S1 (1913)

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Movie
Original title S1
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1913
length approx. 61 minutes
Rod
Director Urban Gad
script Urban Gad
production Paul Davidson
music Max Jacobs (conductor)
camera Emil Schünemann
Karl Freund
occupation

S1 is a German silent film drama that the Danish director Urban Gad realized in Berlin in 1913 for Paul Davidson's projection group PAGU, based on his own script . The script was based on a play by E. Pagani. Asta Nielsen played the leading female role in the technology spy film .

action

Gertrud, daughter of General von Hessendorf, was just able to persuade her father to take her on a test flight with the new airship. But days later it was shattered on the ground. The experts do not want to be discouraged by the accident. They deliberate on improving the air fleet, bringing into play plans for a new type of airplane developed by a young inventor named Johnson in Copenhagen .

Gertrud is secretly engaged to Count Baldini. But he acts in the interests of an agent ring, for which he is supposed to spy on the new airplane, and uses his bride to get at the plans. He persuades her to introduce him to the inventor and gets him to provide him with copies of the plans for a fee. Gertrud gets caught in the conflict between inclination and loyalty to her fatherland. She notifies her father of the plan, whereupon Baldini withdraws his consent to the marriage: "I will never give my daughter's hand to a secret enemy of my fatherland!" He says (in an intertitle).

Gertrud, vacillating between love of country and loyalty to her lover, finally refuses to flee with Baldini and takes the plans from him again. Her father officially purchases the plans for the flying machine, which will be completed a year later and will be called "S1". The final title “The happiness of the fatherland is the happiness of all” becomes a patriotic apotheosis of Gertrud's private love happiness that has melted away.

background

Newspaper advertisement of the Schauburg in Essen for S 1 from November 22, 1913 with the note "Using the recordings in the Ruhr area"

The shooting took place in August 1913; the outdoor shots were made at the Wanne airfield in the Ruhr area , the studio scenes in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof . The cameramen were Emil Schünemann and Karl Freund . The original cinema music was conducted by Max Jacobs. The orchestra consisted of 20 musicians.

Of the shooting have newsreel obtain recordings; they were used in the half-hour documentary ASTA & "CHARLOTTE" by Paul Hofmann and Heinz Trenczak , which WDR Cologne had produced in 1990.

In S1 you can see the so-called Parseval airship "Charlotte", which was built in 1912 and was actually used as a passenger and advertising airship until 1914.

The police in Berlin had S1 , with the working title Pro patria and the subtitle A mimic drama in 3 acts , on November 3, 1913 and was not approved for young people under No. 13.46. The police in Munich also imposed youth bans under test numbers 11377, 11378 and 11379.

The film was premiered on November 15, 1913 in Essen in the recently opened "giant cinema" Schauburg . In Berlin it started on November 3, 1913 in the Friedrichstrasse UT. The first distribution was the Internationale Film Vertriebs GmbH Berlin. S1 started in Denmark on June 17, 1914.

reception

The film was reviewed in:

  • SLA: D Vol. 13, No. 296.
  • SLA: Image and Film (Rom.) Vol. 3, No. 5.
  • SLA: Photo Stage No. 47, 1913.
  • SLA: Kinematograph No. 347, 1919.
  • SLB: Union Theater Zeitung No. 46, 1913.
  • SLZ: Verbotene Kinematographenbilder No. 100, 1913, p. 114.
  • SLZ: Directory of films run in Germany. Munich 1980 (Munich) No. 347, 1913.
  • SLZ: Directory of films run in Germany. Munich 1980 (Munich) No. 518, 1913.

“An early adventure and espionage film based on a play by E. Pagani, but also a film in which time and what was emerging on the horizon are particularly reflected: S 1 premiered on November 15, 1913. Nine months later the First World War began… ”.

