Liese and lousy

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Liese und Miese (also: Die Liese und die Miese) is the title of a series of short films and postcards in the Third Reich .

background

Liese and Miese was the female counterpart to the film series Tran and Helle , which in 1939 and 1940 was supposed to get audiences in the mood for war-like behavior.

These short films produced on behalf of the Propaganda Ministry , which were also shown in the supplementary program before each main film, were intended to take away the population's fear of war and encourage them to remain vigilant. Its director was Eugen York , the texts were written by the later Berlin theater critic Friedrich Luft . In it stood the loyal "Liese", who was played by Gisela Schlueter, who became known as a quick speaker, as opposed to "Liese" Brigitte Mira , who was discovered as a young actress by York and had been cast for the role. She did everything that the national comrades shouldn't do, e.g. B. 'grumbling', hoarding food, listening to enemy radio stations or unsuspectingly chatting away without fear of spies.

The series, which began in 1943, was discontinued after just 10 episodes. It missed its purpose, because the viewers in the cinema sympathized much more with the outwardly conceived as a negative figure, than with the blonde, preppy and firmly argued Liese on the party line.

“The lousy should of course have a negative effect, look ugly, run around unkempt, a real shocker was wanted.” Brigitte Mira recalled later, “When Goebbels saw the first short films and heard about the reactions of the audience, the lousy of all people immediately got into the heart closed, the series was canceled immediately. "

The opposing pair of figures, on the other hand, were still effective on picture postcards by the caricaturist Hans Zoozmann, who depicted them in critical situations, with a gift explaining the drawing in an 'educational way'. So there was B. a card "medicine bottle" about the illness of the 'complainers', about the envy of a well-groomed appearance, about the harmful spread of rumors and about the dangers of surreptitious trade. The colored cards were published by Erich Gutjahr Verlag, Berlin NW 40, Lehrter Str. 40.

Aftermath

"Liese and Liese" are still alive today in the memories of the war generation, as the statements in the books by Rainer Horbelt / Sonja Spindler and by Birthe Kundrus prove.

The lawyer Thomas Dieterich describes in his book "A Judge's Life" the appearance of the couple in the fifth year of the war. Elisabeth Schulz-Semrau recalls a whole scene with the two in her 'Report of a Childhood' in Königsberg in East Prussia . And Joachim Berke also sees in his 'autobiographical testimony' "Journey home to the Silesian county Glatz" in his spirit next to the posters with the "Pst! The enemy is listening in! "- Schattenmann and the" Kohlenklau "also" Liese und Liese ", who for him embodied optimism and pessimism.

literature

  • Hans Peter Althaus: Chutzpah, Schmus & Tacheles: Yiddish word stories. 3. Edition. Verlag CH Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68563-7 , Anmm. 124-130 u. 170.
  • Ludolf Herbst: The total war and the order of the economy: The war economy in the field of tension between politics, ideology and propaganda 1939-1945. (= Studies on Contemporary History. Volume 21). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982, ISBN 3-421-06119-X , p. 248.
  • Rainer Horbelt, Sonja Spindler (ed.): How we hamstered, starved and survived: ten women tell. Experiences and documents. Eichborn Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-8218-1021-1 , p. 78.
  • Rainer Horbelt, Sonja Spindler (ed.): "Grandma, tell something about the war": ten women remember. Experiences and documents. Verlag Rowohlt, 1986, ISBN 3-499-18328-5 , pp. 86f., 90.
  • Ulrich Keuler: Häberle and Pfleiderer: on the history, style and function of a popular entertainment series. (= Studies by the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute of the University of Tübingen, Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies. Volume 78). Verlag Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde, 1992, ISBN 3-925340-77-7 .
  • Petra Kohse: Same place, same wave. Friedrich Luft and his time. Construction Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-351-02482-7 .
  • Reinhard Krause: Mosern for the Reich. In: TAZ. January 27, 2001 (taz.de)
  • Birthe Kundrus: warrior women. Family politics and gender relations in the First and Second World War. (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history. Volume 32). Verlag Christians, 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1246-3 , p. 515.
  • Brigitte Mira: Little woman - what now? Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-22437-7 .
  • Felix Moeller: The film minister. Goebbels and the film in the “Third Reich”. Verlag Henschel, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-351-02482-7 .
  • Susann Moser-Ehinger, Hansueli W. Moser-Ehinger: Bhaltis: When the sun is low, even we cast long shadows. Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-0347-5 , p. 51.

Web links

  • “The Liese and the Liese - In the Country” as dissatisfied evacuees. Short film, watch on (youtube.com)
  • “The Liese and the Miese - In the Country” in the Federal Archives (No. BSP 19606-1).

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Keuler p. 58.
  2. But not always: “Die Deutsche Wochenschau” No. 703 from 10.1944 began with a “supporting film with Liese and Miese and a front vacationer in a staged scene”, which deals with writing letters to the soldiers at the front: “Worries and pessimism should be left out in letters to the front. Lousy is played by Brigitte Miera [sic] ”, cf. filmarchives-online.eu  ; in it Gerhild Weber played the Liese.
  3. "bad, worthless, miserable, evil" from adj lousy, borrowed about. Rotwelsch from the Western Yiddish מיאוס (YIVO: mies) 'ugly; nauseating; abominable ', cf. wiktionary.org
  4. so Ramon Schack in “Historical Documents: Beware, the enemy is listening! Miese and Liese ”(July 28, 2008), weblog ramon-schack.de
  5. cit. after Krause, TAZ v. January 27, 2001.
  6. cf. dhm.de
  7. cf. on Horbelt-Spindler, "Grandma, tell something about the war", p. 86: "The duo Miese and Liese also achieved their popularity through cartoon series and poems that appeared at the same time as the films [...]"
  8. Die Liese und die Liese, medicine bottle - No. 713, Sichtskarten-center.de (accessed September 8, 2019); on the term 'complainer' cf. Art. "Miesmacher-Aktion" at wiki.org
  9. Die Liese und die Liese No. 714, ebay.de (retrieved 8.09.19)
  10. Die Liese und die Liese No. 715, ebay.de (retrieved 8.09.19)
  11. Die Liese und die Liese No. 716, Sichtskarten-center.de (accessed September 8, 2019)
  12. Thomas Dieterich: A judge's life in labor and constitutional law. BWV Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3672-7 , p. 7: “When, finally, in the fifth year of the war, people's everyday lives could only be mastered with innumerable efforts and obstacles, two types of housewives were asked to demonstrate visually how exemplary People's comrades have to behave: the Liese and the Liese. The Liese was a happy blonde who saw no problems anywhere, while the Liese was a slightly older, thin woman with dark hair who complained incessantly. "
  13. Search Karalautschi. Verlag Edition digital, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86394-711-8 , here: “But maybe they are already playing the Liese and the Liese, lessons of their days that come to them from the cinema, radio and posters. Mrs. Liese, blond with knots, appetizingly clean to look at, full of optimistic happiness. Ms. Lousy, sour, dissatisfied expression, patched dress, headscarf. "
  14. Example at dhm.de
  15. ^ Journey home to the Silesian county of Glatz. Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940016-99-7 , p. 130.