A young man from the Innviertel
A young man from the Innviertel is a documentary film from 1973 . Directed by Axel Corti based on a script by Georg Stefan Troller . The film deals with the curriculum vitae and career of the young Adolf Hitler in the k.-u.-k. -Time up to the beginning of the First World War in 1914. Interviews with contemporary witnesses of the young Hitler who were still alive at the time are integrated into the film.
The film was part of a television series produced jointly by ZDF and ORF with the title How They Became It .
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The film begins with a meeting of gentlemen on a moving train. They talk about domestic politics and Viennese. There is also Adolf Hitler, who does not take part in the conversation.
The overstrict, authoritarian father Alois urges Adolf to embark on a military career as an official , but Adolf remains silent about all of this. Alois also beats Adolf regularly. In the Realschule, Adolf is enthusiastic about Germanism in Austria, anti-Semitism and the Nibelungenlied . At the dodgeball he sorts his team into Germanic and non-Germanic.
Father Alois sits in the tavern and describes his career as a senior official at the regulars' table. The matter with the women is also brought up by Alois, whereupon he reacts angrily and goes home. Alois later dies of a stroke in the pub.
When Adolf is walking through Linz with his friend August Kubizek , Adolf describes his megalomaniac plans for redesigning the city and criticizes building errors, although Kubizek does not understand him. In the Landstrasse he always tries to speak to Stefanie, whom he secretly admires, but he doesn't dare and tries a poem in writing that he calls "Hymn to the Beloved". But he fails to give it to her. Wagner's opera Rienzi , the performance of which he is watching, appeals to him too , as he sees himself reflected in the figure.
Adolf travels to Vienna to study art. In the Academy of Fine Arts he is told that his painting talent is insufficient; then he presents his plans to the professor of architecture. This demands the high school diploma, which Adolf does not have.
In the meantime, mother Klara has become seriously ill, and the Jewish doctor Eduard Bloch takes care of her. Adolf likes this and gives him a watercolor from Vienna. A little later his mother dies.
He rents a room in Vienna from a friendly older woman from Galicia . She is pleased with Adolf's serious demeanor. But first he is walking through the streets of Vienna and is outraged by the misery of the homeless and the vulgar speeches. Furthermore, his displeasure with the Czechs and Jews of Vienna increases.
When Adolf returns to Linz, he invites Kubizek to come to the conservatory in Vienna and asserts that he and Kubizek can share the Polish woman's room and accommodate the piano. While walking, Adolf admires the squares at the Vienna parliament building . In the reptile zoo, Adolf and Kubizek watch a snake devouring a bird. Adolf's vision is to eradicate the rot.
In a speech by Mayor Karl Lueger and the leader of the German national party, Georg Ritter von Schönerer , racial madness and anti-Semitism are brought up, which Adolf is enthusiastic about and also lets his friend Kubizek enroll in the anti-Semitic union.
During his stay in the homeless shelter, his roommates make fun of his education, including Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels , who presents racial studies . As a result, disputes over racial characteristics arise in the asylum. In his room, Adolf checked his body parts with the help of the racial brochure. Later he asked for the assent to be postponed because he refused to join the multi-ethnic army. During the notification, Adolf confesses to having a lung disease and the commission finds out that he is not a fine specimen.
When he traveled to Munich and visited the city, he praised it as a “German city of art”. He takes quarters with the tailor Popp. A little later Popp receives a newspaper report dealing with the expired Austrian ultimatum to Serbia . Adolf is delighted with the beginning of the First World War .
The film ends with a spoken quote that Adolf Hitler recorded in Mein Kampf in 1924 .
Web links
- A young man from the Innviertel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hitler: Now as a youth on ZDF . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1973, pp. 88 ( online ).