Great peace

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Movie
Original title Great peace
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1989
length 140 minutes
Rod
Director Manfred Wekwerth (theater)
Joachim Tenschert (theater)
Margot Thyret (film)
production Television of the GDR
music Hans-Dieter Hosalla
camera Bernd Müller
Angelika Katzer
Tristan von Lühmann
Frank Marczinkowski
Rolf Dieter Graf
cut Rose-Marie Fuhs
occupation

Big Peace is the 1989 created recording directed by Manfred Wekwerth and Joachim Tenschert of the eponymous play by Volker Braun at the Berliner Ensemble through the GDR television .

action

The events that led to the overthrow of the last Tschin emperor go back over two millennia. The state is in disarray, the oppression is unbearable, warring armies under rival leaders plunder the peasants. The farmer Gau Dsu is also regularly deprived of his harvest yields, which he has to deliver, by the large and small sovereigns. He has nothing left to eat and even his wife Fan Feh is taken from him. Then he realizes that you have to fight back. Violence against violence.

In the wars which the upper ones wage among themselves, the insurrection of the lower now enters as a new means. After the heavy fighting, Gau Dsu is victorious in alliance with the poet and general Tschu Jün. The old ruler has fallen, the old order destroyed and the victorious peasants proclaim the Great Peace . A little peace would only have meant that there would be no more war. But a country without violence and without legal regulations, as with the Great Peace , leads to anarchy and is doomed. Tschu Jün understands this very quickly and chooses the farmer Gau Dsu as the new emperor. Power, order and domination must exist for the creation of new relations of production and that in turn requires social structures, including hierarchical ones, and this is at the same time a prerequisite for progress, but a danger.

New struggles are imminent, an opposition develops between the pragmatist Tschu Jün and the rural instinct Gau Dsu. When Gau Dsu realizes that the old power structure is being restored, he strangles his sponsor Tschu Jün. Only through the view of the philosopher Wang on the ideal, the insight that everything has to be turned upside down if one does not want to fall back into the old conditions, remains.

production

The premiere of this production took place on April 22, 1979 in the Berliner Ensemble . Here the performance with the stage design by Manfred Grund and the costumes by Annemarie Rost was recorded in color. Music quotations from Jean-Baptiste Lully and Günther Fischer were used .

The first broadcast took place in the 2nd program of the television of the GDR on December 15, 1989 in color.

criticism

In the Neue Zeit, Helmut Ullrich was of the opinion that the piece approximated the Chinese theater in terms of stylistic and expressive means, but without imitating it, but charged it by modifying it through gestural-demonstrative playing styles with expression. This performance shows itself to be a complete and concentrated artifact as well as a rich ensemble performance.

Ernst Schumacher wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :

“Braun's text is very much in keeping with the theater. The dramatic design is extremely tight, the poetic diction metaphorically so concentrated that the representation, the sensualization in space and time by actors is not only indispensable, but requires an equal density. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 21, 1979, p. 8
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of April 25, 1979, p. 4
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 25, 1979, p. 6