Heynowski & Scheumann: the GDR's leading documentary film team

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See Rüdiger Steinmetz and Tilo Prase, Dokumentarfilm zwischen Beweis und Pamphlet. Heynowski&Scheumann und Gruppe Katins (Leipzig, 2002); see also Claudia Böttcher, Judith Kretzschmar and Corinna Schier, Walter Heynowski und Gerhard Scheumann—Dokumentarfilmer im Klassenkampf. Eine kommentierte Bibliographie (Leipzig, 2003).

According to the program database of Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv/DRA, 26 episodes between 17 May 1957 and 25 December 1958. Title is not translatable.

Snap‐Shots. According to database of DRA, 8 May 1959 until 1961.

Unknown author (SED Bureau of Television), The improvement of the TV program and the beginning of the official program for the President's birthday on January 3, 1956 (December 1955). SAPMO‐BArch DY 30/IV 2.902.

According to database of DRA: 9 September 1957.

According to database of DRA: 13 December 1959.

Walter Heynowski, Bericht über die Reise nach Kairo vom 27.7. bis 13.8.1958. DRA. [4] September 1958. SAPMO‐BArch Dy 30/IV 2/9.02. Underlined in original.

‘From now on, the campaign to end the Adenauer Era must be conducted and further developed every day. The focus is on Adenauer, Strauß, Gehlen, Globke, and so on. We have to be aware of the fact, that we approximately have one year to finish the campaign. During this time Adenauer's resignation must have been enforced. When this moment has come, it must be clear to the whole world that he was overthrown by our regime.’ Information on a meeting with comrade Walter Ulbricht. Emphasis of the caucus: the further continuation of the campaign against ultraconservatives in the Bonn government. No date given, SAPMO‐BArch DY 30/IV2/902/100, quoted in Hubertus Knabe, Die unterwanderte Republik. Stasi im Westen (Berlin, 1999), p. 123.

See Hubertus Knabe, Die unterwanderte Republik. Stasi im Westen (Berlin, 1999), p. 122.

Albert Norden to Mielke, 9 May 1960. BStU, ZA, SdM 1121. Quoted in Hubertus Knabe, Die unterwanderte Republik. Stasi im Westen (Berlin, 1999), p. 125.

Markus Wolf, Spionagechef im geheimen Krieg. Erinnerungen (Munich, 1998), p. 352.

Deutscher Fernsehfunk/Director, Analysis of the TV film Mord in Lwow with regard to its agitative effects on the masses, 19 February 1960, SAPMO‐BArch DY 30‐IV2–9.02–86. The quote hawks reactions on the film by the Bonn Bundeshaus. Therefore it must be read critically.

Ibid.

‘For half a century, Plato Films and Educational Television (ETV) were responsible for distributing British Communist Party's collection of films made during the 1930s, along with a variety of post war films made in the Soviet Union, the socialist states of Eastern Europe and Vietnam.’ www.etvltd.demon.co.uk (8 August 2002). Still in 1986, ETV played a role as alleged producer of the H&S film Die Generale; see below.

Urlaub auf Sylt, General Speidel, Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank and Die deutsche Geschichte. See also The Scotsman, Members of Parliament want to see Oberlander Film, 18 February 1960.

Deutscher Fernsehfunk/Director, Analysis of the TV Film Mord.

Anti‐Nazi‐propaganda, The Glasgow Herald, 18 February 1960. Submitted to director of DFF in German translation.

Andrew and Annelie Thorndike shaped East German documentary filmmaking, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. Both of them worked for DEFA Studios.

Already in the Pre‐IAMHIST era this film was the subject of a conference of the IAMHIST founders in Brandbjerg/Denmark, 1973.

Gerhard Scheumann's reason for the decision to go separate ways: ‘Our ideas on certain standards and values have diverged a lot within the last months. I more and more realized that the possibilities of a mutual collaboration have been exhausted.’ ADN, Heynowski&Scheumann trennen sich nach 25 Jahren, Ku 111 891 15ZI ADN 1114, 141546 feb 90.

Studio H&S charged these costs to the account of the head office of film, Ministry of Culture of the GDR. H&S 1981: Outgoing Invoices. SAPMO‐BArch DR118/1.503.

Four parts: Yes, Sir; Hilton Hanoi; Der Job; Donnergötter (Thunderchiefs).

Scheumann's off‐screen commentary in the beginning of Pilots in Pyjamas.

Scheumann quoted in Hasso Bräuer, Abgeschossen—die Geschichte von den Piloten im Pyjama. Prod.: Transfer‐Film for MDR/SFB 1996.

Ibid.

Averett quoted in Abgeschossen—die Geschichte von den Piloten im Pyjama. Ibid.

Cameraman Hans Leupold quoted ibid.

Cameraman Hans Leupold quoted ibid. In this context, the author Bräuer uses film footage that shows Walter Heynowski staging the scene with the women. In addition to that, Heynwoski during the final rehearsal on the trolley.

Scheumann quoted ibid.

Ibid. The film contains this clip.

End of Gutley's off‐screen text over the footage Leupold had shot for H&S. Gutley quoted ibid.

Scheumann quoted ibid.

Heynowski&Scheumann, Die Generale. A film in two parts. Suggestions for international and national screenings of the film in the UNO Year of Peace, 10 January 1986. SAPMO‐BArch DY 30/IV 2/2.037.

ETV/Educational TV, 247a Upper Street, Islington/London. www.etvltd.demon.co.uk (13 August 2002). Spectrum Film/Euro Television Productions, Louis van Gasteren, Kloveniersburgwal 49, 1011 JX Amsterdam, [email protected] (13 August 2002).

Information according to end credits of Die Generale, part II, version in DRA.

Heynowski&Scheumann, Die Generale.

P.S. to Heynowski&Scheumann (Heynowski's signature only) to Krenz, 12 March 1986. Date stamp of HA [Dpt.] XX of the MfS from the same day. BStU, former HA XX [Dpt.] ZMA, No. 20327. See also Jochen Staadt, Die Bedrohungslüge. Wie sich acht Generäle aus NATO‐Staaten für die psychologische Kriegführung der DDR einspannen ließen. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ No. 83, 7 April 2002.

See Note 36.

See Jochen Staadt, op. cit.

The title credits mention the following people who participated in the realization of the production (in this order): Peter Hellmich, Horst Donth, Graphic Art Studio, Viennna, Neithard Willerding, Franz Endlicher, TV‐Film‐Photo‐Service, Vienna, Traute Wischnewski, Armand Meppiel, Walter Martsch, Harry Landis, Jacques Serres, Wolfgang v. Polentz, Georgios Samiotis, Menios Nikolaidis, Eberhard Schwarz, Sarah Blum, Ilse Radtke, Renata Gil Rojas, Carmen Bärwaldt, Marie‐Claude Reverdin, Stanley Forman, Mathias Remmert, Georgios Tsiokos, Gerardo Barolo and Heynowksi&Scheumann. Film version in DRA.

See Rüdiger Steinmetz, ‘The Opening of the Wall,’, in this issue.

ADN: Heynowski&Scheumann trennen ich nach 25 Jahren op. cit.