Talk:Morgenrot (film)

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Some suggestions[edit]

I would like to two suggestions here. First thing, the film offers a thinly disguised version of the death of the War Secretary, Field Marshal Kitchener, on abroad the cruiser HMS Hampshire on his way to Russia in 1916. The Hampshire was sunk by a mine, but in this film it is sunk by the U-boat. The plot of the film concerns a very important British military leader who in 1916 boards a cruiser that is take him to a conference in Russia, leading to the U-boat being sent out to essentially assassinate him by sinking the cruiser. The leader is not named as Kitchener, but one clearly see who is he is supposed to be. A cruiser taking a very important British leader to Russia in 1916 that gets sunk on the way was clearly inspired by the sinking of the Hampshire. This film caused considerable offense in Britain at the time, which the article does not mention. Kitchener was one of the most popular British war heroes of the late Victorian age, and a film that celebrates his death caused a very negative reaction in the United Kingdom.

The second this is described as a Nazi film. Morgenrot premiered in 1933, but it was shot in 1932 and the script for it was written in 1931. The studio that produced Morgenrot was UFA, which was owned by a very right-wing millionaire media magnate named Alfred Hugenberg who was also the leader of the German National People's Party from 1928 onward. Hugenberg expressly brought the UFA studio in 1927 to make right-wing "national" films that he wanted to see, and Morgenrot was one of several "national" films that UFA released under Hugenberg's prompting. The DNVP can be charitably described as an extremely right-wing party that was borderline fascist in its politics, so it is not surprising that there was a considerable overlap in the worldviews of the DNVP and the NSDAP. But this film is more properly a DNVP film than a Nazi film-it just happened to be released on 2 February 1933, just four days after Hitler was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933. --A.S. Brown (talk) 23:22, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Leutest, not lauchtest[edit]

https://www.lieder-archiv.de/morgenrot_leuchtest_mir_zum_fruehen_tod-notenblatt_300508.html About a really good translation of this short verse, for once in the life a proper English translation would be longer than the original German one, but poets have the virtue to say much through few (sometimes taking the freedom to use words stretching their meanings where we wouldn't never dare)… and I'm not a Shakespeare, able to can do it, ENTITLED to do it mastering his way the English language, having earned the privilege to 'bend it' to the scope, shorten the verse in harmony. GianMarco Tavazzani (talk) 21:27, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]