The film from Queen Luise

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Movie
Original title The film from Queen Luise
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1913
length approx. 80 (1922) 105 (2010) minutes
Rod
Director Franz Porten
production German mutuscope and biographer, Berlin
camera Werner Brandes
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The film by Queen Luise is a three-part German silent film from 1912/1913 by Franz Porten .

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The focus of the three 25 to 30-minute individual films are individual stages in the life of the Prussian Queen Luise, who died in 1810 . Her childhood with her family (1788), her path to the royal throne, the difficult years under French rule by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops (from 1806) and Luise's serious illness that led to her early death are described in episodic narrative style .

Production notes and background

Queen Luise's film was shot in three parts in the Mutoskop studio in Berlin-Lankwitz in autumn 1912 and premiered on three days in the first three months of 1913. The three-part series was also approved for young people when it was first performed.

The first part, The Martyr on the King's Throne, was two acts or 701 meters long, was censored on January 9, 1913 and was premiered on January 24, 1913, on the occasion of the 54th birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm II . The second part from Prussia's difficult time had three acts and started on February 21, 1913. The third part, The Queen of Pain, was again two acts and started on March 21, 1913. The production costs amounted to 1,100 marks including Virage .

At the highest imperial orders, the film team was helped by the state to implement the material. As Vorwärts reported in a supplement dated October 17, 1912, the monarch “provided the German Mutoskop- und Biographgesellschaft with the historical horse-drawn carriage from the stables for these recordings (...). Two squadrons of cavalry and a company of infantry in historical costume were deployed for the movie. (...) The police locked the Brandenburg Gate for a short time so that the recordings would not be impaired by the car traffic . ”Finally, the Social Democratic party newspaper complained:“ It is getting more and more beautiful: Now a private company is already the fire brigade and the police made available to take "patriotic pictures" . "

In 1922, the film was re-censored for a re-performance, which ran under the title Queen Luise, 1st, 2nd and 3rd part . The film now had a length of nine acts and was 2,173 meters long. In the censorship declaration of August 8, 1922, it was stated: “ The depiction of the strip of images, inadequately corresponding to the historical truth, is suitable for arousing opposition in broad circles of the people. However, that would not be enough to ban the film strip. In addition, the depiction of the picture strip is so Byzantine that parts of the population by name will see its presentation as a provocation and will react accordingly. (...) It is to be expected that the showing of the picture strip will endanger public order and security . ”This assessment was made even more stringent on September 9, 1922 in a new censorship decision, the film only for certain groups of people (such as clubs, associations, closed companies etc.). One of the reasons given was probably the fragile relationship with France, which was holding areas on the left bank of the Rhine. The decision states: "The representative of the Foreign Office has in the image" French Revolution troops in the Palatinate robbing and plundering "a danger to our relationship with foreign states, namely France (...) (Dept. I Act III title. 2)" seen .

For the 34-year-old theater actress Hansi Arnstaedt , Queen Luise was her debut in front of the camera. Despite this leading role, she then stayed completely away from cinema work until the introduction of talkies. The 22-year-old Lina Salten also made her film debut here. She played the princess Friederike .

Numerous press organs in 1912/13 published reports on the film, including Der Kinematograph , Die Lichtbild-Bühne , Berliner Börsen-Courier , Vienna's Dramagraph, Der Tag, Volk und Film, Münchner Neues Nachrichten and Paimann's Filmlisten (Vienna).

The film by Queen Luise is a typical example of the Luis cult under Wilhelm II, but also of the patriotic choice of topics (with an anti-French touch) in numerous German films shortly before the outbreak of the First World War . A film about Theodor Körner with Friedrich Feher was made as early as 1912 , in 1913 an epic about Andreas Hofer filmed in South Tyrol under the title Tirol in Waffen , in 1913 under the direction of Fehers a song of praise to Major Schill under the title Das Blutgeld, and in the same year Der Hand Portens another patriotic film with the programmatic title Aus Deutschlands Ruhmestagen 1870/71 . The reason for this German-national upsurge at that time was the increasing number of anniversaries of the freedom struggle against Napoleon a hundred years earlier.

Curt Blachnitzky produced the patriotic strip German Heroes in Difficult Times in 1924, using some parts of the Porten film , in which Arnstaedt and Steinbeck also appear (but without having stood in front of the camera again in 1924).

On Christmas Eve 2010, Queen Luise's film was shown on television for the first time on BR-alpha .

reception

The lexicon of international films writes: “ Silent film about the life of Queen Luise of Prussia (1776-1810). It was created with the express approval of the imperial family, which provided props for the shooting, and is characterized by awe and respect . "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CineGraph writes in Steinbeck's biography, referring to a source from the 1930s, that he is only playing an officer here. But this does not seem to be the case.
  2. ↑ unconfirmed are named: Rudolf Klein-Rogge , Karl Platen and Leopold von Ledebur . Presumably it is (with the exception of Klein-Rogges, who had not filmed before 1918) a mixture with the new actors of the film from 1924 German heroes in difficult times .
  3. ↑ Forward. No. 243, of October 17, 1912, 2nd supplement
  4. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1913-1914 (= Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 1445511-0 ). Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1969, p. 72.
  5. ↑ Censorship decision August 8, 1922 (PDF; 75 kB)
  6. ↑ Censorship decision September 9, 1922 (PDF; 218 kB)
  7. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 302.
  8. ↑ Birte Förster: The Queen Luise myth. Media history of the "ideal image of German femininity". 1860–1960 (= forms of memory. Vol. 46). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-810-2 , p. 37 .
  9. ^ The film by Queen Luise in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on November 3, 2013.

literature

  • Birte Förster: The Queen Luise Myth. Media history of the "ideal image of German femininity". 1860–1960 (= forms of memory. Vol. 46). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-810-2 , p. 249 ff.

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