Theodor Körner (1932)

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Movie
Original title Theodor Körner
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1932
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Carl Boese
script Franz Rauch
production Gabriel Levy
music Werner Schmidt-Boelcke
camera Heinrich Gärtner
cut Else Baum (sound editing)
occupation

and Ferdinand von Alten , Carl Auen , Ernst Benzinger , Julius Brandt , Bernhard Goetzke , Antonie Jaeckel , Philipp Manning , Charles Willy Kayser , Sophie Pagay , Hermann Picha , Karl Platen , Margot Ferra , Margarethe Fass , Max Mendsen , Clementine Plessner , SO Schoening , Hans Wallner , Heinz Wemper , Hedwig Wangel , André Saint-Germain , Willy Kaiser-Heyl

Theodor Körner is a German feature film by Carl Boese from 1932 with Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender in the title role.

action

Prussia at the time of the Napoleonic invasion at the beginning of the 19th century. Large parts of the country have already been occupied by the French. The hesitant and lavish King Friedrich Wilhelm III. seems politically paralyzed. Resistance is stirring among the young patriots, they want to throw the French out of the country. These men also include the aspiring poet and writer Theodor Körner, a member of a Leipzig student union. He wrote glowing, patriotic writings and poems of freedom. Not all of his fellow students share Körner's Sturm und Drang thinking, and Körner even has to duel with one of his opponents. As a result, he was threatened with arrest, and Körner fled to his parents in Dresden. A friend of the Körner family, the diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt, took the young man to Vienna at the request of his parents in order to pull Theodor out of the line of fire and the focus of the French. There the up-and-coming author can not only perform his dramas at the court theater, Körner even meets a young lady with whom he later falls in love. Her name is Toni Adamsberger and she is an actress. Both eventually become engaged to each other.

Their luck only lasted for a short time, because the young grains were drawn back to Prussia. He learned that serious resistance in the form of Freikorps has now formed at home. He desperately wants to follow these men. In Breslau he joins Major Lützow's free corps. Eleonore Prohaska also serves in this regiment, who mingled with the men unrecognized in a soldier's uniform. The young woman quickly falls in love with Körner. During a combat mission, she throws herself in front of his body, bravely, when the enemy shoots him. Eleanor is killed in the process. In the ensuing battles between the Lützowern and the French, the Freikorps fighters are almost completely wiped out. When fighting near fawns, Körner's head is badly injured. Nevertheless, he manages to save himself again to his parents' house in Dresden. Hardly recovered, Theodor Körner rushes to arms again. Even Toni's love cannot stop him from fighting. In Mecklenburg, he definitely wants to join a newly founded volunteer corps. He also writes poems about poems that testify to the troubled times. His last work is called "You sword on my left". In a renewed encounter with the “Welsh hereditary enemy” near Gadebusch , a French bullet hits him fatally.

Production notes

Theodor Körner was created between August 8 and September 12, 1932 in the UFA studios in Berlin-Tempelhof as well as in the vicinity of Falkensee and in Berlin-Spandau (exterior shots). The film had nine acts and was 2,572 meters long. The censors released him on September 29, 1932 for the youth. The premiere took place on October 4, 1932 in the Primus Palast .

Rudolf Walther-Fein was the production manager and was also the artistic director. Walter Tost unit manager . The film structures were made by Walter Reimann . Fritz Seeger provided the sound. Composer Werner Schmidt-Boelcke was also the musical director. A music track was played: “Lützow's wild daring hunt”. Captain a. D. Erich von Gomlicki.

Historical background and interesting facts

Theodor Körner began as a theater poet before he joined the Lützow Free Corps in Breslau . A little later he was killed, not yet 22 years old, in a battle in which the Lützowers were involved with the French.

The scene in which Eleonore Prochaska saves Körner's life with her courageous efforts and dies in the process is pure fiction. Prochaska died just seven weeks after Körner.

Further films

The freedom fighter Körner was the focus of two previous (silent) films:

criticism

“Carl Boese stages this outline of his life from the student period through the Vienna period to the death of his hero in countless individual images. The criticism, however, has disheveled the film 'Theodor Körner': 'Some scenes can only be described as silly, worst of all the one in which Theodor Körner and his bride Toni Adamberger are guests at the Prussian ambassador in Vienna ...' (...) Unfortunately Here, too, the right color has only been found in the final scenes. Toni Adamberger's scream of horror, portrayed by the beautiful Dorothea Wieck at the news of the death of her lover, made the people in the dark movie theater startled (...) Willi Domgraf-Faßbaender gives the hero poise and dreamy sensuality, only he corresponds in mask and Do not play the type of the German hero youth, as our youth imagines Theodor Körner. "

- Oskar Kalbus: On the development of German film art. Part 2: The sound film. Berlin 1935. p. 78

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