Readings
Readings - News from the Poison Cabinet ( Readings , English for readings ) was a series of readings with prominent actors, in which from 1999 to 2004 previously unfilmed scripts were presented primarily by young, as yet unknown authors in scenic readings.
The events, organized in the form of tours , took place at theaters and other performance locations in the metropolises of Hamburg , Cologne , Berlin and Munich .
concept
The series launched by the Cologne-based company “Barbarella Entertainment” in 1999 wanted to present unfilmed scripts to the public. For this purpose, mainly well-known actors read, including Götz Otto , Dorkas Kiefer and Renan Demirkan . The actors Dirk Bach , Esther Schweins , Marco Rima , Christian Brückner , Axel Milberg , Wilhelm Wieben , Leslie Malton , Herbert Feuerstein , Max Tidof and Peter Lohmeyer also had regular appearances at the readings . Readings saw itself as a “material exchange where producers, editors, agencies and dramaturges provide their favorite scripts that have not yet been produced”. The subtitle "News from the poison cabinet" indicates that a focus is on substances for which it is usually difficult to find financiers. The organizers state that around a quarter of all scripts presented at readings were at least optioned.
American role model
The script readings in New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe , which took place there from 1994 to 2002 under the title “The Fifth Night”, served as a model for the German readings . The scripts that were presented there and later realized include "Girlfight", "If Lucy Fell" and "Trees Lounge". The magazine epd Film reported on the series for the first time at the beginning of 1999 and thus provided the impetus for the German counterpart: "'Why not here too?' Thought Heike-Melba Fendel from the Barbarella agency, who had read about it in a specialist magazine."
Featured works (selection)
Thorsten Wettcke's script, which was read in Cologne in 1999 under the working title Jonathan 2001, was released in German cinemas in 2001 under the title Ein divine Job with Oliver Korittke and Heike Makatsch . At the presentation at the readings, among others, Martin Armknecht , Niki Greb and Ralf Richter read .
The script The woman who wrote to Dr. Fabian doubted by Andi Rogenhagen found his way to the cinema in 2002 under the same title and later even received a nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize . Also read in front of an audience in Cologne in 1999 by Martin Armknecht, Herbert Feuerstein and others.
The book The Pain of Warriors by Oliver Pautsch , created as a script for an episode film, was partially filmed: The short film On the Couch , which was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Prize in 2001, is a film adaptation of the second episode of the script. With the film actor Peter Lohmeyer, one of the readers of the main characters of the script also plays the main role in the film.
The writers Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel presented a script with the title Brandmal (1998) at the readings . This was inspired by events surrounding the Lübeck arson attack . Although this screenplay was not made into a film, it is one of the three works that were awarded the Screenwriting Prize of the Medienstiftung Schleswig-Holstein , a forerunner of the Schleswig-Holstein Film Prize and the North German Film Prize, in 1998. Among others it read Götz Otto.
The writer Michael Lentz also presented two unfilmed (and to this day unprinted) excursions into the screenwriting subject at the readings: Fette Beute and Dreizehn .
Other authors, some of whom did not always film the read but later works, attracted attention as screenwriters for the first time. They included Susanne Beck , Natja Brunckhorst , Nils Brunkhorst , Renan Demirkan, Mathias Dinter , Michael Ehnert , Stefan Keller , Thomas Knauf , Adnan G. Köse , Chris Kraus , Peter Märthesheimer , Horst Günter Marx , Philipp Moog , Marc Ottiker , Andreas Potulski , Martin Rauhaus , Frank Röth and Gert Schaefer .
Like the youngsters, some established authors such as Fred Breinersdorfer , Uwe Janson , Christoph Fromm , Herbert Reinecker , Margarethe von Trotta and Hanns Zischler also used the script reading to present their material.
Reviews
The film-dienst called the readings “a series of events that is so far unique in Germany.” For the authors, the readings were worth gold. “The chance to get to know what might be a great film in its literary pre-form” put the epd-Film institution in the foreground of its event review. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the series as “a valuable decision-making aid at the interface between the paper stage and a possible film adaptation” : screen sizes who heard of the unique live atmosphere came by on their own to take part.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Calendar may run out on Fifth Night. Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Kai Mihm: “Script readings in New York”, epd film no. 3, 1999, p. 4
- ↑ Sandra Kegel: "Write it again", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 15, 2000, No. 63, p. 49
- ↑ readings press service. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007 ; Retrieved April 6, 2014 .