The Dreimäderlhaus (1958)
The Dreimäderlhaus is a Swiss-Austrian love story from 1958 directed by Ernst Marischka based on the play of the same name by Alfred Maria Willner , Heinz Reichert and Heinrich Berté and the novel Schwammerl by Rudolf Hans Bartsch .
Karlheinz Böhm embodies the composer Franz Schubert . The other leading roles in the film are cast with Johanna Matz , Rudolf Schock , Magda Schneider and Gustav Knuth .
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In 1826 the great composer Beethoven gave a much-acclaimed piano concert, which the young Schubert also attended while his friends Baron Franz von Schober, Moritz von Schwind, Leopold Kupelwieser and Johann Mayrhofer met in the tavern. Schubert is deeply impressed and away without a word, whereupon another listener thinks of understand just nothing about music. Schubert joins his friends and has to listen to a music publisher tear down Beethoven's music. He cannot contain himself and clearly tells the man his opinion. Beethoven stands at such a lonely height that one can only look up at him in silence, one has to kneel down. The music publisher is not taken aback, however, but says he likes the young man. When Schubert introduced himself to the music publisher Diabelli the next day, he recognized him as the man he had messed with the previous evening. The publisher has just locked the famous court opera singer Vogl in a room so that he can study Schubert's songs. Soon you can actually hear him singing. The name Schubert will have to be remembered, says Diabelli to one of his employees.
Schubert meets with his friend Moritz von Schwind, who is currently painting the Beethoven House. Shortly afterwards, the almost deaf composer comes out of his house, serious as always. When the four friends later sit together in female company in Grinzing, they use Schubert's brief presence to forge the plan that the friend would have to fall in love one day. Two of them think the Hannerl Tschöll from the Dreimäderlhaus is the right one. Only Baron von Schober holds back, because for him Hannerl is the loveliest girl ever. The decision is quickly made to do a country party with women on Sunday. Schubert and Hannerl get closer on the excursion. In the Tschölls' house, on the other hand, good advice is expensive, Andreas and Ferdinand, the future husbands of Hederl and Heiderl, have arrived as a surprise and the two women are not there. On the other hand, the country party is fun, you eat, drink and sing together. Hannerl decides to take piano lessons from Schubert. With her father she negotiates a more than adequate payment for the composer, knowing full well that he earns little money. When she plays something to Schubert, he shows her what his music is meant to be. He doesn't want to be paid for the joy of having her with him during piano lessons, however.
In the evening, the famous court opera singer Vogl sings Schubert's songs in public for the first time in the Esterhazy Palace. Diabelli turned it so that Vogl's accompaniment is canceled and Schubert can sit at the piano himself. After some back and forth, Vogl sings Das Lied an die Musik and Schubert accompanies him, followed by other Schubert songs, such as Die Forelle. The evening was a great success and Vogl and Schubert shake hands in friendship. At the same time, music is being played and sung in the Tschöll house. Christian Tschöll thinks what effect a single piano lesson can have if it is given by a genius.
Quietly begging my songs is Schubert's new composition that his friends find on his piano. They ask Franz von Schober to sing the song, they know that it is difficult for him because he feels a lot for Hannerl himself, and they say what a great friend he is. Schubert joins them, he has tickets for himself and his friends for the dress rehearsal of Beethoven's Fidelio . The friends are thrilled. The rehearsal turns out to be a fiasco, however, as Beethoven, who conducts himself, is now completely deaf. He only has to hand over the baton to his concertmaster. The friends are full of deep compassion as they can empathize with what that means for such a musician.
