Set Design of a multimedia studio and abstract reconstruction of the tower room
Television film with staged and documentary parts about the life and work of the writer Friedrich Hölderlin.
Written and directed by: Rolf Lambert, Hedwig Schmutte
On the occasion of Friedrich Hölderlin's 250th birthday, the film tells the story of an artistic radicalization against the background of the French Revolution. A story about extremism, desire and identity
On the basis of the 37-year-old poet's forced hospitalization into psychiatry, the film reconstructs his existential struggle for life.
The actor Thorsten Hierse takes on the role of the Swabian poet, whose life stages and artistic development commented by contemporary writers such as Durs Grünbein, Daniela Danz and Kurt Oesterle through reviewing historical documents and Hölderlin's texts.
