Germany 09
Deutschland 09 is a German episode film from 2009. The “13 short films on the state of the nation” were known as the “major project of the German directing elite” even before they were made and seen as the successor to the collective film Germany in the autumn (1977). The film, initiated by Tom Tykwer , premiered on February 13, 2009 in the framework program of the 59th Berlinale . According to Tykwer, the film brings together "a good dozen individual cinematic views of what we experience today and now as home - and how we locate, get lost, get entangled in this country."
content
The film contains 13 contributions by various directors on the subject of Germany in 2009. Each director presents his or her view of Germany today.
- 1st episode: First day by Angela Schanelec
A short film at dawn. - 2nd episode: Joshu by Dani Levy
Levy asks people on the street what they think of about Germany. The mood is bad. That depresses Levy. Until a psychiatrist gives him a herbal remedy. When the effects wear off, he just takes another pill. - Episode 3: The Name of Murat Kurnaz by Fatih Akin
Tells the story of Murat Kurnaz , who was held without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention center from January 2002 to August 2006 . - 4th episode: The Unfinished by Nicolette Krebitz
Helene Hegemann plays a 16-year-old girl who is interested in films. In a strange way, she got through a deep shaft into an apartment in which it is suddenly 1969. Now Ulrike Meinhof and Susan Sontag appear . Both women are around 36 years old and work as filmmakers and writers. You start a conversation with the girl. - 5th episode: Imbalance of Sylke Ender's
snapshots from the lives of three people whose paths cross in a soup kitchen for children. - 6th episode: The way we don't go together by Dominik Graf and Martin Gressmann
A series of pictures of the architecture of this country. Shot on old Super 8 material. - 7th episode: Fraktur by Hans Steinbichler
Riesch Beintl is a transport company in the Berchtesgaden Alps, he loves Mozart and modern art. When the FAZ changes its layout, from which the Fraktur headings have been banned, he decides to act. Because, according to Beintl: If you can't read Fraktur , you can't read the German essence itself. - 8th episode: A democratic discussion at set times by Isabelle Stever
In the fourth grade of a Munich elementary school in the problematic district of Hasenbergl, a young teacher tries out new educational concepts. She wants to give the children as much personal responsibility as possible so that they learn to take responsibility for their social life. - 9th episode: Threat to Hans Weingartner
The story is told about the sociology lecturer Andrej Holm , who was imprisoned for suspected involvement in terrorist crimes on flimsy grounds. - 10th episode: Celebratory travels by Tom Tykwer
Celebratory, 40 years old, is sales manager of a fashion label that is in the black. He sets out several times a year and in less than a week flies the global corporate universe to plan the coming season with business partners. From Düsseldorf to Paris , via San Diego to Hong Kong . From there to Cairo and from Cairo back to Düsseldorf. What he doesn't see are the people he meets. - 11th episode: Ramses by Romuald Karmakar
An Iranian bar owner who has been running a small animation bar near Ku'damm in Berlin for many years has a hard time. The business and the guests have changed. A portrait of a mysterious place from a bygone era. - 12th Episode: Sick House of Wolfgang Becker
intense activity in Germany Clinic: Suboptimal human capital, defects in moral flexibility center and a ruptured bladder subsidy make Dr. Katelbach made life difficult. - 13. Episode: Séance by Christoph Hochhäusler
The people live in a lunar colony. The Ministry of Reconstruction wants to erase the earthly memories of the residents that make it difficult to survive in the new environment. But a woman escapes control and writes “Germany” in the sand of the moon.
criticism
Margret Koehler from Bayerischer Rundfunk called the episode film "crude, contemplative, not politically correct". An "interesting experiment worth discussing from an individual point of view without a fixed framework and without the influence of the editor" was successful. “The makers don't want to be classified politically”, so she concluded her film review. Rightly so, because terms such as “left” or “right” are subject to changing interpretations, should with their one-dimensional slogans have had their day in a time of individualization of mass movements. Today there is a lack of simple summaries and a clear message; the old ideological schemes are obsolete. This is also what "Germany 09" stands for with its weaknesses and strengths. And that's good."
In contrast, Christian Buss described the film in Spiegel Online as a “sad“ non-stop nonsense ”version of German auteur cinema”. In particular, he rated Akin's contribution as "concentrated kitsch of dismay" and added that the same applies to "Weingartner's conspiracy drama". He chalked almost all of the films "a much too noble look" and described this as "pure masturbation". Tykwer's contribution is "Criticism of globalization as a narcissistic thunderstorm". He only rated the documentary films Stevers and especially Grafs positively. According to Buß, it is to be feared that the Mario Barth vehicle , a man's affair , a film full of "disgusting puns in a disgusting setting", which was launched at the same time, would contain more German presence in one minute than "the 150 minutes of the vainly photographed compilation ".
The Allgäuer Zeitung , on the other hand, saw “pictures of home with a sometimes irritating intensity”. The German press agency reported on the premieres : “As different as the styles and content, so different is the effect. At the Berlinale performances, the audience reacted accordingly. While some episodes were enthusiastically applauded, others did not trigger a direct reaction or only a shake of the head. As a mood picture of the facets of the current atmosphere in the German democracy, the film definitely has a meaning that points beyond the day. "
Web links
Official website ( Memento of January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Germany 09 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Germany 09 at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Germany 09": Tykwer and Akin shoot episode film. In: Spiegel Online . July 8, 2008, accessed March 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Film project: "Germany 09" - It won't be easy. In: Süddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, archived from the original on May 11, 2010 ; accessed on March 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Tagesschau ( memento of February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), February 13, 2009
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Christian Buß : episode film "Germany 09" - Then dear Mario Barth. In: Spiegel Online. March 25, 2009, archived from the original on January 14, 2011 ; accessed on March 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Allgäuer Zeitung ( page no longer available , search in web archives )