The painter Albert Ebert 1906-1976

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Movie
Original title The painter Albert Ebert
1906–1976
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1982
length 18 minutes
Rod
Director Werner Kohlert
script Werner Kohlert
Volkmar Leimert
production DEFA studio for documentaries
music Volkmar Leimert
camera Werner Kohlert
cut Angela Wendt
Heidrun Kempe
occupation

The painter Albert Ebert 1906 - 1976 is a documentary film by the DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Werner Kohlert from 1982 .

action

The tram takes you to the outskirts of Halle (Saale) , more precisely to Kröllwitz , the center of life of the naive painter Albert Ebert . When the former construction worker from WWII came back wounded in body and soul at the age of 40, he wondered how old you have to be to become a painter. Without answering the question, he just started to paint, of course only incidentally, because he still had to earn his living as a construction and casual worker. It was not until 1956 that he became known beyond Halle as a freelance painter. But what kind of person Albert Ebert was, the director Werner Kohlert tried in the winter of 1964 as a second year student of the camera department at the film school with black and white film recordings.

The recordings in his apartment at Talstrasse 28 were only made after he had agreed that it would not take longer than five minutes, otherwise he would not have approved the shooting. This is how the only film footage by the painter Albert Ebert came about. The pictures he painted became a part of his life, because he had seen everything he painted himself, only he painted it from his inner perspective. He almost always began to paint seriously, and a cheerful note always prevailed at the end, he once said. A viewer once reported on the laughing seriousness of his pictures, which one can hardly express more precisely.

The camera shows Albert Ebert walking through the snow-covered landscape, having breakfast with his wife, daughter and son in the apartment, at work, while repeatedly showing pictures of the home environment, whereby the cat must not be forgotten. He also says that the idea of ​​painting came to him in the trenches during the war , as he kept asking himself about the meaning of life there. He had the idea of ​​doing something that many people would enjoy and so the idea of ​​becoming a painter solidified. His first picture, which he painted after the war, is still there. He put a twig in a pretty gray mustard pot, which he hoped would sprout buds while he was painting, and began to paint, only waiting in vain for the buds.

Walter Ebert mainly painted at night, but sometimes also during the day. So he came up with the impressive number of around 1200 pictures, several of which are still shown in color in the last seven minutes of the film. Finally, a sentence from the end of his life is quoted:

"Should this or that of my pictures find their way into their hearts, my effort has been worth it."

Production and publication

The painter Albert Ebert 1906-1976 was approved by the Group document under the working title Albert Ebert on ORWO Color with numerous black and white film - sequences from 1964 shot and had on 26 May 1982 its premiere as part of the series documentary talks in Berlin Cinema International

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Annerose Richter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 22, 1982, p. 12