Sergeant Schwenke

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Movie
Original title Sergeant Schwenke
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1935
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Carl Froelich
script RA Stemmle , E. Freiherr v. mirror
production Carl Froelich
music Hansom Milde-Meissner
camera Emil Schünemann
cut Gustav Lohse
occupation

also Valy Arnheim , Rudolf Biebrach , Will Kaufmann , Maria Krahn , Anna Müller-Lincke , Hans Paschen , Georg H. Schnell and Leo Sloma .

Oberwachtmeister Schwenke is the title of a German police sound film that Carl Froelich wrote in his own production company Froelich-Film in 1934 based on a screenplay that Robert A. Stemmle and E. Freiherr von Spiegel wrote based on the novel by Hans Joachim von Reitzenstein published in 1933 GmbH in Berlin with Gustav Fröhlich in the title role. At his side you could see Marianne Hoppe and Sybille Schmitz . Emmy Sonnemann , later wife of the National Socialist Reich Commissioner for Aviation , Reich Minister Hermann Göring , took part in a role as the banker's wife .

action

In his neighborhood in Berlin, the young sergeant Schwenke is extremely popular and always welcome. He is charming, friendly and helpful to everyone, which makes the police a crush on many a girl. This is especially true for the flower girl Maria, but Schwenke has her eye on the shy Erna Zuwade. But Erna is involved in dark machinations. The fraudulent Karl Franke uses them to spy on the banker Wenkstern and his foreign currency shoving so that he can blackmail him. Schwenke does track down the banker, but he has no inkling of the blackmail and involvement of Erna.

However, when Erna is found murdered one day because Franke wanted to get rid of the confidante, Schwenke changes from a kind-hearted policeman to a merciless, vengeance-seeking criminal hunter. He doesn't want to rest until he has found the man who is responsible for Erna's death.

(Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation)

background

The shooting lasted from October to December 1934 and took place in the Berlin area and in the Froelich studio in Berlin-Tempelhof. Emil Schünemann was in charge of the camera, Hans Grimm was the sound engineer . The buildings were made by Franz Schroedter , assisted by Walter Haag . The props were managed by Karl Fleschner, make-up artists were Max Patyna and Bruno Cieslewicz . Elise Bollenhagen and Edwin Stempel took care of the cloakroom. Adalbert Quasbarth , Major in the Security Police, gave advice on matters relating to the police . Hugo Froelich , Carl's brother ten years younger, was the unit manager and played a small role as a waiter. The production ran Friedrich Pflugshaupt .

The illustration music was composed by Hansom Milde-Meißner , Willy Richartz wrote the sound film hit “ Girls now are women's choice! ”, For which Klaus S. Richter wrote the text. The song quickly became popular and appeared on the gramophone record several times.

The film was censored on January 12, 1935. Under the number B.38228 he was banned from young people. The premiere took place on January 14, 1935 in Berlin in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo . In Austria the film was shown under the title “The Much Beloved”. The Allied military censorship banned the film from being shown entirely in June 1945.

reception

Joseph Goebbels found Sergeant Schwenke in his diary entry from Monday, January 14, 1935 “very mediocre; Police film with stunt man “[sic]. Wolf von Niebelschütz wrote a review of the film on January 23, 1935 in the Magdeburger Zeitung. P. 7. The German national journalist Adolf Stein glossed the film in the 15th volume of his “Rumpelstiltskin” series.

However, the film, which "sang the praises of the common policeman," proved a box office hit. At the Venice International Film Festival in 1935, “Il poliziotto Schwenke” even competed for the Mussolini Cup ( coppa Mussolini ) as “best foreign film” alongside Werner Hochbaum's “Vorstadtvarieté” and Erich Engels “ ... just a comedian ”.

As in the silent film Asphalt by Joe May gets Gustav Frohlich in sound film Oberwachtmeister Schwenke as a police officer in the investigation of a case in a conflict between love and service conception. Duty wins. He is not allowed to make use of the attraction for the "girls" with which nature has endowed him. "He bravely passes all the requirements that are placed on a patrol officer in the Berlin winter around the turn of the year 1932/33: political unrest, break-ins, car theft, etc."

In his memoirs "War that Times", the main actor Fröhlich describes the character of the Oberwachtmeister as "janz und jar not [...] blown up Hans Dampf in all streets [...] oops, now I'll come and all. . .! No, Schwenke is more of an inconspicuous, brave, efficient, reliable police officer ”.

