Franz Schubert - A life in two sentences
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Franz Schubert - A life in two sentences |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Kolm-Veltée |
| script | Walter Kolm-Veltée |
| production | Beta film, Vienna |
| music |
Karl Pauspertl Franz Schubert Ludwig van Beethoven |
| camera |
Karl Kirchner Hanns König |
| cut | Josef Juvancic |
| occupation | |
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Franz Schubert - A Life in Two Sentences is an Austrian film biography from 1953. The alternative title of the film is Franz Schubert - An Unfinished Life .
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Franz Schubert works as a student assistant for his father. But in his free time, the young man, whom Ludwig van Beethoven sees as his unattainable role model, devotes himself to composing. Since he was denied public recognition, his friends supported the music publisher Diabelli for a public performance of Schubert's music. At a reception where he played his Ave Maria , he met the singer Therese Grob.
Schubert decided to give up teaching and to devote himself entirely to music, and moved in with his friends, the poets Franz von Schober , Johann Mayerhofer and the painter Moritz von Schwind . There he got the inspiration for setting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ballad Erlkönig .
Schubert's friends encourage him to play in public. He and Therese, who sings his songs, become a couple. Both earn a living by performing Schubert's songs. But Schubert doubts whether he can express himself appropriately in the song and therefore decides to turn to the composition of symphonies and operas. When Schubert applied for the post of vice conductor, Therese submitted Schubert's latest symphony, the ' Unfinished ', to the court theater secretary . During the rehearsals for his latest opera there are differences because the singer in the lead considers her vocal part too difficult; Publishers Tobias Haslinger and Anton Diabelli also reject his music. Even the initially promising application as vice band master turned out to be a failure. The dejected Schubert decides to go on tour with his songs in order to secure a living; during this time the winter journey is created .
After his return, Schubert decides to take counterpoint lessons from Beethoven , but is reluctant to contact his great role model. A short time later, however, Schubert, who was plagued by health problems, received a visit from Beethoven's secretary Anton Schindler . The sickly Beethoven sends Schubert a few Goethe poems to be set to music, as Schubert is, in his opinion, the better song composer. When Schubert wants to visit Beethoven, however, he is too late: Beethoven has died; Schubert is one of the torchbearers at his funeral. Schubert, who was getting more and more sickly, no longer really noticed the success of a concert with his music; he dies a year after his example.
Production notes
The film was shot in the Rosenhügel film studios. The exterior shots were taken in the vicinity of Vienna. The world premiere took place on November 18, 1953 in Vienna. The German premiere was on January 22, 1954 in East Berlin.
Prohibition of performance
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was banned in 1954 by the Interministerial Committee for East-West Film Issues , stating that the production company had received loans from the Soviet Military Bank in Vienna. It was only in the fall of 1959 that it first appeared in German cinemas in Düsseldorf.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films writes that the film , made under Soviet license in occupied Vienna, is “a somewhat lengthy character image of the great composer (1797–1828) who distances itself from other Schubert romances " by being melancholy, inhibited, and misunderstood People “ show.
Web links
- Franz Schubert - A life in two sets in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Footnotes
- ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 412
- ↑ Stefan Buchloh Pervers, endangering young people, subversive. Censorship in the Adenauer era as a mirror of the social climate . Frankfurt 2002, pp. 224-226
- ^ Franz Schubert - A Life in Two Sentences in the Lexicon of International Films