{"id":19998,"date":"2026-04-09T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stummfilm-live.de\/project\/erdgift\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:30:34","slug":"erdgift","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.stummfilm-live.de\/en\/project\/erdgift\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdgift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<h2>Info<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Germany 1919<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Director: Paul Otto<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Duration: approx. 84 min.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">New musical version for cinema organ and simultaneous piano by Wilfried Kaets<br \/>\nSilent film drama based on the tragedy &#8220;Earth Spirit&#8221; by Frank Wedekind<\/p>\n<h2>Kurz und knapp<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">A sculptor becomes famous through a work he created after a young girl as a model, but she will become his downfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">His wife and child leave him, and when he sees himself betrayed by her, he destroys his artwork and finds death beneath its ruins\u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"footer\">\n<h2>Inhalt<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The presumed first film adaptation of Frank Wedekind&#8217;s drama &#8220;Earth Spirit&#8221;: Wedekind&#8217;s Lulu is called Lil here, is the foster daughter of Iwan Gorell and works as a dancer in a variety theater. When the sculptor Gregor Magnussen develops an equally artistic and romantic obsession with Lil and brings her to his home, he is abandoned by his wife and child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">With a statue of Lil, the artist achieves great fame, but Magnussen is not the only man obsessed with Lil. She begins an affair with a race car driver, prompting Bj\u00f6rn Romberg to warn his friend Magnussen \u2013 only to fall under Lil&#8217;s spell himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Abandoned by his muse, Magnussen succumbs to a &#8220;severe nervous fever.&#8221; Eventually, he finds Lil again in a variety theater, where she performs as a snake dancer and has long since cast her spell on yet another man\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Paul Otto&#8217;s early film adaptation impresses with its lively production design and a surprising frankness that led to isolated performance bans and youth restrictions for the film.<\/p>\n<h2>Zur Musik<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The musical version will sound as it could have been in a cinema of the early silent film era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Although it is a new composition, it captures the spirit of cine-historical film music from around 1910 to 1920.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Wilfried Kaets is one of the longest-serving silent film musicians in Germany and learned from old silent film pianists and organists such as Heinrich Riethm\u00fcller.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19990,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"pj-categs":[],"pj-tags":[],"class_list":["post-19998","project","type-project","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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