The illegitimate

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Movie
Original title The illegitimate. A child tragedy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1926
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Gerhard Lamprecht
script Gerhard Lamprecht
Luise Heilborn-Körbitz
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Karl Hasselmann
occupation

Die illegelichen is a German social drama by Gerhard Lamprecht from 1926, which he realized in his own company, Gerhard-Lamprecht-Film Produktion GmbH., For National-Film AG in Berlin . He had created the script together with Luise Heilborn-Körbitz based on official material from the “Association for the Protection of Children against Abuse and Abuse”. The film structures were created by Otto Moldenhauer , Karl Hasselmann took the photos, and Ernst Körner was the production manager .

"The illegitimate" continued the series of his " Milljöh " films that began in 1925 with "The Verrufenen" , in which he critically dealt with the precarious living conditions in proletarian Berlin.

The main roles were again cast with well-established actors such as Paul Bildt and Bernhard Goetzke , Käthe Haack , Margarete Kupfer and Lili Schoenborn , the children were amateur actors and played themselves. Fee Wachsmuth achieved some fame as a child actress, she was also used in other films , e.g. B. 1928 in " Mother Krausens Reise ins Glück " by Piel Jutzi . There she is simply called "The Child".

"Children who were marginal characters in the 'Disreputable' a year earlier, Lamprecht makes the main heroes of his film here". This is also indicated by the subtitle of his film "A Child Tragedy".

The fates of children and the characters of children in the silent films of the Weimar Republic, such as [...] in Gerhard Lamprecht's “The illegitimate. Eine Kindertrödie ”(1926) question the bourgeois-conservative values ​​and principles of their environment as a contrast to the sphere of life of adults.

Lamprecht was advised for his socially critical work by the graphic artist, painter and photographer Heinrich Zille (1858–1929). Lamprecht also worked again with Zille during the filming of “Die Illegelichen” and “Menschen und Volk” (both in 1926).

action

The three working-class children Peter, Lotte and Frieda grow up with a hard-hearted foster mother and are regularly beaten by her husband, a brutal alcoholic. One day he kills a rabbit the children love and temporarily chases them out of the house into the rain. Lotte falls ill with a fever and dies because the foster mother does not call the doctor in time. Peter secretly writes “starved” on the death certificate and thus has the foster parents' custody withdrawn. Frieda is housed in a loving miller's family, Peter with Mrs. Berndt, where he finally finds peace and carefree. His birth father now appears and tries to take him in as a worker, but Peter keeps fleeing from him. After all, he is allowed to stay with Mrs. Berndt.

background

The film, which was made in the “National” studio in Berlin-Tempelhof , was submitted to the censors on August 17, 1926. The premiere was on September 6, 1926 in Berlin. For the premiere, Willy Schmidt-Gentner put together the accompanying music and conducted it. The work has a length of 2132 meters in 7 acts.

In America , the film premiered two years later, on April 2, 1928, in New York ; there it ran under the title "Children of No Importance".

reception

'The illegitimate' has an unmistakably enlightening and instructive character, wants to shake up the audience and encourage them to act, has an extremely modern effect on its commitment to the protection of minors and is still moving in its portrayal of social conditions'.

In his “Milljöh” films “The Verrufenen”, “The Illegitimate” and “People Among Each Other”, he deals with the poor living conditions of the proletarian world in a socially critical manner. T. normal people and children as actors. In 1925 he founded the Gerhard Lamprecht film production.

'The Verrufenen "(1925) after Heinrich Zille [...] or" The illegitimate "(1926) were solid descriptions of the milieu and were also successful cinema entertainment in the positive sense of the word. Almost inevitably he [Lamprecht] met with a sometimes vehement rejection of ideologically bound criticism. The left film critics were to later - in 1929 when Jutzi's “Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück” was shown - critically refer to Lamprecht's works and denounce them as contributions to a bourgeois kitsch of the misery of millions. '

In the same year Paul Gerhard Zeidler brought the “Buch zum Film”, a “gripping novel based on the Gerhard Lamprecht film of the same name” to the market by the Orania Verlag Berlin-Oranienburg.

The social psychologist Siegfried Bernfeld dedicates a chapter in the fourth volume of his works to the “illegitimate” 2012, which contains Bernfeld's work on home and welfare education.

Republication

The film was released on DVD in the Edition Filmmuseum in November 2012 with musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and a 16-page booklet with texts by Rolf Aurich and Wolfgang Jacobsen , the issue was reviewed on January 28, 2013 by Hans Helmut Prinzler .

