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MOTHER, MOTH, MO - AND OUT YOU GO! Director: Jörg A.EGGERS Camera: Karl KASES Author: JÖRG A.EGGERS Crew: Schnitt: Sigrid GEIGER-HAAS Year: 1979 Documentary (45 min.) This film is about the impact mothers & fathers have on child-raising and thus on the socio-political development of this society. This film is in line with previous productions and a further contribution to important issues such as child-raising, object–relationship, encouraging creativity, self-education.... to make it short: coping with life. J.A.Eggers, the director, demonstrated what consequences the absence of a father - figure had for the development of a whole generation - his generation. On this subject no primary and certainly no secondary literature was ever produced. The causes for this social dilemma can be found in the 1940ies. In a short period of time women had to take on their husbands’ responsibilities. When a father did not return from war, the mother had to provide for the survival of the family. After 1945, a whole generation of school children had a distorted image of their fathers. Either the image was alienated as a war criminal or absent. For the generation of children in the 1950, only the emphasis changed. Women had learnt to raise children without a father. They had no objections, when their husbands worked late hours to improve the standard of living. Their children experienced a weak male role-model and a dominant female one. In the 1960ies mothers increasingly accessed the jobmarket in order to afford the new comforts. Compared to the 1950ies the standard of living improved. The quality of life for the children deteriorated. In the 1970ies children were confronted with a mother coping with a double work-load and a father, who was absent and did not really serve as a role-model. In the contrary, information about the facts of life that went beyond normal school education was received via television. So the father was substituted by TV. A child and member of that generation declared that it "was frightened to bother mum and dad was never home....." In the 1980ies the estimated time a mother dedicated to her child averaged around 6-10 minutes per day. The question is whether this generation of mothers still considered being a mother as fulfilling. We know that public opinion on getting children, raising children and being a mother is not high. When the mother-role-model becomes problematic for a mother, then it has an impact on the child’s perspectives. For a child the mother represents the first and most important love-object. It has to become familiar with her and the father. It has to learn to love it’s parents in order to develop basic traits of social behaviour such as bonding, the ability to love, and to make reasonable judgements to prevent self-isolation. The children of the 1980ies are the parents of the 21.century or maybe not. However, they are our future. Without doubt Eggers has provoked controversies and has emotionalised with this contribution. Maybe he managed to stimulate a broad discussion about the "image" of mothers. Such a pinprick straight into the heart of society is needed more often..... Contemporary ... controversial, committed, enlightening .... Eggers presents the change of the image of the mother over a period of 40 years. He then illustrates a contemporary phenomenon, which sheds new light on the meaning of a healthy family-life and being a mother. Neue Kronen Zeitung |
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