The bell war

This article covers the novel. For the television film, see Der Glockenkrieg (film) .

The Glockenkrieg is a novel by Ernst Wolfgang Freissler from 1927 that deals with the custom of the weather ringing . The author Alois Johannes Lippl edited the work into a radio play .

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The residents of Summering and Schellenberg are fighting over a forest that lies between the two communities. The dispute escalates when the Summeringers claim that the neighbors are driving the thunderstorms with the church bells. In this bell war in Summering, the church bells are exchanged for cow bells.

Finally, the Schellenberg bachelors and the Summeringer girls rebel. Only love and the local priest can still resolve the conflict.

Adaptations

• In 1956, the director Heinz Paul brought the bell war under the title Marriage forbidden in the cinemas.

• The director Andreas Lippl used his father's radio play version in 1983 for a television version ( Der Glockenkrieg ), the camera was directed by his brother Martin Lippl .

Web links

• Reverence intervenes - marriages are prohibited! ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Bayerischer Rundfunk
• The bell war on Bayerischer Rundfunk