People to each other
| Movie | |
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| Original title | People to each other |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1926 |
| length | 108 minutes |
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| Director | Gerhard Lamprecht |
| script | Gerhard Lamprecht, Luise Heilborn-Körbitz , Eduard Rothauser |
| production | Gerhard-Lamprecht-Film Production GmbH (Berlin) |
| music | Giuseppe Becce |
| camera | Karl Hasselmann |
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People among themselves is a German social drama by Gerhard Lamprecht from 1926. It was based on a script that Lamprecht had written with Luise Heilborn-Körbitz and Eduard Rothauser , realized and produced in-house together with National-Film AG Berlin. Ernst Körner was the unit manager. The film structures were designed by Otto Moldenhauer , the photography by Karl Hasselmann .
"People among themselves" is one of the milieu studies that Lamprecht filmed in the 1920s at original locations and sometimes with amateur actors in Berlin ; Because they were inspired by the drawings by the Berlin painter and photographer Heinrich Zille and encouraged by his advice, they were soon also called "Zille films". The genre soon fell into fashionable commerce.
Actors such as Alfred Abel , Erika Glässner , Olga Limburg and Margarete Kupfer can be seen in "People among themselves" . The ones from Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films well-known actors Aud Egede Nissen , Käthe Haack , Paul Bildt and Eduard Rothauser were already in 1925 in " Die Verrufenen ".
action
At the center of the action is a typical Berlin apartment building from the 1920s. A jeweler and a lawyer live on the lower floors. A widow and an officer share the next floor. Above that there are two business rooms with the dance school and a marriage agency. The poorest tenants live right at the top, directly under the roof: a balloon seller and a piano teacher who became penniless after the inflation . In this way the house reflects society, its needs and class differences.
In episodes, the film tells about the life of the tenants. In this way, the different social milieus are contrasted. By contrast, all tenants have existential experiences such as love, happiness and disappointment. These basic experiences soon make the representatives of a class appear as individuals who are suffering concretely: from the consequences of an economic and social system that has fallen apart.
background
The film was made in Berlin in the May Atelier, Weißensee and in the National Atelier, Tempelhof.
It was awarded in Germany by National-Film and in France by Compagnie Française du Film. There it ran under the title "117 bis Grand Rue".
Its first performance in Berlin took place on April 1, 1926 in the Tauentzien Palace. Giuseppe Becce put together and conducted the cinema music for the premiere .
reception
Contemporary reviews
The film was largely received positively by the critics: it was "one of the most interesting and best films of the year", which "grabs life where it is most truest".
Above all, the performance of the ensemble, which is made up of many prominent actors, was emphasized, Aud Egede Nissen had “never been so agitated and genuine”, and one read about Erika Gläßner as the house owner: “Gläßner doesn't 'play'. [...] That is, is, is she. "
In particular, the directorial work of Gerhard Lamprecht was honored; he had succeeded in making the “wonderful possibility” of the film, “to make the simultaneity of all events immediately visible” (Berliner Börsencourier, April 4, 1926, p. 157).
The few critical voices saw it differently. They attest to the scriptwriter and director "that they could plausibly place individual scenes next to one another, but that they were unable to create the image that would have to be a unity in order to satisfy!" (Der Bildwart, Filmschau, April 1926, p. 253) . The film week also notes: "[...] [I] n film, one picture follows the other - and in the end you are not divided, no: ten, fifteen."
"Everything is going as it is in life. No exaggeration, reporting as under the heading" Miscellaneous "(Le courier cinématographique, Paris 1926).
Today's ratings
In terms of both form and content, the film is extremely conservative: In mostly static shots and awkwardly threaded interactions, social upheavals are described as blows of fate or consequences of interpersonal resentment. The end then indulges in the blissful resolution of all problems; Conflict resolution at the gazebo level. [...] Finally, the unscrupulous landlady has to leave the field, the new owner promises understanding and generosity.
In this silent early work, Lamprecht uses the example of a house in Berlin to draw the consequences of inflation, which has thrown the entire economic and social system apart. In various episodes, "People with one another" tells about the life of the tenants, showing their existential experiences such as love, happiness and disappointment.
"People among themselves", an episodically structured cross-sectional film, may be a bit clumsy in detail, but one wonders why the cinema today no longer trusts itself to do something like this: not using an individual or a family as the starting point of the story, but a tenement house , i.e. the social organization itself.
Another cross-sectional film is MENSCHEN UNDEREINANDER - EIGHT FILES FROM AN INTERESTING HOUSE (1926) by Gerhard Lamprecht, a film research that is based on a " locus classicus " and thus becomes a model for the specifically Berlin genre of pension films.
While Lamprecht and his screenwriter limited themselves to a certain milieu, that of the "Fifth Estate" in the film "Die Verrufenen", this limitation is abandoned here - with the result of freedom, but also of incoherence, triggered by the accumulation of circumstances and Simultaneities. A conglomerate of human life is created.
New music for the film
The Berlin composer Bernd Schultheis, born in 1964, wrote new music to accompany the film in 2013. It was through the ensemble mosaik and guests on June 30 at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz under the composer live play demonstration. The culture channel ARTE broadcast a recording of this event on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 11:55 p.m.
