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Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with artist and poet friends, finds inspiration for the “Erlkönig,” and together with Therese sustains himself by performing his songs.Read moreLess
Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with artist and poet friends, finds inspiration for the “Erlkönig,” and together with Therese sustains himself by performing his songs.
The story
Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with artist and poet friends, finds inspiration for the “Erlkönig,” and together with Therese sustains himself by performing his songs.
Cast & crew
Heinrich SchweigerFranz Schubert
Aglaja SchmidTherese Grob
Hans ThimigVater Schubert
Rolf WankaFranz Schober
Fritz ImhoffSchmiedermeister
Carl BosseHeinrich Grob, Vater
Chariklia BaxevanosJunges Mädchen
Michael JanischBergmannExplore the crew
- Director
- Walter Kolm-Veltée
- Editor
- Josef Juvancic
- Screenplay
- Walter Kolm-Veltée
- Writer
- Carl Merz
- Director of Photography
- Karl Kirchner
- Director of Photography
- Hanns König
- Editor
- Leontine Klicka