Heino Jaeger - look before you look
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Heino Jaeger - look before you look |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gerd Kroske |
| script | Gerd Kroske |
| production | Lisa M. Boettcher |
| music | Klaus Janek |
| camera | Susanne Schüle |
| cut | Karin Schöning |
| occupation | |
| |
Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck is a German film by Gerd Kroske from 2012 . The documentary shows a portrait of the now largely forgotten painter, cabaret artist and performance artist Heino Jaeger , who belonged to Hamburg's anti- 1968 movement. The premiere of the film took place on October 30, 2012 at the 55th Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film as part of the German Competition. The German theatrical release of the film produced by Berliner Realistfilm was on November 1, 2012.
backgrounds
Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck is the third film in Kroske's series of portraits about prominent Hamburg personalities, which began in 2000 with the film Der Boxprinz about Norbert Grupe . On one day of shooting Der Boxprinz , Kroske got to know the former porn cinema owner and brothel operator Wolfgang "Wolli" Köhler, whose life he told in the 2006 film Wolli's Paradise . He finally became aware of Heino Jaeger through Köhler.
About the author Joska Pintschovius, Jaeger's close friend, Kroske got in contact with former friends, colleagues and relatives of Heino Jaeger. From the detailed conversations with them and pictures, drawings, photos and film material, Kroske was able to “get Heino Jaeger out of the historical 'off'” and tell the biography of an “exceptional artist traumatized by the war - who was just as broken as Germany was in those years”. Sound files from the archive of the Saarländischer Rundfunk , where Jaeger started the radio series Ask Dr. Jaeger moderated, are part of the film as well as many of his paintings and drawings.
The film retraces Jaeger's portrait until his death in 1997. His life was increasingly determined by alcohol problems. After several fires he had caused himself, he interned himself in a psychiatric nursing home in Bad Oldesloe in the mid-1980s . Placed under guardianship with Joska Pintschovius as the court-appointed nurse, he died there in schizoid twilight of the consequences of a stroke.
The subtitle look before you kuck is an allusion to Jaeger's affinity for military objects. According to Pintschovius' representation, English military cans were labeled “look before you cook”.
Reviews
"Using photos, sound recordings and interviews with companions and admirers, the film creates a disturbing, latently ghostly portrait of Jaeger and the Hamburg cultural scene in the mid-1970s."
"In his film, Gerd Kroske creates a memorial to someone who fails and makes failure itself a logical reaction to the crazy conditions of that time."
“Kroske [created] the portrait of a 68er who does not come from an intellectual milieu, who, unlike many contemporaries, does not radically break the bridges to the past, but rubs himself against the burden of the past, discovers what is worth preserving and despairs from it. […] Kroske first approaches Jaeger through the admirers and supporters of his painterly work and then slowly and conclusively drifts through the biography of the exceptional artist who never knew how to market himself and never allowed himself to be marketed or taken in. "
“[A film] that gives plenty of space to the obstinacy of its title character, but doesn't limit itself to unifying the idiosyncratic moment. Kroske treats Jaeger's life like a special, highly individual probe, through which general social conditions can nevertheless be put into perspective and told. "
“Indirectly, Jaeger's improvised texts unmasked that the terrible had been given the rank of normal, where the horror of trivialization reigned. Some things, for example, Jaeger's 'Interview with Hitler' was never broadcast, it was considered unreasonable. Heino Jaeger understood too much and was not understood enough. This fatal combination made him end up in the asylum. Kroske's film deliberately does not memorialize the complex person Jaeger. Rather, he lets Jaeger come to life in all his desperation and comedy. "
“Heino Jaeger himself, one has to assume, would have liked this film about his life; maybe he would have mocked it a little, disguise his voice and imitate all the friends from before. As it was his way. "
“The film dares to portray an absent person who is actually not a film character and who cannot be characterized in a main sentence. The narrative succeeds thanks to the sober, persistent consistency with which the dazzling polyphony of this absentee, who must appear like a medium of the traumas of the German 20th century, is transformed into a complex, multimedia film language. Art, of all things, which cleverly compiles almost all aesthetic disciplines here and at the same time pays homage to the cinema of tapes and reels at the beginning of the digital age, helps to describe an artist in the borderland of madness - and to allow the viewer to see through their eyes to teach."
Awards
In 2012 Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck was awarded the Golden Dove at the 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. In addition, the film received the film award of the 17th Schleswig-Holstein Augenweide Film Festival 2013.
The film received the rating of particularly valuable from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 711 K).
- ↑ a b press booklet, p. 4.
- ↑ Heino Jaeger - look before you look. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Festival catalog - 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, DOK Festival & DOK Industry, October 29–4. November 2012. Leipziger Dok-Filmwochen GmbH, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-932214-29-5 , p. 43.
- ↑ a b German film and media evaluation: Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck film info and jury statement.
- ^ Simon Rothöhler: Fundamentaldissident von St. Pauli. In: The daily newspaper from November 1, 2012.
- ↑ Caroline Fetscher: In man for all roles. In: Der Tagesspiegel from November 1, 2012.
- ↑ Joachim Kurz: Evocation of a great humorist.
- ↑ a b DOK Leipzig: Prize Winners 2012 , accessed on July 5, 2019.
- ↑ Kulturelle Filmförderung Schleswig-Holstein e. V .: 17th Schleswig-Holstein Film Festival - eye candy 2013. The winners.
Web links
- Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film
- Press booklet (PDF; 728 kB) of the film distributor Edition Salzgeber