UFA-Dabei 1044/1976 27.07.1976

01 Helgoland: Helgoland portrait aerial view of the island. Pilot at the wheel from the rear. Aerial photographs of Heligoland. Small sports plane at the airport. Seagull in flight, large, close. "Red Cliff" on Heligoland, large, close. Seagull colony on the rock wall. Inhabitants. Ships off Helgoland, streets and alleys on the island. Education and boats of visitors. Spa promenade. Sandy Beach, breakwater. Children play in the water. Red Rock.

02. oberkochen/Württemberg: largest mirror telescope in the world of Carl Zeiss works. Milling cutters, grinders and polishers at work on the telescope. Cast of the blank. The lumps of the material ZERODUR. Grinding plant by Zeiss. Telescope.

03. Bayreuth: 100 years Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth great scenes are pushed onto the stage. A group is photographed before the Festspielhaus. City from above. Passers-by on the street. Bust of Richard Wagner in the Park, painting, Wagner books in stores. Young man on the street with a sign: "Map search". Wallchart of artist of centenary Bayreuth Festival with photos. Pictures of previous productions. Patrice Cheveau fire are his set designer Richard Peduzzi. The conductor Pierre Boulez. Final rehearsals for the "twilight of the gods". Siegfried as a womanizer in a Tux. Festival Director Wolfgang Wagner talks about: "Richard Wagner's art is still up to date?" Wolfgang Wagner, o-ton: "the great themes of Wagner, as warning against the abuse of power, the centrality of love are up-to-date and exciting and not to forget asking for pity - sure even today." As long as an audience through the medium of the great issues of mankind deals with theatre and looking for food for thought, there will be still Bayreuth Festival." Driving record on the road to the Festspielhaus. The traffic is regulated by police. Elegant women. Young man eating next to a Dalmatian dog. Minister Ertel limp on the floor, the Begum Minister bird woman. President Scheel together with Prime Minister Goppel. Scheel talks about the Bayreuth Festival, o-ton: "Bayreuth should be more than theater, as art, as Opera. It should eliminate all other philosophy, art, religion basically. Whenever one attested to Bayreuth, that it is more than art, it felt understood." Scene clips from the "twilight of the gods."

Helgoland camera: Rühe of the world's largest mirror telescope camera: Rau, fire 100 years Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth (not for sale!)
Camera: L., Pahl at the beginning and end of total length

This trip: Helgoland the plane needs the ship more than 5 hours of Hamburg from 30 minutes. the island of Heligoland - the swimming paradise and Spa Centre in the middle of the North Sea is situated 70 km off the Elbe estuary. The red rocks in the sea remained over the centuries of colonization and occupation, a piece of untouched its colonization and occupation shipping, fisheries, the oysters and lobster fishing. Smuggling trips paid off during the Napoleonic continental system - the Heligoland became rich. But with "Trade and change" it came to an end when the island in 1814 was appointed to the British Crown Colony. The Heligoland searched for a new source of income, and found her in the "adventure" tourism. 150 years ago, the first season of the seaside resort of Helgoland opened the Heligoland Dune, which was up to the beginning of the 18th century associated with the island. The off and boats of visitors remained Fischer until today a privilege of Heligoland. The Kurverwaltung 1890 counted already 13,000 guests. As Germany traded his African colony of Zanzibar for Heligoland. Meanwhile, each year more than 700,000 visitors control the island. Duty-free shopping is the biggest attraction for day guests. Guests rather adhere to the display in the "Hamburg Correspondenten" with the Helgoland surrounds sand island 150 years ago and the healthy sea air from their salutary effects begat us diverse experiences, secure. under Beyhülfe of our highly skilled doctors, desired results."

This technique:-on the upper cooking at the end of the Universe In the Württemberg catching the stars from heaven - with a 3.5 m telescope, which will be part of optical astronomy in the 1980s to the largest and most powerful devices and stands no comparison with the famous American mount Palomar Telescope. Cutters, grinders and polishers of the Carl Zeiss company supporting about 6 hundredweight mass from the 14-ton blank from: the planned surface shape to be developed with an accuracy of less than 1 - ten-thousandth of a millimeter. The material of the telescope was developed at the company SCHOTT in Mainz. There also the blank was cast. 703 days this manufacturing process - lasted to the raw edit by pouring over the cooling. The result: a huge chunk of the glass-ceramic material ZERODUR, at normal temperatures virtually no thermal expansion shows round 3.60 m cut in the diameter measured, when he was brought into the new grinding plant by Zeiss. In oberkochen is expected with a processing time of three to four years before the telescope at the Max Planck Institute for astronomy can be passed. Together with smaller telescopes of same design's is situated on a monitoring station in Spain, which promises cloudless sky. The Kingdom of the heaven eye is so great that you will gain information from the beginning of our universe.

This music: 100 years Wagner Festival impressions from Bayreuth, where a special anniversary is celebrated in this weeks: 100 years of Richard Wagner Festival. In the margravial residence in Upper Franconia, the composer Richard Wagner could realize a lifelong dream 1876, he had built a Festival Hall, where only his works in exemplary productions were performed. So much has been written about hardly an other composers of the 19th century such as about the revolutionary operas Wagner. Every year again: the struggle for the cards. Wagner fans often pay more than doubled - over 200 DM for a "Tristan" - or "Rheingold"-space. Tradition and courage to experiment are no contradiction in Bayreuth. Patrice Chereau is fire his set designer Richard Peduzzi. The two young Frenchmen received applause and boos with the conductor Pierre Boulez for their new production of the ring cycle. Final rehearsals for the "twilight of the gods": Siegfried as a womanizer in a Tux. Ask the Wagner grandsons and Festival Director Wolfgang Wagner: Richard Wagner's art is still up to date? Wolfgang Wagner: "the great themes of Wagner, as warning against the abuse of power, the centrality of love are up-to-date and exciting and not to forget asking for pity - sure even today." As long as the great mingle with human beings of continue Bayreuth Festival an audience through the medium of theatre. "
Show and keep-smiling, crowd and spectators - also belongs to Bayreuth. It should be actually after Wagner's sake a music festival for the people. Celebrities and politics came to the anniversary celebration. As always, there was also the Begum in, Ministers of the Federal Government, and the Bavarian Prime Minister Goppel. The critical balance of Jubilee moved President Scheel. He warned Bay President Scheel: "Bayreuth should be more than theater, as art, as Opera. It should eliminate all other philosophy, art, religion basically. Whenever one attested to Bayreuth, that it is more than art, it felt understood."
Artistic, if also controversial climax: "Götterdämmerung 76". Half Hagen, half Hunchback of Notre Dame: Karl Ridderbusch. Jerker Arvidson as King Gunther, and Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde überlistete. Art or cult? The question left open in the 100th year of the Festival of Bayreuth.

Date of Release:

27.07.1976

Year of Production:

1976

Camera Work:

Brandes, Klaus; Labudda; Pahl, Georg; Rau, Kurt; Rühe, Bernd Michael

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German