Christmas at Hoppenstedts

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Movie
Original title Loriot 14 - Christmas at Hoppenstedts
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1997 (material from 1978)
length 25 minutes
Rod
Director Loriot
script Loriot
occupation

Christmas at Hoppenstedts is the title of the fourteenth episode of the television series Loriot in the cut version from 1997 . It is a revision of the sixth episode of the original series Loriot from 1978 shortened to about 25 minutes . Christmas was first broadcast on Hoppenstedts vom Erste on July 29, 1997.

The title corresponds to that of the two main skits of the 1978 series, which are also included in the 1997 series. These are titled “Christmas at Hoppenstedts”, parts 1 and 2, in lists and collections of Loriot's works.

action

In the toy store

Grandpa Hoppenstedt goes to a toy store to buy a Christmas present for his grandchild Dicki. After he was unable to provide the seller with any information about the age or gender of the grandchild (when asked whether the child had a " corner ", he replied indignantly: "My grandchild has everything it needs!"), He recommends it the model kit We build a nuclear power plant, a model of a nuclear power plant to build yourself, which will " puff " if you make a mistake during construction.

Representative Conference

During a conference of vacuum cleaner representatives, Mr Juergens - the only one except the boss who does not have his arm in a cast - calls his wife at home, because she should look up something important in his files. As he nervously taps the phone keys, he accidentally turns on the speaker. Colleagues can overhear how Ms. Juergens - quoting statements from her husband - makes derogatory remarks about her and her wives.

Representative visit

During the preparations for the holidays, Mother Hoppenstedt receives visits from three representatives, all of whom take a seat in her living room. It starts with the wine representative Blümel, who offers her various wines of dubious quality ("tapped and originally corked by Pahlgruber & Sons") for tasting and tasting one sample after the other. The next, vacuum cleaner representative Jürgens, advertises the Heinzelmann suction blower (" Heinzelmann sucks and blows where mummy otherwise only can suck."), A vacuum cleaner that can be operated with just one hand and thus enables hair to be dried at the same time using a dryer hood. However, he fails to operate the device. The insurance agent Schober was the last to join the group and, like his colleague Jürgens, tried Mr Blümel's wine.

The consumption of alcohol has consequences: Mr. Blümel immediately, clearly alcoholically impaired, speaks of "tapped and originally screwed up" and mother Hoppenstedt, previously not at all happy about the unscheduled visit, serves the tipsy round sandwiches and praises them with also slight difficulties in articulation and concentration Independence, which she hopes to gain from her “ yodel diploma ”: “As a woman, I also have the right to be a member ... in society”.

Meanwhile, Dicki watches a man on TV who recites the macabre poem Advent in a cartoon ("[...] In the forester's house kneels by candlelight / the forester in the study / on this wonderful night / she killed the forester [...]").

When, at the end of the sketch, Father Hoppenstedt returns home and is astonished to be introduced to the boozy company, the tipsy Mr. Schober can no longer present his request to him in an orderly manner and Mother Hoppenstedt changes the advertising slogan Mr. Jürgens said, visibly drunk, to “Heinzelmann sucks and blows where Otherwise, mom can only suck. "

Christmas at Hoppenstedts

On Christmas Eve, the Hoppenstedt family tries to agree on the order in which the Christmas program on television, presents and Christmas poems should take place until you can finally make yourself "comfortable" while Grandpa Hoppenstedt whines: "There used to be more tinsel !" And "I want to now have my present! ”. To the disappointment of Mother Hoppenstedt, Dicki's Christmas poem only consists of “Zicke Zacke Hühnerkacke”. Even giving presents to the grandchild is briefly canceled when he recognizes Grandpa Hoppenstedt under the Santa Claus costume, who then demands his gift again.

While the presents are being given, the family is drowned in a flood of wrapping paper. Father Hoppenstedt unpacks one tie after the other, while Grandpa Hoppenstedt can look forward to a record player. Immediately to the protest of the family, he put on his favorite record with the Helenenmarsch .

