The girl Störtebeker

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Television series
Original title The girl Störtebeker
Country of production GDR
original language German
year 1979/80
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
Episodes 5
genre adventure
Director Karl-Heinz Bahls
idea Hans Draehmpaehl
script Karl-Heinz Bahls
music Reinhard Lakomy
camera Hans-Jürgen Reinecke
cut Renate Bade
First broadcast November 23, 1980 on GDR television
occupation

The girl Störtebeker is a five-part television series of the television of the GDR , which was produced in 1979 in cooperation with DEFA on the Baltic coast . The focus of the action is the girl Antje, who is definitely part of the crew of the pioneer yacht Always ready! , a sailing boat of the pioneering organization Ernst Thälmann , wants to be taken up and is supported in their imagination by the pirate Klaus Störtebeker and his cronies. The idea and the scenario come from the Wismar writer Hans Draehmpaehl (1932–1994), who preferred to write his works in Low German . It was broadcast from November 23, 1980.

action

Antje's father is the captain of a merchant ship. Since her parents are on a trip to Argentina together , Antje is staying with her “Großvadding” in (the fictional) Südermünde. Grandfather gives her an old novel about Klaus Störtebeker to read. By reading Antjes is stimulated imagination. She really wants to get on the pioneer yacht Always ready! to become a captain too. With his help, she has set up a “pirate ship” in her grandfather's shed, which she commands in her imagination.

However, Antje is so busy with the novel that her achievements in mathematics as well as in swimming lessons leave much to be desired. She is therefore criticized by her teacher for her inattentiveness. In daydreams she sees Störtebeker and his pirates who encourage her to fulfill her dream. If you do not have a swimming certificate or a good knowledge of maths, you can be accepted on the Immer Ready! but excluded. Antje therefore takes math tutoring with her classmate Dirk and swimming lessons with her classmate Claudia.

But Antje is very impatient because she is always ready! absolutely wants to take part in a regatta in Warnemünde as a helmsman . After learning mathematics from Dirk and proving her knowledge with a “1” in class, she asks Claudia to send her a blank form for a swimming certificate via the lifeguard. Claudia allows herself to be “bribed” with an African jewelry chain that Antje's father brought back from a trip and reports her certificate as lost, so that she receives a blank form which is made out in Antje's name. In her enthusiasm, Antje is always ready! not aware that it is a forgery of documents .

Since she has shown herself to be very attentive in an emergency at sea , Captain Martens is ready to take Antje on board. The crew, which consists only of boys, is, however, partly skeptical about the admission of a girl: "Woman on board brings manslaughter and murder". Martens and other crew members, however, believe that it is not gender that counts, but performance alone. However, since Antjes' fraud is exposed, she is expelled from the ship. Her grandfather, aunt Paula and Klaus, the fireman and bridge keeper, Uwe, a pirate sailor - two adult friends Antjes - give her courage. After a few adventures and always ready to reach their destination, she manages part of the Department of Always ready! to become. Klaus is now allowed to set up a fisherman's room in the shed where the “pirate ship” Antjes is and which is no longer needed, in which all kinds of souvenirs from seafaring are to be exhibited.

Production notes

The leading actress Violetta Sudmann was accepted from a large number of applicants for an advertisement in Stralsund . The real team of Always Ready! was not visible during filming and worked in the background.

In an interview with the "Deutsche Lehrerzeitung" in 1980, the author Draehmpaehl denied that the plot could possibly be traced back to the Störtebeker ballad from Cuba , which was performed in Ralswiek . The only template for the scenario is the life story of Störtebeker and the yacht Always ready! been myself.

Trivia

  • During the history class, Antje reads a passage about Störtebeker from the GDR school history book for the 6th grade and then explains the term Likedeeler to the class . The Likedeelers would have shared their booty with the poor people on the North and Baltic Sea coasts and were loved and adored by them for it, which teacher Baumann commented approvingly: "And rightly."
  • The Always ready! was built in Berlin in 1960 and renamed Greif von Ueckermünde in 1994 . Her home port was also Ueckermünde during the filming , but for the filming the lettering of the home port visible on the stern was probably changed in Südermünde by pasting it with a film or painting over it.

Lore

In 2010 a DVD edition with a booklet with information about the series was published in the “DDR TV Archive” series.

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