The Teacher (2011)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The teacher |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tim Trageser |
| script | Laila Stieler |
| production |
Wolfgang Cimera , Pit Rampelt , Laila Stieler |
| music | Andreas Weidinger |
| camera | Eckhard Jansen |
| cut | Gisela Castronari |
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The teacher is a German television - drama from the year 2011 .
action
After the summer holidays, lessons begin again at the Theodor Fontane Realschule in a small German town. The biology teacher Andrea Liebnitz has brought her letter of resignation. After fifteen years she feels burned out and wants to quit her job as a teacher. In the school stairwell, she tells her friend Katja, who is also a teacher at the school. The young, fun-loving and unconventional teacher would like to change Andrea's mind during the lunch break and asks her to wait before giving her notice. Katja has a record player under her arm because she wants to play Janis Joplin songs for her class . Actually, her class isn't on her schedule until the fifth hour; Biology lessons from Andrea are planned for the first lesson. But so that Katja doesn't have to lug the record player around any further, the two teachers swap classes for the first and fifth periods.
Class has just started when Andrea hears a bang. She looks into the stairwell, the other teachers come out the doors too. Screams can be heard in Katja's class. Then another shot. Children are rushing out of the classroom in a panic. Andrea recognizes the student Justin who has a gun in hand. She turns on the stairs and urges the students who followed her upstairs. After they have barricaded themselves in the classroom, Andrea alerts the police. A large contingent of heavily armed police arrests the perpetrator and clears the school. Katja was hit by a gunshot so she was taken to the hospital. There she is in a coma.
A few days after the rampage, the overwhelmed headmistress Conny Peschke held a teachers' conference at which she introduced Mr. Weininger, the head of a group of psychologists who will take care of teachers, students and parents. Since nobody really knows what to do next, Conny Peschke suggests dividing Katja's class, but quickly realizes that this would not be good for the traumatized students. Andrea, who has not yet submitted her letter of resignation, is to take over the class temporarily. Reluctantly, she agrees. She thinks she owes it to Katja. Horrified and at the same time perplexed parents attack the headmistress and the teachers with accusations. Andrea defends herself angrily. Every day she sits at Katja's sick bed. The doctor encourages her to tell the patient about her experiences at school, even if Katja does not react visibly to them. Andrea persuades the headmistress to give her a piece of the parking lot so that she and Katja's class can create a school garden. With this she realizes an idea that Katja had told her about. Gradually the teacher wins the trust of the students. She learns of the class relationship and the background to the rampage. She is also told that Justin did not shoot the teacher during the rampage, but rather his tormentor Nico. Katja threw herself in between. Thanks to the mutual trust, Andrea manages to give the students advice and help them deal with this situation.
During her bedside monologues, Andrea repeatedly imagines Katja opening her eyes and talking to her. She thinks Katja will wake up from the coma one day. When she suddenly stands in front of the empty bed and the doctor informs her that Katja has died, she can hardly believe it. At home she swallows a handful of sleeping pills. It has not escaped the psychologist Weininger's attention that Andrea partially repressed reality. Just in time he pushes the door in and saves Andrea. After she recovers from the suicide attempt, he takes her to a rest home by the sea and takes care of her there. After a few weeks Andrea comes back to school with a new zest for life. She tore up the resignation letter and threw it away.
Charisma
The film was first broadcast on August 26, 2011 on Arte and on January 23, 2012 on ZDF .
criticism
“In the TV drama 'The Teacher', a bullied student pulls out the gun - and a teacher has to live with the consequences after the rampage. Because actress Anna Loos does it so quietly and with a lot of flair for her heroine, you experience the highest level of television art. "
"'The Teacher' is a special film not only because of the cast - but also because it completely abstains from simple answers."
"Well observed, well played and moving"
"Inconsistently staged (television) drama about grief work, guilt and responsibility, in which conditions in schools are exaggerated in order to address general social grievances and the tendency to violent conflict resolution, which only succeeds convincingly in some highly intense moments."
“In his psychodrama, director Tim Trageser impressively describes how a young woman threatens to break down in her professional life, but only finds her way back to life - and to work - through a terrible crime. Anna Loos once again plays the teacher Drea powerfully and convincingly, Meret Becker is the colleague and friend in one of her rare TV appearances. "
reception
The film inspired Alissa Walser to write the story Instructions for Use .
Web links
- The teacher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The teacher at filmportal.de
- The teacher on ard.de
- Nikolaus von Festenberg: The rampage film "The Teacher": Saints with a pout , in: Spiegel Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the teacher . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 554 V).
- ^ Spiegel Online
- ↑ Sueddeutsche.de
- ↑ TV feature film
- ↑ The teacher. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The teacher at prisma.de
- ↑ A. Walser: Clear attempt at seduction. Munich 2017. p. 63f.