Ludwig van (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Ludwig van |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 91 minutes |
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| Director | Mauricio Kagel |
| script | Mauricio Kagel |
| production | West German Broadcasting Cologne |
| music | Ludwig van Beethoven , arrangement: Mauricio Kagel |
| camera | Rudolf Körösi |
| cut | Rudiger Laske |
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Ludwig van is a ninety-minute black-and-white film for the 200th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven by Mauricio Kagel , which was made on behalf of West German television between 1969 and 1970. First performed on May 28, 1970 at the Wiener Festwochen , it was shown on June 1, 1970 on West German television .
description
The film consists of two parts. In the first part, Beethoven visits Bonn in the 1960s , portrayed by the cameraman dressed in a historical-based cloakroom from the late 18th century . When he arrives in Bonn by train, he first strolls between sights, including himself, until he discovers and looks at his works, which have been laid out for the upcoming Beethoven year, in a record shop in a shopping street. He strolls on to the house where he was born, which has now become a museum, the Beethoven House . Beethoven enters the house and is led through an imaginary Beethoven house by a museum guide who, as Kagel says, has “a striking resemblance to another German guide of unfortunate memory” , which Kagel is owned by artists from the Cologne art scene at the time and representatives of the German Fluxus movement. Dieter Roth was responsible for the design of the bathroom, Ursula Burghardt for the living room and garden, Stefan Wewerka for the children's room and Robert Filliou for the lumber room .
Beethoven, or the visitor who is represented by the view of the camera, is first led through the junk room and is suddenly in the kitchen of the imaginary Beethoven house, followed by a tour of the bathroom. The next room through which the visitor is led is the living room, followed by a tour of the children's room and the music room designed by Mauricio Kagel. The tour of the house ends with a look into an overcrowded storage room, "the contents of which pour out at the feet of Beethoven, the tour guide, the cameraman and the viewer when the door is opened."
After a wild hunt in the garden of the house, where laundry and sheets of paper with texts are hung on clotheslines, Beethoven reaches the Rhine promenade, enters a Rhine steamer where shadowy musicians play hide-and-seek with him.
In the second part of the film, short sequences in which cultural contributions, scientific programs and musical television appearances are parodied are strung together. Kagel was able to win over Werner Höfer with his international morning pint for this part .
Sequence No. 17 Beethoven's kitchen
Mauricio Kagel invited many other artists, some of whom played along, some of whom furnished the rooms of the imaginary Beethoven House, and Joseph Beuys to take part in his film Ludwig van . Beuys contributed the three and a half minute sequence Beethoven's Kitchen . The shooting took place on October 4th in Beuys' studio and the adjacent courtyard at Drakeplatz 4, Düsseldorf. Beuys' studio was converted by Beuys, following a proposal by Kagel, into a fictional kitchen in an imaginary Beethoven house and was used for the first part of the film.
Beuys carried out two actions that framed the room and object installations in the studio. It started with the Burning Gully , and ended with an action with Napoleon's death mask . The sequence begins with a shot of the burning gully, from which flames are blazing, and you can hear the 1st movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony , played by the All-German Chamber Orchestra. After one minute, the film title "Ludwig van von Mauricio Kagel" appears as the lettering , which means that the film title does not appear until the fifteenth minute. After the title has faded out, Joseph Beuys ends the action by placing the lid of a cast-iron roasting pan on the gully, which suffocates the flames.
In the further course, several individual images of situations that take place inside the studio follow in quick succession. A quiet vertical panning moves over individual objects that are leaning or hanging on the wall until the tour guide silently points to the contents of a showcase, which Beuys sets up in three different versions one after the other. While the gaze turns to different bottles and drinking vessels, the 9th symphony falls silent, and an indefinable "öö-chant" sounds , called out by Joseph Beuys, who appears at the same moment with slow movements at the window of his studio in the studio courtyard covered with Napoléon's death mask, and disappears again backwards to the right out of the picture. This concludes the sequence of Beethoven's kitchen .
