A German life

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Movie
Original title A German life
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Christian Krönes,
Olaf S. Müller,
Roland Schrotthofer,
Florian Weigensamer
script Christian Krönes,
Olaf S. Müller,
Florian Weigensamer
production Christian Krönes,
Roland Schrotthofer,
Florian Weigensamer
camera Frank van Vught
cut Christian Kermer

A German Life is an Austrian documentary from 2016 about Brunhilde Pomsel , the secretary of Joseph Goebbels . Directed by Christian Krönes , Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer and Florian Weigensamer.

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Brunhilde Pomsel was born on January 11, 1911 in Berlin and grew up in Berlin in the 1920s. After an apprenticeship in the noble clothing store Gläsinger & Co., she first worked as a secretary for the Jewish lawyer Dr. Hugo Goldberg. At the same time she also worked for the German national front-line fighter and early National Socialist Wulf Bley , who dictated his war memories to her. From 1933 she worked as a secretary in the time radio department of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft. For this position she had to join the NSDAP .

In 1942 she came to the office of Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. She was not a fiery supporter of the Nazis; it was, as she said, completely apolitical. "Only an infectious disease could have saved me from it," explains Pomsel about this change of position. “And yet I felt flattered because it was an award, the fastest shorthand typist on the radio.” Pomsel stayed with Goebbels until the end of the war. During the last days of the war she worked in a makeshift office in Goebbels' city villa, not far from the Brandenburg Gate . When the fighting became more intense and drew closer, she and her colleagues fled to the air raid shelter under the Propaganda Ministry. She spent the last hours there with her boss and his family - until the murder of their six children and the suicide of Joseph and Magda Goebbels . Pomsel was picked up by Soviet troops while still in the bunker. After five years imprisonment in Russia she continued her career as chief secretary at ARD. She was never married and remained childless.

Brunhilde Pomsel died on January 27, 2017 at the age of 106 in a nursing home in Munich.

production

Blackbox Film und Medienproduktion GmbH is an international film production company and represents a community of media companies and filmmakers from different disciplines.

Development of the project

The directors on the development of the film

“We first met Ms. Pomsel while researching another project. Joseph Goebbels was known for his many affairs. a. the fiancée stretched out to one of his officers. This is said to have slapped Goebbels, whereupon he was transferred to a punitive detachment and killed shortly afterwards. In the course of this research we came across Brunhilde Pomsel, Goebbels' secretary, and it was immediately clear that she had the potential for a story of her own.

Her age naturally made us wonder whether it would still be possible to make a film with her. In preliminary discussions, however, it quickly became apparent that she was very clear and alert and that she was also a good narrator. We were also impressed by how many details she could still remember. We were also amazed by their humor. When setting up the shoot, she joked exuberantly. She was then all the more concentrated and serious in the conversation. She never told anything that she experienced secondhand, like events known from historiography. She only ever talked about things that she experienced herself, that she was there herself. "

Film festivals

Reviews

The film service judges that the documentary contrasts Pomsel's statements "with contemporary source material, including harrowing footage from the Warsaw ghetto". The viewer is “encouraged to re-classify their statements again and again and to fill the gaps that have been kept open with their own thoughts”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for a German life . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 164342 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for a German life . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ http://www.salzgeber.de/presse/pressehefte/EINDEUTSCHES_ph_Web.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.blackboxfilm.at/blackbox/
  5. ↑ http://www.eindeutschesleben.de/interview.html
  6. ↑ A German Life. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved April 11, 2017 (short review).