Justinus Kerner
UNTIL I BECOME A SPIRIT AMONG SPIRITS
Justinus Kerner - Physician and Poet. A literary and musical portrait
The soirée 'Until I Become a Spirit Among Spirits' is a literary and musical portrait of the Swabian poet Justinus Kerner. The poet himself describes his childhood and youth; then his daughter Marie takes up the story and tells of Kerner's student years in Tübingen, where the circle formed that literary history would later call the 'Swabian School of Poets'.
The years Justinus Kerner spent with his family in the famous 'Kerner House' in Weinsberg, and with the many friends who visited him there, are described both by his daughter Marie and by his son Theobald. Kerner's friends also have their say: Ludwig Uhland, Gustav Schwab, Karl Mayer, Nikolaus Lenau and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense.
Alongside a detailed account of the life of the physician and poet Justinus Kerner, who seems to have been a strange mixture of melancholy and humour, warmth and nonchalance, despondency and exuberance, comfort-seeking and sociability, the soirée offers a glimpse of the atmosphere that surrounded the Swabian Romantics in the first half of the 19th century.
| VOICES | Christel Koerner, Heidi Vogel, Rudolf Jürgen Bartsch, Mark Oliver Bögel, Friedrich von Bülow, Dieter Eppler, Titus Fischer-Fels, Joachim Nottke, Andreas Szerda, Michael Thomas, Helmut Wöstmann and others |
| MUSIC | Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann |
| DIRECTOR | Georg Brintrup |
| SOUND ENGINEER | Frank Wild |
| EDITOR | Peter-Paul Schulz |
| DURATION | 150 minutes |
| FIRST BROADCAST | SWF 11.2.1989 |