The divine Jette

Movie
Original title	The divine Jette
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1937
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Erich Waschneck
script	Rolf Meyer , Kurt E. Walter
production	Fanal-Filmproduktion GmbH, Berlin ( Erich Waschneck , Hermann Grund )
music	Georg Haentzschel
camera	Friedl Behn-Grund
cut	Walter Fredersdorf
occupation
Grethe Weiser : Jette Schönborn Viktor de Kowa : stage manager Fritz Barsch Kurt Meisel : Count Eugen Opalla Alfred Schlageter : Count Eugen's father Hansi Arnstaedt : Mrs. Kommerzienrat Hans Junkermann : Theater director Körting Olga Limburg : Mrs. Körting Marina von Ditmar : Paula Schönborn Wilhelm Bendow : Liebreich, an old mime Antonie Jaeckel : Housekeeper of Count Opalla Ernst Legal : Professor Cravallo Gerhard Dammann : 1st policeman Erich Dunskus : 2nd policeman Paul Rehkopf : 3rd policeman Oscar Sabo : Theater agent Fliederbusch Jakob Tiedtke : Councilor of Commerce Elsa Wagner : cloakroom attendant Kunkeln Ernst Waldow : August Rudolf Klein-Rogge : City Councilor Müller Paul Westermeier : Mr. Bank Director Annemarie Steinsieck : Ms. bank director

The divine Jette is a 1937 German music comedy by the director Erich Waschneck . The film premiered on March 18, 1937. For the leading actress Grethe Weiser , the comedy was the big breakthrough. The plot was inspired by the life of the singer Henriette Sontag , who was called the divine Jette .

action

The Berlin couplet singer Jette Schönborn appears together with her mother and sister Paula in the Berlin Amor Theater. There the Tyrolean Count Eugen Opalla is a regular guest who Jette admires very much. One evening Count Opalla looks for Jette in her cloakroom. Although Jette does not want to enter into a relationship with the Count, her Opalla arranges an appointment for an audition in the elegant Königstädtisches Theater. Jette, accompanied by the stage manager of the Armortheater Fritz Barsch, Count Opalla and her mother and sister, goes to the audition and tries her hand at an opera aria. So she initially fails. But when she then performs a cheeky couplet written by Persch, she is offered a job. Fritz Barsch took her to the Königstädtisches Theater as stage manager. Their performances are a complete success, their performances sell out quickly.

But not everyone is so enthusiastic about the new crowd puller. The wives of the theater director Körting, the bank director and the Kommerzienrat neither like Jette nor her cheeky songs and, by means of an intrigue, prevent Jette from attending the reception after her 50th appearance. Nevertheless, Jette found out about it through Count Opalla and appeared at the event. The ladies are condescending to the singer and go home early. Jette gets rid of the anger of her friend Fritz Barsch. Barsch then writes a cheeky song that is clearly aimed at the women of the directors. Jette performs the play the next evening and is arrested shortly afterwards along with Persch.

Count Opalla steps in and gets Jette out of prison by faking an engagement with Jette and declaring that Jette will leave Berlin the next day and go to Tyrol with him. He actually manages to persuade Jette to give up her career and convince her to marry him.

Arriving in Tyrol, Jette meets Eugen's father. He lets his son know that she is out of the question as a daughter-in-law. Eugen doesn't want to give up on the singer. In the meantime, the wife of the theater director Körting regrets her intrigue against Jette, because the theater is making losses. Mrs. Körting gives Jette's mother 2000 marks. With this money Jette should be brought back to Berlin. So mother and sister go to Tyrol and are so impressed by Count Opalla's luxurious property that they don't tell Jette that a new opportunity awaits them in Berlin. A few days later, Fritz Barsch also reached Tyrol. By means of a ruse, he succeeds in getting Jette back into the theater. The singer discovers her feelings for Fritz Barsch and realizes that Count Opalla does not suit her. She goes back to Berlin with Fritz.

music

Grethe Weiser sings, among other things, “I am the wife of 1000 men”, “I am a little shepherd boy” and “Theater, Theater, Theater”. Weiser and de Kowa sing the duets “Become something, be something once” and “I am a loose butterfly”.

Reviews

• Karsten Witte in “Wir Tanz um die Welt”: “ The physical directness, the untheatrical tone and the ravishing smack of the portrayal of Jette by the wise men have an American style. "

• Lexicon of international film : “ Pre-war fun game with Grethe Weiser as a revue star who was embraced on all sides. "

• Thomas Kramer in Reclam's Lexikon des Deutschen Films (1995): “ A very successful portrait of show business around 1900, whose everyday life is aptly characterized in the sharp dialogues. Even the often artificial Berlin boldness has an authentic effect, which is mainly due to the relaxed roles of Viktor de Kowas and Grethe Weiser. "

Radio play version

In 1961, Bayerischer Rundfunk produced a 96-minute radio play under the same title as part of its sold-out series . The direction was directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm . The main speakers were:

• Maria Sebaldt : Jette
• Inge Meysel : Leopoldine, her mother
• Edith Hancke : Paula, her sister

Other speakers included Ulrich Beiger , Hans Nielsen , Erika von Tellmann , Hans Zesch-Ballot , Eva L'Arronge , Hans-Jürgen Diedrich , Dieter Hildebrandt and Lisa Helwig .

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

sources

1. ↑ Quotation from: Manfred Hobsch : Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme. An illustrated encyclopedia - with all of the German hit films from 1930 to the present day. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-166-4 , p. 90.
2. ↑ The divine Jette. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 15, 2017 .  
3. ^ The Internet database of the ARD radio play archive, accessed on November 2, 2011

Web links

• The Divine Jetta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The divine Jette at filmportal.de
• The divine Jette at Murnau-stiftung.de