Sound of Heimat - Germany sings

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Original title Sound of Heimat - Germany sings
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
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Director Arne Birkenstock ,
Jan Tengeler
script Arne Birkenstock,
Jan Tengeler
production Arne Birkenstock,
Thomas Springer,
Helmut G. Weber
camera Marcus Winterbauer
cut Volker Gehrke, Katharina Schmidt
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Sound of Heimat - Deutschland singt is a German documentary produced in 2011/2012 by the Cologne directors Arne Birkenstock ( 12 Tangos , Chandani and their Elephant ) and Jan Tengeler. The cameraman was Marcus Winterbauer, who had already worked on the documentary films Chandani and her elephant, Rhythm Is It! and Full Metal Village ran the camera. Volker Gehrke and Katharina Schmidt were responsible for the editing. The film was produced by the Cologne production companies Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien and Tradewind Pictures in cooperation with WDR and funded by the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation , the Central German Media Fund , the Film Funding Agency , the German Film Funding Fund and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media . It started on September 27th in the distribution of 3Rosen GmbH and ran for almost forty weeks in German cinemas. In June the DVD with the film will be released by "good! Movies", distributed by Indigo . On November 25, 2014, the first TV broadcast of the film took place on WDR television .

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Movie poster "Sound of Heimat - Germany sings"

In the musical documentary film , the New Zealand musician Hayden Chisholm follows the traces of German folk music across Germany. As a stranger with an unobstructed eye and an open ear for the lyrics and melodies of modern and traditional musicians, he encounters a variety of regional customs and activities. The directors Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler also shed light on an ambivalent attitude towards folk music and one's own understanding of home, which is widespread in Germany : topics that have often been forgotten due to past ideologization and the “ideal world” of the Musikantenstadl .

Hayden Chisholm plays, sings and dances carefree with the GewandhausChor in Leipzig , the bar troupe "Singender Elunder" and the hip-hoppers around "BamBam Babylon Bajasch" in Cologne , the yodel teacher Loni Kuisle in the Allgäu , the cellar command and other bands around Bamberg party series “Antistadl”, the sisters of the folk music cabaret Wellküren in Bavaria or the rock singer Bobo in Saxony-Anhalt . It opens up surprising insights into the diversity of contemporary German folk music. In addition, he refutes some prejudices about the alleged dustiness and homeland fuss and shows how much joy Germans can have in music and singing.

Reviews and awards

The jury for the German Record Critics' Prize awarded the film the 2014 annual award as the best music documentary film and justified its decision as follows: "From the Allgäu to the Flensburg Fjord, from Cologne to the Vogtland, the musical cosmopolitan (and saxophonist) Hayden Chisholm traveled to the A trace of German folklore. In the process, he discovered a vital variety of songs and dances. Instead of the trite Musikantenstadl sound, the focus is suddenly on Cologne hip-hop or folk music spiced with rock by the Bamberg Antistadl, romantic art songs perfectly mixed with jazz by the singer Bobo, a yodel course or Ore Mountains songs, which the bandoneon player Rudi Vodel saved from the tribulations of the GDR. Lucullisch filmed, exemplarily documented and characterized by sensitive warmth, “Sound of Heimat” presents itself in twenty stations as an elixir of life. The tradition deformed by National Socialism is not excluded - m In the middle of all its rhythmic colors, the film is reminiscent of the music in the Buchenwald concentration camp in a black and white sequence. Nevertheless: "The thoughts are free." (For the jury: Ludolf Bauche) "

Sound of Heimat started in cinemas nationwide in September 2012 with 20 copies. Below are some reviews of the cinema release:

ttt - title, theses, spirits in the first : “Folk music without German fuss and far away from Musikantenstadl and Co. SOUND OF HEIMAT is a successful documentary thanks to the undisguised gaze of a curious New Zealander. Entertaining, surprising and melancholy - a film about the German soul. "

Spiegel Online assesses an "impressive road trip". The New Zealander Hayden Chisholm whet the appetite for folk songs.

Das Neue Deutschland writes: “At the end of this cleverly and emotionally staged documentary, which draws its beauty not least from Marcus Winterbauer's beguiling landscape shots, Hayden Chisholm believes he has found the“ German Soul ”. Magical melodies, lots of joy and a gentle penchant for melancholy. Homeland? If the place you want to return to, the roots may also be cut. How nice when you can recognize it with your ears. "

In its 37/2012 issue, Filmecho / Filmwoche reported on the “extraordinary documentary” and closed its review with an appeal to the cinema operators: “So 'Sound of Heimat' should by no means be used merely as an intellectual special-interest title for the Sunday matinee , but as a well-narrated and filmed cinema experience. "

In the Tagesspiegel it says: “Just not a folk song, most say. The New Zealander Hayden Chisholm found this so bizarre that he set off with his saxophone through the republic and inquired, curious, naive, unshakable. The stations: a Cologne pub, a yodel course in the Allgäu, the ex-punks from Bamberg's Antistadl, the Leipzig Gewandhaus choir, the bandoneonists from the Erzgebirge, an avant-garde singer, the veterans from Liederjan. German song 'nasty' song: The film does not leave out the political side (Buchenwald, GDR propaganda). Holds against it, puts you in a good mood and, in addition to a wonderfully thin soundtrack, contributes relaxed images of Germany. And now all."

The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: “Hayden Chisholm, who can tour the country as a music tourist free of prejudice, met with neo-folk musicians as well as people who were aware of the ideological abuse of German folk songs in his search for the german soul as an expression of the German soul the concentration camps and in the GDR and about the roots of the alienation of Germans from their musical tradition. "

Sound of Heimat was promoted and supported by the Association of German School Musicians, the Association of German Music Schools , the Federal Association of German Choir Associations and the Federal Association of German Orchestra Associations .

Sound of Heimat was selected as one of 14 documentaries by the German Film Academy for the 2013 German Film Prize . At the Eberswalde International Film Festival (“Provincial”) the film received the audience award in 2013. In 2014, the German Record Critics' Prize awarded Sound of Heimat with the 2014 annual prize as the best music documentary film.

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