WAAhnsinn - The Wackersdorf film

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Movie
Original title WAAhnsinn - The Wackersdorf film
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1986
length 94 minutes
Rod
Director Helge Cramer, Uwe Heitkamp, Michael Herl , Christian A. Wagner
production Uwe Heitkamp, ​​Christian Wagner
music BAP , Udo Lindenberg , Wolfgang Niedecken , Rio Reiser , Herbert Grönemeyer , Haindling , Biermösl Blosn , Wolf Maahn , Die Toten Hosen , Purple Schulz

WAAhnsinn - The Wackersdorf-Film is a German documentary from 1986. The music documentary was created as part of the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival in Burglengenfeld . It was financed by the Upper Palatinate citizens' groups working together against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant . All those involved waived their wages and fees.

After its completion, the film ran at several film festivals. It was recognized as the best socially critical film at the Alpinale . A much more extensive video reconstruction of the entire material created by Helge Cramer in 1987 was also shown at several festivals under the title Waahnrock .

content

The film reports on the fifth Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival , which took place in Burglengenfeld on July 26th and 27th, 1986, just 90 days after the Chernobyl disaster . The festival marked the climax of the public protests against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant . With around 100,000 to 120,000 visitors, it was the largest rock concert in German history to date.

Artists included BAP , Udo Lindenberg , Wolfgang Niedecken , Rio Reiser , Herbert Grönemeyer , Haindling , Biermösl Blosn , Wolf Maahn and Die Toten Hosen . The film focuses on the performances of the musicians, but also traces the environment in which the event took place.

production

From the beginning, the production was designed for the cooperation and parallel work of the directors involved. The planning provided that Wagner, who was working in the vicinity of the Rockpalast at the time, was responsible for recording the stage show, while journalist Heitkamp first documented the structure of the festival and later filmed the events in the backstage area. Cramer documented the large-scale operation of the police, prepared the material about the protesters and did the editing. The production was shot and edited on U-matic and later transferred to 35mm film for the cinemas .

Festivals

Awards

  • Alpinale (best socially critical film)

Reviews

“The film […] shows images of harassing police checks and those that have been known since Woodstock: Festivaliers in sleeping bags, morning brushing of teeth in the tent camp. And one also thinks that one has known the music since those distant days. Prominent representatives of the direction of 'German rock', which some pop friends horrify, but makes many others happy, are there. Udo Lindenberg, Wolfgang Niedecken and 'Bap', Wolf Maahn and an endless list of German rockers are now playing again in the cinema. Forgive everything, the end justifies the means. "

- Der Spiegel 51/1986

Delusional rock

According to Cramer, Waahnrock was created in 1987 as a video reconstruction of the originally planned film document.

The film was produced by hcfilmprod under the direction of Cramer. The running time of the production is 120 minutes, with it the first video section of the Berlin Film Festival opened its program in 1997 . It continued to run as part of the International Borderland Film Festival in Selb.

Cramer describes the original WAAhnsinn production as a "mega music clip in alibi packaging". From his point of view, the production originally planned as a political documentary was transformed by music director Wagner into an attempt at a German version of the documentary Woodstock . He saw the reason for this in the profitability of the original distributor Delta Filmverleih .

On the impossibility of doing justice to the American model, Cramer later explained in a reminder of the production on his website:

“[...] the main thing was that there was a lack of a film crew and music film director who would have been able to direct a German Woodstock film. Instead, well-behaved Rockpalast live directing […] as you see and see on television every week. The chance to assemble the highly explosive political topic after Chernobyl and the unique commitment of the assembled German rock elite against the atomic WA madness with the existing film and sound material into a political rock film was wasted with a fixed glance at the box office. "

- Helge Cramer

For his version, Cramer used, among other things, a sound track not used by Wagner. This contains the complete original sound, which is crucial for an authentic representation of the events beyond the stage . Cramer describes this as a "montage of police radio, crazy politician statements and state-supporting radio news and comments, which, in grotesque contradiction to the film images from the Upper Palatinate, rambled about an alleged threat to the rule of law by thousands upon thousands of violent nuclear opponents." Minutes of additional material that sheds light on the contacts between protesters and the police and the context of the event.

literature

  • Mike Allnut, Michael Herl (eds.): WAAhnsinn: The Wackersdorf film. The film images, songs, texts, speeches, interviews, documents. Noerdlingen 1986

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Incredibly quiet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1987 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c d WAAhnsinn in the cinema . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1987 ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b c d Waahnsinn - The Wackersdorf Film (1986) Delta Filmverleih. (No longer available online.) In: cramerfilm.de. Helge Cramer, archived from the original on November 11, 2007 ; Retrieved September 24, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cramerfilm.de
  4. ^ New German Films 1987. WAAhnsinn - The Wackersdorf film. In: Internet pages of the Berlinale . Retrieved September 20, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b c d WAAhnsinn - A mega music clip in alibi packaging. (No longer available online.) In: cramerfilm.de. Helge Cramer, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 22, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / cramerfilm.de