Rosenthaler Strasse 51
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Rosenthaler Strasse 51 |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 18 minutes |
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| Director |
Günter Kotte Heiner New Year's Eve |
| script | Günter Kotte Heiner New Year's Eve |
| production | DEFA studio for documentary films |
| camera | Heiner Sylvester |
| cut | Karin Schöning |
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Rosenthaler Straße 51 is a documentary film from DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Günter Kotte and Heiner Sylvester from 1977.
action
A look out of the window of an old building shows the snow-covered Rosenthaler Straße from the corner of Linienstraße and Weinmeisterstraße, past Sophienstraße and Neue Schönhauser Straße, all the way to Hackescher Markt . Many older people go to one of the upper floors, some have to take a break to take part in the rehearsals of the Berlin workers' choir. This building is the house that was used at the time as the cultural center of Berlin's Mitte district . The male and female members of the choir meet in a large room to sing together. The members talk to each other until the choirmaster, who is also older, enters the room and sings the Soviet march “Song of the Red Fliers” with all participants at the beginning of the rehearsal . Then a female choir member steps forward to conduct the also Soviet battle song “ Partisans from Amur ” so that the choir director can better take care of the details of the singing, which he immediately confirms with new instructions to the choir.
Now the camera shows a historical b / w group photo of the choir of the KJVD of the KPD from 1923 and a male choir member, sitting on the windowsill, tells how he found his way to this community back then and that he was a comrade here in the veteran workers' choir from that time met again. His stories are supplemented by photographs of KJVD members, among other things as a hiking group and at a celebration, as well as by historical KPD election posters. The choir rehearsal then continues with the Italian battle song "The Red Guard" from 1920 by the Milan workers.
In the next break the female choir member who previously directed the choir tells why she has become horses shy: the age of five she went in 1907 with her mother for a rally by Berlin-Alt-Treptow , on which also the SPD - councilor Karl Liebknecht spoke. After this speech a march formed , which moved from the Schlesische Strasse to the Schlesisches Tor and suddenly stopped there, as mounted police with bare sabers attacked the demonstrators. The girl was torn from her mother's hand and fell to the ground, and a horse came up to her above her, putting a hoof right next to her head. When she was found by her mother, they both ran down a side street and cried. Since then she has had problems with horses. After this narration, she is shown in her role as treasurer collecting the membership fees from the choir members. Another singer tells how she came to the anti-fascist Young Guard through the KJVD and became a member of the agitprop group. In this group everything happened spontaneously, so it was said, among other things, that a Soviet - Germany must come and that was then demanded on the stage. It was only after a speech by Ernst Thälmann in Leipzig that she was convinced not to act so spontaneously, but to give further considerations beforehand. However , she was only properly trained for the class struggle during her imprisonment , because several experienced comrades were together here.
Before the singer mentioned at the beginning tells about his life again, the choir sings the old German folk song "Ins Heu" from the 18th century with piano accompaniment and some members take the opportunity to dance to this melody. But now “blossom”, as the singer has been called since his time with the KJVD, has his say and he reports on his return to the destroyed Berlin after the Second World War and of his many functions in the FDGB and the SED . The conversations held here are always loosened up by historical photographs. The film concludes with a performance by the choir in front of a large audience with the workers' song Warschavjanka .
Production and publication
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Christiane Hein .
The black and white film Rosenthaler Straße 51 , shot under the working title Choir of Berlin Workers' Veterans , was first shown on February 3, 1977.