TV epitaval: Shot while trying to escape

Episode of the TV episode series
Original title	Shot while trying to escape
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Production company	DEFA on behalf of the DFF
length	99 minutes
classification	Episode 11
First broadcast	March 25, 1962 on DFF
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Luderer
script	Friedrich Karl Kaul , Walter Jupé
music	Wolfgang Pietsch
camera	Günter Marczinkowsky
cut	Use Peters
occupation
Herbert Köfer : Freiherr von Selchow Rolf Ripperger : First Lieutenant Baldus Günther Haack : Lieutenant Goebel Wilhelm Koch-Hooge : Major von Schenk Horst Westphal : Dahlheim Erich Brauer : Sergeant Wagner Harry Hindemith : Luetgebrune, defense attorney Gerd Ehlers : Reiff, judge-martial Rudolf Christoph : Horn shoe Günther Ballier : Straube Herbert Dirmoser : Surén Eberhard Esche : Hahnemann, witness Hans Finohr : von Stein Horst Friedrich : Hess, gendarme Harald Halgardt : Göpel, teacher Hans Hardt-Hardtloff : Gatterstädt, witness Adolf-Peter Hoffmann : Major General Rumschöttel Walter Jupé : Schröder, expert Ernst Kahler : Seiffert Manfred Karge : Lieutenant Müller Karl Kendzia : Ewald Hans-Hartmut Krüger : Krauss Stefan Lisewski : Fritz Füldner Hans Maikowski : Karl Schröder Fritz Mohr : Hartleb Günter Naumann : Karl Füldner Peter Obenaus : Alex Hartmann Heinz-Werner Pätzold : Gustav Soldan Dieter Perlwitz : Ernst Füldner Günther Polensen : Otto Soldan Fritz Schlegel : Schein, Schultheiß Heinz Scholz : old Hartmann Willi Schrade : Lieutenant Jahn Karl Sturm : Hunter stone Karl-Heinz Weiß : Baron von Verschuer Else Wolz : Mother Füldner Eckhard Bilz : Herhaber Harald Engelmann : Nedelmann Klaus Ebeling : Engelbrecht Lothar Hahn : Springer Eberhard Wintzen : Voss

Shot on the run is one of the DEFA twisted thriller series Fernsehpitaval of German Television by Wolfgang Luderer from the year 1962nd

action

It begins in the spring of 1920 in the university town of Marburg . This is where members of the Marburg student corps (StuKoMa) meet to cheer the invasion of parts of the Reichswehr in Berlin and the escape of the Reich government . They decide to armedly support this putsch and choose frigate captain Freiherr von Selchow as their leader. In this function he immediately sought out leading officers of the Reichswehr, but did not receive the support he wanted, as the coup has since been crushed. But there is an indication that armed gangs are moving through the country in Thuringia , and the StuKoMa, as a temporary volunteer association to support the Rumschöttel Reichswehr Brigade, is called upon to fight them . Captain von Selchow decides to take quarters in Sättelstädt in order to initiate the necessary operations from there .

Here he learns that several workers from Thal have complied with a request from the Ruhla workers to obey the orders of the reigning Reich government and to collect the weapons that were still in circulation after the coup. A group is formed which accordingly locks the weapons confiscated there in the surrounding villages under the supervision of a police officer. Since Ruhla does not belong to the StuKoMa's area of ​​operations, Captain von Selchow decides to go to Thal with his troops to arrest the “red workers” there. Since the names of those involved are all known, it is easy to get hold of them. Fifteen of them have to go into custody on the way to Sättelstädt and are to be transferred to Gotha the next morning . On this way they are "shot while trying to escape" by members of the student corps .

There are charges against 14 members of the StuKoMa involved and they instruct Walter Luetgebrune to defend them before a court martial of the Reichswehr. Several witnesses appear in court who, on the basis of the location of the dead and the bullet points on the body, can prove that the persons shot were not on the run. Witness Wagner explains to the court that he saw the scheduled shootings with his own eyes. However, all of these statements are presented as lies by the defense negotiations and manipulated testimony. The trial ends with an acquittal for the accused.

Production and publication

The television film was shot by the Artistic Working Group (KAG) of DEFA Gruppe 60 and, as the 11th episode of the TV episode , was broadcast for the first time on March 25, 1962 on the DFF .

The book was written by Friedrich Karl Kaul , who also speaks the explanatory words about the film at the memorial stone for the fallen in Thal in front of members of the fighting groups of the working class , and Walter Jupé on the basis of authentic court files. Aenne Keller was responsible for the dramaturgy .

criticism

Mimosa Künzel wrote in the Neue Zeit :

"The connections between the Reichswehr and the Freikorps emerged particularly clearly, making it possible for the students accused of murder to be acquitted in court."

In the Berliner Zeitung one read of K. Müller:

“With 'Auf der Flucht shot', a dramaturgically and theatrically remarkable contribution about a very characteristic event in German history was shown on the screen."

AW stated in New Germany :

"This television film, a passionate pamphlet against Prussian-German militarism, was more than just a historical reminiscence."

Web links

• Fernsehpitaval: On the run shot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• TV epitaval: Shot on the run at filmportal.de
• Shot on the run in the online dictionary of East German television
• TV epitaval: Shot on the run in the lexicon of international films

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 28, 1962, p. 6
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 31, 1962, p. 6
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 2nd, p. 3