It does turn up from time to time on YouTube, but is usually shut down by the rights holder, which would be fine if whoever this is would bother to actually make it available.
© Jim Morton and East German Cinema Blog, 2018. As F. W. Habel noted in the comments (translated here): “After completing the 90-minute long film (I saw it and thought it was an extraordinary masterpiece), the university forced him to cut the film by almost half, otherwise Kipping would not have received a diploma or his degree.
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The film didn’t do well at the box office and received mixed reviews. The one curious exception is the inclusion of “War Master” by the British death metal band Bolt Thrower.
At twenty-years-old, she was considerably older than Sophie von Kühn, but that’s to be expected. Like many of the many of the DEFA films that came out after the Mauerfall, it is surrealistic, abstruse, and wildly imaginative.1
“Novalis” was the pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, an aristocratic young man from Lower Saxony.
His quirky style and complex visions didn’t translate well to the banalities of pop culture in unified Germany. There is a well-regarded musician of the same name who specializes in playing the Spinet using a number of creative techniques (E-bow, placing objects on the strings, and plucking the strings directly), but attempts to contact him have been for naught.
As with Schiller, Novalis was the French actress Agathe de La Fontaine’s first film.
I’m not certain what happened to Christoph Schiller. Doch Friedrich verweigert sich beiden. He dropped out of mathematics and began studying dramatic arts, which eventually led him to the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg, where he studied filmmaking.
Right from the start, it was clear that Kipper and the powers that be were going come to loggerheads.
Die Realität findet sich aufgelöst im Mystischen, Irrealen, Metaphysischen. His thesis film, Hommage à Hölderlin (Homage to Hölderlin) was a study of the German poet Friedrich Holderlin, and .2 He got a job with East German television but got on the wrong side of the SED over a TV-documentary he directed.
The fragment preserved gives an impression of the director’s extraordinary artistic power.” [Note: Habel is the author of the Das grosse Lexikon der DEFA-Spielfilme, a book every serious fan of East German films should own.]
3. In addition, the cut material was destroyed so that Kipping couldn’t produce a director’s cut later.
Hagen had been married to Wolf Biermann, the folk singer who was kicked out of East Germany in 1976 for being critical of Honecker’s regime. Biographische Landschaften des romantischen Dichters gehen auf in offenen Dekorationen (Ruinen, Schlösser, Vorsatzmodelle, Glasmalereien) und werden verwoben mit Malerei. By the time this film came out, DEFA was a thing of the past and was probably only released because it was the last film on the shelf.
This question became moot when she died before they could wed, shortly after her 15th birthday. - Die Form des Films folgt seinen geistigen Intentionen. Amazingly, the song does not seem out of place, nestled here between the likes of Beethoven and Strauss. It’s a kaleidoscopic look at events in the poet’s life, up until—and after—he and his beloved are go through hell and are reunited in heaven.
Sein strenger Vater zwingt ihn in’s Joch, erinnert ihn an die Mannespflicht zur Erhaltung des Geschlechtes. There are other faces fans of East German films might also recognize, including Eberhard Esche, Arno Wyzniewski, and André Hennicke, as well as Rainer Fassbinder film regular Gottfried John.
Besides the Biermann song sung by Hagen, most of the music for the film consists of classical pieces, most notably Beethoven’s “Glorious Ninth” (as Alex in A Clockwork Orange would put it).
They just didn’t think she was aristocratic enough for their son. Klavierkonzert")
In einer Art Sterbetraum läuft die Vision seines Lebens vor Friedrich von Hardenberg (genannt Novalis, d.A.) ab.
Die Begegnung mit der zwölfjährigen Sophie von Kühn erlöst ihn von der Erdenschwere und befreit den Dichter in ihm. Als ein Lernender des Rechts sucht sich Friedrich verzweifelt in die weltlichen Dinge einzumischen und nimmt ein Amt an. In 2000, La Fontaine married soccer star Emmanuel Petit and gave up acting for several years.
Bis sie stirbt... He continued to work, however, and in 2016, he returned to the subject of Friedrich Holderlin with the well-received Der Obdachlose Hölderlin (The Homeless Hölderlin).
Novalis is played by Christoph Schiller in his first and only film role. Except that it wasn’t. DEFA-Spielfilme 1946-1992)
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Those who favor straightforward storytelling with clearly delineated plots would be advised to stay away.IMDB page for this film.
Novalis is not currently available.3
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The only other director I can think of who could pull this off is Ken Russell. Aside from the ability to make films again, the Wende did him no favors. It wasn’t until the final days of the GDR, after that Kipping was finally allowed to make feature films for DEFA, starting with The Land Beyond the Rainbow and ending with Novalis.