Black Forest Girl (1920)

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Movie
Original title Black Forest girl
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1920
length 6 acts, 1910 meters, at 20 fps approx. 84 minutes
Rod
Director Arthur Wellin
script Robert Heymann
production Max Maschke
music Leon Jessel
camera Ernst Plhak
occupation

Schwarzwaldmädel is the silent film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by August Neidhart and Leon Jessel from 1917, which Arthur Wellin realized three years after its premiere for Luna-Film GmbH in Berlin . The script was written by Robert Heymann based on the libretto by August Neidhart. Uschi Elleot , Carola Toelle's sister , can be seen in the title role . The Domkapellmeister is played by Gustav Charlé , director of the Komische Oper Berlin , where Jesse's operetta was premiered on August 25, 1917. The Berlin tourist Schmußheim embodies the comedian Karl Neisser, known for his "Krause" series .

action

Blasius Römer, an old cathedral music director, falls in love again as secretly as in vain with his young maid, Bärbele. This is because she fell in love with young Hans, who is also the man-mad Malwine from Hagenau after. On the day of the Cäcilienfest, which is celebrated with music and dance, in addition to Malwine, who has followed her Hans, there is also Schmußheim, a tourist from Berlin who annoys everyone with his big mouth. Malwine comforts herself when she notices that Bärbele and Hans are in agreement with his friend Richard. Hans and Bärbele move to the city, but Blasius Römer stays behind and finds solace in his church music.

production

Production notes, background

The original for the film Schwarzwaldmädel was the operetta of the same name in three acts by August Neidhardt with the music by Leon Jessel , which meanwhile “ranks among the standards of operetta literature and with its dramaturgy between the 'homeland operettas' in the succession of the 'bird dealer' and the Berliner Operettas of the 20s and 30s is available. With the Berlin businessman Schmußheim, a figure appears for the first time who can be seen as the model of the manufacturer Giesecke in the White Horse Inn ”.

The film adaptation from 1920 was the first, and there was another silent film adaptation in 1929 by Victor Janson . The first sound film version was shot by Georg Zoch in 1933 . The most famous version, which was made in 1950 as a color film with Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack , is by Hans Deppe .

In the same year, the production of Luna-Film GmbH, Berlin, was subject to the re-introduced Reich film censorship . The film was presented to the test center on June 30, 1920 and was banned from young people under the censorship number 00018.

The German architect and costume designer Else Oppler-Legband , who was born in Nuremberg , created the set. Exterior shots were shot in the Black Forest . Ernst Plhak took care of the photography.

Director Wellin, who had filmed Leo Falls Rose von Stambul with Fritzi Massary in the title role as early as 1917 , did not deliver his next operetta adaptation, The Light Isabell after Robert Gilbert , until 1927.

publication

Schwarzwaldmädel was premiered on July 22nd, 1920 at the Richard Oswald Lichtspiele in Berlin.

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970, p. 145.
  • Herbert Birett: Sources on film history 1920–1931 . List of titles from German silent films, online at kinematographie.de
  • Rebecca Braun, Lyn Marven: Cultural Impact in the German Context: Studies in Transmission, Reception, and Influence . Camden House, Rochester, NY 2010, p. 77.
  • Albrecht Dümling : Léon Jessel. at LexM Hamburg.
  • Albrecht Dümling: Refused home. Léon Jessel (1871–1942), composer of the "Schwarzwaldmädel" . (= Studies and documents on everyday life, persecution and resistance under National Socialism. Volume 1). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86732-127-3 , pp. 97, 176, 192.
  • Klaus Gülker: Black Forest Girl Story . 7-part radio series on SWR4 Radio Südbaden from August 25 to September 1, 2007, cf. Article (online at: swr.de )
  • Florian Odenwald: “The” Nazi struggle against the “un-German” in theater and film: 1920–1945. (= Munich University Writings Theater Studies. Volume 8). Verlag H. Utz, 2006, ISBN 3-8316-0632-3 , pp. 249-250, 437.
  • Hans-Dieter Roser : The Black Forest Girl. Operetta in three acts. In: Program booklet Bühne Baden - Stadttheater Baden near Vienna, September 1, 2010, (online at: operetta-research-center.org )
  • Hans-Dieter Roser: The Jewish anti-Semite Léon Jessel. In: Program booklet Bühne Baden - Stadttheater Baden near Vienna, September 1, 2010, (online at: operetta-research-center.org )
  • Schwarzwaldmädel: Operetta in three acts by Léon Jessel, August Neidhart, Gustav Charlé. Publishing house R. Birnbach, Berlin 1917.
  • Judith Seipold: Film analysis »Das Schwarzwaldmädel« - niche of retreat and visionary of the golden fifties. May 31, 2005, (online at: judith-seipold.de )
  • Katja Uhlenbrok: Music Spectacle Film. A CineGraph book. edition Text + Critique, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-88377-598-3 , pp. 10–11, 161.
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the stage name Elleot is an anagram for her maiden name Toelle, cf. Zglinicki p. 404.
  2. ↑ also Scharle, cf. Dümling p. 175.
  3. ↑ cf. Operetten-Lexikon operetten-lexikon.info
  4. ↑ cf. Felix Bloch Erben felix-bloch-erbe.de
  5. ↑ cf. kinotv.com kinotv.com
  6. ↑ cf. Birett, sources, to B00018 Schwarzwaldmädel 1920. kinematographie.de
  7. ↑ born on December 7, 1888 in Vienna, cameraman, cf. IMDb imdb.com , filmportal filmportal.de , photographed the Rose von Stambul for Arthur Wellin in 1917
  8. ↑ cf. IMDb imdb.com
  9. ↑ cf. cinegraph cinegraph.de : “On September 19, 1919, the former Princess Theater, Kantstrasse 163, is reopened as" Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele ". The 800-seat cinema belongs to Richard Oswald-Lichtspieltheater GmbH. "
  10. ↑ to the “Schwarzwaldmädel” from 1929 with the music of Giuseppe Becce , B 23 928, IX 626