Kippenberg (film)
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| Original title | Kippenberg |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 94 minutes |
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| Director | Christian Steinke |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music | Gerhard Rosenfeld |
| camera | Walter Laass |
| cut | Karola Mittelstädt |
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Kippenberg is a feature film on East German television by Christian Steinke from 1981, based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Dieter Noll .
action
Dr. Kippenberg, a 36-year-old doctor and chemist who heads a successful working group in a chemical institute , goes excitedly to the institute's director Professor Lankwitz, who is also his father-in-law, to complain. In the company he was told that his wife Charlotte should go to Moscow to exchange experiences, but he is of the opinion that Dr. Harra from his group would have deserved it for scientific reasons. In addition, he did not learn this decision from the mouth of his boss, but rather through whispered propaganda from the company. But his excitement flattens in the boss's office and he is silent because, as always in recent years, he is resigned at such points . In the evening he hopes to get Charlotte to voluntarily give up the trip, but that remains an illusion .
Kippenberg takes his wife to Berlin-Schönefeld Airport and then goes to the viewing platform. Here he involuntarily listens to the argument of a young couple, in which the 18-year-old girl asks the question about the meaning of life and does not want to study, although she could do so from her performance. It has to do with the upbringing of the parents and their attitude towards life, which is the same as that of her boyfriend, but she doesn't want to be like that. On the way to Berlin , she is taken by Kippenberg in the car, who confesses to her that her words made him think. When he lets her get off at the Berlin-Adlershof S-Bahn station , she calls him by name, but he doesn't know how she knows him. Back at the Institute, he is from the SED - party secretary addressed the operation Bosskow that a letter with a request from Dr. Pabst from Thuringia is looking for a joint project . This letter will be sent to the deputy director of the institute, Dr. Kortner found because Prof. Lankwitz refuses this collaboration. But Kippenberg sends Pabst a confirmation by wire without informing his boss. In conversation with Bosskow, both of them remember the past days when they planned and dreamed of how things could go up with the institute.
Then Kippenberg gets a call from the young girl who wants to talk to him again about her views. Since he has to drive to his property the next day to ventilate the house there, he suggests taking her with him. She quickly gets to the point and says that she does not want to become like her father, who speaks with a double tongue and basically leads two lives, a private and a public, and she herself already plays several roles, as she has learned to obey the commandments of reason.
More than two years, the idea of a new lies process technology for a drug in the vault of Dr. Kippenberg, where Dr. Harra is significantly involved. The study shows that the new process is easier, cheaper and better than the one from western countries; A pharmaceutical manufacturer in Thuringia was planned for production. Prof. Lankwitz spoke out against it at the time and Kippenberg did as he was told. But now Dr. Pabst spoke again and this time Kippenberg wanted to participate in the realization , although he was in Dr. Kortner also has an opponent of the project in front of him. After an information event with his work group and a subsequent dispute with Kortner, Kippenberg heard in the canteen that a colleague's daughter had fallen out with her parents and moved out at home. Since more precise reasons follow, he concludes that it can only be about the girl he knows, since they are the same arguments. What he did not know so far, however, is that it is Eva, the daughter of the deputy director Dr. Kortner, acts. Following an inspiration, he drives to his property, finds her there and offers her to sleep there for the time being. In a conversation she tells him that her father often told him at home about his fears that Kippenberg would one day want to take over his post. She got to know him personally at her youth consecration , where he was a guest with his wife and he greatly impressed her with his resolute demeanor.
After a visit to the Thuringian production facility, where Kippenberg signed a cooperation agreement with Dr. Pabst negotiates, he goes back to the institute the next day, not without dropping Eva, whom he took with him on this trip, back on his property. At the institute he receives an in-house message from the director that higher-level bodies have taken on the planned process development and the institute is thus relieved of this task. Dr. Kortner takes on the task of putting Kippenberg in his place, and the surprising return of his wife from Moscow does the rest to dissuade him from his plan. Although the professor has so far always avoided a direct confrontation , he forbids Kippenberg from further activities in this matter and informs him that Dr. Harra quit. He would withdraw his resignation if Kippenberg continues to work with the working group on the problem, which he no longer dares to do. Bosskow's attempt to change the professor's mind in a conversation within the management of the institute also fails because of the lack of support from Kippenberg, who then drives to Eva on the property.
Here he realizes that the Kippenberg of yore no longer exists, and while he is in bed with Eva, he suggests that we go up and away together. The main thing is to get away from this established existence, finally an end to prestige and advancement and whatever else is considered desirable. After that night he made up his mind not to give up and drove back to the institute, went straight to the boss's office and asked Bosskow to join him. He confesses to his wife, who is already there, that he slept with Eva last night. With the arrival of the professor, Kippenberg clears up the connections, which is why he put the project in the safe two years ago and thus received many discounts himself. Lankwitz is given the opportunity to elegantly change his mind, which he does, and Kippenberg will drive the development of the new drug with Bosskow's support. His wife wants to stay with him because he is now back to how she met him.
Production and publication
The scenario came from Klaus Jörn and Christian Steinke and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Hans-Jürgen Faschina .
The first broadcast of the film created on ORWO-Color took place on March 13 and 15, 1981 as a two-part television film with a total running time of 167 minutes in the first program of the television of the GDR . This article describes the short version of 94 minutes that was shown on October 2, 2019 in the Berlin Zeughauskino of the German Historical Museum . Previous performances of this short version could not be determined.
criticism
In the new Germany had Henryk Goldberg following opinion expressed:
“The effect of the film was largely based on acting. For Peter Aust, Kippenberg was probably the most difficult role so far, and not just because of its size. The figure of Kippenberg is not readily apparent in Noll's novel either. It's similar in the film: you know all the data and facts, but Kippenberg as a person is hard to grasp. Certainly this has to do with the psychological profile of the figure, its impenetrability. "
Gerda Auerbach wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :
“The extensive description of the novel has been limited to a film that is truly tangible. (…) Here time and space play an important role in researching the question of how far Kippenberg's personal crisis and his difficult decision against selfishness and self-sufficiency are moved by new requirements and possibilities of our society. "
In the Neue Zeit , Barbara Faensen said:
"Directed by Christian Steinke, and it is admirable how he wrestled ever new scenes, always interesting image details from the sober everyday life of a scientific institute, how he used and led the actors in such a differentiated way that in terms of appearance, reputation, language and movement the inner The drama of this film was not focused solely on the fate of the title hero, but rather he found himself caught between conflicting and convincing characters. "
Web links
- Kippenberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kippenberg at filmportal.de
- Kippenberg in the online dictionary of television in the GDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 17, 1981, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 17, 1981, p. 7
- ↑ Neue Zeit of March 18, 1981, p. 4