As told you in the 100. Bauhaus-the year this experimental tube of the new art and architecture? Director Lars Kraume resolves the battle of the sexes. Why is it just the inflamed, he explains in a DW interview.
Now you will also get the audience of the festival “Film without borders” in the East of Bad Saarow (29.8.To see -1.9.2019): the series about the “Bauhaus” from Director Lars Kraume. The is a specialist in the history of Film. His cinema of The state of a row “against Fritz Bauer” and “The silent classroom” explored expertly in the past few years, and audience effective two episodes in post-war German history: once West, once East.
The series of culture, the historic Bauhaus anniversary year
Now, therefore, in 1973 in Italy – born, Frankfurt-born German Film and television Director with the cultural-historical theme, 2019 par excellence – 100 years Bauhaus jubilee – set and the early years of the “Bauhaus” in the Format of an exciting and historically insightful series cast. After a screening of the first two parts in the spring when series Festival in Cannes, in front of a specialist audience and the world premiere of all six parts to the Film Festival in Munich, happy now all the spectators on “The New time”.
Riser not only in art – Debbie helmet (Anna Maria Mühe, M.) protested against the Conservative
Just before the broadcast on TV, the Festival in Bad Saarow with the two kick-off will be opened to follow. On other broadcasts, including a foreign television channel, is currently being negotiated. Sure, a demonstration of the series ‘ festival in the Czech city of Brno, at least now. The forecast of “new time” will also be launched in other countries of great interest, is not too bold. The in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, the art school, which then operated under the name “Bauhaus”, was known around the world, and without a doubt belongs to the dominant German cultural heritage.
Lars Kraume: “history of Emancipation was the key”
However, as Lars Kraume has found access to the phenomenon of “Bauhaus”? “I had to think, what really interests me,” admits the Director in an interview with Deutsche Welle. It was then, above all, a subject which gave him access to the “Bauhaus”: “to tell It from the perspective of women. The history of Emancipation, the time went off, that was the key for me.”
Dörte Helm (Anna Maria Mühe) and their friend and fellow student Gunta Stölzl (Valerie Pachner, r.)
Else would come in the course of the Research, added: “of Course do come together in a film is always different motives”, so Kraume. He’s also been working on a “like history, especially our own.” Even in his movies he had always had “great fun”, if it had gone to German history. In addition, he is interested in the “art and architecture”. All of this would come at the Bauhaus together.
“The new time” also offers a melodramatic love story
The focus of Kraumes six-part series, the ratio of Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius (August Diehl, our image is above), and his student, Dörte Helm, which stood near the later famous architect also in private. And as is always the case with historical series and movies, the approach via the fiction of your fabric, is also based “The new times” on many facts, historical research and a part of poetic freedom.
The Couple stands in the center of the series: Walter Gropius and Dörte Helm
“It is just as telling as wearing course”, submit Lars Kraume value on the proportion of historically-documented facts within the series, in addition to the historical debates on architecture and art but also the relationship between the teacher and the student at the centre: “Gropius declared the founding of the Bauhaus, the goal of equality.” The have not kept Gropius, but then “under the pressure of conservative citizenship of Weimar and went all too far,” by.
Walter Gropius fought on several fronts
As the Director of the school of art Walter Gropius was sitting between the chairs. The works in the series very clearly. By the various protagonists firmly-made ideologies and ideas of that time was the formidable aesthetic break for the viewer is to understand: On the one hand, policy and society, of the Gropius – especially financially – dependent was. On the other hand, for the time, radical views of the teachers and the women who conquer began their place in art and architecture.
The Bauhaus teachers have to justify in front of the conservative city fathers of Weimar
“This is a Back-and-Forth in the battle of the sexes, which was interesting – and this is also the core of my narrative,” explains Kraume. The Director also shows how far this “battle of the sexes” was ahead of its time – and to learn to cope with this, once again, a number of setbacks had: Because “this Generation was at the end of the day, of course, but still of the opinion that men were strong and women beautiful sex.” The men at the time had been of the Belief that “women can’t think logically.”
Dörte Helm stand with the Bauhaus at the forefront of the emancipation movement
Anna Maria Mühe embodies impressive, the painter, Dörte Helm. The didn’t want to hold on to at the time, thinking an anchored Role, explains Kraume: “you didn’t want to simply join in, not just accept – and so rumrebelliert long before Gropius and then as the first woman in the class by Oskar Schlemmer (one of the teachers at the Bauhaus, A. d. R.) left.”
Formal bracket of the series: The old Gropius interviewed by the journalist Stine (Trine Dyrholm)
As a narrative staple of the series Kraume is a long Interview that a journalist from 1963 to 80. Birthday of Walter Gropius, in New York with the now-grizzled Star-leading architects. Gropius looks back on the eventful years of the Bauhaus’s founding, remembers the dawn of the Modern age, the struggle between conservative forces and the artistic avant-garde.
In “The new time” is about the Weimar Bauhaus years before the move to Dessau
The Director has directed his attention specially to the founding years of the art and architecture school in 1919, was born in Weimar. As he started to deal with the issue, there was “above all a rough idea of the Bauhaus in Dessau,” says Kraume: “But none at all from the Bauhaus in Weimar, and certainly not of this culture battle that takes place this time, in principle, not only in art but also in politics.”
Lars Kraume at the shooting
And so the series also suggests a bow to the year 2019: “This whole complex, the cultural struggle in the Weimar Republic: The has me interested, in principle, to understand and to see how current it is actually, and today we are still discussing the same things.”
The “Bauhaus” has lost none of its topicality
Director Lars Kraume is shown in the Interview convinced that have changed in the attitude of the people not so much: You have to today, “just go through each Museum for contemporary art and the questioning faces that head-shaking look at people who are still of the opinion that this is not art.” It looks at the time, then you can still feel today, “how up to date the departure of the art and of the avant-garde” at the time, was.