He couldn't be silent today
| Movie | |
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| Original title | He couldn't be silent today |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 34 minutes |
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| Director | Volker Koepp |
| script |
Wera kitchen master Claus kitchen master Volker Koepp |
| production | DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films , KAG: Profile |
| camera | Christian Lehmann |
| cut | Barbara Masanetz-Mechelk |
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He couldn't be silent today is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for documentaries by Volker Koepp from 1975.
action
The film shows the life of the working-class poet Erich Weinert . In interviews with his wife Li Weinert and comrades in arms, his life is told from birth. How he goes to school, learns a locksmith's trade and, because he feels like painting, goes to an art school, which he then swaps for a university in Berlin , which he completes with a state examination . His first attempts as a poet, with which he was not satisfied, are also spoken of on the basis of his own records. With the outbreak of the First World War he was immediately transferred to the front with his regiment , but quickly realized that there was a catch with the holy war of defense. He welcomes the subsequent German people's revolution and joins the fighters. The defeat of the revolution is a grave disappointment for him. In the winter of 1920 Erich Weinert taught at a school of applied arts and conducted scientific studies. With other interested parties, he founded the artists' association Die Kugel , in whose magazine he published his first poems.
In Leipzig he made his debut in the political, satirical cabaret Retorte and then appeared in a Berlin cabaret. When asked if he didn't want to write his poems for Die Rote Fahne , he replied that he preferred to perform them at meetings. After several stations in exile , he took part in the fighting of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War . After internment and the subsequent return to the Soviet Union , he was called by the Red Army to move the soldiers of the German Wehrmacht to overflow from the trenches . When the National Committee for Free Germany was founded, Erich Weinert was elected chairman. The time before Stalingrad must have cost his health, he gets TBC , which hinders his further work, but does not prevent him from doing it.
production
The black and white film He Couldn't Be Silent Today was designed under the working title Erich Weinert by the Artistic Working Group Profile and was shown for the first time on August 5, 1975. The dramaturgy was in the hands of Annerose Richter and the commentary was written by Wera and Claus Küchenmeister .