Martin Luther - A life between God and the devil
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Martin Luther - A life between God and the devil |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK No age limit |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lew Hohmann |
| script | Lew Hohmann |
| production |
Dirk Otto , Volker Holecek |
| music | Michael Hartmann |
| camera | Andreas Bergmann |
| cut | Daniel King |
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Martin Luther - A Life Between God and the Devil is a scenic documentary from 2003, based on the book by Lew Hohmann .
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Martin Luther was born in the city of Eisleben in 1483, the son of the hut owner Hans Luther . He completed a school education and then began studying law . But then he gets caught in a heavy thunderstorm, in which he swears that he wants to become a monk if he survives the thunderstorm. He survived and entered the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt in 1505 . In 1510 he traveled to Rome, but at this time he was still a full supporter of the Pope .
In 1511 he took over a Bible professorship in Wittenberg . Sometime between 1514 and 1517 Luther had his famous tower experience . He discovers a merciful God in the text of the New Testament . But soon afterwards he is startled by the shameless indulgence deal of the Dominican Tetzel . Tetzel has promised that if someone had desecrated the Virgin Mary or made it pregnant, he could forgive it with his indulgences. Luther is angry and sends his superior 95 theses against the goings-on with indulgences. Soon afterwards his theses spread all over the country and events came thick and fast. First, Luther was invited to an interrogation in Augsburg . He should revoke what he refused there. Then, after he publicly burned a bull threatening excommunication , he was called to the Reichstag in Worms . Again he should revoke what he again does not do. The emperor then pronounces the imperial ban . Luther goes home to Wittenberg in a carriage . On the way home he is attacked and taken to the Wartburg . But the attack was bogus. Luther is now safe. He grows a beard and takes on the new identity of Junker Jörg . At the Wartburg, Luther translated the New Testament into German in just ten weeks. His translation of the New Testament went to print and was a great success.
When riots break out in Wittenberg, Luther returns to Wittenberg. He manages to appease the population. But the riots in Wittenberg were just a foretaste of what was to come. In 1525 the peasants in Thuringia and Franconia start an uprising . The uprising is brutally suppressed by the princes, 6,000 peasants die. Luther had taken the side of the princes, which made him feel guilty in retrospect. He exclaims: “In the riot, I killed all the farmers, Martin Luther, because I told them to be killed. All her blood is on my neck. ”In the same year, shortly after the peasant uprising, Luther married the runaway nun Katharina von Bora . The first child is born and, to the annoyance of Luther's enemies, is without birth defects. The married life of the two later became a model for many Protestant pastor households.
In 1530 there is a new Reichstag in Augsburg . Luther stays in the nearby Veste Coburg , because the emperor's ban has not been lifted and so he cannot travel to Augsburg. Melanchthon reads out the Confessio Augustana at the Reichstag . The Protestant princes, who represent a fifth of the empire, are committed to this.
Years go by, Luther is now old. Like many of his contemporaries, he also considers the Jews to be an incarnation of the devil. In 1543 he wrote the questionable book On the Jews and their Lies . In 1546 he went on a trip to Eisleben to settle a dispute between the Counts of Mansfeld . In the night between February 17 and 18, Martin Luther died in the city in question, the place where he was once born.
background
The documentation appeared almost simultaneously with the movie Luther by Eric Till and used excerpts from it. The documentation is largely based on the film plot.
The film was shot on original locations: Wittenberg , Kriebstein , Rochlitz Castle , Eisleben , Dessau , Erfurt , Nimbschen Monastery (near Grimma ), Worms , Eisenach , Rochlitz and Rome .
The documentary was first broadcast as part of the series The History of Middle Germany the MDR television broadcast on 16 November of 2003.
Later the show was also shown outside of the series with a correspondingly changed opening credits under the title: Luther's Last Journey - A Life Between Hell Fear and Trust in God on the Phoenix TV channel . In the Planet Wissen format, an abridged version was shown on June 1, 2006 in the program: Martin Luther - A Monk Against Pope and Emperor, which was interrupted by academic discussions.
On September 20, 2009, the documentary Katharina von Bora - nun, businesswoman, Luther's wife, also by Lew Hohmann, was broadcast for the first time on MDR (as part of the series Die Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands ). This documentation shows great similarities in its design to the documentation Martin Luther - A Life Between God and the Devil . For example, the actor Matthias Hummitzsch was hired again for the role of Martin Luther.
DVD release
- History of Central Germany: Martin Luther - A life between God and the devil . Ottonia Media GmbH
literature
- Winifred König (Ed.): Faces, Stories, Secrets. German résumés from 2000 years . Nicolai, Berlin 2004
References and comments
- ↑ The show was the first time as part of the television series The History of Middle Germany the MDR television in 2003 broadcast. Later the program was shown outside of the series with a correspondingly changed opening credits. Thus, the addition The history of Central Germany is unnecessary in the title.
- ↑ König, Winifred [Ed.]: Faces, Stories, Secrets. German résumés from 2000 years. Berlin: Nicolai, 2004
- ↑ MDR.de - Martin Luther - A life between God and the Devil ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Martin Luther - A life between God and the Devil ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ MDR.de - Martin Luther - A life between God and the Devil ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See MDR.de - Luther's last journey - A life between fear of hell and trust in God ( Memento from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Planet Knowledge - Martin Luther - A monk against Pope and Emperor ; Accessed June 4, 2010
- ↑ See MDR.de - Katharina von Bora - nun, businesswoman, Luther's wife - interview with Lew Hohmann
