Am grünen Strand der Spree ist ein fünfteiliger Fernsehfilm von Fritz Umgelter, der vom NWRV-Fernsehen Köln produziert wurde.
Er entstand nach dem Buch Am grünen Strand der Spree – So gut wie ein Roman (1955) von Hans Scholz und war einer der frühen „Straßenfeger“ des deutschen Fernsehens.
Seit seiner Erstausstrahlung im Frühjahr 1960 ist er mehrmals in der ARD, den Dritten Programmen und bei EinsFestival wiederholt worden.
Am grünen Strand der Spree (On the Green Beach of the Spree) was a five-part German television movie which first aired in 1960. It was based on a novel by Hans Scholz and has been called a Straßenfeger[1] in German, a television program that was watched by so many, the streets (Straßen) were empty (gefegt, swept clean). It was produced by German broadcaster Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband (NWRV) in Cologne, Germany.
The story takes place in postwar Berlin, divided into zones of occupation. Five friends meet and share their experiences during World War II.
Am grünen Strand der Spree, published in 1955, never made it into the canon of post-war German literature. The article reassesses Scholz’s novel, which deals more directly with the Holocaust than Böll’s and Grass’ works against the background of Schlant’s book The Language of Silence. The novel’s most important episode, the diary of a German soldier, documents the development of German anti-Jewish measures in Eastern Europe from slave labor and starvation to mass killings. The diary transports its horrifying testimony with narrative and stylistic devices that attempt in vain to relativize the guilt of the writer (who considers himself a coward and a bystander) and try to lessen the impact of the witnessed events. Scholz shows how Holocaust testimony appears in German social discourse but is met with silence; he uses the diary as the starting point of a trajectory of emotional petrifaction and psychological denial.
Am grünen Strand der Spree (On the Green Beach of the Spree) was a five-part German television movie which first aired in 1960. It was based on a novel by Hans Scholz and has been called a Straßenfeger in German, a television program that was watched by so many, the streets (Straßen) were empty (gefegt, swept clean). It was produced by German broadcaster Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband (NWRV) in Cologne, Germany.
The story takes place in postwar Berlin, divided into zones of occupation. Five friends meet and share their experiences during World War II.
