Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland

  • Matthias Habich: Victor Klemperer
  • Dagmar Manzel: Eva Klemperer
  • Helmut Stauss: Harry Dember
  • Teresa Harder: Agnes Dember
  • Hildegard Alex: Woman Libeskind
  • Ignaz Kirchner: Mr. Libeskind
  • Kathrin Angerer: Lore Libeskind
  • Rolf Hoppe: Grandpa Findeisen
  • Michael Child: Müller
  • Kevin Leisner: Benno
  • Roman Remer: Benno
  • Rudolf Wessely: Professor Abendroth
  • Dieter Vienna: Dean Best
  • Esther Esche: Sonja
  • Nicole Heesters: Dr. Anne Marie Euler
  • Hans -Peter Korff: Professor Henry Feller
  • Carmen - Maja Antoni: Sister Dost
  • Michael Habeck: driving instructor
  • Lisa Martinek: Eva Theissig
  • Gerhard Olschewski: minister Dost
  • Fabian Busch: Friedhelm Pichelott
  • Gudrun Gabriel: Woman Pichelott
  • Heinrich Giskes: Herrenberg son
  • Tilo Prückner: Weinstein
  • Katrin Sass: Hermione Kraithaim
  • Simone from Zglinicki: Woman fruit man
  • Julia Hunter: Carlotta Stauffer
  • Gerd Preusche: Robert Stauffer
  • Laura Tonke: Judith Kraithaim
  • Peter Prager: Mr. Kraithaim
  • Michael Kruse: 1 leather jacket
  • Tom Wiesner: 2 leather coat

Klemperer - Life in Germany is a twelve-part German TV series from 1999 you was directed by Kai Wessel and Andreas Kleinert from a screenplay by Peter Steinbach. .

The series dealt with in its twelve consecutive parts with a total running length of 650 minutes, the story of writer and literary scholar Victor Klemperer during the dictatorship of National Socialism. The template for the script were Klemperer's only in the 1990's posthumously published diaries, in which he documented the increasing marginalization and disenfranchisement of the Jews under the Nazi regime as a daily experience using the example of his own person and their personal environments.

Action

Victor Klemperer, a German Jewish descent, iat professor at the Technical University of Dresden, but with the rise of Hitler is forbidden him to continue to teach at the university. Despite the intensification of the repression Klemperer tries to continue his life. Together with his wife he holds fast to his dream of a house. But gradually his property was confiscated, and he must draw in a so-called "Jewish house". Klemperer observed the changes caused by the influence of the Nazis in the German language. His observations he wrote down in his diaries. Victor Klemperer manages to survive. After the war he published his linguistic observations.

Background

The series was produced from the MDR in cooperation with the Konken Studios and Studio Babelsberg. The cost of production amounted to 20 million DM was shot in Dresden and Prague. The plot of the series follows the diaries of Victor Klemperer's that have been edited for the film by screenwriters Peter Steinbach. So the movie plot was changed by fictitious episodes Steinbach.

The television series was rated by the FSK as " aged 12 years ". It was first broadcast on Das Erste 1999. The ARD wanted to reach a mass audience with the series. The series, however, only managed 2.7 million viewers per episode. Nevertheless, the television production has since been repeatedly broadcast in Germany. In Finland, the series has been sent.

In 2000, Dagmar Manzel received the German Television Award for her performance in the series.

The 2010 series was released on DVD.

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Criticism

Nicholas of Festenberg praised the film in the mirror with the words: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer Jewish professor about his persecution by the Nazis, the ARD convincingly translated into the language of modern television. [ ... ] The twelve Klemperer movies are one of the great moments of television [ ... ]

But in the time criticized Andreas Kilb: That " witness " that the German Jew Klemperer wanted to drop by his need [ ... ], in Steinbach mere partial view in a colorful picture- Nazi country. As he assumes the perspective of the omniscient narrator, Steinbach cheat us about the individual truth, the voice and the look of diarist Klemperer. This popularization is to infamy when Steinbach Klemperer's life embellish to make it edible, such as the affair of the professor with a blonde Exstudentin. With the pressure of the quota such distortions are no longer justified. Downgrade a unique document of survival under the barbarity to another chapter in the long history of Schunds. [ ... ] This series takes off no testimony. It is just bad.

Media

  • DVD: Klemperer - Life in Germany - PIDAX film- media Ltd..
  • Music: Klemperer - Life in Germany - Wci
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