The spy story was announced at the time as follows: “Urban Gad wrote the text for a patriotic drama which is expected to be entitled PRO PATRIA (S 1) and which will be premiered in the giant cinema building of the Schauburg in Essen. A few days ago a small group of actors and representatives of the Projektions-A.-G.-Union, Berlin, came to Wanne airfield to take the necessary recordings. After the Parsevall airship Charlotte was brought out of the hall, the 'flicker box' went into action. "

“This masterpiece is specially designed for the Ruhr area and should revive the fame of the incomparable tragedy and lead to enthusiasm. "(Newspaper advertisement of the Schauburg in Essen for the performance on November 22, 1913)

The film was considered lost for a long time until a copy was rediscovered in Russia in the 1990s and restored by the Federal Archives in Koblenz . The files in the film archive of the Federal Archives under entry no. B 97 691-3 (archive signature 16 271) has a length of 1240 meters.

literature

  • Lynn Abrams: Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany. Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia . Routledge Publishing, London 2002, ISBN 1-134-90254-9 (English).
  • Herbert Birett: Sources on film history 1906–1920 . (kinematographie.de)
  • Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Munich / New York / London / Paris 1980, ISBN 3-598-10067-1 .
  • Hans-Michael Bock: Berlin film studios. A little lexicon. In: Uta Berg-Ganschow, Wolfgang Jacobsen (ed.): … Film… city… cinema… Berlin… . Argon, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87024-105-5 , pp. 177-202.
  • Bernhard Chiari, Matthias Rogg, Wolfgang Schmidt (eds.): War and the military in the film of the 20th century . (= Contributions to military and war history, series of publications by the Military History Research Office , Volume 59). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56716-0 , p. 259.
  • Mathilde Jamin , Lisa Kosok (Ed.): Have fun! Public merrymaking in the Ruhr area at the turn of the century . (Exhibition catalog) Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen 1992, ISBN 3-89355-077-1 .
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors . Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.

Web links

Illustrations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan-Christopher Horak in filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de
  2. ↑ cinegraph.de , Berliner Union Film
  3. ↑ Filmportal.de names Axel Graatkjaer as the cameraman instead of Schünemann .
  4. ^ Text of the Schauburg newspaper advertisement for the premiere on November 22, 1913.
  5. ↑ ASTA & "CHARLOTTE" , BRD 1990, director, book Heinz Trenczak, Paul Hofmann, camera Christel Fomm, editor Christel Mayer, music by Matthieu Hoefnagels (Asta-Nielsen-Walzer), Wolfgang Hamm, speaker: Hildburg Schmidt (Nielsen quotes) , Heinz Trenczak (commentary), production Vis-à-vis Film / Heinz Trenczak on behalf of WDR Cologne, color & b / w, 30 min. Information: Filmarchiv Austria.
  6. ↑ Parseval airships were impact airships (in contrast to the rigid zeppelins), cf. to "PL 12 Charlotte": baptized "Charlotte", built for "Rheinisch-Westfälische Flug- und Sportplatz-Gesellschaft mbH Wanne-Herten", used there for tours. First voyage: May 11, 1912. PL 12 was used as a passenger and advertising airship until 1914. 82 m long, 14 m diameter. Drive: 2 NAG motors with 81 kW (110 PS) each. Gas volume: 8000 m³. Top speed: 48 km / h.
  7. ↑ a b Municipal Cinema Hannover: S1. ( presse-hannover.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ))
  8. ↑ filmportal.de
  9. ↑ GECD # 32699.
  10. ↑ filmarchiv austria on film.at , Lichtburg Essen: “On September 5, 1913, the Projektions-AG Union (PAGU) opened the Schauburg at Viehofer Tor, the largest cinema building in Germany at the time, with 2000 folding chair seats. The Schauburg described itself as a colossus of light games. "
  11. ↑ GECD # 32699.
  12. ↑ UT Friedrichstrasse, No. 180, opened on May 30, 1913, Premierenkino, webloc.de ( Memento from November 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ All data according to GECD # 32699.
  14. ↑ filmarchiv austria on film.at
  15. ↑ bundesarchiv.de