WÄLSUNGENBLUT Movie Germany 1965 Ingeborg Hallstein

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Wälsungenblut  
• Composer: Wagner Richard  
• Libretto: Erika Mann based on Thomas Mann  
• Venue & Opera Company: Studio and on location Germany  
• Recorded: 1964
• Type: Movie
• Singers: unknown
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Rolf Thiele  
• Stage Designer: Wolf Englert, Rudi Remp  
• Costume Designer: Maleen Pacha   

Information about the Recording

• Date Published: 1965  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Quote from Wikipedia

  The story is about an unconditional, almost incestuous sibling love in Germany before the First World War.

  The Arnstatt family belongs to the upper social class in Wilhelmine Germany before 1914. The head of the family is the old Count Arnstatt, whose long-established and working children Kunz and Märit are just as much at home in the villa as the nineteen-year-old twins Siegmund and Sieglinde Arnstatt, two beings of ethereal beauty. These two young people, carried by solemn seriousness – “graceful as whips and childlike in stature at their nineteen years” as Mann describes them in his template – are inseparable, their ideas and views of life as the assessments of their fellow human beings are always congruent and often of haughty distance. They present their assessments of others with as much snobbery as they do with sharp-tongued clarity.

  Sieglinde is engaged to Lieutenant Beckerath, an aspiring young officer who, however, is in no way intellectually equal to the two siblings and is regarded by them as clumsy and usually disdainful. From the very beginning, Siegmund and Sieglinde let their social and intellectual superiority over Beckerath shine through. Above all, Siegmund makes sure that Beckerath never gets close to his female alter ego Sieglinde, which of course he claims for himself, and only for himself. A joint visit to the opera, Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre, turns into narcissistic self-reflection; in the Nordic children of the gods Siegmund and Sieglinde, who act on stage, they see no one else but themselves. Fascinated, the twins listen to the musical intoxication of their counterparts. Dream and reality blur into each other.

  Beckerath, who wanted to go to Spain with Sieglinde on his honeymoon, feels more and more left out; he senses that there is something between the two twins that he can never break through. Both relationships touch on the facts of incest – touches, desires and desires characterize this ambivalent team, without first taking the decisive step. But one evening, shortly before bedtime, all the dams finally burst. Like a ritual, Sieglinde visits her brother every evening to say good night to him. But this time, both overwhelm each other with caresses.

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