The hairdresser

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Movie
Original title The hairdresser
The hairdresser.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Doris Dörrie
script Laila Stieler
production Ulrich Limmer
music LaBrassBanda ,
Ivan Hajek ,
Coconami
camera Hanno Lentz
cut Frank C. Müller,
Inez Regnier
occupation

Die Friseuse is a German comedy film by the director Doris Dörrie from 2010. The fictional film is based on a script by the author Laila Stieler , who was inspired for her story by the Berliner Kathleen Cieplik, and tells the story of the unemployed but optimistic hairdresser Kathi König, played by Gabriela Maria Schmeide , who wants to fight her way back into the world of work after separating from her husband, but repeatedly encounters discrimination and prejudice due to her stoutness. In addition to Schmeide, Natascha Lawiszus , Ill-Young Kim , Christina Große , Rolf Zacher and Maren Kroymann appeared in front of the camera.

Die Friseuse was realized by Collina Filmproduktion under the direction of Ulrich Limmer in co-production with Constantin Film . The shooting took place from September to November 2009 in Berlin and in Osinów Dolny, Poland. The finished film premiered in February 2010 as part of the Berlinale and opened in German cinemas on February 18. Reviews rated the social comedy largely positive and unanimously highlighted Schmeide's game. With over 600,000 cinema-goers, Die Friseuse became the ninth most successful German film of the 2010 cinema year.

action

After separating from her husband, the job-seeking hairdresser Kathi König lives with her pubescent daughter Julia in a prefabricated housing estate in Berlin-Marzahn . Her childhood sweetheart, ex-husband Micha, has since remarried and continues to live with his new wife and daughter in their former home in Graefenhainichen . Daughter Julia, who is anything but satisfied with the living situation and dreams of an exchange year in the USA, blames mother Kathi for the early marriage. When she found out about an open position in the modern hairdressing salon Krieger in the Eastgate Berlin shopping center via the job center , she seemed to have the job in her pocket after a telephone contact with the employer. However, when she shows up at the store, the owner makes it clear to her that because of her obesity she is “not aesthetically pleasing” and therefore does not get the job.

The rejection hits Kathi hard. When she returned to the Krieger salon the next morning and wanted to fight for the job, she made a discovery: the Vietnamese operators of a neighboring Asian snack bar were taken away by the police and the shop was closed until further notice. She then decides to rent the premises for her own hairdressing business. The manager of the shopping center initially reacts skeptically to the idea, but accepts Kathi's application. The employment agency as well as the business start-up advice advise Kathi against her idea. In order to earn the money she needed to open the business, she and Silke, who is also unemployed, roam retirement homes as a mobile hairdressing team until one of her customers dies under the dryer and illegal work is exposed.

In her need, Kathi secretly takes a substantial amount from her daughter's hidden money box in order to be able to pay rent and bail for the first month. But when she wants to demand her entry fee, the employees of the employment office go on strike. Kathi then helps petty criminal Joe smuggle a group of twelve Vietnamese women and eight men from Poland into Germany, which she then hides in her apartment. Kathi and slim Tien, who studies in the GDR and speaks German well, get closer. She had previously rejected the advances made by the well-off, but also somewhat corpulent Klaus. After all, Kathi has to close her barber shop due to regulatory requirements and her unexpected multiple sclerosis illness before it is properly opened. Instead, she gets a job with a Vietnamese hairdresser.

background

Idea and script

With Die Friseuse , Doris Dörrie filmed for the first time a script that was not written by herself. The model for the role of Kathi König was the Berlin hairdresser Kathleen Cieplik, on whose stories some scenes from the film are based. She had previously met the author Laila Stieler at a hairdresser appointment in a salon in Prenzlauer Berg , which she had made on the advice of her partner, who described Cieplik as an "incredible woman". Stieler immediately recognized Cieplik's career as the right material for a socially critical comedy and hired for a week in Cieplik's salon to get to know it better. Kathi König was only the main character of a short treatment when Dörrie Stieler asked a professor at the University of Television and Film Munich to hold a seminar on the film she wrote, Die Polizistin (2000). When they talked about Stieler's idea for Die Friseuse beforehand , Dörrie, who saw the attraction in “East German biographies”, offered to film the material.

At around the same time, actress Gabriela Maria Schmeide , with whom Stieler had already shot Die Polizistin , and producer Ulrich Limmer, managing director of Collina Filmproduktion Munich, saw Stieler's Treatment. Limmer immediately promised to take over the production of the film, whereupon Stieler intensified work on a script version. So she researched among others at the Federal Employment Agency , among business start-ups, in Internet forums and with the police. The first version was completed by Stieler at the end of 2008. Schmeide, whom Stieler had already considered while developing the script for the role of Kathi König, was asked for the lead role in autumn 2008 and prevailed against 14 other applicants at the casting in April 2009. The actress, who like König grew up in the former GDR , described the role as “a gift for every actress”.

production

Most of Die Friseuse was built in a prefabricated housing estate in Berlin-Marzahn .

