Gundermann Revier
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| Original title | Gundermann Revier |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Grit Lemke |
| script | Grit Lemke |
| production | Gregor Streiber |
| camera | Uwe Mann |
| cut | Sven Kulik |
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Gundermann Revier is a 2019 documentary by Grit Lemke that puts the life of the singer, rock poet and excavator driver Gerhard Gundermann in the context of his generation and their time. The film premiered at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig) in 2019 and then screened at a number of film festivals. The first broadcast on MDR took place on December 8, 2019, and the film opened in German cinemas on December 12, 2019. In 2020 he was nominated for the Grimme Prize .
action
The Lausitz area and the former “socialist residential town” of Hoyerswerda form the background for the biography of Gerhard Gundermann , rock poet, excavator driver and “voice of the east”. As in a burning mirror, global questions are bundled in the region and in his work: home and industry, the end of work, utopia and individual responsibility. A teacher, his first companions from the Feuerstein brigade, his sound engineer and close collaborator have their say, as do the Silly musicians Uwe Hassbecker and Ritchie Barton , Andy Wieczorek from the band “Seilschaft” and the singer's wife, Conny Gundermann. The Bürgerchor Hoyerswerda sings Gundermann and leads him into the presence of the area that has to reinvent itself. Poetic reflections by a first-person narrator who grew up with Gundermann in Hoyerswerda, and metaphorical images of a landscape and city that has been transformed, guide the film. You enter into a dialogue with Gundermann in largely unknown archive recordings, texts and music.
background
The songwriter and rock singer Gerhard Gundermann (1955–1998) worked alongside his artistic activity in opencast mining and production throughout his life and processed these experiences in texts. The contradictions of the artist, who was known as " Bob Dylan of the opencast mine" and was particularly popular in East Germany, but who also worked with the State Security for seven years, has been processed in several films. "Gundermann Revier" was created as a 100% television production on behalf of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and the Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg ( rbb ), but was only subsequently released in the cinema due to the euphoric reception at the premieres. At the same time, the film was shot in a record time of only six months and produced to completion. It is the first film that also tells the story of the "skipped generation" (Gundermann) in the east from the inside perspective of the Lausitz region .
Reviews
The new Germany found: “You don't have to worship Gundermann to find Lemke's documentary about this failed hero terrific.” And the Sächsische Zeitung stated: “The foreign determination of the East, its sell-out after the fall of the Wall, but also the euphoria of the new beginning with the emptiness that the unity left behind are themes of the film. 'Where should we go, where are we staying?' Sings Gundermann. Even if a touch of Ostalgie hovers over the film, Lemke's 'Gundermanns Revier' reflects an attitude towards life that many people can understand even 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. (...) That is entertaining and illuminating and, at a time when many people are growing dissatisfied, it may give an idea of what makes the East tick. "
Web links
- Gundermann area in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gundermann Revier at filmportal.de
- Homepage
Individual evidence
- ^ Gundermann Revier - Documentary by Grit Lemke, 2019. Accessed on February 22, 2020 (German).
- ^ Felix Bartels : Make the picture sharper (new Germany). Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
- ^ David Mouriquand: Coal Country Song's Grit Lemke on the "skipped generation". February 10, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 (American English).