In the meantime it is noon

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Movie
Original title In the meantime it is noon
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1988
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Karin Brandauer
script Heath Kouba
camera Heinz Menzik , Helmut Pirnat
cut Maria Homolka , Monica Parisini
occupation

Meanwhile it will be noon is an Austrian television film from 1988 . Directed led Karin Brandauer . The actors included: Franziska Walser , Nicolas Brieger , Johannes Nikolussi , Stefan Suske , August Schmölzer , Bernd Spitzer and others.

The film is based on the experiences of the Austrian sociologists Marie Jahoda , Paul Lazarsfeld and Hans Zeisel as well as their study, Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal , published in 1933 . After a preparatory period, the researchers working at the University of Vienna explore the situation of the unemployed in the Lower Austrian community of Marienthal . Interviews, diary notes, letters, statistical data, etc. provide a picture of the psychological well-being of those affected. While working on their study, the researchers experience a confrontation of their theories with experiences of social reality.

Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of social research ( observation , structured observation protocols, household surveys , questionnaires , time sheets, interviews , conversations and simultaneous assistance), this work, first published in 1933, is methodologically trend-setting - even if its reception in German-speaking countries only years (decades) later took place. The group of Austrian research sociologists using the example of the small town of Marienthal, which was shaped by the declining textile industry, as in their field research study for the first time in this form, precision and depth , demonstrated the socio-psychological effects of unemployment and showed in the main result that unemployment does not become active (as was mostly expected until then) Revolution , but rather leads to passive resignation .

The unemployed from Marienthal is not only a " dense description " ( Clifford Geertz ), illustrated with many examples and empirically saturated , but also a sociographically stimulating work with a view to the four types of attitudes of the internally unbroken, the resigned, beyond the sociographic aspects. of the desperate and the neglected apathy - whereby only the first type still knew “plans and hopes for the future”, while the resignation, despair and apathy of the three other types “led to the renunciation of a future that is not even more in the imagination than Plan plays a role ”.

Karin Brandauer's film, after a contrasting and irritating, snappy, noisy introduction, is characterized by a calm narrative and a renunciation of sentimentality. The director shows the effects of an economic crisis and its possible political implications in documentary form and with reserved images. The hopeless world of the unemployed is contrasted by the seemingly orderly bourgeoisie of university operations, which, however, is also only temporary: Jewish researchers with their proximity to social democracy will soon have to relocate their activities to the USA due to the political situation in Europe .

The real names of those involved have been changed for the film version, who operate here as Ruth Weiss (Walser), Robert Bergheim (Brieger), Kurt Schrader (Nikolussi) and Philipp Strauss (Suske).

On February 21, 1988 the film was shown at the Berlinale . It was first broadcast on ORF on May 1, 1988. The television stations Arte and 3sat have broadcast Karin Brandauer's film (duration 95 ') several times since 2003.

Brandauer's film is now used as a popular audiovisual teaching material in numerous schools and universities.

The film title is a quote from a time sheet printed in Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal (p. 84, Suhrkamp 1975 edition). The researchers gave out these sheets to the unemployed so that they could record their activities for each hour of the day. One of the men carried the sentence “for the time being it will be noon” for the hour from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The sentence succinctly sums up the lost time structure of the Marienthalers, especially the men, and the emptiness of the daily routine and is commented on in detail by the authors (pp. 85–86).

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