The day when the Beatles (almost) came to Marburg

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Movie
Original title The day when the Beatles (almost) came to Marburg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 66 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Wulfes
script Michael Wulfes
production Michael Wulfes
Esther Schapira
Anne Baumann
camera Volker Tittel
cut Wolfgang Grimmeisen
occupation

The day the Beatles (almost) came to Marburg is a 2006 documentarywith little reenactments . It was produced by Michael Wulfes on behalf of the Hessischer Rundfunk in cooperation with ARTE .

action

The plot depicted in the film is a reconstruction of events that actually took place in the Hessian university town in 1966. Ferdinand Kilian Jr. was a young hairdresser from Marburg , a "motley dog" known throughout the city. One day a man turns up in his strict father's barber shop who promises to bring the Beatles to a concert in Marburg. Kilian should prepare everything. The dreamy Kilian immediately gets to work, hanging up posters, selling tickets and organizing the performance. After initially encountering skepticism, but then the press reported the upcoming appearance of the Liverpool “mushroom heads”, a good part of the population of Marburg fell into Beatles fever with Kilian. The longing for the “big world”, after breaking out of the small town idyll, has made everyone blind and deaf to sensible arguments. When the concert date is finally rescheduled and more and more inconsistencies arise, the whole dizziness is exposed. Kilian is a con man, the press exposes the whole thing as a hoax.

construction

The film shows the plot with Ferdinand Kilian as the focus. It was recorded in Marburg, with old film recordings and photos being faded in. In addition, excerpts from real interviews with contemporary witnesses are shown. The film deals particularly with the personality of Kilian, a dreamy person who suffers from the resolute arch-conservative family and the ossified life ideas of the war generation. The generation conflict that broke out in Germany in the second half of the 1960s is reflected in his tragic-comic Beatles story.

Reactions

Rainer Schulze commented on the film for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . He sees the attitude towards life of the sixties portrayed - the film is good as pars pro toto for the split condition between the new attitude towards life of the young, aiming at individual freedom, and the traditional attitude of the elderly, which is concerned with conventions. It is thanks to Christian Brückner's “inimitable comment”, writes Schulze, that a short Marburg episode is upgraded to “an ironic snapshot”. In the Münchner Abendzeitung, Angelika Kahl praises the “lovingly ironically staged game scenes.” Wulfes quotes them with the words: “For me the whole thing is a kind of love film. A film about the ugly duckling who thinks the most beautiful woman in the world loves it. "

Hans-Rudolf König, who once formed the singing duo Caribbean Lords and the folk group King Singers with Kilian , contradicts the portrayals of the film and points to the unreliability of contemporary witnesses. As the organizer of the rock 'n' roll- oriented Marburg dance circle , Kilian was confronted with increased competition from Club E with the advent of beat music . In order to advertise the dance group, he and König came up with the story of the Beatles. The mysterious hairdressing customers never existed.

literature

  • Thorsten Knublauch: The BRAVO-BEATLES-BLITZTOURNEE - Five days of Beatlemania in Germany in June 1966 , BOD 2011, ISBN 9783842353565 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Schulze: The bum Figaro. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 16, 2006, No. 187, p. 36.
  2. ↑ Angelika Kahl: ARD documentary about a burst small town dream. In: evening newspaper . August 16, 2006, p. 21.
  3. ↑ Hans-Rudolf König: Why the Beatles did not come to Marburg . In: Upper Hessian Press . July 3, 2008, p. 12 of the supplement. See von König's online article at myheimat.de .