The wedding of Hederl and Heiderl is celebrated in the Tschöll house. Christian Tschöll receives Schubert in a particularly friendly way and indicates to the composer that his daughter Hannerl feels more for him than just friendship. Schubert then takes heart, but asks his friend Franz von Schober to sing Hannerl his love song, which he wrote especially for her. He couldn't do it himself, he was much too excited for that. Schober tries in vain to refuse this request, how should his friend know how difficult this request is for him. But then he struggles to comply with Schubert's request. "Dear Fraulein Hannerl, this song should be more than an ordinary song, it should speak to you and tell you what a heart feels for you." Then he sings: "Yours is my heart and will remain so forever." Hardly has When he has finished, Hannerl does not storm towards Schubert, but towards von Schober and embraces and kisses him. Schubert is deeply affected. The wedding is to take place shortly afterwards and Hannerl has asked Schubert to perform the love song in the church. From her sisters she learns what it really was like back then and that Schubert actually wrote the song for her in order to confess his love to her, and now she still expected him to do that. Hannerl is very troubled by this announcement. After the wedding celebration, Hannerl thanks Schubert for everything that means to her that she is now the wife of his best friend, to whom he, like her, only wishes the very best, and if she wants to make him happy, then she should forget everything and make his friend very happy. When she asks what happened to him, he replies that he has his music.
Production and Background
The film was produced in 1958 in the studios of the Wien-Filmgesellschaft mbH Sievering and Rosenhügel by ASP / ERMA Filmproduktionsges. Ernst Marischka & Co. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff was responsible for the furnishings / buildings . Alexander Sawczynski assisted him. The costumes come from Leo Bei and Gerdago . Premiered Das Dreimäderlhaus on 18 December 1958 in Munich.
State Opera member Wilma Lipp lent Johanna Matz (Hannerl) her voice; At the end of the film, Lipp himself can not only be heard but also seen with Schubert's Ave Maria . The pianist Alexander Jenner plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, which is performed in the film by Ewald Balser, who portrays Beethoven. In the film, the song Am Brunnen sounds in front of the gate . Schubert set the song that belongs to the cycle of poems Winterreise to music .
History: Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was an Austrian composer. He was born the thirteenth of sixteen children. Schubert received violin and organ lessons from an early age. His talent for composition also crystallized early on. Because of his beautiful voice he was accepted as a choir boy . There he met many of his later friends such as Joseph von Spaun , Albert Stadler and Anton Holzapfel. He came into contact with Franz von Schober through his friend Spaun. His circle of friends, which was constantly expanding, included the painter Moritz von Schwind , the poet Johann Mayrhofer and the baritone Johann Michael Vogl , one of the most important singers at the Vienna Court Opera . Schubert also maintained close contact with the brothers Joseph Kupelwieser, his later librettist, and Leopold Kupelwieser , a painter by trade. It was not until 1827, a year before his untimely death, that Schubert was persuaded by his friends to give his own concert, which promptly became a great success.
Film adaptations with a similar title
- 1918: The Dreimäderlhaus. Schubert's romance novel. Director: Richard Oswald , actor Franz Schubert: Julius Spielmann.
- 1936: Three girls around Schubert . Director: EW Emo , Franz Schubert: Paul Hörbiger -
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- DVD
The film was released on DVD on July 6, 2007 by Kinowelt. On November 7th, 2008 the DVD “A reunion with Karlheinz Böhm” was also released by Kinoweit, which, in addition to another film, also contains Das Dreimäderlhaus .
criticism
"Marischka knows no mercy when it comes to lard."
The lexicon of the international film spoke of a “maudlin story about Franz Schubert, who falls in love with the lovely Hannerl and loses her to a friend through his clumsiness.” It went on: “Extremely stencil-like film adaptation; a soulful Vienna Schmonzette with kitsch and Schubert melodies ”.
Spielfilm.de wrote: “Emotional musical melodrama about the love of the composer Franz Schubert, accompanied by his unique melodies. The unmistakable Karlheinz Böhm is convincing in the main role! "
Web links
- The Dreimäderlhaus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Dreimäderlhaus at filmportal.de
- The Dreimäderlhaus Pictures from the film
- The Dreimäderlhaus cover picture illustrated film stage No. 4605 (pictured: Karlheinz Böhm, Gerda Siegl, Johanna Matz, Helga Neuner)
- The Dreimäderlhaus. Movie poster
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Dreimäderlhaus sS dvd-forum.at
- ↑ The Dreimäderlhaus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Dreimäderlhaus spielfilm.de (with film trailer)