Come over! Into the open friend! or Against the stupidity in music
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Come over! Into the open friend! or Against the stupidity in music |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrea Ritterbusch |
| script | Andrea Ritterbusch |
| production | DEFA studio for documentary films |
| music | Hanns Eisler |
| camera | Niko Pawloff |
| cut | Petra Barthel |
Come over! Into the open friend! or Against the stupidity in music is a documentary from DEFA studios for documentaries by Andrea Ritterbusch from 1989 .
action
At the beginning of the film, the two young singers Karin Schütz and Burkhard Gramenz listen to the voice of Hanns Eisler , which Hans Bunge recorded in tape logs and from which individual excerpts will continue to be heard again and again in the film. The thoughts of Hanns Eisler should help them to interpret his Ernst Gesänge , which he put together with great difficulty four weeks before his death. Another impression of Eisler's work is provided by a film recording of Ernst Busch's singing from the poem The Secret Deployment by Erich Weinert . Here follows Eisler's statement that he only deals with politics, since politics deals with him.
A large part of the recordings shows the rehearsals of the two singers in collaboration with the pianist Frank-Immo Zichner in the rooms of the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and how they deal with the texts and their setting.
In the Berliner Zeitung of July 20, 1951 it can be read that Hanns Eisler commented on the old folk piece by “Dr. Faustus ”wrote a text for his new opera, which will be performed next year under the direction of Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper in Berlin . In 1953, the editorial board of the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland wrote that “Johann Faustus” contradicted Eisler's previous creations. It is pessimistic, alien to the people, hopeless and anti-national, which is why the text is unsuitable as a basis for a new national opera. Since this was not the only negative reaction to his libretto, he never wrote the music for it.
The aim of this film is to portray the encounter with Eisler and his music and to express the consistency with which he thought about art and people. There is not a single moving image of Hanns Eisler in this film, only photographs and the tape recordings.
production
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Thomas Kuschel .
The black and white film Come! Into the open friend! or Against the stupidity in music was shot by the group Effekt of DEFA-Studios for documentary films under the working title Hanns Eisler and performed for the first time on October 6, 1989.
additional
The film title partly quotes the opening line from Hölderlin's elegy “ The walk in the country. To Landauer ”.