Female students - impressions from a university
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Female students - impressions from a university |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Winfried Young |
| script | Winfried Young |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| music | Peter Gotthardt |
| camera |
Wolfgang Dietzel Claus Neumann Horst Organ |
| cut | Charlotte Beck |
| occupation | |
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Erik Veldre : Speaker | |
Female Students - Impressions from a University is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries by Winfried Junge from 1965.
action
The jazz band from the Technical University of Ilmenau plays on the town's market square to invite around 500 future graduated engineers to a special lecture. They have reached halfway through their studies, which lasts eleven semesters . One of her professors summarized the situation during the ceremony with the brief statement: "You are over Berch ".
In the technical sciences the men are almost exclusively among themselves, in Ilmenau only five percent of the students are women. What collapses on her in 11 semesters of study is enormous, as some short film clips from various professors are supposed to show during their lectures. But there is no one sleeping here either and why should technology be an area in which girls have fewer opportunities than boys. Both come from high school with the same qualifications and yet it is a change to have to work on the material largely independently at the university. One girl even claims that high school did not educate people to think independently and logically. But it can be done, because in addition to the assistants , the first assistants and aspirants are already working at the university. But they also find that male students understand many things more easily than female students, even if they sometimes only let it look that way through a certain cheek. However, it is undisputed that the girls grow up with dolls and similar toys in childhood, while the boys here already deal with technical toys. The opinion has even developed at college that girls prefer knitted circuits.
The students also talk about the usual role behavior between the sexes and how this can influence later coexistence. The girls of today want to be understood in a special way, which is not always easy for young men. But even with the joint students, partnerships develop that can develop into marriage. One example is a married couple with a child who was born in Ilmenau. The mother is in the seventh and the father in the ninth semester, not an unusual case, but an exception. They have divided their time so that someone can always take care of the child when the child is not in the crèche and the father does not find anything unusual about sharing the tasks with the mother.
A young woman from the third semester has asked the Vice Rector to de-register . It was only after she said that she wanted to leave that she noticed something about the student services at the university. She has the impression that she will no longer make up for the deficits she has already achieved in her studies. In addition, she is not one of those people for whom residues act as an incentive. When she suggested that she might be downgraded by a year, she replied very dubious. She gives up because her knowledge from high school has been lost in her professional years as a trained partial designer. Now she is advised to become a technical college engineer in evening school.
Production and publication
Female students - impressions from a university was shot as a black and white film under the working title female students . It premiered on June 25, 1965 in front of more than 1,000 "experts" at the Technical University of Ilmenau.
criticism
Manfred Jelenski wrote in the Berliner Zeitung about the film's participation in the XIV. Mannheim International Film Week
“The Volkshochschul jury recommended 'female students' for adult education, but presumptuously usurping the strip for ' Germany ' . The ' Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ' gave it a very positive review under the heading 'A DEFA film was leading' and described it as the most interesting film in the eighth competition series. "
Awards
- 1965: State award: "Valuable"
Web links
- Female students - impressions from a university at filmportal.de
- Female students - impressions from a university on DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 28, 1965, p. 6
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 27, 1965, p. 6
- ↑ Neue Zeit from August 1, 1965, p. 4