The girl Rosemarie (1958)

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Movie
Original title The girl Rosemarie
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rolf Thiele
script Erich Kuby ,
Rolf Thiele,
Rolf Ulrich ,
Jo Herbst
production Luggi Waldleitner
music Norbert Schultze
camera Klaus von Rautenfeld
cut Liesbeth Neumann-Kleinert
occupation

The girl Rosemarie is a socially critical German film from 1958 . The film was produced by Roxy-Film in the CCC-Film -Ateliers in Berlin . Some of the outdoor shots were shot in Frankfurt am Main . The premiere took place there on August 28, 1958.

action

The young Rosemarie Nitribitt , who comes from a poor background, lives with the petty criminals Horst and Walter in a basement apartment in Frankfurt am Main . With these two she roams the city center and not far from a hotel attracts the attention of the industrialist Bruster. He meets there with his “ cartel ” of entrepreneurs and is looking for nightly diversions in the city. In this hotel the Concierge Bran looks after the "gentlemen" by helping them to meet with "ladies" in the evening, whom he (including Rosemarie) does not tolerate in the hotel lobby. Due to a mix-up, Rosemarie soon made the acquaintance of the businessman Konrad Hartog (who is also a member of the "cartel") instead of Bruster. Hartog holds her out and furnishes her with an apartment.

On the way to the von Hartog family's horse show, Rosemarie later met the Frenchman Alfons Fribert, who was involved in industrial espionage. He introduces Rosemarie to the environment of the big business bosses. Meanwhile, Hartog shows himself sniffed over the longer "break" of his own contact with her and separates from Rosemarie. To say goodbye, he gives her a gift of money (18,000 DM) that will be invested in a Mercedes 190 SL Roadster . Meanwhile, Fribert uses Rosemary to get to the secrets of the "gentlemen". With the help of a tape recorder, they are spied on during their nocturnal “chats”. Rosemarie has the tapes hidden by a chance acquaintance, a student.

After all, Rosemarie demands social recognition. She causes a scandal when she suddenly shows up at a party in Bruster's villa and later, accompanied by the student, in the Rialto Bar frequented by the “Kartell” . With that she has overstepped the curve. One day she is murdered in her apartment while the gentlemen of the "cartel" wait in their cars in front of Rosemary's house.

background

The film adaptation has little to do with the life story of Rosemarie Nitribitt . The film is completely silent about their origins and youth. It could not be proven whether she really spied on and wiretapped her customers.

Filming in Frankfurt ran into difficulties. The Steigenberger Group forbade the film team to shoot scenes in the foyer of the “ Frankfurter Hof ” hotel . So it had to be recreated in a West Berlin studio. The actual name of the hotel was not allowed to be mentioned in the film, it was called "Palace Hotel". Also in front of the opposite Mercedes car salon in the junior building no filming permission was given. These scenes had to be filmed out of a car early in the morning.

When the proposal from the Italian Festival in charge International Film Festival of Venice , the film before his Germany start on the Biennial should be shown, saw the competent film adviser to the Foreign Office , Franz Rowas , on August 9, 1958 the film together with representatives of the Export-Union of German films . He then criticized the film generalizing negative phenomena and connecting the political career and economic rise of the Federal Republic with moral decline. The strip could damage the German reputation abroad and in particular provide new arguments for those circles who viewed the economic development of the Federal Republic with disapproval.

Since the government could not legally prevent the performance, Rowas appealed to the civic responsibility of the Export Union. Since the threat to cut subsidies or to introduce export controls for German films was unsuccessful, the Foreign Office instructed the German embassy in Rome to urge the director of the Biennale to cancel the film - without success.

In mid-August, the German press learned of the attempted state influence. The Neue Rhein Zeitung , Bild and Hamburger Echo , among others , mockingly reported on the Foreign Office's approach.

The FSK checked the film a little later. She declared the statements made by the Foreign Office to be incorrect and approved the work with two changes. These concerned the text and a scene with marching soldiers.

For example, the FSK asked for a preamble that expresses the fact that the abuses described and the performers criticized are exceptions. To prevent censorship, the producer had already made a picture with a drawing by Ludwig Erhard , which hangs in several scenes to the right of Nitribitt's bed, obscured by a blur spot. With reference to this picture, Franz Rowas had previously threatened that the Ministry of Economics, from which the Export-Union receives grants year after year, also attach great importance to their decisive stance.

