Martha (1978)

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Movie
Original title Martha
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1978
length 56 minutes
Rod
Director Jürgen Böttcher
script Jürgen Böttcher
production DEFA studio for documentaries
camera Wolfgang Dietzel
cut Angelika Arnold

Martha is a documentary film from DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Jürgen Böttcher from 1978 .

action

The Rummelsburger Kippe of VEB Tiefbaukombinat Berlin is located between the new building area Hans-Loch-Viertel (now Sewanviertel ), which was built in 1960, and the S-Bahn , at the level of the Rummelsburg depot . Here in 1977 we met the 68-year-old worker Martha Bieder in the midst of several male workers with whom she was creating new building material from the rubble of demolished houses . Martha's job is standing on a conveyor belt to sort out the wood and metal scraps so that a clean grit can be ground at the end . She uses the opportunity to explain the work of her colleagues and lets them understand that she still enjoys working on the production line. It only gets cold feet when the conveyor belt has stopped because the excavator has thrown too large a chunk of rubble on it or there is a lack of material. She can also bridge this time without a word. It is her last working days before retirement, after 30 years as a rubble woman .

When the film team wanted to visit Martha again in the spring of 1978, she had already retired a few weeks ago. But she offers to use her farewell position for the former colleagues for further recordings. So it happened that one day at the end of April, dressed in fine clothes, she served her colleagues with cake and coffee in the lounge. At the beginning, all sides only talk stupid things. After the first round of schnapps, the conversations begin to revolve around Martha's work and retirement life. After the last round, which is drunk on Martha, the men go back to their workplaces and she is left alone with the film team.

Now she begins to tell how it started in 1945 and that the city looked horrible. To confirm her words, newsreel recordings from destroyed Berlin are shown, which she comments on. Her children were 9 and 10 years old at the time and when she was offered a job in construction, the higher ration card convinced her and that as a woman she earned the same money as the men there. She says that she has no worries today and that she is proud of her children, but that she never thought she would work in the profession for so long. Then she shows some photographs from her youth and from her beginnings in construction. She emphasizes several times that she always preferred to work with men rather than women. She is also proud of her awards and was particularly impressed when she and her brigade were honored with the Order of Labor in the Red City Hall . But she continues to insist that she has nothing to do with politics. Then Martha continues to tell stories from her life that she enjoyed working with her colleagues, that she wants to rest first and visit her relatives throughout the GDR . She also doesn't forget how she got the apartment on Stalinallee (today Karl-Marx-Allee ) in 1951 , which was an award back then and in which she still feels comfortable. With a look over the Rummelsburger Kippe , Martha says goodbye to her long-term job.

production

Martha was the working title Trümmerfrauen on ORWO turned -Color and had its premiere in October 1978 during the first documentary film festivals in the GDR in Neubrandenburg cinema movie palace . The dramaturgy was in the hands of Wolfgang Geier .

Awards

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films described the film as an extraordinary documentary about one of the rubble women who cleared away the rubble in the bombed capital of Berlin immediately after the war. Shot in the late 1970s, it reconstructs a proletarian life.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from October 12, 1978, p. 4
  2. ↑ Martha. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 2, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used