GDR writer Walter BAUMERT drafts film THE CHALLENGE

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You bid extensive materials (partly handwritten, but more often typewritten) des GDR writer Walter Baumert (1929-2016).

To premiered in 1986 Film "The Challenge" (about technology, especially microtechnology, microchips, etc.). Director: Achim Huebner. Actor: Joachim Zschocke, Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrike Kunze, Justus Carriere, Gabor Doza, Ursula Werner, Hildegard Alex, Klaus Schleiff, Wolfgang Greese and others First performance: 3. June 1986 (DFF).

There are two folders (altogether 2 cm) thick with newspaper articles on the subject, drafts and explanations about the film, materials on discussions about the film and a thicker folder (3.5 cm thick) with typewritten pages (in the carbon copy) "further versions scenic Material" (only images 1, 34 and 48, each in multiple versions).

About the plot: "dr Markow (Joachim Zschocke), a committed physicist and researcher, can point to a great success: he succeeded in finding a theoretical solution to a problem that many colleagues and he himself had been working on for years. This research result opens up possibilities and consequences of immense importance, which will challenge his research collective with him at the top and the entire company in an exorbitant way. The whole project will also be a race against time. From this point of view, Markov acts with all his might in the conflict-ridden field of tension of this difficult and risky project. In order to advance, he has to surpass himself; the goals envisaged for the production make this absolutely necessary." (Source: online encyclopedia "Television of the GDR").

Weight: into the. 1.6kg

The documents are somewhat disorganized; partly but individual complexes held together by paper clips.

Condition: Pages frequently browned and stained; partly with edge damage. BPlease note also the pictures at the end of the item description!

At the same time, I offer poems and draft novels written by Walter Baumert in my own hand!

Internal note: Baumert

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About Walter Baumert (source: wikipedia):

Walter Baumert (* 19. February 1929 in Erfurt; † 22 September 2016 in Berlin) was a German writer. He primarily wrote screenplays for East German television films.

Life: Walter Baumert came from a Prussian family of civil servants. As a 16-year-old high school student, he volunteered for the Volkssturm, lost his father and family in Posen, was taken prisoner by the Americans and finally found his mother in a village in Eichsfeld. After the revelations in the Nuremberg trials, he lost his youthful ideals and broke with his bourgeois world.

He learned bricklaying in preparation for studying architecture, but studied philosophy from 1952 to 1958 and then worked for East German television. He wrote the screenplays and TV play scenarios for 23 films, some of which were multi-part. The continuation of his socio-critical cycle "Café on the main street" was forbidden in 1976. The planned 12-part series about Friedrich Engels' youth was also put on hold for 10 years until it was reduced to four parts and broadcast in the GDR in 1985 and taken over by the FRG in 1989. The production of the two-part television play "The Challenge" was stopped twice until the film was allowed to be broadcast in 1986 in a greatly abridged and toned-down form. The production of the two-part historical television film "The First Year of Liberation" was completely prohibited. Two books by Baumert appeared at the same time in the GDR and in the Federal Republic.

At 16. June 1961 Walter Baumert receives the Literature Prize of the FDGB from Herbert Warnke in Magdeburg (on the left in the picture)

Literature and Art Awards

Literature Prize of the Free German Trade Union Confederation 1959, 1961

Erich Weinert Medal 1960

Children's and Young People's Book Prize of the Minister for Culture of the GDR 1962

Art Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation 1982 (collectively), 1983, 1987 (collectively)

Main prize of the INTERVISION Plovdiv 1981 (collectively).

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And WEN the devil does not torment .... Children's book publisher Berlin, 1975

Look at the earth. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1981. The Flight of the Falcon. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1981 (two identical editions under different titles)

The investigation. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1985. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1985

Poems from five decades 1945 - 1995. EDITION digital, Pinnow 2012

filmography

1959: The green folder

1960: Love at last sight (according to with Winfried Nonnewitz)

1960: The Avalanche

1961: Honeymoon without a husband (acc. with Hans-Georg Kalb)

1961: The unknown quantity

1961: If you stand by me

1962: The night on the Autobahn

1962: The new slogan (according to with Werner Dworski)

1963: The silver anniversary

1965: Episodes of Happiness, 2 parts

1966: Shadows over Notre-Dame (according to with Herbert Schauer and Otto Bonhoff), 4 parts

1967: For each other, 1. Part: The Constructor 2. Part: The Plant Manager

1968: Secret code B 13, (according to with Armin Müller based on the novel by Eduard Fiker), 4 parts

1968: The Black Rider (according to with Armin Müller), 3 parts

1969: The Lawyer (according to with Otto Bonhoff)

1969: Longing for Sabine, from the cycle "Café on the main street"

1970: Dust and Roses, from the cycle "Café on the Main Street"

1976: A chance for Manuela, from the cycle "Café on the main street"

1976: Farewell to Gabriela, from the cycle "Café on the main street"

1981: The preliminary investigation

1985: Flight of the Falcon, based on the novel "Look at the Earth", 4 parts

1986: The Challenge