Mosch (prose)

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Mosch. A film is a book by Tankred Dorst that appeared in 1980 for the film of the same name by Suhrkamp (edition suhrkamp 1060).

There is a bitter generation conflict on the Wupper .

time and place

The time can be guessed from the context. The currency reform is history and the Marshall Plan is bearing fruit in Germany. So the action takes place around the early 1950s. The action takes place in a soap powder factory in Wuppertal .

action

The young Arno Frühwaldt was taken prisoner after the war . Now he's coming to Wuppertal from the eastern zone. At the side of his aunt, Frau Kapellmann, he is supposed to take over his grandfather's factory. Arno inherited a quarter of the factory. The rest belongs to the aunt. Nevertheless, the young man is addressed as boss by the employees.

But since the grandfather's death - through the war and the currency reform - old Mr. Mosch has been the commercial manager.

Arno has neither a high school diploma nor a real job, but he still wants to get the factory going again. Mr. Mosch is in his way. And Arno needs the money from his aunt. She holds back. In everyday office life there are differences between the two men. Mosch doesn't want to be forced out, because he's been working in the factory for fifty years. The widower stands alone. His son did not come back from the war. When Mosch dies by a stupid mistake, the aunt suddenly wants to hand out money for urgently needed investments. The young man renounces both his aunt's money and the dump, as the soap powder factory is scolded. It looks as if Arno is considering a career in the cabaret "Stichlinge".

Quote

  • "Whoever lives disturbs."

shape

Dorst writes plainly: Mosch is Arno's enemy and Arno “hates the old man”.

The film gets color from the many side stories. Arno's motorcycle companion Gerhard emigrates to Australia. Or the big love story: The mercury girl Billy applies to the company. Arno keeps Billy against Herr Mosch's will and gets into bed with the young lady. Billy can't be told anything at all. At the cabaret "Stichlinge" she hires herself as a set shifter and is annoyed when Arno does not attend the evening performance. Adele and her brother Paul also appear. In an interview with Arno, Paul asserts that he was not a Nazi and tells of an encounter with the real artist Gerhart Hauptmann . The idler Paul works on a special theory of evolution . The appearances of the entrepreneur Kolb, who tells jokes at parties and may want to swallow the soap slime, are amusing.

interpretation

The film “Mosch” should actually be called “Arno”, because Mosch embodies the old, rigid and Arno the new, willing to change. One of Arno's guiding principles, with which he would like to force his adversary Mosch to his knees, is: “We will probably have to change a lot.” In addition, the side stories (see above under Form) revolve more about Arno than about Mosch.

filming

WDR production in 1980: In the above-mentioned film by Tankred Dorst, Marius Müller-Westernhagen played Arno, Valter Taub played Mosch, Sonja Karzau played aunt, Katharina Thalbach played Billy, Ulrich Wildgruber played Paul, Rosel Zech played his sister Adele and Rudolf Voss Mr. Kolb. The book contains several instructive photos from the film (photographer: Peter Pabst).

literature

Used edition

Secondary literature

annotation

  1. ↑ In the 1950s, the eastern zone was called the GDR .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erken bei Arnold, p. 88, right column, last entry
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 523 middle
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 531 middle
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 535, 7. Zvo
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 489, 13. Zvo
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 469, 10. Zvu
  7. ↑ Mosch in the IMDb
  8. ↑ Trailer for the film on YouTube