Made up youth (1929)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Made up youth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 7 acts, 2442 m, 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Boese |
| script | Martin Land |
| production | Carl Boese |
| music | Hansheinrich Dransmann |
| camera | Walter Hasselmann |
| occupation | |
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Geschminkte Jugend is a German silent film drama that Carl Boese directed in his own production in 1929 based on a script by Martin Land . It was based on true events, because it dealt with the " Steglitz school tragedy " in which several young people committed suicide in 1927. “Geschminkte Jugend” is one of a series of silent films at the end of the Weimar Republic that dealt increasingly with the issues of adolescence and youth in the big city.
action
“Margot is the seventeen year old daughter of the divorced fun-loving Mrs. Hiller. She cares little about raising her child. Margot can do what she wants. She makes full use of her freedom. She takes advantage of her mother's absence, invites her friends and organizes a hilarious pub in the apartment. The next day the young people go on a drive and spend the night in a hotel in Rheinsberg. At night, Margot is harassed by one of her friends in her room. Indignantly she shows him out This story, however, has dire consequences and ultimately ends with a student murder. At the trial, the shaken parents recognize the tragedy of a self-dependent youth. "
After: The Berlin Film Week No. 16 of April 17, 1929.
background
The film, which was also shown in Austria under the alternative title “Nackte Tatsachen” and in France as Jeunesse fardée , was a production by Carl Boese Film GmbH Berlin. It was created in February 1929 in the “National” studios in Berlin-Tempelhof and was photographed by Karl Hasselmann . Karl Sander was the location manager. Karl Machus built the buildings . The "National" -Film Verleih- und Vertriebs-AG (Berlin) took over the distribution for Germany.
The film was available to the censors on March 20, 1929 and was banned for young people under No. B 21 995. The premiere took place on April 17, 1929 in Berlin-Steglitz in the Titania Palast , the cinema music was conducted by Kapellmeister Hansheinrich Dransmann , who also arranged the compilation.
reception
“Made up youth” was discussed
- by Manfred Georg in Tempo No. 90 from April 18, 1929
- by Ernst Blaß in Berliner Tageblatt No. 185 of April 19, 1929
Blaß particularly emphasized the performance of the young Toni van Eyck : “Something serious, humane, penetratingly genuine, that is a rarity, a special case, an emergency”.
- by HaWa [d. i. Hans Wallenberg ] in the BZ am Mittag no.106 from April 19, 1929
- by hf [d. i. Hans Feld ] in Film-Kurier No. 93 of April 19, 1929
Feld took on the delicate subject of censorship in particular: “She takes care that no film appears that takes a position on the present, on life,” he accused her and made the reviewers' attitude to the unapproved subtitle “So lies the Main to blame for those who let the young people down, for the educators "clearly; At the end of his review, he asked: "How much longer will film censorship?".
- by Frank Maraun [d. i. Erwin Goelz] in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung No. 183 of April 20, 1929
Maraun pointed out that "Boese is conquering new forms of cinematic space through apparatus movement, setting and image detail. It is a space of haunting cohesion that naturally surrounds the acting movement and from which humanly arousing destiny arises with compelling immediacy."
In 1960, Max Nosseck shot a resounding remake of “Geschminkte Jugend”, but in 1963 it was only released in a shortened version under the title Die Nacht am See for a short time and then disappeared in the archive. The original version was only shown publicly in 1988.
Also the feature film “What is the use of love in thoughts?” By Achim v. Borries used motifs from the 1927 “Steglitz School Tragedy”.
Manuela Reichard wrote about it in the magazine for political culture »Cicero« on June 4, 2010: “It is not the first film adaptation of this true story. In 1929 director Carl Boese dealt very freely with the real material. In «Geschminkte Jugend» the vicious atmosphere of the twenties and the irresponsibility of adults were the focus; thirty years later, Christian Doermer played an unhappy, brooding protagonist in an updated remake of Max Nosseck, who despaired of the superficiality of his time and - misunderstood by the Twist-dancing friends and the honest parents - wants to set an example with his act. The voluntary self-regulation withdrew the film from circulation at the time. "
literature
- Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Deutsche Kinemathek; Filmmuseum Berlin (Ed.): Erwin Goelz alias Frank Maraun. Film critic. Edition Text + Criticism in Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-823-0 .
- Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
- Herbert Birett: Sources on film history 1920–1931. Title list of German silent films. (kinematographie.de)
- Gero Gandert (Ed.): 1929. The film of the Weimar Republic. A Handbook of Contemporary Criticism. de Gruyter-Verlag, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 3-11-015805-1 , pp. 244–248.
- Felix Müller: The murders in Albrechtstrasse. In: Berliner Morgenpost. February 8, 2004. (morgenpost.de)
- Daily struggle. In: Der Spiegel. No. 46, November 8, 1971, p. 202. (spiegel.de)
- Ernst-Erich Noth: Memories of a German. First book: The German Years. ed. by Lothar Glotzbach. Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-935333-15-3 .
- Andy Wheels: Childhood, Youth and Film in the Weimar Republic. Master thesis. University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam-Babelsberg, Berlin 2010. (opus.kobv.de)
- Manuela Reichard: Youth is drunkenness without wine. In: Cicero. Political Culture Magazine. June 4, 2010. (cicero.de)
- Frank-Rainer Schurich: The student tragedy of Steglitz. In: The paper. Volume 15, number 17, August 20, 2012. (das-blaettchen.de)
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956, DNB 455810680 .
Web links
- Geschminkte youth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Make-up youth at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. D. Wunderlich, book tips & film tips [1] and Felix Müller, Berliner Morgenpost dated February 8, 2004: »The Steglitz school tragedy was more than a jealous drama. It reached depths into which the Weimar public in 1927 actually did not want to look. The "Berliner Morgenpost" spoke of a "glaring spotlight" "that this tragedy throws on the spiritual and moral condition of some of the adolescent youth". "
- ↑ räder (pp. 74–75) mentions the films »Spring Awakening«, Germany 1929, director: Richard Oswald , screenplay: Friedrich Raff, Herbert Rosenfeld, camera: Eduard Hoesch, producer: Liddy Hegewald, Richard Oswald, world premiere : November 14, 1929, "The Violinist of Florence", Germany 1925/26, director: Paul Czinner , screenplay: Paul Czinner, camera: Otto Kanturek, Adolf Schlasy, Arpad Viragh, producer: Erich Pommer, world premiere: March 10, 1926 , » Der Kampf der Tertia «, Germany 1928, director: Max Mack , script: Max Mack, Axel Eggebrecht, camera: Emil Schünemann, producer: Rudolf Strobl, world premiere: January 18, 1929, » Der Kampf des Donald Westhof «, Germany 1927, director: Fritz Wendhausen , script: Fritz Wendhausen, camera: Curt Courant, Günther Rittau, producer: o. A., premiere: September 29, 1927. Also to be mentioned are “Großstadtjugend” B 19 073 and “Die Halbwüchsigen” B 23 197, Birett, silent film music p. 133, “Die Eighteen Years” B 15 393, ibid p. 1 37 and "Between 14 and 17" B 23 135, ibid p. 140
- ↑ cit. in Gandert, 1929, p. 244
- ↑ FROELICH-ATELIER Berlin-Tempelhof, Borussiastr. 45-49. Founded: 1918/19 cf. cinegraph.de [2]
- ↑ cf. Birett, sources: B21996 Made-up youth 1929 [3]
- ↑ cf. Birett, silent film music pp. 127–128
- ↑ cf. Censorship decision No. 529 of the Film-Oberprüfstelle Berlin of October 1, 1929, which forced a text change for the 12th title in Act VII: "So the guilt lies just as much in the youth as in the upbringing"; it was supposed to "express that the wrong upbringing at home, but not the educational measures of the teachers of the three girls, was the cause of the questionable actions in the film". At: filmportal.de/Materialien [4]
- ↑ cf. filmportal.de [5] and Schurich 2012: “The second film by director Max Nosseck and producer Axel Alexander with the same title (1960/61) flopped because the morality guards of the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry released the film only for adults. The film "offers itself almost as a prime example of an impairment of the upbringing for social proficiency", it said in the virtuous explanation. There were probably old ladies in the commission who could still remember the case and the sexual debauchery of the actors. "
- ↑ filmed from the radio play of the same name by Annette Hess and Alexander Pfeuffer (DeutschlandRadio Berlin 1997), cf. filmportal.de [6] , Schurich 2012
- ↑ cf. her article “Youth is drunkenness without wine”, on line at cicero.de [7]