Kulenkampff's shoes
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| Original title | Kulenkampff's shoes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 92 minutes |
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| Director | Regina Schilling |
| script | Regina Schilling |
| production | Thomas Kufus |
| music | Wolfgang Böhmer |
| cut | Jamin Benazzouz |
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Kulenkampff's shoes is a documentary film by Regina Schilling from 2018 . It first aired on August 8, 2018 at 10:30 p.m. on Das Erste .
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Regina Schilling describes West German post-war history - the time of the economic boom - using the example of four résumés, which she passes on alternately. It's about the biographies
- her father, a Cologne chemist (1925–1973), and the three show masters
- Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff (1921–1998),
- Hans Rosenthal (1925–1987)
- and Peter Alexander (1926-2011).
The youth of the four men, born in the 1920s , fell during the Nazi era , and their early adult lives were shaped by the war . Schilling's father, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Peter Alexander served as soldiers; As a Jew, Hans Rosenthal was persecuted by the Nazi regime and survived hidden in an allotment garden in Berlin.
A central point of the film is Adolf Hitler's speech to district leaders in the Sudeten German town of Reichenberg in December 1938, in which he describes the planned inclusion of German youth in Nazi organizations from an early age: the young people , the Hitler Youth , the labor front , the SA , the SS , the NSKK , the Reich Labor Service and the Wehrmacht . The Hitler quote ends with the words: "... and you will no longer be free your whole life." The documentation ends with the repetition of this sentence, a kind of motto.
Kulenkampff's shoes consist entirely of archive footage. Using photos, her father's private Super 8 films and excerpts from entertainment shows - especially One Will Win (1964–1969 and 1979–1987) and Dalli Dalli (1971–1986) - the director initially describes the young Federal Republic from her own Point of view, since watching TV together was one of the beloved rituals of her childhood:
- "On Saturday evening, however, everything was fine: peacefully united in front of the TV, we children freshly bathed and in pajamas, behind us the father, smoking, with a beer, the mother with a sweet Moselle."
From the entertainment shows, Regina Schilling has selected sequences in which the three TV stars reveal something from their past, often so unexpectedly that the viewer is puzzled. Kulenkampff, for example, keeps throwing short comments about his wartime into the moderation. The eponymous shoes of Kulenkampff come into focus in a shot in which he limps slightly. The reason for this: Kulenkampff had himself amputated four frozen toes during the Demyansk Kessel Battle - the leather shoes he wore on the show are, for the director, "a metaphor for this economic boom, when behind the gleaming facade a war damage was hidden". The film repeatedly mixes these exposed traumatic experiences with images from everyday entertainment in the Federal Republic.
The difficulties in running the parents' drugstore in Cologne are symbolized by excerpts from the 1970 film Industrielandschaft mit Retailerhennen , which deals with the demise of a Hamburg pharmacist - played by Horst Tappert , who also belonged to the generation of the protagonists. The résumés of Tappert and Martin Jente , who worked as the TV butler 'Herr Martin' in Kulenkampff's show One Will Win , serve as further examples of the post-war period of silence and suppression. Tappert had been a member of the Waffen SS and Jente had been a member of the SS and adjutant at the Fuehrer's headquarters since 1933 . Both became known only after the death of the two television greats. Robert Lembke, on the other hand, moderator of the quiz show What am I? (1955–1958 and 1961–1989), had a father of Jewish origin and “hid on a farm in Bavaria during the last year of the war” (quote from the film). The comment on these long-concealed facts: “No wonder that nobody wanted to talk about the Nazi era and the war. Would you have been able to work together if you had known everything about each other? "
criticism
“'Kulenkampff's shoes' shines when the film dips below the surface of the shows and reveals the repressions of the jokers. But above all, he does not judge. He observes."
"With her breathtakingly assembled documentary, Schilling shows how Germany overcame the traumas of the past on television - and became a 'we'."
"That is [...] the great thing about this film, that it manages to create a connection that has not received so much attention so far, coping with German guilt and German trauma in the spirit of entertainment shows."
Audience rating
When the film was first broadcast in August 2018, a total of 1.93 million viewers saw it. This results in a market share of 12.6 percent. For a 90-minute documentary at that time, Kulenkampff's Shoes was very successful.
Awards and nominations
Duisburg Film Week 2018
- 3sat documentary film award
- Award in the Best Documentation / Reportage category
- Award in the Information & Culture category
- Nomination in the category Best TV Documentary
Web links
- Kulenkampff shoes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kulenkampff's shoes at filmportal.de
- Kulenkampff's shoes on daserste.de
- Kulenkampff's shoes at zero one film GmbH
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Hitler, excerpt from the speech given to district leaders in Reichenberg on December 2, 1938 ( memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on wissensreise.de
- ↑ Regina Schilling in an interview with Bettina Köster. In: @mediasres - the media magazine . Deutschlandfunk. August 8, 2018.
- ^ Nikolaus Festenberg: In the economic woundland . In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 7, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Claudia Tieschky: How Germany found itself on television. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 8, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
- ^ Matthias Dell: Light entertainment in the post-war period: Documentation "Kulenkampffs shoes". In: Conclusion - culture of the day. Deutschlandfunk . August 7, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Hans Hoff: What happened to "Kulenkampff's shoes"? In: dwdl.de . August 19, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ The 3sat Documentary Film Prize 2018 goes to "Kulenkampffs Shoes" by Regina Schilling . Article dated November 10, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018.
- ↑ Kulenkampff's shoes (zero one film for SWR / HR). In: grimme-preis.de. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ^ Kurier: The nominations of the ROMY Academy 2019 . Article dated March 26, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019.