German lesson (1971)
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| Original title | German lesson |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 220 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Peter Beauvais |
| script | Diethard Klante |
| production | Erich Proebster |
| camera | Jost Vacano |
| cut | Barbara Herrmann |
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Deutschstunde is a two-part German television film from 1971 . It is based on the novel Deutschstunde by Siegfried Lenz . The film adaptation was first broadcast on January 24th and 26th, 1971 on ARD . A remake was made in 2019 .
action
Siggi Jepsen, inmate of an institution for difficult-to-educate young people, is given the essay topic “The joys of duty” in a German lesson and fails because of it: He leaves an empty notebook. The reason for his failure, however, is that he has too much to say on this subject - while under arrest, which he has voluntarily extended, Siggi now writes about his childhood and youth, which is currently under the sign of "duty" was standing. Siggi Jepsen's father was the “northernmost police station in Germany” in the Schleswig-Holstein village of Rugbüll. In 1943, Jens Ole Jepsen received an order from the National Socialist authorities to ban the expressionist painter Max Ludwig Nansen from painting and to monitor this ban. Although Jepsen has been friends with Nansen since his youth and he even saved his life once, he has no doubts about his duty to rigorously follow these instructions. When he tried to instigate his son Siggi, who was ten at the time, to spy on the painter, he got him into a conflict of conscience, because Nansen's studio was like a second home for Siggi. He decides not to obey his father and instead helps Nansen hide pictures.
Siggi's father is driven by fanatical fulfillment of duties, less by National Socialist ideology, in contrast to his wife, who is completely convinced of National Socialism. When Siggi's brother Klaas mutilated himself so that he would no longer have to do military service, he was cast out by his parents - he could only survive the war with luck and the help of Nansen.
Even after the war ended, Jepsen had no doubts - on the contrary, he insisted on the conviction that it was still his duty to destroy Nansen's pictures. Occasional hints of a "second face" come to his aid here - this enables him to discover the hiding place in the old mill where Siggi kept some of Nansen's pictures and set them on fire. Siggi is now delusional that he has to "save" Nansen's pictures from his father. He becomes an art thief, which ultimately leads to his arrest and admission to the reformatory.
background
- After the film had not been available for many years, it was re-released on DVD in 2008 as part of the “Lenz Box” (EAN 4031778820015).
- The film was shot on 67 days mainly in the area around Niebüll , Neukirchen (North Friesland) , Galmsbüll and Emmelsbüll-Horsbüll .
- Over 100 extras participated in the film.
- The shooting schedule was exceeded by 22 days because the German armed forces' starfighters often disrupted the intended loyalty to the document.
- Emil Nolde's unpainted pictures are the historical models for the ban on painting .
Reviews
“Compared to the novel, the film tries to accentuate the political background more strongly. Excellent photographs, especially in the landscape shots. "
- The Siggi-Lenz Show Die Zeit
- Doesn't hurt The mirror
Web links
- German lesson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b German lesson in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Siegfried Lenz Box - Great Stories 4. In: Cinefacts. Retrieved May 16, 2010 .
- ^ Peter W. Jansen: The Siggi-Lenz Show . In: Die Zeit , No. 6/1971
- ↑ Doesn't hurt . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1971 ( online ).