In addition, the FSK censored a scene from the original version in which two bailiff singers sang the chorus to the tune of the Königgrätzer March to a newsreel recording of marching and music-making Bundeswehr soldiers : “We have the canal, we have the canal, we have not yet got the canal full. " The scene is a" degradation of the constitutional and constitutional foundations of the German people, since the Bundeswehr is a constitutional and constitutional institution of the Federal Republic ". In the final version of the film, the song was sung in a harmless scene and turned into a hit.

Jürgen Kniep came to the conclusion in his book Keine Jugendfreigabe , that the events surrounding Das Mädchen Rosemarie had shown that the press had abandoned its extremely tame and government-loyal attitude of the early 1950s and was now rejecting direct state intervention as inadmissible censorship.

Voices and reviews

  • From the point of view of Reclam's film guide (11th edition, Stuttgart 2000, pp. 413-414), the synopsis sounds like a "colportage drama" . For a long time, Das Mädchen Rosemarie works as a “perfectly fitting satire on social conditions in the Federal Republic”, while the banal plot is interrupted and alienated by “aggressive songs (music: Norbert Schultze )” and cabaret interludes reduce the elements of sentimentality to a minimum . The provocation to which the viewer is exposed in the film is stronger, with occasional divergence between intent and artistic means. This is the case, among other things, with the portrayal of the captains of industry, in which the attempt to “make these scary mafia bosses up” seems rather superficial and naive.
  • According to the Lexikon des Internationale Films (1990 edition, p. 2391), the film under the careful direction of Rolf Thiele " shines in a mixture of parody, cabaret and morality, the double standards of German society during the reconstruction period" . The Roots of the "attacked abuses" can The girl Rosemarie does not penetrate.
  • The Lexikon des Deutschen Films (p. 208) highlights the parable-like framework story that uses Norbert Schultze's time-critical songs to comment on the economic miracle and the Adenauer era. "Sardonic wit and a visually imaginative director make Thiele's film a fitting satire of German reality and bourgeois double standards."
  • For film critic Hans Schifferle (in: 100 years of cinema - 100 years of German film, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich) Thiele’s film, like his entire unmanageable oeuvre, is “a single mishmash, a mixture of abstraction and naturalism, of cabaret, melody and rock-n -Roll. ” Schifferle, however, emphasizes the scenes of the bizarre party with Gert Fröbe, which represented “ a wonderful sequence about the profanity of prosperity ” .
  • The evangelical film observer (review No. 553/1958) assesses Thiele's work ambiguously : “A commendable, if unsuccessful attempt at a time criticism based on the nitribitt material. Entertaining and worth considering for adults. "

Awards

The girl Rosemarie was awarded the German Film Critics' Prize in 1958 and in the same year was accepted into the competition at the Venice International Film Festival . Thiele's film had to admit defeat to Hiroshi Inagaki's drama Der Rikschamann for the Golden Lion award , but the film production was awarded the Premio Pasinetti . A year later, Thiele received the directorial award of the Argentine Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata , while the film at the Golden Globe awards in 1959 together with the French contribution When the tide comes by François Villiers and the Yugoslav-Italian coproduction Straße der passion by Giuseppe De Santis received the award for the best foreign language film .

Further films

  • In 1959, The Truth About Rosemary was made under the direction of Rudolf Jugert, with which it was intended to build on the success of the Thiele film. The main role in the now almost forgotten film and never shown on German television was played by the Englishwoman Belinda Lee , who was killed in a car accident in 1961.
  • In 1976 Thiele took up the nitribitt issue again with Rosemary's daughter . For his last directorial work, he was able to win over Hanne Wieder, Jo Herbst and Horst Frank, who had already been in front of the camera in the first film adaptation in 1958.
  • In 1996, Bernd Eichinger and Nina Hoss made a remake of the material for television of the same name , although the content differs from the original version in some points.

literature

  • Christa Bandmann and Joe Hembus : Classics of the German sound film 1930–1960. Munich 1980, p. 184
  • Marli Feldvoss: Who's Afraid of Rosemarie Nitribitt? A chronicle of murder, customs and art from the fifties. In: Between yesterday and tomorrow. West German post-war film 1946–1962. Exhibition catalog, Frankfurt am Main 1989, pp. 164–182
  • Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949–1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0638-7
  • F.-B. Habel: Cut up films. Censorship in the cinema. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-378-01069-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for the girl Rosemarie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2004 (PDF; test number: 17 673 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ F.-B. Habel: Cut up films. Censorship in the cinema , Kiepenheuer, Leipzig, 2003, p. 65