Love in the ring

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Movie
Original title Love in the ring
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1930
length silent version 2244 meters, 83 minutes, audio version 2115 meters, 77 minutes
Rod
Director Reinhold Schünzel
script Max Glass , Fritz Rotter
production Max Glass for Terra Film AG, Berlin
music Artur Guttmann , Will Meisel
camera Nikolaus Farkas
occupation

Love in the Ring is a German partial sound film (according to the cinema poster: "Terra-Ton-Film with singing and speaking parts") from 1930, the Max Glass for the Berlin Terra Film AG. produced. The director was Reinhold Schünzel , the script was written by Max Glass and Fritz Rotter . Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle provided the equipment, and Nikolaus Farkas was in charge of the camera . Artur Guttmann and Will Meisel wrote the music . The unit manager was Conny Carstennsen .

action

Max, the son of a fruit trader, is discovered by a boxing manager at a variety show he is attending with his girlfriend Hilde and is later trained as a boxer. He wins his first big fight against the dreaded colored boxer Ali. That arouses the interest of the salon lady Lilian. She knows how to cast a spell over him. Under her influence, he neglects his duties, and ultimately Hilde too. But when she can prove to him that Lilian can also receive other gentlemen, he comes to his senses. In the great fight for the German championship, in which he participates, Max is naked when he discovers Lilian and her lover among the spectators. His opponent cleverly exploits this nakedness. The fight almost seems to be lost, when Max pulls himself together and still wins. Hilde is waiting for him in his cloakroom. By winning the German Championship, he vows to be loyal to his Hilde in the future.

background

The film was started in 1929 as a silent film, but provided with dialogue scenes when the production required a sound film due to the market situation. Both versions went on sale. The silent copy was 2244 meters long and played for 81 minutes, the version with sound measured 2115 meters and ran for 77 minutes. The sound was recorded on Artiphon Record using the “lignosis audio film recording method, Breusing system”.

The outdoor shots took place in the Berlin Sports Palace. Clemens Schmalstich conducted the orchestra for the music recordings for the setting . Theo Mackeben was the musical director .

The film was presented to the Berlin censorship authority on March 11, 1930. It was premiered in Germany on March 17, 1930 in the Berlin Terra-Lichtspiele Mozart Hall. It also ran in Spain and Portugal , Finland and also overseas. In the USA it premiered as Love in the Ring or The Comeback on August 10, 1930, and in Japan on December 17, 1931.

Film music

The title hit The Heart of a Boxer was written by Kapellmeister Artur Guttmann and hit poet Fritz Rotter; In the record recording from 1930 the marching song Max Schmeling , Kurt Gerron and Hugo Fischer-Köppe sing [Electrola EG1765, mx. BLK 6034].

When Victor took over the die , the song was also available in America [Victor V-6071-A].

"Everything is filmed in silence", the director is said to have reassured his main actor Max Schmeling. "We only need your mouth movements, nothing more." But then the silent film Love in the Ring is set to music. Max Schmeling plays a boxer there and now has to not only speak against his will, but also sing. The film premiered in 1930. In his "Memories", Schmeling describes the singing as "dreadful". (Berliner Morgenpost, February 5, 2005)

The boxer song was covered by other singers as early as 1930, for example the cabaret and refrain singer Robert Koppel , accompanied by Theo Mackeben and his jazz orchestra.

Behind the boxer song, Will Meisel's second sound film hit stepped back a little , a tango entitled Today I'm just dancing with you , whose words Kurt Schwabach wrote.

reception

In the USA the film was published again in 1936 by the company "Rogers Pictures, Incorporated": in an edited version by George Roland , dubbed and provided with a narrative text by Sam Taub and Benny Leonard.

Martin Kraus refers to the glorification of boxing in the Weimar Republic, not least by intellectuals like Bertolt Brecht and their role in the gender discourse of the time; According to Ulrike Schaper, the figure of the boxer can be read in retrospect as a self-assurance of an originally imagined masculinity and as such also contained a gesture of defense against competing gender concepts. In the discourse of the 1920s, the boxer came “as a reaction to the uncertainty of gender images ... so confident of victory and of course masculine, boxing apparently formed a refuge from sexual confusion.” On this basis, says Kraus, the song about Das Herz could be heard a boxer's powerful messages to both the female and male cinema and record consumers.