literature

  • Antti Alanen: filmdiary Oct. 7, 2013: DIE BITCHELICHEN A child tragedy
  • Rolf Aurich and Wolfgang Jacobsen: 16-page trilingual booklet on DVD in Edition Filmmuseum No. 77 from 2012.
  • Rolf Aurich: mosaic work. Gerhard Lamprecht and the world of film archives. Published in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television, Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2013, 212 pages, ISBN 978-3-86916-226-3
  • Jörg Becker: The better actors (children in the film), in: ray magazin 9/10
  • Nadine Bender: The proletarian Berlin in the film of the Weimar Republic. Master's thesis in the subject “Modern German Literature and Media Studies” at the Department of German Studies and Art Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg 2003
  • Siegfried Bernfeld: Social Pedagogy. Works, Volume 4. Book series: Library of Psychoanalysis. Edited by Daniel Barth and Ulrich Herrmann. Published by Psychosozial-Verlag. 541 pages, paperback, 148 × 210 mm. Published in June 2012. ISBN 978-3-8379-2075-8 , order no .: 2075
  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. A collection of materials. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin, Berlin 1970.
  • Sybille Buske: Miss mother and her bastard: a history of illegitimacy in Germany, 1900-1970 (= Volume 5 of Modern Times). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-89244-750-0 . Length 400 pages. Here: p. 92 and 384
  • Ioana Craciun-Fischer, University of Bucharest: »The deconstruction of the bourgeoisie in the silent films of the Weimar Republic using the example of the film“ Asphalt ”(1929) by Joe May«. Lecture to the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV on September 12, 2013
  • Günther Dahlke and Günter Karl (eds.): German feature films from the beginning until 1933. Henschel Verlag Berlin 1993.
  • DW.DE (Deutsche Welle): Rediscovered: Director Gerhard Lamprecht
  • Walter Gasper: “Berlin Milieu Films” by Gerhard Lamprecht, at artCore February 28, 2013
  • Michael Hanisch: The calligrapher. The director and film historian Gerhard Lamprecht, in: film-dienst 20/1997
  • Jochen Hardt and Sven Olaf Hoffmann: Childhood in Transition - Part II: Modernism until today. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 2006 (= practice of child psychology and child psychiatry. Results from psychoanalysis, psychology and family therapy, 55th year. Edited by Ulrike Lehmkuhl, Berlin, and Annette Streeck-Fischer, Göttingen)
  • Hans-Helmut Prinzler: The 'Zillefilm' by Gerhard Lamprecht. Film screening at the Akademie der Künste March 13, 2008
  • Hans Helmut Prinzler: Two films by Gerhard Lamprecht, reviewed on January 28, 2013
  • Paul Gerhard Zeidler: The illegitimate. First edition; gripping novel based on the Gerhard Lamprecht film of the same name; Issue 1st to 5th thousand; 173 pages, approx. 20 × 13 cm; Paperback. Oranienburg, Orania-Verlag, 1926.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founded in Germany in 1875. At the end of the 19th century, after a gruesome case of neglect and mistreatment of a girl became known in New York, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded, cf. J. Hardt; SO Hoffmann: Childhood in Transition - Part II: Modernism until today, p. 281, and Becker in ray 9/10: 'In »Die Unehelichen« (1926) Lamprecht had all four main roles played by children. The script was based on official material from the "Association for the Protection of Children from Abuse and Abuse" .
  2. ↑ "The cameraman Karl Hasselmann belonged to the large circle of prominent picture designers in the German film of the twenties." (HHPrinzler, on March 13, 2008), s. a. Dahlke-Karl p. 342
  3. ↑ cf. Bender p. 90, Dahlke-Karl p. 131: ' »The illegitimate« forms with »The Disreputable« and »People Among Each Other« a trilogy that shows Lamprecht's focus on social issues and shows his heart for children '
  4. ↑ cf. on this the work by Bender 2003, especially on pp. 79–83, 88, 90
  5. ↑ "The milieu observations, the recordings in the backyards and corner pubs, in the homeless asylum and at the rag pickers, in the apartments and stairwells, the looks of the children, the unemployed, the petty criminals," writes HHPrinzler in his introduction to "The Disreputable" on March 13, 2008
  6. ↑ cf. Becker in ray 9/10: “In a press article from 1926 - title: 'Das Kind im Film' - the director reminds us that 'it was precisely French films in which you first saw children appear in decisive roles [...] If you see more than a mere entertainment venue in the cinema, you have to recognize that these French films have a great advantage over the American ones, because in them the children are not movie heroes, but little people, with whose fate you sympathize and suffer '. ""
  7. ↑ cf. filmportal.de [1]
  8. ↑ cf. Becker in ray 9/10 and stummfilm.at [2]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stummfilm.at  
  9. ↑ so Dahlke-Karl p. 130
  10. ^ Lecture by Ioana Craciun-Fischer at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV on September 12, 2013 [3]
  11. ↑ cf. prisma.de [4]
  12. ↑ cf. filmportal.de
  13. ↑ cf. Birett p. 145 on B 13 491, VIII 697
  14. ↑ so Walter Gasper February 28, 2013
  15. ↑ probably meant are amateur actors
  16. ↑ cf. defa.de [5]
  17. ↑ "Only the critic of the“ Rote Fahne ”, Otto Steinicke, who called“ Die Verrufenen ”bourgeois kitsch, had reservations because the film does not deal with the class issue." reports HHPrinzler in his introduction on March 13, 2008; see. Bender p. 88 ff.
  18. ↑ so Michael Hanisch in film-dienst 20/1997
  19. ↑ cf. psychosocial publisher [6]
  20. ↑ together with Lamprecht's "The Verrufenen (The Fifth State)" as a double DVD (No. 77), cf. Edition Filmmuseum [7]
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