Web links
- Men with one another in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- People among each other at filmportal.de
- People among each other on Koki-Freiburg.de
- People among each other on Arte.tv
Illustrations
- Stand photo of people among each other
- Stand photo of people among each other : House owner Wwe.Büttner (Erika Glässner) at the Rudloff jeweler (Eduard Rothauser)
- Stand photo from "People among themselves" with Aud Egede Nissen
- Gerhard Lamprecht explains a scene from "People Among Each Other " to the actress Hermine Sterler
literature
- Antti Alanen: PEOPLE EACH OTHER. Eight acts from a not uninteresting rental house , in: Film Diary October 10, 2013
- Martin Baumeister, Moritz Föllmer, Philipp Müller (eds.): The art of history: historiography, aesthetics, narration. Edition illustrated. Length 398 pages. Göttingen, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009. ISBN 3525363842 .
- Herbert Birett: Silent film music. A collection of materials. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin, Berlin 1970.
- Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film. Munich: edition text + kritik. ISBN 978-3-86916-222-5
- Peter Boeger: Architecture of the movie theaters in Berlin - buildings and projects 1919–1930. Berlin: Willmuth Arenhövel, cop. 1993. ISBN 3922912281
- Günther Dahlke u. Günter Karl: German feature films from the beginning to 1933. Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 1993. Here: p. 350
- Walter Gasperi: "Berliner Milieufilme" by Gerhard Lamprecht, at: artCore, February 28, 2013, ( Online )
- Wolfgang Jacobsen: Time and World - Gerhard Lamprecht and his films. Munich: edition text + kritik, 2013
- Claus Löser: Gerhard Lamprecht. On the ups and downs of the "Milljöh", in: Berliner Zeitung of June 26, 2013, ( online )
- Otto Nagel: Heinrich Zille - Life and Creation. Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 1968.
- Detlev JK Peukert: The Weimar Republic. Years of crisis in classical modernism. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 1987 (= edition suhrkamp 1282)
- Gerd-Peter Rutz: Representations of film in literary fictions of the twenties and thirties (= volume 8 of contributions to media aesthetics and media history) LIT Verlag Münster, 2000, 357 pages, ISBN 3825843424
- Ralf Schenk: The Haunted Pioneers of Weißensee, in: Berliner Zeitung from November 20, 2013, ( Online )
- Bärbel Schrader u. Jürgen Schebera: The "golden" twenties: Art and culture of the Weimar Republic. Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Vienna, Cologne, Graz 1987.
- Stephanie Singh: Berlin - The green travel guide (= Michelin: The green travel guide, publisher: Susanne Böttcher). Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2007, 320 pages, ISBN 3834289892
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Dahlke-Karl p. 342
- ↑ cf. anonymus in tv.heute.at: "Gerhard Lamprecht worked with Zille for the first time for the film Die Verrufenen , which was based on Zille's stories from the milieu. The successful collaboration was followed by two other films that are also Zille-inspired: Die Illegitimate and human among each other , both from 1926. Together they result in a cinematic trilogy by Lamprecht, in which he dedicates himself to social grievances and social issues " ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , also tv-tip: “During the filming of" Die Unehelichen "and" Menschen inter hide "(both 1926) Lamprecht worked again with Zille."
- ↑ cf. anonymus in tv.heute.at: "... the" Milljöh "films by Gerhard Lamprechts, which were made under the advice of the artist Heinrich Zille, so that they are also referred to as" Zillefilme "" ( Memento of the original from December 3rd 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. Singh, p. 46, and Rutz, p. 192 f.
- ↑ cf. Baumeister-Föllmer-Müller p. 333 f.
- ↑ cf. cinegraph.de and digitour.de
- ↑ cf. cinegraph.de
- ↑ cf. allocine.fr
- ↑ with 995 seats after the “Ufa-Palast am Zoo” the second largest cinema in Berlin, cf. Boeger 1993
- ↑ cf. Birett p. 124 for B 12 648, VIII 819 (T)
- ↑ Berlin stock exchange Courier, April 4, 1926
- ^ Reichsfilmblatt, April 3, 1926, p. 11
- ^ German Film Week, April 23, 1926, p. 17.
- ^ Die Filmwoche, April 14, 1926, p. 372, cited above. to: ARTE website silent film on ARTE
- ↑ cit. to koki.freiburg.de
- ^ Claus Löser in BZ June 26, 2013
- ↑ prisma.de: People among each other
- ↑ Lukas Foerstner in taz.de on June 27, 2013
- ↑ afk-filmkreis Karlsruhe, winter semester 97/98
- ↑ so Wolfgang Jacobsen: Time and World - Gerhard Lamprecht and his films. Munich: edition text + kritik, 2013
- ↑ cf. Musikverlag Ries & Erler, rieserler.de ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. ensemble-mosaik.de
- ↑ cf. Filmspotting: "The film music composed by Bernd Schultheis for Ensemble provides a musical interpretation of that era. Under his direction, the ensemble will accompany mosaik and guests on June 30th in the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at 6pm ..." ( Memento des Originals from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as well as volksbuehne-berlin.de ( memento of the original from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
