Lotte at the Bauhaus
| TV movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lotte at the Bauhaus |
| Country of production | Germany , Czech Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gregor Schnitzler |
| script | Jan Braren |
| production |
Nico Hofmann , Benjamin Benedict |
| camera | Christian Stangassinger |
| cut | Sandy Saffeels |
| occupation | |
| |
Lotte am Bauhaus is a German television film by Gregor Schnitzler from 2018. Alicia von Rittberg , Noah Saavedra and Jörg Hartmann can be seen in the leading roles . The film , set in Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s, is about a young woman studying at the Bauhaus . In contrast to most of the other characters, the protagonist is fictional, but she is modeled on the artist Alma Buscher . The film was shown on February 13, 2019 as part of a theme evening for the 100th birthday of the Bauhaus in the Das Erste .
action
Weimar 1920: The young Lotte Brendel is a talented draftswoman, but has to hide her talent from her father, who runs a carpentry workshop. He wants her to be a good wife and mother. One day she met Paul Seligmann by chance, a student at the Bauhaus, which was rejected by conservative circles. She secretly applies because the famous art school also allows women and at least apparently relies on equality. When she is accepted and her parents find out about it, they cast her away.
Lotte comes to live with Paul and the two become lovers. At the Bauhaus she met teachers like Walter Gropius , Johannes Itten and Oskar Schlemmer as well as fellow students like Friedl Dicker and Anni Fleischmann . Lotte's talent is quickly recognized, but under pressure from above, the female students should be satisfied with the weaving class, while the other disciplines should be reserved for male students due to the classic understanding of roles. However, Lotte prevails and takes part in the carpentry class. She designs wooden toys that later become bestsellers, making her own money.
Due to emerging national conservative currents, not only in Weimar, the Bauhaus had to leave the city and move to Dessau. Paul is to become the executive architect of the new building, which thwarted the young couple's plans to found a joint architecture office in Berlin as equal partners. Lotte is disappointed. When she discovers that she is pregnant by Paul, she sees her career plans endangered. But Paul sticks to her and little Marie is born. They move to Dessau together, where the Bauhaus reopened in 1926.
At the inauguration of a model house , at which, among other things, a children's room designed by Lotte and a model of a villa that she and Paul designed together, a manufacturer is interested in Lotte's furniture. However, she is not taken seriously by the man who instead just speaks to Paul. Even when a wealthy couple from Potsdam is interested in the villa design, Lotte is initially not noticed. But they get the promise to build the house together.
After Lotte caught Paul at a party at the Bauhaus with someone else and separated from him, she wants to build the villa by herself. But the Potsdam couple have no confidence in their abilities as a woman and withdraw the order. Instead, Walter Gropius should build the villa. When Lotte found out, she confronted Gropius. He finally gives in and lets her oversee the construction as the executive architect for his office.
After a while, she also reconciles with Paul. A short time later the Bauhaus had to be closed due to pressure from the National Socialists. Lotte and Paul flee to Israel.
background
Filming
The film is a co-production of UFA Fiction with Degeto Film , MDR and the Czech Mia Film . The shooting took place from April to June 2018. The film was shot in and around Prague as well as at original locations in Weimar and Dessau.
documentation
Following the film, the accompanying documentary Bauhaus women, written and directed by Susanne Radelhof , ran on February 13, 2019 . Production Maria Wischnewski / Koberstein Film. Germany 2019.
reception
Audience rating
The film was seen by 4.19 million people, which corresponds to a market share of 13.4%. In the group of 14 to 49 year olds, the figure was 0.63 million and a market share of 6.4%. The subsequent documentary was seen by 2.98 million viewers and thus had a market share of 11.3%, 0.41 million and 4.9% among 14 to 49 year olds.
Reviews
Lotte at the Bauhaus received mixed to negative reviews. Hannah Pilarczyk says on Spiegel Online that the film “undermines its own goal out of sheer kitsch and pseudo-feminism: to erect an appropriate memorial to the women at the Bauhaus ...” and goes on to say that this “kitschy order has a particularly perfidious one here Quality. Was produced Lotte at the Bauhaus namely by Ufa Fiction. While the Bauhaus was closed in 1933 under pressure from the Nazis, Ufa switched from avant-garde to propaganda in the same year. "
In the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Hans Hoff and Gerhard Matzig praise Gregor Schnitzler for his “remarkable direction” and the “hauntingly sensitive and suggestively illustrated story” as well as the actors Alicia von Rittberg for her “impressively played Bauhaus student” and Jörg Hartmann, “the grandiose one two - until three-faced Gropius plays ”. However, they criticize the fact that the Bauhaus is "becoming an aesthetic framework, an accessory, a history ... and unfortunately also a folklore".
Kristian Teetz from the editorial network Germany thinks the film is “not told in a modern and conventional way”, says that the love story between Lotte and Paul was “mixed with well-known ingredients” and asks himself “why those responsible are not in favor of a pure docudrama, but an undecided one Mixture of fact and fiction decided ”.
Awards and nominations
The film won the Seoul International Drama Awards 2019 in the categories of Best TV Movie and Best Actress (Alicia von Rittberg).
Web links
- Lotte at the Bauhaus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lotte at the Bauhaus at Crew United
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Lotte at the Bauhaus . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 185852 / V).
- ^ A b Hans Hoff, Gerhard Matzig: Much Lotte, little Bauhaus. sueddeutsche.de , February 13, 2019, accessed on February 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Production data on crew-united.com, accessed on February 15, 2019
- ↑ Filming dates on crew-united.com, accessed on February 14, 2019
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check Wednesday, February 13, 2019 ,quotemeter.de, February 13, 2019, accessed on February 14, 2019
- ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Kitschung order from above. Spiegel Online, February 12, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019.
- ↑ Kristian Teetz: “Lotte at the Bauhaus” - a tired modern age. haz.de, February 13, 2019, accessed on February 14, 2019.
- ↑ UFA FICTION production “Lotte am Bauhaus” twice honored at the Seoul International Drama Awards 2019 . UFA , August 28, 2018, accessed on August 29, 2019.