Fathers alone at home: Gerd
| Episode in the Fathers Home Alone series | |
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| Original title | Gerd |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 |
| First broadcast | September 13, 2019 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Jan Martin Scharf |
| script |
Arne Nolting , Jan Martin Scharf |
| production | Stephan Bechtle |
| music |
Hansjörg Kohli , Nikolaus Glowna , Ludwig Eckmann |
| camera | Markus Eckert |
| cut | Ulrike Leipold |
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Gerd is a German television film directed by Jan Martin Scharf from 2019 . It is the first of the four episodes of the mini-series Fathers Alone at Home , in which four fathers from Wuppertal who are overwhelmed in different ways are the focus. In the respective episode, which bears the first name of the respective father, the life of this troubled father is illuminated. Gerd , played by Peter Lohmeyer , is introduced as the first father . His partner Michaela is played by Christina Große . Gerd's friends play leading roles, played by Tim Oliver Schultz , David Rott and Tobias van Dieken . Felicitas Woll can be seen as the doctor Judith Lanius, Lilli Ogaj , Lorna zu Solms and Zoe Moore are Laura, Nele and Lucy, Gerd's daughters, whom he has with three different women.
Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf resorted to the Australian horizontally narrated series House Husbands , which ran over five seasons, to create the script . They would have been based on 'House Husband' , but built the stories dramatically differently.
action
Gerd Frick, a passionate house renovator, owns a small craft business and has three daughters of three different women. He has given his partner Michaela the promise that as soon as their daughter Laura starts school, he will take care of the child so that Michaela can return to her job as a nurse. Gerd has proposed marriage to Michaela more than once, but she never accepted. She has assured him that she will finally accept his application if he fulfills his job as a responsible father and prudent householder to her satisfaction. Michaela suggests that Gerd sell his small business, which is no longer doing so well anyway. So he should give up everything, says Gerd. Exactly what I've been doing over the past few years, replies Michaela.
On the very first day of school, an incident occurs that excites the mothers of the children concerned. Gerd leaves the car key to his daughter Laura, who then, unsupervised, invites other children into her father's car and causes a rear-end collision in the schoolyard. The headmistress summons Gerd and his friends, but can't do anything with their crude arguments and gives up in resignation. Another unpleasant surprise awaits Gerd at home, Michaela lets him know that she would rather not marry him, that he has already ruined two marriages and she does not want to be the third on the list of failed relationships.
Other worries plague Gerd's new friend Timo Savona, whose relationship with his wife Nicki has failed. She is with his manager now. Timo was a professional soccer player. However, the couple have three children together, the twins Tom and Louis and little Lilly, who they continue to look after together. When Lilly was with him, her cuddly bunny, without whom she cannot fall asleep, got lost. Now Timo is looking for him. Gerd helps him get it back. Nicki is impressed when he stands in front of her door with the rabbit.
Gerd gets to know the realtor Renate Maurer, who shakes him with regard to his decision to only take care of the household and the child. And then his 17-year-old daughter Nele, whom he thinks is in Australia, is standing in front of the door and is heavily pregnant. When Gerd tries to tackle the father of Nele's child, he comes across a disturbed minor who has been abandoned by Nele and whom she only used because his older brother Lukas was not interested in her. Since Nele does not want to go to her mother, Gerd prepares the garden house for her, in which she can stay with Michaela's consent at least until her child is born.
When Gerd invites Michaela to dinner and to the opera, although he himself finds opera rather tiring, she is pleasantly surprised. She is even more surprised when they stand in front of the closed building, but still find entrance. Timo, Mark and Andreas are already in the theater, with whom Gerd hatched this surprise for Michaela. Gerd speaks to Michaela from the stage and tells her very eloquently how much she means to him, only to fall on her knees in the end and ask her again whether she wants to be his wife. Michaela is deeply touched and this time her answer is "yes".
production
Production notes, publication
The first episode, entitled Gerd , was filmed from October 8 to December 7, 2018 at locations in Cologne and Wuppertal . Wuppertal's landmark, the suspension railway , can also be seen several times in the film . The film was also shot at the Mainzer Strasse primary school in Cologne. Bavaria Fiction GmbH was responsible for the production and made the film for the first on behalf of ARD-Degeto and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln. The responsible editors at WDR were Claudia Bach and Corinna Liedtke , the responsible editor at Degeto Film was Stefan Kruppa.
The film was first broadcast on September 13, 2019 in the ARD Das Erste program .
background
When asked what went through his head when he read the script for 'Gerd' , Peter Lohmeyer replied that he liked the fact that it was “intelligently written” and that “something concerns him”. He “also liked the humor”. When asked whether he had looked at the Australian model, Lohmeyer said that he had “deliberately kept his hands off” and said to himself: “I'll look at it afterwards.” In his figure, “a lot of Peter Lohmeyer is in”. The fact that he is a multiple father himself helps of course. When asked about the filming, he replied that in this case “they were all good guys” and that “they were a lot of fun working with them. So much fun that you definitely want to make a fourth film. With 'Fathers Alone at Home', “a really good group came together”. Christina Große said she was attracted by the lightness of the material.
When Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf were asked what they could have adopted from the Australian model, Scharf replied, "The characters, the character constellations, and above all the friendship between these very different fathers". The events and adventures that they had together were then condensed into three films so far and, above all, one made one and focused on one of these fathers for each film and shed light on his story - and also his relationship history. Nolting added that this means that every film works on its own. Nevertheless, he recommends watching all films in the order in which they are shown. Basically, it is of course good if there is already a template, but you still have to make it your own, also with regard to the cultural differences. In the writing process, your own handwriting will prevail at some point, so that the starting material is then “a kind of trampoline” that “shot us into the creative process”. It starts with the fact that the story, which takes place in an Australian suburb, has now been moved to Wuppertal, and everyday school life in Australia is also very different from the German one. When asked that the two of them had been a team for a long time, Nolting and Scharf confirmed that they had actually done the vast majority of projects together for 20 years.
reception
Audience rating
The film was viewed by 3.42 million viewers when it was first broadcast, and its market share was 13.2 percent.
criticism
TV Spielfilm pointed a thumb up and wrote that “only the suspension railway” was “lifted” here, because the German version of an Australian series that was made in Wuppertal captivates with the “beautifully grounded, sometimes absurd [n ] Humor ".
Tom Heise said in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the film “with a wink to the music of Johnny Cash turns gender stereotypes upside down and questions existing role thinking”. The comedy certainly offers the viewer an “added value”, “one or the other” will “find themselves in some situations despite the ironic exaggeration. The ensemble, which is well worth seeing, to which Felicitas Woll belongs, takes “its characters seriously”.
In the television magazine Prisma , Wilfried Geldner pointed out that “a lot of speed was pushed from the start”. “Completely against the intention, expressed by Peter Lohmeyer, for example, not to 'play' too much and possibly want to be funny”, is “a lot of theatricality, with gestures, looks, catchy voices”. Sometimes one thinks, "not least when it comes to looking for a lost plush-eared rabbit in the Wuppertal suspension railway, Til Schweiger hovers over it all". That fluctuates "a little too much between comedy and drama". The little drama in the film with the pregnant daughter was praised. That is a small film in the film, which also produces the most beautiful pictures when father and daughter sit in the huge herbaceous field over which the daughter has just wanted to flee, and confess their lives. At last there are scenes beyond vigorous comedy and fake tearfulness.
Rainer Tittelbach dealt with the film on his page tittelbach.tv , which he gave 4.5 out of 6 possible stars, and summarized: “Being a househusband in 'Fathers alone at home' doesn't mean being the man in the house. Because it is mostly the women who have the say in the humorous multi-part series […] - although the men are the focus of these Friday evening films. They see it similarly and take it with a smile: 'We wait for the woman we love and she'll tell us what to do.' Yes, it's about the famous gender stereotypes. In doing so, Arne Nolting [...] and Jan Martin Scharf [...] have a focus on everyday life and how to cope with it; The whole thing is told accordingly lightly and loosely, although without too much depth, but also without false message bohei and without artificial dramatization. The staging is also fluid and brisk, with ellipses at the right time and good comedic timing. The cast is - in the starting episodes - exquisite, only the brighter-than-bright illumination is a bit annoying. "Peter Lohmeyer gives Gerd" as usual cool & casual ". The partners also have “class”, explains Tittelbach, “Christina Große” puts on “a smile that even the greatest macho has to give in”.
Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film on the evangelisch.de website . “Thanks to the warm colors, the pleasing music […] and a selection of songs appropriate to Gerd's age (Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd , Neil Young )”, the film “spreads a very positive attitude towards life. In addition to the basic idea of simply reversing typical role stereotypes, it is worth seeing, "not least the excellently composed ensemble". The “good performances of the adult actors” are “not surprising, but the young actors also fit in perfectly, above all Lorna zu Solms, who does her job very well”. “Similarly worth seeing” is “Yasemin Cetinkaya as the very youthful mother of three of Timo's children”.
Web links
- Fathers alone at home: Gerd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fathers alone at home: Gerd at crew united
- Fathers alone at home 1. Gerd see page fernsehserien.de
- Turned off: "Fathers alone at home" (AT) - ARD Degeto / WDR see page degeto.de
- Fathers alone at home: Gerd picture gallery on daserste.de
- Fathers alone at home: Gerd full film in the ARD media library (available up to and including March 13, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jan Martin Scharf (script and direction) and Arne Nolting (book) in conversation see page daserste.de
- ↑ For filming at the Mainzer Straße primary school, see the page on meinuedstadt.de
- ↑ Fathers alone at home: Gerd at crew united
- ↑ Peter Lohmeyer in conversation see page daserste.de
- ↑ Christina Große in a short interview see page daserste.de
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Multi-part series “Fathers alone at home - Gerd / Mark”. Peter Lohmeyer, David Rott, Grosse, Scharf / Nolting. Housekeepers stick together see page tittelbach.tv . Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ Fathers alone at home: Gerd see page tvspielfilm.de (including 14 film images). Retrieved February 24, 2020.
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↑ Tom Heise: Comedy series "Fathers alone at home" with Peter Lohmeyer
In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 13, 2019. Accessed on February 24, 2020. -
↑ Wilfried Geldner: Fathers alone at home: Gerd. Before the wedding, the women sweat,
see page prisma.de. Retrieved February 24, 2020. - ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: TV tip: "Fathers alone at home: Gerd" (ARD) see page evangelisch.de, September 13, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2020.