Sequence No. 31 toilet and bathroom of the Beethoven house
Sequence No. 31 takes place in the bathroom of a suite at the Excelsior Hotel in Cologne. The script describes that around 100 busts of Beethoven by Dieter Roth , poured in lard or marzipan, are stored in the bathroom. The busts are to be piled up in such a way that the bathroom is not immediately recognizable as such, so they should ooze out of the bathtub filled with water . All busts are shown to the camera, then the camera pans to the window. Outside, the artist Dieter Roth smashes the busts that are brought to him. He makes a statement about the Beethoven year.
Background and further information on the film
The film Ludwig van was recorded in the WDR studios from September 23 to October 9, 1969 , during which time the outdoor recordings also took place. The film should not be confused with a composition of the same name by Kagel, although this is related to the film. The musical composition Ludwig van consists of a metacollage , the basis of which are the photos of the sheet music collage in sequence no. 21 Music Room of the film. However, Kagel composed the music for the film exclusively from works by Ludwig van Beethoven himself. For this purpose, Kagel used existing radio recordings, collaged them and partially processed them electronically. The film consists of 35 shooting sequences and 18 musical sections. In the synopsis, Kagel particularly emphasized the different locations for the individual rooms of the imaginary Beethoven house, as well as the omnipresence and everydayness of Beethoven's music in all scenes of the film. Beethoven music should be heard from the houses and from the streets, from the ship's loudspeaker on the Rhine as well as from the mass media, the synopsis speaks of a Beethoveniana .
In the Streifzug B's sequence (No. 3 to 5) the cameraman, dressed in full B (eethoven) clothing, strolls through Bonn (and also Cologne, where a sequence is being shot in a record shop) to the - original - Beethoven House . Shortly before the shooting, the street in front of the Beethoven House was unexpectedly torn open, this fact was taken into account in the film sequence.
Awards
Ludwig van received commendation at the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1971 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland, Van der Grinten Collection, Joseph Beuys Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Joseph Beuys. Beethoven's kitchen. A documentation in photographs by Brigitte Dannehl , Bedburg-Hau 2004, p. 55
- ↑ Mauricio Kagel: Ludwig van - screenplay , 1969, masch, p. 9, quoted from: Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland, Van der Grinten Collection, Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.), Bedburg-Hau 2004, p. 56
- ^ Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland, Van der Grinten Collection, Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.), Bedburg-Hau 2004, p. 57
- ^ Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland, Van der Grinten Collection, Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.), Bedburg-Hau 2004, p. 113
- ↑ Klaus Staeck (ed.): We won't do it without the rose. For Joseph Beuys. Edition Staeck, Heidelberg 1986, p. 141
- ^ Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland, Van der Grinten Collection, Joseph Beuys Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.), Bedburg-Hau 2004, p. 59
- ↑ Werner Klüppelholz and Lothar Prox (eds.): Mauricio Kagel. The cinematic work I. 1965–85 , p. 94
- ↑ Interview by Karl Faust with Mauricio Kagel (PDF; 126 kB) as documentary material integrated in the Sacre HipHop project at netzspannung.org
- ↑ Deutsche Grammophon has an LP recording of this piece, No. 2530014
- ↑ Werner Klüppelholz and Lothar Prox (eds.), P. 89
- ↑ Werner Klüppelholz and Lothar Prox (eds.), P. 91
Literature / sources
- Werner Klüppelholz and Lothar Prox (eds.): Mauricio Kagel. The cinematic work I. 1965–85 , DuMont Cologne, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1865-0
- Susanne Anna (Ed.): Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf . Hatje Cantz, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, September 29 to December 30, 2007, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-1992-6
- Klaus Staeck (Ed.): We won't do it without the rose. For Joseph Beuys . Edition Staeck, Heidelberg 1986
- Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation, van der Grinten collection, Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Joseph Beuys. Beethoven's kitchen. Documentation in photographs by Brigitte Dannehl , Bedburg-Hau 2004, ISBN 3-935166-23-0
DVD
- Ludwig van. DVD, Winter & Winter, 2007
Web links
- Joseph Beuys - "Beethoven's Kitchen" PDF (103 kB)
- Ludwig van in the Internet Movie Database (English)