Requiem for a romantic woman
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| Original title | Requiem for a romantic woman |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Dagmar Knöpfel |
| script | Dagmar Knöpfel |
| production | Dagmar Knöpfel |
| music | Joschi Schumann |
| camera | Igor Luther |
| cut | Edith Eisensteck |
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Requiem for a Romantic Woman is a German feature film from 1999 .
content
"In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano, the poet of love, its joys and sorrows, stumbled into the most memorable adventure of his life. The woman who threw herself on his neck" with terrible violence "was called Auguste Bussmann - and was almost seventeen years old A scandalous adventure began with all the ingredients - escape from relatives and the scandal, the quick marriage, violent and intense marriage scenes, a daily back and forth between struggle and confrontation, fascination and frustration, compliance and resistance. And the old question: What does the life of a poet look like, how do the lines run between adaptation and rebellion, between bourgeois life and poetic freedom? In the end, the poet is no longer in a particularly good position, it is the woman at his side, Auguste, who is determined to realize in daily life what he and the other romantics demanded in poems, novels, letters? For Auguste life and love should be a kind of P. oesie become. That's what she fights for, that's what she'll die for. At this point her story becomes a requiem for a romantic woman, Auguste was way ahead of her time, among all the hard-hearted, half-poets, among the Arnims and Savignys, the Grimms and the Brentanos, the only real, the only radical romantic - and a 'creature of modernity' of our time today. "
Literary template
" Hans Magnus Enzensberger provided the literary template for this film - that intense biographical book in which, with the help of countless letters and other authentic texts by those involved, he portrayed the life, love and longing of Auguste Bußmann, a work which has seen numerous enthusiastic readers and several editions since its appearance. For the filming of this story by Dagmar Knöpfel he created a treatment based on this book that served as a template for the film. A story from the world of literature, but anything but poetic. Papiernen filmed with all the passion that the material bears witness to. A film that knows how to reproduce German romanticism in all its density, in its enthusiasm, but also in its contradictions, its conflict. An amour fou , which has meanwhile become a permanent fixture of the great German love affairs heard the story of how the great poet Clemens Brentano and the young e Auguste Bussmann , within a few months in the years 1807/1808, tried to live their love with the uncompromisingness, with the full risk of scandal, as the German romantics demanded. And how they ultimately have to fail because of their own demands. In ever new phases of separation and new approaches, love finally turns into a sad mixture of despair, quarreling, rebellion, reluctance, threat ... "
criticism
“Auguste is a defenseless, impetuous, erotic person in every fiber ... while Brentano writes poems about loyalty and feels disturbed by this girl who lives what he sings about in verse ... is among all the new German films Knöpfel's flashback to romanticism is the most modern, because it does not fall into the error that you recognize something just because you see it. "
Awards
- Hessian film award
- Bavarian film award
- Max Ophüls Preis screenplay
- Max Ophüls Prize for Young Actress for Janina Sachau
Book about the film
- Requiem for a romantic woman. 3. Edition. Friedenauer Presse, 1988, ISBN 3-921592-47-X .
- Requiem for a romantic woman. Insel Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-458-33973-6 .
Web links
- Requiem for a Romantic Woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Requiem for a romantic woman at filmportal.de