It was the first scandal in the history of the Berlin Film Festival . Director and screenwriter beharkten on an open stage. Alfred Andersch distanced himself furiously from the film, the Helmut Käutner had made from his novel “The Red”: The rude behavior manner with an original screenplay was typical for a German film “older type” Käutner have his original screenplay “very spoiled”.
Käutner called the betrayal. Since Andersch was sarcastic. Käutner, he explained, was to “no self-criticism capable of” On the contrary, this man was indeed of the opinion that he only produce masterpieces! That was the moment in which the lead actress burst into tears. All this happened on June 30, 1962.
“The Red” was Germany’s first Nouvelle Vague film. He was indeed a masterpiece, even though he called the former critics. From a “puffy history” was hateful speech, Ulrich Gregor called it a “pseudo-philosophical bombast”.
Helmut Käutner be explained the widespread opposition to him at that time counter hit, years later as: “Ruth Leuwerik was lost from the outset of this fabric … When would they not known, would have thus a career started, but she who has been the blameless lady of German society for many years. intimately loving mother, she was here a modern, broken figure, a secretary who lived with two men and a third victim was in Venice -. that was something that the people would not know about it “
Ruth Leuwerik was “The Red”. And if you should call the 31 films she has made, the most important and beautiful, this would be it. With the surprise-inevitable, inspired interior monologues and the overwhelming, melancholy gray pictures of Otello Martelli. Käutner was right. “The Red” marked the beginning of the end of a career that with the cinema comedy “Thirteen started under one roof” was the 1950s.
The Leuwerik was a decade” “have been the ideal woman. The strong, Diplomatic operating partner of soft men (“father needs a wife”, “Your Royal Highness”) or those who had not yet found its feet again after the war (“The great temptation”, “The Trapp Family”) , She was the rational with the practical bob.
Leuweriks female characters have the Fifties therefore survived because the emerging conflict – already ahead suspected – Children or career. In half of their movies the Leuwerik played professional women. Entrepreneurs, Studienrätinnen, lawyers. As “ideal woman” she was even mayor. In this film by Josef von Baky, there is a scene in which the Leuwerik their narrow-minded husband holds the Basic Law under his nose: “Article 3, paragraph 1: Men and women are equal ‘.”
All that she loved, her voice have succumbed. This slightly breathless that the Leuwerik has always had. Especially when it came to do the unexpected. To boldly go beyond the limits of the Convention, which determined the narrow, musty morally fifties. “If you do not kiss me today,” she had in 1954 in Käutner “Portrait of an unknown” to OW To say Fischer, “then times’ me at least as you have me painted that before.” Naked.
The Leuwerik said it was a bit rushed, shame almost tearful, so that you knew it was a matter of life or death. Such moments of uncontrolled, almost aggressive yearning has given the camera repeatedly Ruth Leuwerik. This ability has melodramas like “A Heart plays wrong” or “The hour that you’re happy” knighted and given a tragedy as “favorite of the gods” something timeless humbling.
Ruth Leuwerik who was born on April 23, 1924 in Essen, even took during the war private acting lessons and then initially in Münster, Bremen , Lübeck and Hamburg played theater, never has a scandal evokes as Knef, and she has to be never had anything like the Obsessive Schell. After their retreat into the private sphere she has lived with her husband away from Bussi-operation in Munich.
When her eightieth birthday for hosted the German Film Museum, a major exhibition, she was surprised. About the reverence and affection that you had for her in Berlin. (Even the museum’s director confessed her to have “written sometimes” in the fifties.) At the distance, with the Ruth Leuwerik the exhibits of the exhibition came face to face, you could tell that the ideal woman of the fifties then lived a very different life . has
There might you still happen Ruth Leuwerik that time in Berlin told that they stand somewhere and someone say, “This voice I know yet ! They are not…?” Thus, it is now irretrievably gone. Now Ruth Leuwerik died at the age of 91 years in Munich.
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