Turek tells
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| Original title | Turek tells |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 58 minutes |
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| Director | Richard Cohn-Vossen |
| script | Richard Cohn-Vossen |
| production | DEFA studio for documentary films (KAG: Profil) on behalf of the GDR television |
| camera | Hans-Eberhard Leupold |
| cut | Charlotte Beck |
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Turek told is a documentary film by DEFA Studio for Documentary Films from 1973. It was made for GDR television and directed by Richard Cohn-Vossen .
action
Ludwig Turek's stories begin with his birth, which he can still remember very well. His mother Luise works in the field of the Bertram nursery in Stendal almost until the last minute , gives birth to her son Ludwig right in front of the apartment door , only to go back to work in the field after a few days. There are only two books in the Turek family at this time. The mother has a Bible several hundred years old and the father has the first edition of a book by Karl Marx , which he never read. One day in his childhood several friends of Ludwig came with paper boats and wanted to organize a regatta on the small river in the city. The winner was given a bucket filled with strawberries. But since Ludwig has no paper from which he can build such a boat, he tears three pages out of his father's book, because he knows that his father doesn't read it. Ludwig wins the race and devours all the strawberries without giving anything away. The friends retaliate by telling their father about the three pages torn out. Now there is real trouble at home and the only thing that helps is to escape the expected blows. Since the school holidays are long, Ludwig hires a farmer as a small farmhand and on his return gives his father three marks as an excuse, which means that the damage counts as repaired. However, blows are a completely normal means of education at this time, as Ludwig reports in detail using the example of his teacher.
His next story tells of the First World War in which Ludwig was hired as a soldier and then deserted in 1918 . When he is arrested, he has to move into a bunker in which there is already a dead person and another prisoner has a very high fever. Now he tries to escape from this windowless dungeon by banging on the door with a stool for hours. Two security guards that he was a Polish holding, as he claims to be, get him out there to take him with blows to rest. Although the two guards exhausted themselves completely in the beating, Ludwig was unbearable and was housed in another prison room. From the conversation he can hear that there are only foreigners in the first bunker who cannot eat anything to feed their own rabbits with the bread saved. In the new cell , where he continues to pretend to be a Pole, he can usually get his way until one day he is called to the examining magistrate . Ludwig tells him that he can speak a little broken German and that he actually only came to Germany to work. Two days later, a farmer comes who can employ him to pick him up.
After a short account of the time he was taken prisoner by the Reichswehr and the Freikorps as a member of the Red Ruhr Army and how he was able to free himself from it, the description of his work as a printer in Leipzig begins . With a Tippelbrother Ludwig wants to go to the Walz in the Balkans . But their tour has already come to an end in Leipzig, when the owner of the EA Seemann printing company sees him and learns that he is a book printer, he hires him immediately. Now Ludwig can no longer avoid getting to the Balkans, because if you turn down an offered job, you no longer get any support. After a certain time he gets into trouble with a colleague whom he knocks down as a former boxer . This is a welcome reason for the management of the company to fire the communist Ludwig Turek. Although there are very many unemployed in Germany, the newly married Ludwig is lucky enough to be able to start working as a typesetter for mathematical pages at the largest Leipzig printing company, Otto Spamer . A year later he was employed as a butcher .
One day a comrade from the district leadership of the KPD comes and determines that the Spamer company cell has to provide a workers correspondent . No one volunteers to do so, but Ludwig Turek is unanimously elected as such in a vote, which can be seen as the beginning of his literary work. Since the short articles for the newspaper do not fill him in, he begins to write down his life without knowing what a biography is. He enjoys writing so much that every opportunity is seized. Ludwig is still not aware that he is about to write a biography, he is just writing about his life. Then the day comes when he drives to Berlin with his manuscript to the Malik publishing house . Ludwig hopes to be turned away there, because when the book is printed he will be a writer , therefore an intellectual and they are the greatest enemies of the working class. However, the head of Malik-Verlag Wieland Herzfelde accepts the manuscript and Ludwig even receives an advance payment for it. The title of the book is A Prolet Told and is the brainchild of John Heartfield , who also designed the cover.
production
Turek told was shot by the KAG Profil of the DEFA studio for documentary films as a black and white film and was broadcast for the first time on May 20, 1973 on the first program of GDR television .
The scenario comes from Wolfgang Kohlhaase and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Annerose Richter .
criticism
Mimosa Künzel wrote in the Neue Zeit that the film was amazingly original and that it left nothing to be desired.
Web links
- Turek told in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Turek tells at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mimosa Künzel in the Neue Zeit of May 22, 1973, p. 4.