Dorfalltag Weisweil (LFS01335)
Résumé
Description
Pan across a house facade. Sign: 'Schönau / Kenzingen'. Pan across a street to a house that reads 'Baumgärtner Brewery'. Dorfstraße, v.E. Horse-drawn wagon (loaded with hay) on the street, swivel to inn. Village church. People in front of a house that says 'hairdresser'. Horse-drawn vehicles and trucks drive past. Village street. Pan from Bach to a village street, street with old houses. Pan over crumbled house. Horse-drawn wagon loaded with hay. People waiting in front of a house. Pan across house facade with people in the windows. People on the street pull cars across the street. Horse-drawn carriages and modern car (US) on the street. Boy with shouldered spade. People are chatting on the street. Woman sweeps the stairs at the entrance to a house. Water is pumped from a well into a bucket. Woman with child in her arms. Boy in front of a chicken coop. Boy playing on bathtub in a courtyard. Old woman washes laundry in a washing tub. Chicken. Women stand in front of the house entrance. Children on the street. Men saw wood on the street. Horse-drawn cart. Half-timbered house with horse-drawn carriages in front of it. Man hammering a piece of metal. Cart with a tense cow. Man braiding grain stalks. Boy pumps water from a well. / Children on the street. Boy inflates bicycle tires. Boy doing a handstand.
Contexte et analyse
The amateur film uses scenes from village life to show everyday life in Weisweil in southern Baden, the history of which goes back a long way. The Upper Rhine region is still dominated by agriculture to the left and right of the Rhine.
After swiveling over a house facade, he shows signs at a crossroad with the distances to the neighboring towns. The long shot of the mainstreet, where a modern car is parked, is followed by a 180 degree swivel onto a building labeled 'Baumgärtner Brewery' and other side of the mainstreet, where a car is also parked and people are walking, boys are cycling, a couple is standing in front of a house. A woman walks down the street and a very modern car with a U.S. plate on the back comes into view. The filmmakers are guests from America who visit Weisweil and collect impressions. Perhaps their ancestors came from the area because there was a large amount of emigration to the United States in the 19th century. That is why their modern car is so present and contrasts with the traditional village life. So a horse-drawn cart drives past. It is a very moving handheld camera and the cameramen, who will also be seen later in the film, do without a tripod. As a result, the shots are a bit restless and sometimes not properly exposed. A long shot shows the half-timbered houses, electric poles and the village church. The setting in front of a barber shop, in front of which the family is set up and people look out of the windows, seems to be staged. Horse and ox teams and a truck with a trailer drive through the picture. Therefore, the house is taken again from a different perspective, which enables a swivel over the village street, where their car is with the driver's door open. The camera also pans from the stream onto the village street with people and other everyday situations such as a horse-drawn cart loaded with hay. Different generations of a family gather under a cobbler shield. Men from the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in light jackets pull a car by hand. A young man with a spade is wearing the dark RAD uniform. The group is shown again in front of the cobbler shop. An older woman in traditional clothes loosens and goes into her yard, where she starts to sweep.
Water is pumped into a bucket by hand. A young woman with a little boy in her arms are now in the yard. The boy is led by the adults to a tub filled with water; a second child is added. An old woman washes the laundry in the tub. The two Americans watch her. The one in the dark suit photographs and shows two men crouched in the next scene. Three young women stand in a doorway and laugh. A boy eats a piece of cake. Men saw beams, a fully loaded horse-drawn carriage drives past. The two Americans talk about a fence and the German hands them back a camera. The two stage a shot with two horse carriages. The next scenes show men hammering a piece of metal and braiding a rope from stalks of grain. At the end there are pictures of children pumping water and going to school with a teacher. They laugh at the camera.
The film dates from the summer of 1939. The National Socialists have been in power for six years. In September 1939 the Second World War began with the attack by the German Wehrmacht on Poland. The first evacuation of the Weisweiler women and children to Württemberg takes place on September 4th. Their return will take up to six weeks. You can see it's a politically dramatic year. By 1939, two thirds of the approximately 35,000 Jews who had lived in Baden and Württemberg in 1933 had emigrated. On October 22, 1940, Gauleiter Robert Wagner and Josef Bürckel, Gauleiter of the Westmark, initiated the 'Wagner-Bürckel Campaign'. During this campaign, around 6,000 Baden Jews were deported to the Gurs camp in southern France before the actual Holocaust. On May 2, 1940, the second evacuation took place because of the attack on France. On June 15, German troops then crossed the Rhine between Breisach and Weisweil.
The amateur film was shot shortly before the first forced evacuation. The villagers make a carefree impression. They do their job and laugh together. It shows an idyllic country life in a beautiful half-timbered village. Weisweil is known for its wooded floodplain. Today, this is consistently the nature reserve 'Wyhl-Weisweil', with which the old water courses of the Rhine with their partly original flora and fauna should be preserved. Fortunately, massive protests prevented the construction of a nuclear power plant in Wyhl in the 1970s. The area is still used for agriculture. Despite the war being destroyed and the reconstruction altered, the village was able to preserve some of the features of the heap village that was once inhabited by fishermen and farmers, to which the newly built, beautiful half-timbered houses contribute.
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