I - Axel Caesar Springer

Movie
Original title	I - Axel Caesar Springer
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1968-1970
length	602 minutes
Rod
Director	Helmut Krätzig (1) Ingrid Sander (2) Achim Hübner (3–5)
script	Karl Georg Egel Harri Czepuck
production	Fritz Brix Rudolf Kobosil
music	Wolfgang Pietsch
camera	Günter Eisinger Hans Heinrich
cut	Christa Helwig Ursula Rudzki Bärbel Bauersfeld
occupation
Horst Drinda : Axel Caesar Springer Norbert Christian : Hinrich Springer Irene Korb : Ottilie Springer Irma Münch : Rosemarie Lorenz / Alsen / Springer Wolfgang Greese : Werner Lorenz Heinz Scholz : Karl Andreas Voss Gert Gütschow : Pabst Wolf Kaiser : Lucian Alsen Achim Schmidtchen : Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz Friedrich Richter : Rudolf Küstermeier Werner Ehrlicher : Asher Ben-Natan Christoph Engel : Major Huijsman Otto Mellies : Horst-Herbert Alsen Heinz Schröder : Ernst Cramer Alfred Struwe : Berthold Beitz Hans-Joachim Hanisch : Peter Boenisch Hans-Peter Minetti : Howard Hughes Bert Brunn: Erich Kuby Winfried Wagner : Horst Mahnke Günther Grabbert : Bernhard Menne Rolf Hoppe : Bastian Heinz Suhr : Paul Sethe Walter Jupé : Rudolf Ullstein Wolfgang Dehler : Henri Nannen Herwart Grosse : Otto Finke Dietrich Körner : Vaddi Hoffmann Marianne Wünscher : Antje Broschek Annekathrin Bürger : Katrin-Brigitte Alsen Hanns Anselm Perten : Hans Zehrer Ekkehard Schall : Hermann Josef Abs Erik S. Klein : Franz Josef Strauss Evelyn Cron : Helga "Mausi" Alsen Kurt Wetzel : Willy Brandt Gerhard Bienert : Herbert Wehner Herbert Köfer : Axel Eggebrecht Kurt Böwe : Werner Maurer

Ich - Axel Caesar Springer (subtitle: Explanation of a miracle - facts and interpretations ) is a propaganda-tinged cinematic biography of the publisher Axel Springer of the German TV broadcaster (DFF) of the GDR . The five-part television series was broadcast from 1968 to 1970.

In the film, the career of the publisher Axel Springer is propagandistically and sometimes deliberately dramatized. The first performance took place in the first program of the DFF television on March 17, November 30 and December 1, 1968 and on March 1 and 3, 1970. The project was implemented by DEFA with immense material and human resources : the five-part series cost over 7,000,000 GDR marks . Internally, the film is said to have been judged to be too crude because it was too obviously polemic .

action

1. From the difficult beginning : Germany in 1945/46: Springer receives the license for his newspaper Weisse Weste in Altona . He owes it to his old, influential friends Lorenz and Alsen.
2. Men are made : In the Federal Republic of the 1950s, Springer secured friends in all political camps. On the other hand, he ruthlessly fights his competitor Antje Broschek from the Hamburg foreign newspaper. Springer's papers meanwhile determine the political opinion of the population.
3. Be nice to each other : The works council of the foreign newspaper collects explosive and incriminating material about Springer's past. Axel Caesar Springer marries Lorenz's daughter Rosemarie. She helps him found the tabloid Bild .
4. The made man : Towards the end of the 1950s, Springer pushed for the hotly contested Berlin newspaper market. It mainly competes with the newspapers of the Ullstein publishing house . Springer uses his political influence to weaken its market position.
5. The kingmaker : Berlin, early 1960s. While the competition between Springer and Ullstein continues, he plans to build his new high- rise publishing house right on the German sector border in Berlin.

Awards

• National Prize of the GDR III. Great in the collective for the main actor Horst Drinda

backgrounds

• Jochen Staadt , Tobias Voigt , Stefan Wolle : Feind-Bild Springer. A publisher and its opponents. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 3-525-36381-8 / ISBN 978-3-525-36381-2 .
• Spied on Springer - How the Stasi spied on a media company , 2010, documentary by Tilman Jens using excerpts from the TV series.

DVD

The series was published on DVD in 2012 by ARD in the series Große Stories and DDR TV Archive .

See also

• The Publisher (TV movie, 2001)
• West German student movement of the 1960s (anti-Springer campaign 1968)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolf Küstermeier was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Die Welt
2. ↑ Rudolf Augstein: Noble simplicity, sheer size . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1967, p. [14] 15 ( Online - Aug. 21, 1967 ).
3. ↑ Bernhard Menne was editor-in-chief of Hamburger Welt am Sonntag
4. ↑ Jochen Staadt, Tobias Voigt, Stefan wool: Feind-Bild Springer: A publisher and his opponents . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2009. ISBN 9783525363812 . P. 165.
5. ↑ DVD Ich Axel Caesar Springer ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

• I - Axel Caesar Springer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Me - Axel Caesar Springer in the Lexicon of International Films