My wife makes music

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Movie
Original title My wife makes music
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Hans Heinrich
script Hans Heinrich based on a scenario by Walter Niklaus
production DEFA
music Gerd Natschinski
camera Eugen Klagemann
cut Friedel Welsandt
occupation

My wife makes music is a DEFA music film by Hans Heinrich from 1958. It was made based on a scenario by Walter Niklaus as the GDR's first revue film .

action

The scriptwriter Walter Niklaus designed the plot as a variation on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . Gustl Wagner works as a record seller in a department store and experiences on site how the women leave their men behind during an autograph session with the Italian singer Fabiani. Very unnerved, he almost forgets his wedding day , which is finally interrupted by his friend Fritz Rettig. He invited Fabiani as a singer for his spring festival, but his daughter will not be able to perform with the artist because of a cold. Fritz asks Gustl to let his wife Gerda step in, who gave up her singing career ten years ago in favor of her marriage. After some hesitation, Gustl agrees.

Gerda's performance was very well received and Fabiani signed her as a singer at the Tivoli in Berlin , where he performed regularly. Against the will of her husband, who sees his marriage and the upbringing of the two little sons at risk, Gerda pursues her stage career and soon becomes a star. Gustl drove to alcohol in the vaudeville bar and a little consolation from singer Daisy. When, drunk, he disturbs a performance by Gerda, Fabiani knows how to sell the action as a deliberately comical contribution, so that Gustl comes to dubious fame. He, in turn, lets Fritz Rettig's wife Susi persuade him that Fabiani and Gerda are more than just colleagues and plans to cause unrest in the audience at their next Tivoli appearance. This is said to cause a scandal that is supposed to cure his wife from a stage career forever. Gerda, however, sings “her song” that evening, where they met ten years ago. Gustl renounces the revolt and is from now on the proud husband of a singer.

production

My wife makes music was filmed in Babelsberg in 1957 under the working title Solo for Four . After the film was finished, it was initially not approved by the censors. Singer Evelyn Künneke had contractually guaranteed that she would be allowed to sing two numbers by the composer Siegfried Wegener in the film . It was not until a campaign in the FDJ newspaper Junge Welt against “Western” music made it clear to those in charge of the film that Wegener was also working as the “Head of Dance Music” at the RIAS at the time. All Wegener numbers were then deleted from the film and the record production for the film, which had already started, was also stopped. Gerd Natschinski composed new titles for text and Künneke's lip movements in the film, which were superimposed on the original film material.

It was only with the new songs of Künneke that the film was finally released for screening six months after its completion in February 1958 and had its world premiere on April 3, 1958 in Berlin's Babylon .

The film constructions come from Oskar Pietsch .

criticism

Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler called the film a "big, colorful evening - with all the weaknesses that are inherent in this art genre, but also with the harmless amusements it offers".

The catholic film service criticized Meine Frau macht Musik in 1958: “This East German music film drags on rather lengthy, without momentum or wit. The newly discovered revue singer looks homely and boring, and the conflicts are taken from everyday democratic life: all people are noticeably happy to work. "

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  1. ↑ Autarkic Review . In: Der Spiegel , No. 12. 1958, pp. 57–59.
  2. ↑ Karl-Eduard von Schnitzer in: Filmspiegel , No. 9, 1958.
  3. ↑ My wife makes music . In: film-dienst , No. 41, 1958.