Kästner and Little Tuesday
Kästner and Little Tuesday is a German-Austrian feature film from 2016 about Erich Kästner and Hans Albrecht Löhr . Dorothee Schön wrote the script and Wolfgang Murnberger directed it .
The television film is a biographical drama based on historical facts about the life of Kästner between 1929 and 1945 with special consideration of the development of his friendship with Löhr, a young admirer of his works. The life situation of the socially and time-critical writer, characterized by the ambivalence between pressure to adapt and personal contradiction, is presented against the background of the ending Weimar Republic and the dictatorship of National Socialism in Germany.
action
The young author Erich Kästner succeeds in the Berlin “ Roaring Twenties ” with political poems and becomes a star of the feature pages . In 1929, on a whim, he wrote the children's book Emil and the Detectives , with which he won the hearts of a younger readership. Among his supporters is eight-year-old Hans Albrecht Löhr, who writes a fan letter to Kästner and visits him at home. Kästner is taken with the enthusiasm of the fatherless boy; and for Hans a dream comes true when Emil and the Detectives are to be filmed in 1931 and he is cast for the role of “Little Tuesday”.
Over the years a close friendship developed between Kästner and Löhr, until the National Socialists came to power . Kästner's books are banned and publicly burned ; the idol becomes a danger to the boy, who holds on to the friendship in spite of all odds - until Kästner breaks off contact out of concern for him. While many intellectuals emigrate abroad , Kästner stays in Berlin and keeps himself afloat with the proceeds of his books sold abroad and with writing assignments for scripts under pseudonyms .
After a false report about the death of Kästner, the young man Hans went to see the author again and still stood by the friendship, just as he was with his friend Wolfi, the son of a Jewish father, which repeatedly brought Hans into distress.
When, after the beginning of the Second World War, hopes for a quick end to the war were not fulfilled, when Hans was drafted into the Wehrmacht , Hans finally became a “Primaner in Uniform” - hardly bearable for the convinced pacifist Kästner. After in Gestapo committed suicide -haft his under the pseudonym eoplauen became known friend, the cartoonist and caricaturist Erich Ohser , and were carried out by Allied bombing destroyed his apartment, he finally leaves Berlin. At the end of the war he received the news of Hans Albrecht Löhr's death during a fictitious filming in Tyrol, "killed on the Eastern Front".
production
Kästner and Little Tuesday was shot in Vienna in the summer of 2015. The production was funded by the RTR TV Fund and the Vienna Film Fund. The film had its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival in 2016. The international premiere took place as the opening film of the Portland German Film Festival 2016. The television film was shown for the first time on December 21, 2017 on Erste and ORF2 .
Awards
Kastner and the little Tuesday was in 2018 with the Austrian Television Award Romy awarded in the category "Best Book TV movie" and in the category "Best Production telefilm" nominated.
Dorothee Schön (screenplay), Wolfgang Murnberger (director) and Sabine Weber (ORF editorial team) won the award in the “TV film” category at the 50th Austrian Adult Education TV Prize.
The film was also nominated for the Golden Nymph in the “Long Fiction Program” category at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo 2018.
Dorothee Schön received the German Academy for Television's script award in 2018 .
As part of the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2018, the film was awarded the 3sat audience award.
literature
- “Who was Little Tuesday?” On dorotheeschoen.de
- Dorothee Schön , Michael Töteberg : Who was Little Tuesday? ; published in Filmdienst issue 25/2017, p. 28 ff. ( online at www.dorotheeschoen.de as a PDF file)
Reviews
- Volker Weidermann: “Great writer, small conscience.” Der Spiegel , December 19, 2017.
- Markus Ehrenberg: “The one left.” Der Tagesspiegel , December 20, 2017.
- Christoph Schröder: “The other possibility.” Die Zeit , December 21, 2017.
- Oliver Junge: “Unless you do it.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 21, 2017.
Web links
- Kastner and the little Tuesday in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kästner and Little Tuesday on Ester.Reglin.Film
- Kästner and Little Tuesday on dorotheeschoen.de
- Article about the start of shooting of Kästner and the little Tuesday on Das Erste
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Kästner and Little Tuesday . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ alluding to the anti-war poem Erich Kästner's 1929 anti-war poem from the context of the First World War ( "Primaner in Uniform"; example available online )
- ↑ Kästner and the little Tuesday ( memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Munich Film Festival website, accessed on September 14, 2016
- ↑ Erich Kästner and little tuesday website of the Portland German Film Festival, accessed on September 14, 2016
- ↑ christoph.silber: ROMY Academy: It's about the best of the best . ( kurier.at [accessed on March 3, 2018]).
- ^ Kurier: The winners of the Akademie-Romy 2018 . Article dated April 5, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018.
- ↑ 50th TV Award for Adult Education. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 18, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ orf.at: ORF triumph in the television award for adult education . Article dated June 21, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018.
- ↑ Nommés 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
- ↑ “Bad Banks” big winner at the Academy TV Prize. In: DWDL.de. November 30, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Awards at the TV Film Festival in Baden-Baden for ORF co-productions . OTS notification dated November 30, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018.
