“Oh, that could be nice, a little house with a garden …”, so sang Wolfgang Neuss and Wolfgang Müller in 1958 in the comedy “Das Wirtshaus im Spessart”. The two cabaret artists sang their song ironically as a loyal robber duo that longs for cozy bourgeoisie or vice versa. At that time they formulated a wish for German moviegoers in the economic miracle, but today, when Kurt Hoffmann’s film and his two successors keep appearing on TV, it also sounds like a song about the corona situation. Some wish, others already have. A house, for example, or a house too. With a garden, for example, into which you can roll a flat-screen TV with a screen diagonal of at least 85 inches and experience for the hundredth time how Lilo Pulver romps through the “Wirtshaus im Spessart”.
To make the enjoyment perfect, you could afford the beach chair as an open-air TV armchair that is offered in one of these many colorful newspaper supplement advertising brochures. With integrated music center and Bluetooth! With heating and massage function! With LED colored light, built-in hands-free function, “cloth butler” for hanging, return mechanism, tilting technology and a price of, well, wait a minute, there it is: 11,655.00 euros! And the delivery is already there! The hook? A delivery time of eleven weeks. Until then, not only will the real beaches be open again, but also the cinemas. So that this column could also deal with currently starting (and not just announced and immediately postponed) films.
Off to a new life! With Troell
As it is – and again! – a small overview with a subjective selection from the DVD, Bluray and streaming offer. And look there! On Netflix, the film “Here you have your life” by Jan Troell, a Swedish director who is considered equal in his home country to Ingmar Bergman, but unfortunately never became so well known in our country, is not sustainable. Most likely with the films “Die Emigranten” (1971) and “Das neue Land” (1972), a grandiose emigrant saga, brilliantly cast with Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow and Eddie Axberg, whose second part is so completely different America is told as in US westerns. Troell then tried his hand at US cinema, very respectably in “Zandy’s Bride” (1976), but he didn’t feel comfortable there. He went back to Sweden, where he shot the wonderful old work “Die Ewigen Momente der Maria Larsson” (2008), in which a woman discovers a camera and a new life with it.
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