The dreamed
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The dreamed |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German , Austrian |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ruth Beckermann |
| script | Ruth Beckermann, Ina Hartwig |
| production | Ruth Beckermann |
| camera | Johannes Hammel |
| cut | Dieter Pichler |
| occupation | |
The Dream is an Austrian film by Ruth Beckermann based on the almost 20-year correspondence between the poet Ingeborg Bachmann and the poet Paul Celan . It is not a classic film biography , but a mixture of experimental and feature film . The musician Anja Plaschg and the actor Laurence Rupp play themselves as they read the letters in the Wiener Funkhaus . Again and again there are improvised recordings of the breaks in which they reflect on the relationship between the two lovers, but also on their own situation.
action
A young woman and a young man are in a recording studio. You read letters that Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan - two of the most important German-language poets of the post-war period - wrote to each other between 1948 and 1967. The woman stands in front of a microphone and reads Bachmann's letters, the man reads Celan's letters. Sound recordings are made. The texts condense through the concentrated, alternating recitation of the two lecturers in Austrian German , which Bachmann and Celan also spoke, into an intense, modern chamber play. They feel more and more in the language and feelings of the two letter writers. The lyrics are about love, doubt, longing, jealousy and artistic self-assurance. The relationship between Bachmann and Celan is difficult and tragic - not least because of their different origins. Bachmann is Austrian, Celan grew up as a Jew in Romania. Accusations and misunderstandings increase. Anja Plaschg reads Bachmann's sentence several times: “Are we only those who have dreamed?”.
The intensity of the readings is repeatedly interrupted by short, improvised scenes that take place during the breaks. You can see the two actors in different places in the building. They have small talk, reflect on what they have read, listen to music or smoke.
background
The relationship between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan has not been public for a long time. It was not until 2009 - almost 40 years later - that the correspondence was first published in an anthology. The screenplay by Ruth Beckermann and Ina Hartwig is based on this edition. However, it is not just about private testimonies to a love relationship. The correspondence can be seen in a tradition of poetic correspondence by artists of the 18th and 19th centuries. For the director Ruth Beckermann, the correspondence between Bachmann and Celan has a “strong fictional level” that partly reminded her of “ Minnegesang ”. Bachmann and Celan inspire each other in their artistic work and reflect this in their letters. The title of the film The Dreams is borrowed from the correspondence and the poem "Cologne, Am Hof" by Paul Celan for Ingeborg Bachmann. Celan dedicates other poems to Bachmann, such as Corona in his volume of poems Mohn und Gedächtnis . Bachmann takes Celan as a model for the character of the stranger with a black coat in her novel Malina . The respective partners of Bachmann and Celan knew about the relationship and also corresponded with each other. Ingeborg Bachmann had a long correspondence with the graphic designer Gisèle Lestrange , Celan's wife. Paul Celan also sent letters to the writer Max Frisch , who was Ingeborg Bachmann's partner for a while.
Awards
At the Diagonale 2016 the film was awarded as the best feature film.
Web links
- Berlinale 2016: in the program booklet for the film "The Dreams"
- The dreamed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herzzeit: Ingeborg Bachmann - Paul Celan. The correspondence. In: suhrkamp.de. Suhrkamp, accessed on March 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Birgit Kohler: Interview by Birgit Kohler with Ruth Beckermann about the film "The Dreams". (PDF) Berlinale, Forum, 2016, 2016, p. 62 , accessed on February 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Literature: Who am I for you? In: The time . ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 25, 2016]).
- ↑ Stefan Bock: Austria at the Berlinale 2016 . In: Friday . ISSN 0945-2095 ( freitag.de [accessed February 23, 2016]).
- ↑ Correspondence between Max Frisch and Paul Celan. I also do not find your reply good . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 25, 2016]).
- ↑ orf.at - Diagonale prices to Beckermann and Steiner . Article dated March 12, 2016, accessed March 13, 2016.