Lutzows Wild Hunt
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| Director Richard Oswald Country Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent
German intertitles Writer Theodor Korner , Max Jungk Release date 21 February 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lutzow’s Wild Hunt (German: Lutzows wilde verwegene Jagd) is the title of a patriotic German song and a 1927 German silent war film.
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The song
The poem was written by young German poet and soldier Theodor Korner, who served in the Lutzow Free Corps during the Wars of Liberation. It was set to music by Carl Maria von Weber and became very popular.
The song praises the deeds of the Free Corps that became an essential part of Germany’s national identity in the 19th century due to its famous members. Besides Korner, “Turnvater� Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the famous poet Joseph von Eichendorff, the inventor of the kindergarten Friedrich Frobel, and Eleonore Prochaska, a woman who had dressed as a man in order to join the fight against the French, served in the Corps.
The tune was adopted as the regimental march of the 1st Surrey Rifles, a Volunteer unit of the British Army.
The movie
The 1927 German silent war film was directed by Richard Oswald and starring Ernst Ruckert, Arthur Wellin and Mary Kid. The film’s art direction was by Ernst Stern. It is part of the cycle of Prussian films and portrays the fight of Prussian troops under the command of Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lutzow against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, commemorated in the poetry of Theodor Korner.