Hein Petersen, from cabin boy to sailor

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Movie
Original title Hein Petersen, from cabin boy to sailor
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1917
length 20 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked
Rod
Director unknown
script unknown
production Image and Film Office (BUFA) (Berlin)

Hein Petersen, from cabin boy to sailor is a documentary with scenes from the game that was produced by the German military in 1917 for propaganda purposes.

content

The film begins with the young Hein Petersen at the Navy committed and by train in the cabin boy collection, the Prussian state railway , in the Flensburg city arrives. At the port there is a steamer waiting to bring the new ship's boys across the fjord to Mürwik , where the Mürwik naval school and the torpedo station with the SMS König Wilhelm are located. On board the residential hulk SMS König Wilhelm, Hein and the other candidates were the first to be accepted into the regular role . Then Hein receives his sailor suit and is photographed together with some comrades, with which he gets a picture for his parents at home. The training, which includes physical exercise, begins soon after. The cabin boys row together in crew boats on the fjord. The first food ration consists of soup, which is cooked in a large kettle. A military band plays at the end of the evening . The cabin boys are patterned and given a hammock, which they, again on board, immediately hang up in the ship's hold. Like the other cabin boys, Hein has gone to rest and dreams of his family getting a package with groceries from him.

background

The advertising film for the recruitment of marines was produced at the end of the First World War at the instigation of the ship's boy training division in Flensburg-Mürwik by the Image and Film Office (BUFA) and was apparently intended to be used as a supporting film . The film shoot obviously took place entirely in Flensburg. Even the opening scenes, which should take place elsewhere according to the plot, were clearly recognizable, filmed at the Flensburg harbor and at the Kielseng manor . With the censorship test in July 1917, the film was classified as " youth free ". The marine film was obviously shown not only in Germany, but also in Switzerland. Harry Graf Kessler noted in a weekly report in 1918 regarding the film: “I like it very much and arouses lively interest.” Shortly after the war, in 1921, the film was cut by Ufa by almost half, provided with new subtitles and as “ Hein Petersen ”brought back to the cinema. The navy was looking for new blood to build the new Reichsmarine .

From 2012 to 2014, the EU funded the digitization of films from the First World War as part of the EFG1914 project. As part of this funding, the film in question was also digitized and made available free of charge via the European Film Gateway Internet portal. A piano accompaniment that apparently originally appeared in the cinemas was not re-recorded.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b filmportal.de : Hein Petersen, vom Schiffsjungen zum Sailor (1917) , accessed on: July 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ In the film, immediately after a recording of the Mürwik naval school, the Kollunder Ufer with the Hotel Bad Kollund, a Kollunder jetty and a Kollunder bathing area were installed (minute 6:50). See postcard from the hotel and another postcard from the hotel and postcard from the pier as well as another postcard from the pier and postcard from the bathing area .
  3. ↑ The black ship in the film is the SMS König Wilhelm. See postcard from SMS König Wilhelm and another postcard with the decommissioned SMS König Wilhelm (including postcard sea cadet or cabin boy on the training ship SMS Freya) .
  4. ↑ You can also see the cruiser SMS Freya , which served as a training ship for the torpedo station during the First World War .
  5. ↑ H / Soz / Kut. Communication and specialist information for the historical sciences. World War I in the film of the Weimar Republic , accessed: July 6, 2019.
  6. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein . Vol. 2: Flensburg . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2001, ISBN 3-529-02521-6 , p. 64.
  7. ↑ Film data at filmportal.de Original version , accessed on: July 6, 2019.
  8. ^ Adrian Gerber: Between Propaganda and Entertainment. The cinema in Switzerland at the time of the First World War , Marburg 2015, p. 403.
  9. ^ Harry Graf Kessler, weekly report, Bern, January 9, 1918, BArch, R 901, 71952.
  10. ↑ a b Zeughauskino. German Historical Museum. Hein Petersen - Pictures from the life of a cabin boy , accessed on: July 6, 2019.
  11. ↑ filmportal.de : Gelürzte version: Hein Petersen (1921) , retrieved on: July 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ EFG1914: A Project for the Digitization of Films on the First World War , accessed on: July 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ EFG. Hein Petersen, from cabin boy to sailor , accessed on: July 6, 2019.