3rd January 1942
Norbert Rohringer
Postcard depicting the film actor Norbert Rohringer (aged about 14 years old). Sent via feldpost from FPN 44744 (a Company belonging to the 23rd Panzer Division). The correspondent is correct in indicting that Rohringer is pictured as the eponymous hero of the film 'Jakko'. From a series of cards with the imprint, 'Das Programm von Heute'. Ref: 03.01.1942
Norbert Rohringer (1927-2009)
(Gottbegnadeten)
Selected filmography:
Madame doesn't want children (1933), Sunbeam (1933), His daughter is Peter (1936), Anton, the last (1939), The Scapegoat (1940), The Impostor (1940), You have to be lucky aka Poor Jonathan aka Wiener Zuckerln (1940), My life for Ireland (1940), Jakko (1941), Homeland (1941), Out of Danger (short documentary, 1941), The Rainer case (1942), Symphony of a Life (1942), Love Stories (Rohringer played main character Willy Fritsch as a teenager and was therefore dubbed by Fritsch in the final film version. 1943), The Ox War (reel removed in final cut. 1943), Colleague is coming soon (1943), The landlady of the White Rößl (1943), That was my life (1944), A man like Maximilian (1945), We both loved Katharina (unfinished and unperformed. 1945).
Notes on Jakko (1941):
Jakko is a 1940/41 German feature film directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring Norbert Rohringer. It tells the story of an parentless circus boy who finds a sense of duty and order in the Hitler Youth. The script is based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Weidenmann .
The film was sponsored by Reich Youth Leader Artur Axmann. Before the premiere, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels spoke at the same event.
The film received the ratings 'politically valuable', 'popularly valuable' and 'youth value' from the film testing center. With the latter, it was suitable as an educational film for film events run by the Reich Youth Leadership (Youth Film Hours).
Wilhelm Westecker wrote about the film in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in 1941 : 'This film is entirely determined by the type of youth. He does not work through doctrines or principles, but through example and example. Youth is also not contrasted with the world of adults. It remains in the natural context of an organic national community. […] 'Jakko' is a film in which our youth recognizes themselves.'
After the end of the Second World War, the film was classified as a reserved film because of the National Socialist propaganda it contained. Since then, its public performance has only been possible to a limited extent. Today the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation claims the exploitation rights.
Source: Wikipedia
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