Wolfgang Wicht wrote in the Thüringer Allgemeine newspaper on March 14, 2012 : “Max Schmeling, Kurt Gerron and Hugo Fischer-Köppe sang a song in the 1930 film Liebe im Ring with the refrain“ A boxer's heart knows only one love Fight for victory all by yourself ”. The song went into the cultural heritage of the German hit ".

The boxer song was also mentioned and played in the radio program Literature and Sport: Mythos Boxkampf by Julika Tillmans, editor Sylvia Schwab. It ran in HR 2 culture on May 22, 2013 at 8:40 a.m.

This song has since been picked up again by several contemporary artists , including the Hanoverian punk band Falling Brieftauben , from “KAOH feat. Max ”and by Roger Baptist in his project“ Rummelsnuff ”.

literature

  • Bertolt Brecht: Sport and intellectual creation. In: The same: works, large commented on Berlin and Frankfurt edition, ed. by Werner Hecht u. a., Vol. 21: Schriften I, Berlin / Weimar / Frankfurt am Main 1992 [around 1926], pp. 122–123.
  • Siegfried Ellwanger: On the history of amateur boxing in Germany: 1930 - The sport of boxing in the economic crisis
  • Martin Kraus: From the pioneer of the sporting hit. On Max Schmeling's “The Heart of a Boxer” (1930). In: German songs, Bamberg anthology. Bamberg, August 13, 2013; online at wordpress.com
  • Fritz Rotter: "Boxer song" text , at heliohost.org
  • Ulrike Schaper: "Boxing is a sport of true masculinity". Gender in the Ring: Boxing and Masculinity in the Weimar Republic. In: Gender competitions. 2-4 February 2006; online at academia.edu
  • Background: boxer films. When the fists crack ... - The most important and exciting boxer films Prisma-Verlag

Web links

Illustrations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See filmportal.de, Murnau Foundation
  2. ↑ See Illustrierter Film-Kurier , No. 1371, 12th year 1930, p. 2.
  3. ↑ See Klaus Weber, Filmtheatergeschichte : "The facade ... a masterpiece of architecture ... something extraordinary" is the praise for the New Playhouse on Nollendorfplatz. Originally the house housed a theater and a concert hall. In 1911 this was converted into a movie theater; it was named Lichtspiele Mozart Hall. The architect was Albert Frölich.
  4. ↑ See morgenpost.de
  5. ↑ See recording on Ultraphon A 379 (mx. 10 701), to be heard on YouTube .
  6. ↑ It has been preserved on gramophone in a recording with Paul Godwin and his dance orchestra and the refrain singer Leo Monosson , which can be heard on YouTube .
  7. ↑ See silentera : "The film was re-released in the USA (edited by George Roland, with a synchronized soundtrack featuring narration by Sam Taub and Benny Leonard) as The Comeback by Rogers Pictures, Incorporated, in 1936."
  8. ↑ Schaper p. 16.
  9. ↑ See suhl.thueringer-allgemeine.de
  10. ↑ See hr-online.de ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Video on YouTube
  12. ↑ Video on YouTube
  13. ↑ No. 10 in the album "Sender Karlshorst" 2010 Sender Karlshorst , to be heard on YouTube .
  14. ↑ Cf. superboxer.de : “The German film industry took up topics from boxing with the film: 'Liebe im Ring'. The boxing song (music: Artur Guttmann, text: Fritz Rotter. Vocals: M. Schmeling) reflected the acceptance of boxing "
  15. ↑ Cf. prisma.de : “The great German boxer Max Schmeling also has guest appearances in several films, for example in Liebe im Ring (1930, directed by Reinhold Schünzel) and in Knock Out - A young girl a young man (1935, directed by: Carl Lamac, Hans H. Zerlett) at the side of Anny Ondra. "