Mit
Hilfe vom Drehbuch auf Englisch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1982)
Hitler, a Film from Germany
Part 1 The Grail
1 And if I had here in one hand…
2 I think of Germany in the night…
3 Credits
4 When the good old democracy…
5 It was in the good old days of the democratic 20th century…
6 Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to hear about the man whose fault
it all is…
7 Once again. But how…
8 During the last war, when the great Karl Valentin…
9 Sequence of performers
10 So let’s give him and ourselves a chance…
11 But I can’t help it
12 Sometimes he even believed that his will power was switched off…
13 Everyone’s a scoundrel, so am I…
14 …at the entrance to the hell around us…
15 End of Part 1
Part 2 A German Dream
1 Beginning
2 Title
3 And in us…
4 Presentation of people, performers
5 Sometimes I think, what if my name were Ellerkamp, the film projectionist
for the Führer…
6 Just imagine a gathering…
7 Germany must wipe out the stain of Versailles…
8 The earthly, Christian calendar is incorrect…
9 I come from a room in which I had never been before...
10 Imagine a baroque castle…
11 Power does not interest me… (Max Weber)
12 …through the unending depth of the cosmos…
13 We want to celebrate the love of danger (Futurist Manifesto)
14 Here the spiritual sword was forged with which we won our victory…
15 The age must be fulfilled…
16 We live at a critical point in time…
17 Let us recall the great figures…
18 On July 2nd, 1934, I was greeted…
19 Christmas Eve radio broadcast “Silent Night” 12/24/1942
20 Astronomers at the University of California…
21 End of Part 2
Part 3 The End of a Winter’s
Tal
1 Germany will not be lost
2 Title
3 The Grand Inquisitor of the German Reich
4 …never speak about these things
5 Himmler voice-over
6 The train arrived…
7 The diesel doesn’t start up…
8 I can tell you, it is dreadful and horrible for a German person
9 The era of Adolf Hitler…
10 Himmler/masseur
11 Wewelsburg
12 SS group in baroque chamber
13 The city of Aachen no longer exists…
14 The dead are more powerful armies
15 Walls are beautiful…
16 I don’t want to go on…
17 End of Part 3
Part 4 We children of Hell
I declare and proclaim to the world and to posterity…
1 Title
2 In a German landscape (Caspar David Friedrich): Imagine a conversation
3 8mm home movies from Germany: when little Henriette Hoffmann, later
Frau Schirach…
4 Folk festival: it is fear of the great temptor of democracy
5 Vienna 1938: They are unfit for eating, living, fun. In the war,
they were known as the Fritzes.
6 Party rally in the provinces: It was around this time…
7 Home movies from Obersalzberg: And this had to be sacrificed—loyalty
to the old fairytale…
8 Buchenwald: In Thuringia, where the Buchenwald concentration camp…
9 Hitler visits the front lines: When Versailles prohibited us from using
the old munition depots…
10 Berlin: He fulfilled it. East and West face one another…
11 Private footage of barracks: And in May 1945…
12 The war in Russia: And in the street, the old man pulling a small
wagon…
13 Berlin 1945: And imagine old Henriette, today…
14 Hitler as the final perfecter of European history…
15 Air raid radio announcement: Attention, attention, we are bringing
you the following bulletin. The enemy figher squadrons reported…
16 Just once more
17 Obersalzberg today: Memories, relics
18 Victory celebration: and now our main attraction, our saddest show,
big business…
19 Let me talk about lost life
20 After the journey into this world…
21 It is the black mother of our imagination
22 Descend O Night of Love
23 Joy, beautiful spark of the gods…
24 End of Part 4
Tagebuch 5 April:
Margarethe Krieger. Solch ein grausames und trauriges Schicksal. Ich
verstehe nicht die Gründe. “Wir Kinder der Hölle”,
gewiss.
Beste Wünsche,
Michael R Strom
Ludwig,
Requium for a Virgin King
PART 1
Title 1
The Curse 2
A curse also on the descendents 2a?
How Baron Hirschberg falls in disgrace 3
A new look by court hairdresser Hoppe 4
The king loves Varicourt and is crestfallen 5
We go play games with Prince Thurn und Taxis 6
Audience with the king 7
Munich, I hate this city 7a
The bastard Count Holnstein sings the traitor’s song 8
Legends 9
The first time I have seen him in the middle of the night (vor 10)
PHOBIAS: The farmer's wife Anna Vogel told 10
Why a woman ought not to have an affair 11
Battistella 12
His death sentence is presented for the king’s signature 13
I cannot bear it any longer 13a
Sometimes, if I read myself to exhaustion 14
Descend, O night of love 15
The young king is an adorable acquaintance 16
To Richard Wagner—I want to carry you high above the troubles of the
world 17
Descend, O night of love 2 17a
Elizabeth, the empress of Austria, prays for Ludwig 18
Minister von der Pfordten before Ludwig I 19
The most cheerful existence is in art. That is from Brecht or from Goethe. 20
A Sun King from Bavaria. The Virgin King. 21
Dinner for four, or a hunt is a hunt 22
Wax museum 23
I want to withdraw myself from the cursed twilight of hell which wants to pull
me into its atmosphere 24a
Instructions for the fabrication of a sleigh 24b
Ludwig in the studio of the sculptor Elizabeth Ney 25
Brother Otto and the madhouse warden Professor Gudden 26
They will declare you mad and make me king 26a
PART 2
Part 2 I was once upon a time… 1
Nightmare of a dreamking 2
I, Karl May, just now learned… 3
Why don’t you release me at last? 4
Not until Bayreuth 5
Madame Bulyowki remembers 6
More with Madame Bulyowki… 7
Thus art becomes the service and the artist the priest 8
As two historical photos of Ludwig and Kainz develop 9
We are the conscience of the people 10
Wagner is dead. To drown, to sink--unconscious--supreme bliss 11
In Munich, a newspaper editor was sentenced to six months in prison because
he wrote that the king was insane. 12
Prayer of a dreamking 13
I swear and pledge…that the small bed will not be used… 14
Hands no more down there…hugs without kisses 15
Unconscious--supreme bliss 16
The king slaughter 17
While a Götterdämmerung arose, people began to laugh and hiss… 18
The king is dead. Long live the prince regent 19
Once again, the lackey Mayr: What would be we without him? 20
The end of a dreamking 21
Delusion-sense…yearning-addiction…home-sickness 22
Rest in peace 23
Abklärung:
**Teil I, vor 10: der ursprüngliche Text: “Das erste
mal hob i ehm in der Mitten von der Nacht gsegn (vor 10)”—hab ich
ihm gesehen?
**Teil 1, 26a: Otto von Ludwig sprechen, ja?
**Teil 2, 14: ursprüngliches Sinn?: ‘Ich benutze nicht
das kleine Bett’?
**Teil 2, 22: Ich versuchte, die einzelnen Nomina zu übersetzen
Ich hab Kapitelzahlen für Teil 2 angehängt
Tagebuch 1 April:
Ja, jeden Tag is Scherztag über dieses Thema. Spiegel-online (Englisch)
hat oftmals eine unzuverlässige Murdoch-Boulevardzeitungqualität.
Tagebuch 31 März:
Diese sind Margarethe Krieger Zeichnungen (Vorschlaganfall)? Einen ziemlich
unterschiedliche Stil.
Gruss,
Michael R Strom
