The Forgotten (1956)
| documentary | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The forgotten |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 29 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Peter Dreessen , Peter Adler |
| script | Peter Dreessen, Peter Adler |
| camera | Willy Pankau |
| cut | Guntram von Ehrenstein |
Die Vergessenen is a documentary film by Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) by Peter Dreessen with the assistance of Peter Adler from 1956, which was first broadcast as part of the television series “In the spotlight: current events - a closer look”.
Content and background
Die Vergessenen was created after a radio feature of the same title originally written by Adler and broadcast in 1955, which dealt with the fate of German-Jewish emigrants in Paris - who had fled there from the National Socialists since 1933 - who received no compensation after the end of the Second World War and lived in bad circumstances. The resulting documentary portrays the painter Alfred Kaufmann, a pensioner with her grandchild, an opera singer, the cartoonist and painter Otto Elkan, a rag dealer with his wife, a pensioner couple, a pensioner with hemiplegia and a doctor. The documentary does not contain an interview with the emigrants shown, only the speaker Peter Häfer briefly introduces them and briefly describes their life situation and everyday life in Paris. In 1956 there were around 10,000 German-Jewish emigrants living in France, 5,000 of them in Paris alone.
After the radio feature was broadcast in 1955, the SDR broadcaster set up a donation account and called for donations to finance an old people's home for needy German-Jewish emigrants. Peter Adler also traveled through Germany and spoke to people from business and politics to point out the fate of German-Jewish emigrants and asked for donations. The documentary was made in 1956 and was first broadcast on May 8, 1956 - eleven years after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht and thus the end of World War II in Europe and liberation from National Socialism. After the first broadcast, a discussion followed, including a. with the politicians Erich Mende , Eugen Gerstenmaier and Fritz Erler . In June 1956 the documentary was shown in a special screening in front of the German Bundestag . The Bundestag then voted unanimously to “make an unscheduled one million D-Mark available for the construction of a dormitory”. In addition, around 500,000 D-Marks came from municipalities, cities, companies and private individuals. A few weeks after the television broadcast, around 1.5 million D-Marks were available.
With the collected donations the charity bought La Solidarité of Réfugiés israélites (an association of Jewish immigrants in France) - in particular through the support of Max Dessau - a castle near Paris, where 40 needy German-Jewish emigrants a new home found, as well as apartments for families . The documentary Das Haus der Vergessenen by Dieter Ertel was made about this and broadcast in 1957. By 1960, 21 apartments were built on the grounds of the castle through new buildings.
Web links
- The Forgotten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See IMDB. In focus: current affairs - a closer look (1956–1957)
- ↑ a b c d DVD: Signs of the Times - Observations from the Federal Republic (1956-1973) . The films of the Stuttgart school. (2011). absolut Medien GmbH .
- ↑ alpha-retro: 1956 - The Forgotten. In: programm.ard.de. November 17, 2018, accessed September 6, 2019 .