Stielke, Heinz, fifteen ...
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| Original title | Stielke, Heinz, fifteen ... |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 99 minutes |
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| Director | Michael May |
| script | Michael Kann Manfred Schmidt (scenario) Andreas Scheinert (dramaturgy) |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal" |
| music | Wolfgang Schoor |
| camera | Günter Haubold |
| cut | Sabine Schmager |
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Stielke, Heinz, fifteen… is a German film adaptation of DEFA by Michael Kann from 1987 based on motifs from the novel Adventurer against the Will of the writer Wolfgang Kellner .
action
Heinz Stielke from Berlin is a fifteen-year-old fanatical Hitler Youth who has just become a Rottenführer when it turns out that his father, who died as an officer and hero in the war, had Jewish ancestors. Because of his Jewish descent, Heinz was thrown out of the grammar school and his former friends avoided him. But Heinz doesn't want to see that he has a non-Aryan past with his appearance and goes to school the next day for a sporting competition. This leads to the final and not non-violent termination of the former friendships with his classmates. On the run from the persecutors, he finds shelter in a garden with an invalid. When his arbor is hit by a bomb, he dies and Heinz has to flee further.
When he got home, he discovered that his mother was killed in the bombing and then went into hiding in a colony of arbors. Here he is picked up by the police. The commissioner feels sorry for the former Rottenführer and sends him to his brother in a Catholic orphanage in Thuringia. On the way he is stopped by an SS man and assigned to an SS elite school for training. He escapes, arrives at the orphanage, but the SS man brings him back and puts him in a labor education camp for young people. A sadistic camp leader and his deputy rule here. Heinz takes this to her bed and he is relieved of the hard work for a long time. She paints a picture of him and the boy thinks it's great love. When a new young man is admitted to the camp, the camp leader is no longer interested in him and drops him. Without their support, he is now beaten up by his fellow prisoners.
Heinz escapes again and is now on his way to a labor camp. He gets to know the girl Gabi and her grandfather and wants to stay with them. When they arrive at the camp, the young people are trained for the last war contingent as the English are already nearby. The SS arrives in the area and arrests several peasants willing to surrender, in order to execute them for hanging up white cloths by hanging them. Heinz fires a bazooka into the farmer's room, which has been rededicated as an office, in which the SS leader dictates the death sentence. The arrested peasants can be freed through the subsequent shooting with the SS. After a short imprisonment with the English, he goes back to Gabi.
production
Stielke, Heinz, fifteen ... was under the working title Stielke, a German boy for the most part in Berlin , Potsdam and the surrounding area from the DEFA group "Johannisthal" on ORWO turned -Color and had on 12 February 1987 at Berlin cinema Colosseum Premiere . Filming locations were u. a. the Burg Eisenhardt in Belzig and the parish church in Berlin.
criticism
Georg Antosch found in the daily newspaper Die Union that there is a lot of imagination in this story, which is difficult to expect for all those on whom the brown years imposed the mass fate of the deceived generation.
Klaus Baschleben wrote in the Neue Zeit that the figure of Heinz suffers from the discrepancy between the adventurous external chain of events and the lack of reflection of the inner world of experience torn from one extreme to the other.
In the Berliner Zeitung , Günter Sobe comes to the conclusion that "some of the station descriptions [...] are embarrassingly pubescent". "So Stielke finds herself in an occult educational institution, which is ruled by a naturally attractive, nymphomaniac Nazis, who introduces her pupils to sacred sado-sexual games."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 583-584 .
Web links
- Stielke, Heinz, fifteen ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stielke, Heinz, fifteen ... at filmportal.de
- Stielke, Heinz, fifteen ... at the DEFA Foundation