Under the title Oberwachtmeister Borck , Gerhard Lamprecht shot a remake of the film in 1955 with Gerhard Riedmann in the title role. The cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss had a small role in it as "Toto-Krüger".

literature

  • Friedemann Beyer: More beautiful than death. The life of Sybille Schmitz . Belleville Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-923646-72-0 , pp. 54-55, 83.
  • Gustav Fröhlich: Were the times (= Ullstein books, general series. Volume 22061). Ullstein publishing house, 1989, ISBN 3-548-22061-4 .
  • Alan Goble: The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 3-11-095194-0 .
  • Elke Fröhlich (Ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels. Part 1: Records 1923–1941. Volume 3.1: April 1934 - February 1936. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-598-23730-8 .
  • Hilmar Hoffmann, Walter Schobert (Ed.): Between yesterday and tomorrow. West German post-war film 1946–1962: Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main. Exhibition / films 25.05-30-08.1989. (= Series of publications of the German Film Museum Frankfurt ). Deutsches Filmmuseum, 1989, ISBN 3-88799-025-0 , p. 129.
  • Jürgen Israel, Peter Walther: Muses and Graces in the Mark. Volume 2: A historical dictionary of writers. Lukas Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X .
  • Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme: Film lexicon of the full-length German and German-language sound films after their German premieres. Volume 6, Verlag Klaus-Archiv, 2006, p. 152f.
  • Gabriele Lange: The cinema as a moral institution: social models and the representation of social reality in the feature film of the Third Reich (= Munich studies on modern and modern history. Volume 7). Verlag Peter Lang, 1994, ISBN 3-631-45864-9 , p. 103.
  • Joachim Lindner: Police and criminal prosecution in German crime novels. In: Michael Walter, Harald Kania, Hans-Jörg Albrecht: Everyday conceptions of crime: individual and social significance of images of crime for shaping one's life. (= Current research / Volume 5 of Kölner Schriften zur Kriminologie und Kriminalpolitik. Volume. 11). LIT Verlag Münster, Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6646-7 , pp. 97-98, 104, 113.
  • Michael Schweizer: Wolf v. Niebelschütz, the early work: the journalistic work 1932–1944, the poems, the story "Snow-covered depths" . Dissertation publisher NG-Kopierladen, 1994, ISBN 3-928536-24-9 .
  • Gerd Stein: Adolf Stein alias Rumpelstiltskin: "Hugenbergs Landsknecht" - one of the most powerful German journalists of the 20th century . LIT Verlag Münster, 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12646-7 .
  • Manfred Weihermüller, Heinz Büttner: German National Discography. Discography of German Cabaret. Volume 6, Verlag B. Lotz, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-9805808-7-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Another such sound film, which, also with Stemmle as screenwriter and this time also as director, brought the police in Berlin into the picture, was “Gleisdreieck” from 1936. See Film-Dienst , Volume 43, Issues 9–26, Catholic Film Commission for Germany, 1990, p. 37 and filmportal.de , title of the illustrated Film-Kurier illustrated. at wordpress.com
  2. ^ Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (born October 9, 1885 in Padrojen, district of Insterburg; † May 15, 1965 in Bremen), submarine commander in World War I and writer, was also involved in the scripts for the patriotic sound films “ Morgenrot ”(Gustav Ucicky 1933) and“ Full steam ahead! ” (Carl Froelich 1934), cf. IMDb
  3. ↑ cf. Israel-Walter p. 113 and 229. Goble p. 891. Illustrated title page of the novel, which was first published in sequels in Berliner Illustrirten . at abebooks.com (accessed March 28, 2017)
  4. ↑ cf. cinegraph.de
  5. ↑ on this cf. Wolfgang Curilla: The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939–1945. Verlag Ferd. Schöningh, 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77043-1 , p. 366 and 377.
  6. ↑ cf. Weihermüller-Büttner p. 1570.
  7. ↑ cf. Illustrated film courier. (Vienna) No. 1031, IMDb / releaseinfo
  8. ↑ cf. List of films banned under Allied military censorship.
  9. ↑ Hermann et al., Diaries p. 167.
  10. ↑ cf. Swiss p. 137.
  11. ↑ cf. Gerd Stein: Adolf Stein alias Rumpelstiltskin. 2014, p. 123 to volume 15, gloss 15.
  12. ↑ cf. Lindner in: Walter et al., P. 98; similar to Beyer p. 54: "A film that sings the high song of the German policeman with integrity."
  13. ↑ shown in Germany as "Die Amsel von Lichtental", cf. filmportal.de
  14. ↑ cf. IMDb.com
  15. ↑ Lange p. 103.
  16. ↑ cf. Lindner in: Walter et al., P. 97.
  17. ↑ cf. Merry p. 213.
  18. ↑ s. IMDb and filmportal.de