Hölderlin's second life The third part of the Hölderlin trilogy reconstructs the second half of the poet’s life from different points of view. Impressive footage of wandering through the forests and mountains, with which the film begins, is replaced by hermetic scenes in the tower. Hölderlin was forcibly placed in a clinic in Tübingen, and after 7 months, as terminally ill and with a life expectancy of 3 years, was transferred to the care of carpenter Ernst Zimmer. The poet lived in the house of the artisan for another 36 years, he was cared for by his daughter Lotta Zimmer in a small room in the tower on Neckar, he played the piano, drew, continued to write poetry. When his early poems were brought to him, he would say, "Yes, the poems are real, they are mine, but the name is fake!" My name was not Hölderlin, it was Scardanelli! All dialogues are based on the testimonies of those years. Editing Julianne Lorenz, friend of Fassbinder, editor of Schroeter. This film was even projected on a screen near the Hölderlin Tower, where the poet Mericke once saw him rushing and wrote the poem “Fire Rider” (the title of another biopic about Hölderlin). In the zeros, Harald Bergman will expand the Hölderlin Passion trilogy, in the tenth he will shoot a film about Nabokov (The Butterfly Hunter), and in the twenties he will begin the Greek Trilogy. I am convinced that Hölderlin was not as miserable in the last 30 years of his life as the professors of literature believe. The ability to dream in a humble corner without the need to constantly fulfill demands is certainly not the martyrdom that is attributed to him. – Robert Walzer
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