Egg! Do you still know the old song?

Movie
Original title	Egg! Do you still know the old song?
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1984
length	85 minutes
Rod
Director	Eberhard Esche Alexander Weigel (theater) Margot Thyrêt (television)
production	Television of the GDR
camera	Tristan von Lühmann
occupation
Cox Habbema Eberhard Esche Otto Mellies Uwe Hilprecht : piano Christian Braun : flute Arthur Frenzel : harp

Egg! Do you still know the old song? is the 1984 theater recording for television in the GDR of a production by Eberhard Esche and Alexander Weigel from the Deutsches Theater Berlin ,

action

The recorded performance was dedicated to the late actor Herwart Grosse . The title Egg! Do you still know the old song is the beginning of the fourth stanza of the poem Traumbild number 8 of the cycle Junge Leiden from the book of songs . Here is a selection of the German ballads that are also used:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The Erlkönig (Habbema)
• The sorcerer's apprentice (ash)
• The King in Thule (Habbema)
• The God and the Bajadere (Habbema)

Friedrich Schiller

• The diver (Mellies)
• The cranes of Ibycus
• The guarantee (ash)
• The glove (ash)
• The division of the earth (Mellies)

Heinrich Heine

• Dream image no.8 from Book of Songs (ash)
• Belsatzar (Mellies)
• The Loreley (Mellies)

production

The premiere of this event took place on October 15, 1977 in the Small Comedy of the German Theater in Berlin. Herwart Grosse still worked here, who was replaced by Otto Mellies after his death.

It was first broadcast on the second channel on GDR television on December 26, 1984.

criticism

HU wrote in the Neue Zeit on the occasion of the premiere in October 1977:

“Not a dead educational asset, but living poetry. Joys of recognition and rediscovery; Immediate being touched even if you can take the content and thoughts seriously even after an ironic break. "

Web links

• Egg! Do you still know the old song? in the online dictionary of television in the GDR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 15, 1984, p. 6
2. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 25, 1977, p. 8