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| 1966 drehte Frank Beyer Spur der Steine. Weil Spur der Steine umstritten war, hatte er viele Probleme mit dem Staat: ,,The impulse for filming the novel, . . . came from on high—according to its director . . . he was approached by the DEFA management. He was interested, because the material was topical and controversial (he, in other words, did not regard the text as harmless)" (Reid, 64). Er wollte ein umstrittener Werk drehen. Als der Film seine Premiere hatte, herrschte Chaos: ,,. . . it premiered at the ,Arbeiterfestspiele' in Potsdam in June 1966 but almost at once withdrawn from circulation; Beyer was banned from the film studios for two years" (Reid, 64). Das Ende von Beyers Arbeit mit DEFA fing an: ,,party leader in the studio [DEFA] identified Beyer, Konrad Wolf, and the dramaturgs Klaus Wischnewski and Günther Karl as the ,,main representatives and intellectual authors of the fals ideological-aesthetic positions" (Reinstein, 214). Alle verloren ihr Arbeit (sondern Wolf). ,,The [. . .] film was withdrawn from circulation after only a few showings and did not see the light of day again until the GDR was in its death throes at the beginning of 1990, a quarter of a century after it was made" (Reid, 58). |
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