Every man needs a little friend

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Movie
Original title Every man needs a little friend
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1927
length 2090 meters, at 22 fps 83 minutes
Rod
Director Paul Heidemann
script Paul Heidemann
production Paul Heidemann
music Pasquale Perris
camera Willy Winterstein
occupation

Every man needs a little friend is the title of a silent comedy film that Paul Heidemann directed in 1927 for his company Heidemann Film Vertrieb GmbH Berlin based on his own script. It goes back to the well-known lied to the operetta The Blue Mazur by Franz Lehár , which quickly became a popular hit.

Around Heidemann, who also played the main role, one saw Hans Albers acting as boxer Otto-Otto and Paul Morgan as his manager, plus the proven comedians Julius Falkenstein and Siegfried Arno and the ladies Charlotte Ander , Carla Bartheel , Vera Schmiterlöw and Ruth Weyher .

The film belongs to a species that increasingly appeared in the transition period from silent to sound film, which tried to attach itself to the success of a previous hit song.

action

In his institute, Prof. Hellwig makes more comical than scientific attempts at rejuvenation, as a result of which adults appear in children's clothes at a costume party and a master boxer appears in women's clothes.

background

The film structures were created by the architect Willi A. Herrmann , the production manager was Fritz Grossmann, and Willy Winterstein was in charge of the camera . The illustration music was written by Pasquale Perris, who was the house music director at the Tauentzien-Palast in Berlin.

The film was submitted to the Berlin Film Inspectorate for censorship on November 17, 1927. The film, which had been cut from originally 2187 meters over 2155 meters to 2090.8 meters, was only allowed to pass after two further appointments on November 28 and December 2. The first performance took place on December 16, 1927 in Berlin in the Tauentzien Palace . The film was awarded by the Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat DLS.

Audio documents

  • Every man has a little friend. Step from The Blue Mazur (Franz Lehár, text by Artur Rebner) "Beka" orchestra with choral singing, Beka No. 31 009. May 7, 1921
  • Every man has a little friend. Fox-trot from The Blue Mazur by Franz Lehár. "Metropol" dance orchestra. Polyphon 30 723 (Matr. 2-27 379)
  • Every man has a little friend, from The Blue Mazur by Franz Lehár. Marek Weber with his artists' band from the “Esplanade” Berlin, on parlophone P.1186-I (Matr. 2-2897). May 21, 1921

The hit was also available in America:

  • Every man has a little friend (Franz Lehár, Artur Rebner) German Dance Orchestra [i. e., Victor Orchestra] Victor 73 203 (Matr. B-26 039-3, rec. 1/18/1922)

Perhaps inspired by the figure of the boxing master Otto-Otto embodied by Hans Albers, Fritz Rotter and Dr. Bronisław Kaper the foxtrot song Oh Otto-Otto , which sings about a "beautiful man" that all women are after:

  • Oh Otto-Otto ...! Foxtrot (Dr. Bronislaw Kaper, text: Fritz Rotter) Marek Weber and his orchestra. Refrain: Siegfried Arno . Electrola EG2135 (60-1308) - 1930

reception

The film referred to two phenomena from the 1920s that moved the public at the time: on the one hand, the numerous attempts by doctors to artificially rejuvenate people, and on the other hand, the emerging and popular boxing sport and its representatives. Rejuvenation agents and operations had already given the couplet singers and variety comedians nourishment, famous boxing stars of the time such as Hans Breitensträter or Paul Samson-Körner also provided material for couplets and scenes - now the film took off from them.

The title of the song and the film also inspired the Berlin illustrator Heinrich Zille to create a picture in which, in a backyard in Berlin, visibly minors are dancing and "smooching" to the music of an organ man.

