At the beginning of a word about Georg August Zinn, the Lars Kraume with the long overdue cinematic monument is “The State has failed to Fritz Bauer”. From 1950 to 1969, the Social Democrat tin was Premier of Hessen. He made Titanic for the economic development of its composite parts from disparate state, for a modern educational system and for the integration of hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced persons.
Tin was the Hessian state and father figure, a revered founding figure. And he was a fighter, every trick of conspiracy. In 1933 he rescued a foolhardy action in Kassel on the armor of Republican-Socialist “Reichsbanner” before accessing the Nazis.
When he 1956 his returning from exile Reichsbanner comrades Fritz Bauer for Hessian Attorney General appealed, because it must have been clear that the time of the battle was not over yet, so also in the Wiesbaden Office Villa West German positedness has made wide. During the first visit Bauers hangs there still a Rosa Luxembourg Portrait, later a genre picture of rural life. Götz Schubert plays this man between official dignity and resolute militancy against the brown legacy of the Republic with recognizable respect, yes to love.
Without tin could Bauer his mission, the Germans to confront with the Nazi crimes and thus to justify the German democracy really new, can not meet. He held his hand over him against all attempts brown cliques in the judiciary, the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal, to drive him from office. Beinhart was Zinn there, even if Bauer’s ways are not always met all the formal requirements of law.
Fritz Bauer had a guest performance “in the labyrinth of silence”
After several biographies, documentaries and now the second feature film Fritz Bauer finally the place in the medial view of history, which belongs to it as one of the outstanding figures of the founders of the Federal Republic. Last year he had in Giulio Ricciarellis feature film “In the labyrinth of silence” a few brief appearances, but the very forcefully came because Gert Voss played the Attorney General. It was his last film role. The focus of the young prosecutor Gerhard Wiese stood out of the investigative team, which prepared the great Auschwitz Trial.
Lars Kraume movie “The State has failed to Fritz Bauer” – the meaning of the bulky title reveals itself little – ends with the historical beginning of these investigations. He assumes the role in the focus, the farmers played in the seizure of Adolf Eichmann. Furthermore, little is known. The secret that he gave the Mossad the decisive clue to the whereabouts of the organizer of the “Final Solution”, took the Hessian Attorney General to the grave. Ten years after his death in 1968, first details were known.
The employer respects the rules of conspiracy
There were good reasons for that Bauer did not hang his collaboration with the Mossad from the rooftops. Legally speaking, these were to treason. Bauer would have risked imprisonment if would come out that he cooperated on your own with a foreign intelligence service. His employer knew of tin and preserved the rules of conspiracy.
When you consider what political consciousness shift the Eichmann trial and later great Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial effected, must be stated is that these serious violations of democratic officials more have led to the consolidation of democracy in Germany than any sit-ins of the miracle of 1968, in the Fritz Bauer died, after he had done his duty.
We see him as Burghart Klaußner embodies him. We see him in a cut in the film television sequence from the legendary talk show “Tonight the basement club”. We see no difference. Until the last physiognomic detail and in the intricacies of the Swabian language staining itself Klaußner approaches his character to, a clouded by tobacco smoke and spicy aftershave lonely man who does not live out his homosexuality and not health promoting handling sleeping pills and alcohol cares.
His homosexuality made him vulnerable
because of his homosexuality Bauer was in times when the intensified by the Nazis Clause 175 of the Criminal Code was still in force, vulnerable. His opponent in the film embodied by the BKA man Gebhardt (Jörg Schüttauf) and the Attorney General Kreidler (Sebastian Blomberg) know that farmers in his Danish exile had dealings with prostitutes.
an ally in the judiciary finds Bauer in the young prosecutor Karl Angermann (Ronald Zehrfeld), who helps him in the Eichmann search, but again through its own Homosexuality is blackmail. In this constellation, the film effectively linked the fight for the processing of the Nazi crimes against the criminalization of homosexuality. And succeeds Lars Kraume so casually a highly realistic genre picture of the fifties.
Fritz Bauer would have liked before a German court Eichmann. He was not to the exemplary judgment. He was concerned a learning process for the Germans. But the young State of Israel needed Eichmann and an exemplary process for the “final solution” also. It was illusory to believe that Israel would hand him over to the Federal Republic. But his idea of justice was as a teacher and the court process as a catharsis not be dissuaded farmers.
As he held those shooting lists found in the rubble of Wroclaw in the hands, on which the camp commander meticulously not only the names of the victims, but also of protecting had let capture, he knew that he could reach his goal and the perpetrators would be held accountable in the “land of the perpetrators” – not all and many too late, but at least it so that the country saves the false peace of a “final stroke” remained.
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