other miner. But he is also given the time he needs for his research. For him, the shaft was a place of truth, the original mine experience became a metaphor for his life and work.
His former colleagues from the mining industry still speak of him with great respect, even a former deputy party secretary of the SED cannot rule himself out. Well-known personalities express themselves, for example B. Prof. Hans Richter (literary scholar), Christa Wolf , Klaus Schlesinger , Dr. Jürgen Krützer (Germanist) and Rolf Haufs . Again and again, older excerpts from documentaries are shown, which are listed a little further down.
Production and publication
The mine - Franz Fühmann was from the Provobis Society of Film and Television Ltd. in co-production with the à Jour film and the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk as color film, with the help of frequent black and white film - sequences of historical photographic images and video recordings made.
The film was made using Franz Fühmann - Im Berg. Texts and documents from the estate edited by Ingrid Prignitz. (Rostock: Hinstorff 1991) and the radio essay by Sigrid Damm I would like to go out into the street and shout . ( SR 1992)
Numerous film quotes from the following documentaries enrich the information:
- 1970: Seilfahrt 69 ( DEFA )
- 1974: Prometheus in film quotations Märkisch-Buchholz ( GDR television )
- 1975: ... and they were only working people ( College for Film and Television of the GDR )
- 1977: Departure into reality (GDR television)
- 1979: Martin der Berauber (DEFA)
- 1981: Lachter, Hunter, water balances (East German television)
- 1982: The Fall of the Angel ( HR )
- 1984: Fühmann reads to teachers from West Berlin (Blumensath video)
- 1986: Miners (DEFA)
The opening date in the cinemas is given as October 15, 1998. It was first broadcast on television on May 24, 2000 on MDR .
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films writes that this is a traditionally structured and developed documentary that focuses on the portrait of an artist who, as a passionate socialist, suffered from the real conditions in the GDR.
Web links
- The mine - Franz Fühmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The mine - Franz Fühmann at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ The mine - Franz Fühmann. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 28, 2017 .