Double the workload

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Movie
Original title Double the workload
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1984
length 7 x 50 minutes
Rod
Director Detlef Rönfeldt
script Nikolai Zink
production Universum Film ,
Norbert Sauer ,
Gisela Moltke
camera Heinz Pehlke
occupation

The double workload is a German television series from 1984 about the double burden of women in a Berlin pharmaceutical company. It was produced by Universum Film on behalf of the SFB / Berliner Werbefunk and is one of the rare attempts to turn the everyday life of factory workers into an entertaining evening series. Directed by Detlef Rönfeldt , the scripts were written under the pseudonym "Nikolai Zink", the then head of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, based on motifs by Ingeborg Drewitz . Elke Aberle played the main role . The cameraman was Heinz Pehlke . Shortly before it was broadcast in autumn 1984, the series was shown in a special screening in the Berlin House of Representatives.

The series was broadcast for the first time from September 27, 1984 to November 8, 1984 in the early evening program of ARD and repeated from August 8 to 29, 1987 on EinsMuXx .

content

The focus of the series is the worker Hilde Nannen (Elke Aberle), who was elected to the works council. She doesn't just want to be the works council's female alibi, she really wants to do something for her female colleagues, and is committed to a training course for women skilled in the art against much resistance. Little by little, in the seven episodes of the series, we get to know the most diverse women of the pharmaceutical company, from the workers in production to the employees in administration. Due to the multiple stresses to which they are exposed as working women, they all have comparable problems, regardless of age and regardless of whether they work on the pill production lines or in management: working in the factory, running the household, dealing with the Men about the understanding of roles and the division of labor in daily odds and ends, the concern for children and parents. All of this takes time and energy. It is no wonder that Hilde Nannen's political ideas, which those who could benefit from them perceive as an additional burden, ultimately fail.

Episodes

  1. Color pink
  2. Warm air
  3. Man in the house
  4. Small buns
  5. Housewife and mother
  6. Red towels
  7. Old school

resonance

Knut Hickethier wrote in epd / Kirche und Rundfunk: “It is something special that (...) suddenly trained workers on the assembly line of a chemical company (...) become the main characters in an advertising program. Double workload means job and household, means the multiple stress to which these women are often exposed. It is a series that, in its character construction and description of the milieu, ties in with the all too quickly broken off attempts at workers' films on television in the early seventies, it is an early evening series that realistically portrays everyday life for a long time. (...) Here at last new stories are being told, not those that one has heard and seen a thousand times on these broadcast slots in one way or another. "

He continues: "What makes the series so enjoyable is that the characters do not seem made up, but believable, lively, and this because they do not come across as sheer types and social representatives, but are drawn in contradicting ways."

His conclusion: “Certainly, the plot construction in the two 25 minutes per episode (seven in total) is sometimes a little wanted (...). But more important are the many everyday details that bring the series to life, the often cinematic forms, such as stress at work shown through movements or frozen eyes. The basic conflict, which continues from one episode to the next, also creates tension and interest in seeing: which new subversive strategies does works council member Hilde invent, what happens if she undermines the management's calculations? I already know that the female skilled worker course will ultimately fail, but I'm still excited to see how it goes from here. And that hasn't happened to me in a previous evening series for a long time. You can forget all the international series junk that is otherwise so often on these broadcast slots. "

Production notes

  • Inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's television series Eight Hours Are Not a Day , “Das doppelte Pensum” was a late sequel to the series workshop in terms of program policy, in which ARD, ZDF and the Federal Agency for Civic Education began to think about production conditions and political effects of television series at the beginning of the 1970s. The series was initially planned to have six episodes, but was extended to seven episodes during the development phase.
  • The cameraman Heinz Pehlke was one of the most renowned German cameramen in the 1950s and 1960s. The numerous feature films he has shot for cinema and television include Die Halbstarken (1954), Die Zürcher Verlobung (1957), Der Schinderhannes (1958), Heimweh nach St. Pauli (1963) and Falk Harnack's Everyone dies for himself ( 1962).
  • Nikolai Zink was the pseudonym of Christian Longolius, who was initially a media officer and later head of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
  • The double workload was an early example of the attempts of the director Detlef Rönfeldt to prepare cumbersome stories from politics and the world of work in a mixture of close observation, psychological thriller and social drama for a broad audience in an exciting and effective way, which were rewarded with television awards several times in the 1990s .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Double the workload on fernsehserien.de
  2. ↑ Knut Hickethier, epd Church and Radio 82/1984
  3. ↑ Egon Netenjakob: Anatomy of the television series. TV makers examine their production conditions, Mainz: v. Hase & Koehler 1976
  4. ↑ Pehlke Heinz - biography at cinegraph.de