The stations of the lore servants
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The stations of the lore servants |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 32 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Leinweber |
| script | Ulrich Leinweber Christine Fischer-Defoy |
| production | Ulrich Leinweber |
| camera | Friedhelm Fett |
| cut | Friedhelm Fett |
The stations of Lore Diener is a documentary film by Ulrich Leinweber and Friedhelm Fett from 1975 .
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Sitting on the balcony of her apartment in West Berlin , Lore Diener tells about her life. She was born in 1908 into a working-class family, lived her youth in Guben and was sent to an orphanage in 1920 because her mother died of pulmonary tuberculosis . Lore's father died in the First World War in 1916 and at the age of 10-11 she became her mother's right-hand man, who had to take care of both siblings. From 1922 she spent her youth in a home in Berlin , which gave her a job as a housemaid, as there was no opportunity for professional training. Her salary is administered by the home and in her free time she seeks connection to the proletarian youth movement . Here she finds the solidarity of people for the first time who know they are responsible for one another in a group. In the following years, during which she was almost continuously unemployed, she continued to grow into the labor movement . She becomes a member of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and joins the Communist Party of Germany on May 1st, 1929 (the Blutmai ) . Lore Diener finds a job as a kindergarten teacher in a municipal kindergarten, which she loses again after the National Socialists came to power because she is a member of the KPD.
Lore Diener works in one of the tightly organized resistance groups , which consists of communists , social democrats and Christians . They try to educate the Berlin population about the criminal character of fascism with flight announcements and other activities . In the midst of her work, Lore Diener is arrested, probably on the basis of a denunciation , and taken to a Gestapo prison. But that is only the first stage of their ordeal, because afterwards they go to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . Even today she sometimes does not find any words in her descriptions for the tortures taking place there by the guards. Then things get even worse in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , where the overall situation is unbearable. She is sent to the gypsy camp, where entire families of up to six people lie in one bed, but above all they depress the sick children. A Polish doctor tries to convince Lore Diener to take care of these children, which she refuses at first because she does not see herself able to help. The doctor does not give up and Lore can, with his support, help a great many children to stay alive. Then she fell ill with typhus , from which both of her colleagues died. At the end of 1943 Lore Diener was released from the Auschwitz concentration camp, but she still doesn't know why. Back in Berlin, you only have to report to the police once a week.
After the end of the Second World War , she was approached to work as a kindergarten teacher. At first she doesn't want to, but then she starts and her first task is to get the hungry children something to eat. In 1948, she and other colleagues were given the opportunity to qualify as kindergarten teachers. There are two training centers to choose from, the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus and the commercial school in Potsdam , which she prefers. During this time the absolute separation in East Berlin and West Berlin takes place. When she comes back with the state examination in her pocket and wants to start work in kindergarten again, they tell her that she has been dismissed for “undemocratic behavior”. As a communist she still has the opportunity to work in the east. In 1955 Lore Diener started working for the Deutsche Reichsbahn , which also includes the S-Bahn in West Berlin, where she is still employed today as a ticket seller.
On January 30, 1950, Lore Diener applied to be recognized as a politically persecuted person during National Socialism. This request was not granted until the shooting. In the subsequent episode of the film, documents from the West Berlin authorities over a period of 25 years are quoted, all of which can be seen in the film. The reason for the rejection of April 2, 1957, is that after May 23, 1949, she fought against the basic democratic order. Another letter dated May 4, 1960 clearly stated that this refers to her membership in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , in the context of which she was also active in propaganda , which is why she is considered a supporter of a totalitarian regime and is therefore excluded from recognition . After several more letters, she received a final letter on August 14, 1972, in which she was informed that her last application was inadmissible and that the matter was therefore considered settled.
Lore Diener explains at the end that she would shape her life the same way again, only with the desire to be a little smarter and under no circumstances will she leave the party.
production
Some of the outdoor shots were shot on Müllerstrasse , the Berlin Wollankstrasse S- Bahn station and the Berlin-Wilhelmsruh S-Bahn station .
The stations of the Lore Diener was shot as 16 mm black and white film. The comment is from Christoph Heubner . The image documents used in the film, which were created after the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, were made available by the State Museum Auschwitz / Poland .
The first demonstrable performances took place on November 24, 1975 during the XVIII. International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for cinema and television in the GDR and the Federal Republic on April 22, 1976 at the 22nd West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, November 26, 1975, p. 5