Hölderlin’s Echo

Directed by Hannes Rall and Susanne Marschall

With Ilker Arcayürek, Timo Brunke, Victoire Bunel, Chantal Busse and Pirmin Grehl

The documentary Hölderlin's Echo approaches the life and work of the well-known poet in an unusual way: In the real film parts, artists are observed and interviewed who interpret the numerous settings of Hölderlin's poems by well-known composers. Animated sequences interpret biographical sections of Hölderlin's moving life in poetic associative form. In the combination of both art forms, a complete work is created that consciously moves away from more conventional forms of geographical chronology and thus also tries to do justice to associative poetry.