The shooting took place from September 28 to November 5, 2009 in Berlin and in Osinów Dolny, Poland. In the capital, the shooting was mainly in the Marzahn district . During the shooting, two apartments were available in an eleven-storey prefabricated building, which the crew and cast used on the one hand as a setting for Kathi's apartment and on the other as a cloakroom, mask and lounge. The shooting in the standardized prefabricated apartment lasted from October 11th to 20th, 2009 and then continued in front of the Eastgate Berlin , a shopping center at Marzahner Tor. Due to the lack of vacancy, which was required for the filming, the building could only be used for outdoor shots.

Scenes that take place inside the Eastgate were created during regular opening hours on Karl-Marx-Straße in the Neukölln Arcaden . Dörrie, who prefers to shoot on original motifs, was forced to rely on set builders and set designers. The rented business space had to be rebuilt several times. The third main motif was the Marzahner Pacific Center, where Vietnamese hairdressers, cooks and waitresses were hired as extras. Schmeide wore a fat suit for the film to make her look thicker; In addition, a body double was used in some scenes in which her face cannot be seen. In order to experience the discrimination against overweight people first-hand, Dörrie had also tested the fat suit once in normal everyday life, whereupon she experienced reactions like "Out of the way, fat pig".

Reviews

Without exception, Gabriela Maria Schmeide received positive reviews for her game.

taz editor Wilfried Hippen wrote: “'Schaff ick!' is the credo of Kathi König, the heroine of this film, in which it is told how she cannot be crushed even by the most adverse circumstances. […] Gabriela Maria Schmeide embodies her with so much warmth and wit that this strange person in the best sense of the word won't get out of your mind long after the film. [...] With her permanently good mood, which often borders on manic, but never gets on your nerves (at least from the safe distance of the cinema seat), she is a soul mate of Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky , who probably is one too has served little as a model for this comedy ”.

In her review on n-tv.de , Simone Andrea Mayer found that the “story is both entertaining and easy”. One should “laugh. Then it is also exciting because Kathi's life seems to be one series of unfortunate circumstances. But at the right moments the film is sober and slow enough to show how humiliating society is with people who do not correspond to an idealized image. [...] The director shows her main character even in weak moments. [...] That is the moment when the viewer clicks. You want to be like this woman: so happy, so dignified and above all so strong ”.

Abini Zöllner from the Berliner Zeitung described Die Friseuse as a “successful social comedy that understands the people it is talking about. The film is a statement. Away from the house, away from the garden, away from the car and so is the man. This is the situation. But Kathi, also unemployed and a single parent, takes her fate with merciless optimism and saves herself about the bad times with irony and puns. She is the prototype of a happy anarchist. Here the screenwriter Laila Stieler proves again to be a good observer, who knows exactly in language and style which milieu she is currently designing ”.

Süddeutsche Zeitung editor Tobias Kniebe found that Dörrie madea “Feelgood filmwith Die Friseuse about a very fat woman who feels at home in the prefabricated building. A bizarre case of autosuggestion . […] In a scene in which a brightly colored hairdressing ballet lets its huge breasts and buttocks circling to old disco sounds, the whole thing even turns into real good-mood terror. At that moment a bizarre conspiracy theory arose in my head: What if, I asked myself, this film is not actually by Doris Dörrie, but by the well-known filmmaker Andreas Dresen ? Then everything would suddenly make sense ”.

success

The premiere was on February 14, 2010 in the Friedrichstadtpalast as part of the Berlinale 2010 , where The Hairdresser was shown outside of the competition. The theatrical release in Germany took place on February 18, 2010, where the comedy became a long-term success. After the first screening weekend, the production was initially able to book 65,000 viewers in 114 cinemas and thus ranked 13th in the German cinema charts. In the fourth week of screening, the comedy reached the top 10 for the first time, with the copy cut increasing to 134 cinemas by April 2010. All in all, Die Friseuse was able to stay in cinemas until September 2019 and recorded around 600,000 moviegoers. This made the film the ninth most successful German production of the 2010 theatrical year. The box office income was 3.7 million euros.

Awards

The German film and media rating awarded the film the rating valuable .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the hairdresser . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 572 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for the hairdresser . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ How Kathleen Cieplik from Berlin got into Doris Dörrie's new film. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 13, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l press release. (PDF) Constantin Film, accessed on October 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Wilfried Hippen: The thickness of Marzahn. In: The daily newspaper. February 18, 2010, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Doris Dörries "Die Friseuse": mass with class. In: Stern . February 19, 2010.
  7. ↑ "They are not aesthetic": "The" hairdresser "is punching his way through. On: n-tv . February 18, 2010.
  8. ↑ "The Hairdresser" tells a story of self-assertion: Cheer up. In: Berliner Zeitung. dated February 18, 2010.
  9. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Good mood terror. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 17, 2010, accessed October 28, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Cheers for “Die Friseuse” at the Berlinale. In: Tagesspiegel . Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b c d weekend charts. Blickpunkt: Film , accessed October 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Cinema charts: "Avatar" makes ten full. Blickpunkt: Film , accessed October 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (national) 2010. Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
  14. ↑ FBW press release of the German Film and Media Assessment