Life and weaving

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Movie
Original title Life and weaving
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1981
length 28 minutes
Rod
Director Volker Koepp
script Wolfgang Geier
Volker Koepp
production DEFA studio for documentaries
camera Christian Lehmann
cut Barbara Masanetz-Mechelk
chronology

←  Predecessor
Wittstock III

Successor  →
Life in Wittstock

Life and Weaving is a documentary film by the DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Volker Koepp from 1981 .

action

It's February 1981, the film team is back at the Obertrikotagenbetrieb (OTB) Wittstock / Dosse and Edith tells how the last few years have gone. During the last visit in 1979 she was already working as a master and at the end of the same year she was appointed head master. In the meantime, she has got engaged privately and this year she still wants to get married and then possibly move into an apartment in Wittstock, she has also planned to study. Many of Edith's former colleagues have already left the company and a permanent workforce is only slowly emerging. Despite great fluctuation , the company is fulfilling its plan.

In the company's apprentice dormitory, many apprentices are asked why they are even learning to become a textile worker at the OTB. The answers of the girls are varied, but there is none that shows that it is a question of the desire to learn this profession. One girl learns here because she wants to study fashion design afterwards, another because she can do vocational training with a high school diploma here , and still others ended up here because the company is simply nearby. The youth shop steward , who in this case is a woman, reflects the opinion of many girls that they study here because the apprenticeship time is only one and a half years, then they have a professional qualification and then go to work as a saleswoman or waitress.

At the end of an apprenticeship year, the sober numbers come to the table in a meeting. Of the 159 employment contracts issued, 112 were signed and 47 girls refused to continue working in the company after completing their apprenticeship. Those previously living in the dormitory who will leave the company can immediately pick up their routing slips, the others want to get a place in the single home . The regulations there are the same as in the apprentice dormitory, but it is clear that the occupancy with two girls will be the exception. Three of those who stayed behind gave in to their fate more than enjoying their jobs. The way they spend their free time has not changed from their predecessors in previous years, and even the bad reputation of the girls from the OTB has remained.

Production and publication

Life and Weaving with the subtitle in brackets (Wittstock IV) was shot as a black and white film by the artistic working group "document" under the working titles Lifestyle and Wittstock IV .

The film had its premiere at the 4th National Festival of Documentaries and Short Films of the GDR in cinemas and television in Neubrandenburg in mid-October 1981. The normal entry into the cinemas took place on December 18, 1981.

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Annerose Richter .

This film is the fourth part of a seven-part long-term documentary that was not originally planned as such.

criticism

Uwe-Eckart Böttger wrote in the report about his impressions from the 4th National Festival of Documentaries and Short Films of the GDR in cinema and television in Neubrandenburg in the New Age

“... Volker Koepp also tries to trace the way of life of workers in a protocol. His film 'Leben und Weben' is without a doubt one of the festival's most successful productions. In addition to the portrait of young textile workers from Wittstock, Koepp investigates why the fluctuation among employees is above average. And he lets the women themselves suggest ways in which the existing situation can be changed. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 21, 1981, p. 4
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 23, 1981, p. 4