literature

  • Herbert Birett  : Silent film music. A collection of materials . Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin 1970.
  • Jeanpaul Goergen: When the cinema was still called Amor. In: Die Welt , June 10, 1999.
  • Stephanie Haerdle: Representation of boxing and boxing athletes in the literature of the Weimar Republic (Master's thesis, HU Berlin), Berlin 2003.
  • Gerhard Lamprecht (Ed.): German silent films: 1927–1931 . Volume 9 of German silent films . Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin 1970.
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Part 2: History and stories of popular music up to 1945 - composers - librettists - lyricists . Verlag BoD 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-7287-9 .
  • Karin Rase: Art and Sport. Boxing as a reflection of social conditions. With a foreword by Jan Hoet (Europäische Hochschulschriften, Series XXVIII, 396). Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.] 2003.
  • Lukas Richter  : The Berlin hit song. Presentation - documents - collection. Newly published with a register by the German Folksong Archive (= Folksong Studies, Volume 4). Waxman Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3-8309-1350-4 .
  • Dirk Rupnow: Pseudoscience: Conceptions of non-scientific nature in the history of science . Verlag Suhrkamp, ​​2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29497-0
  • Ulrike Schaper: Boxing and masculinity in the Weimar Republic (Master's thesis, HU Berlin), Berlin 2004.
  • Ulrike Schaper: “They rightly say: boxing - men's sport.” Images of masculinity in the boxing discourse of the Weimar Republic. In: Berliner Debatte Initial 17 (2006), no. 3, pp. 92-102.
  • Eberhard Spiess  : Hans Albers. A filmography. Edited by Hilmar Hoffmann and Walter Schobert, Kommunales Kino Frankfurt / Main in cooperation with the German Institute for Film Studies, Wiesbaden. Frankfurt / Main 1977.
  • Heiko Stoff: Eternal youth. Concepts of rejuvenation from the late 19th century to the Third Reich . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2004, ISBN 978-3-412-11103-8 .

Web links

Illustrations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ with the libretto by Béla Jenbach and Léo Stein, first performed on May 28, 1920 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, cf. Ploog p. 562
  2. ^ Franz Lehar: Every man has a little friend. Foxtrot. Insertion in the operetta "The Blue Mazur". Words from Artur Rebner. Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag (c) 1921. - Pl.-No. DMV 2069. - 5 pp. - Folded double sheet. m. a. Single sheet, title illustration ([Lebe? -] lady dressed in purple between two gentlemen in a coat, scarf and top hat against a black background) by Ortmann. Fig. At 78.35.7.5 (accessed on October 15, 2015)
  3. ↑ after Spiess pp. 158–159
  4. ↑ cf. Birett p. 139 on censorship no. B 17 249 - B 17 299
  5. ↑ "Tauentzienpalast" was the name of the UFA's famous premiere cinema from 1913 to 1945. With 995 seats, it had the most seats of the more than 300 cinemas in Greater Berlin after the Ufa-Palast am Zoo: cf. Jeanpaul Goergen: When the cinema was still called Amor. In: Die Welt , June 10, 1999
  6. ↑ listen on youtube
  7. ↑ label shown. at pinterest
  8. ↑ listen on youtube , label released. at i.ytimg.com
  9. ↑ cf. DAHR Discography of American Historical Recordings
  10. ↑ the first German heavyweight champion was Otto Flint, cf. Boxing in Germany 1919–1932
  11. ↑ listen on youtube
  12. ↑ cf. Haerdle 2003, Rase 2003, Schaper 2004
  13. ↑ on the experiments by Bogomoletz, Levy-Lenz, Steinach, Voronoff & Co. cf. Stoff 2004, p. 89 ff., Rupnow 2008, p. 204, 205, 207 u. 212 and ill. At pop-zeitschrift.de and ebaystatic.com , delcampe.com (accessed on October 15, 2015)
  14. ↑ cf. Scene The rejuvenation gland by Max Heye and Grete Wiedeke on Homocord B. 1515 (Matr. M 16 292 = a) The examination, M 16 293 = b) The operation; A 31 7 24), to be heard on youtube
  15. ↑ cf. the song Es boxt der Carpentier by Heinrich Strecker , which Fritz Imhoff recorded on record “Grammophon” 20 002 / B 42108 (Matr. 3318 ar) at the end of 1924 in Vienna. It celebrated the French boxer Georges Carpentier (1894-1975), who became European welterweight champion in 1911, middleweight in 1912, light heavyweight and heavyweight in 1913, heavyweight world champion in 1914 and light heavyweight world champion in 1920. Or Max Hansen's humorous lecture My first boxing match visit , on gramophone (30cm) No. 19 827 / B 66 503 (Matr. Bi 609/610). Berlin 1928
  16. ↑ cf. Richter p. 34 and wikimedia.org