Father Hoppenstedt is now setting up Dicki's Christmas present to the delight of mother Hoppenstedt, while Dicki himself sits silently in the corner. As hoped, the nuclear power plant makes a “puff”, but it tears a hole in the floor, which causes displeasure among the neighbors living under the Hoppenstedts. While father and mother Hoppenstedt put away the wrapping paper, Grandpa Hoppenstedt marches through the living room to the march music and stumbles into the hole in the floor.

When the Hoppenstedt couple wanted to discard their wrapping paper inconspicuously in the hallway, it was drowned in the avalanche of wrapping paper that the neighbors had already left in the hallway. An older man in a Santa hat appears and asks if a Santa Claus is still needed.

sequence

The Christmas episode was first broadcast on July 29, 1997 under the title Christmas at Hoppenstedts and formed episode 14 of the 1997 series Loriot . This episode with a running time of around 25 minutes includes the following skits and cartoons:

  • In the toy store
  • Representative Conference
  • Representative visit 1
  • Advent
  • Representative visit 2
  • Boys Choir
  • Christmas at Hoppenstedts

The first versions of the animated films Advent and Boys' Choir have already been broadcast in the Cartoon series. In the original version from 1978, the cartoon sketch Family User , which had previously also been shown in cartoon and for which Loriot had drawn a new version , appeared instead of the Choir Boys' cartoon . In addition, there were other skits in this original episode, which are interwoven through allusions and quotations. The full broadcast episode lasted 42 minutes and includes the following skits and cartoons:

Compared to the first version, the shortened new version concentrates more on the references to Christmas. However, due to the tightening, some internal relationships between the sketches were lost. So Ms. Hoppenstedt's declaration that even as a woman she has the right to be an independent member of society is incomprehensible without knowledge of the yodel diploma . The elderly gentleman who said, “Do you need a Santa Claus? I'm a student… ”when running gag runs through the original show, it only appears once at the end of the new version.

Others

  • Just as Dinner for One runs on different television channels in Germany on New Year's Eve , the Loriot episode Christmas at Hoppenstedts is broadcast on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day in the first or third programs .
  • Vacuum cleaner representative Jürgens presented the one-handed operation of the Heinzelmann suction blower in an advertising strategy by demonstrating the device with a plastered right arm. All other representatives of the Heinzelmann company also wear a plaster cast on one arm. As a result of a stage accident, Mr. Juergens' actor, Rudolf Kowalski , actually had a broken arm during the recording. When he informed Loriot about it a few days before shooting began, he rewrote the script accordingly.
  • At the casting for the role of moppeligen child Dicki Hoppenstedt also took Hape Kerkeling part. He was turned down, and Katja Bogdanski got the role.
  • The sentence “There used to be more tinsel”, which Grandpa Hoppenstedt expresses in the sketch, is not protected by German copyright law in the opinion of LG Munich I and OLG Munich because it is “a rather everyday and unimportant sentence”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vicco von Bülow in collaboration with Stefan Lukschy (ed.): Loriot VI . In: Loriot. The full television edition . Warner Home Video 2007, Disc 4. - Television. In: loriot.de. Retrieved June 13, 2014 (section on Loriot VI ).
  2. Loriot 14: Christmas at Hoppenstedts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. Life, work and work of Vicco von Bülow . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2011, ISBN 978-3-86821-298-3 , p. 418 .
  4. Track list from the Loriot DVD box . The complete television edition. Warner Home Entertainment 100005370 (2007)
  5. Wolfgang Kaes : There used to be more tinsel. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn (print and online). December 24, 2015, accessed December 27, 2015 .
  6. Christoph Gunkel: "Dicki, now look annoyed!" Interview with Katja Bogdanski at einestages , December 20, 2018, accessed on the same day.
  7. Press release of the Munich Regional Court I No. 18/2019 and the Munich Higher Regional Court of December 20, 2019 on the decision of the Munich Higher Regional Court - 6 W 927/19 - of August 14, 2019.
  8. Loriot's heiresses are defeated in court: “There used to be more tinsel” is not worth protecting. In: Spiegel Online . December 20, 2019, accessed December 21, 2019 .