Bremer Freiheit

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BREMEN FREEDOM:

The newspaper, Geesche.

Coffee.

Close the window!

Quiet!

Bread and butter.

On 31st Oct. 1814 we shall

bury our dear mother

Clara Mathilde Beez,

ne Steinbacher,

whom our Lord...

Quiet!

That screaming will kill me.

More coffee.

The decapitation will take

place the following

Friday 3rd Nov. 1814 at the

market square.

Brandy.

When I say brandy I mean the

whole bottle, wife.

Just one peaceful evening

in this house. Quiet!

Cheers.

Open the window.

Another ghost seen

in Bremen.

Well, you shouldn't heat

the house so much.

Strange things keep happening

in this town.

Prepare the sleeping draught.

What a headache...

Quiet!

Geesche, the medicine.

I want to sleep with you.

Brother, we were just passing

by your house.

In this house we find brandy

as if it was distilled here.

For my friends, yes. Make

yourselves at home.

We shan't wait to be told a

second time.

On this cold Bremer night.

The wife? She lies on the

floor and cries?

The wife

is feeling faint.

Brandy!

Sit down, Christmas comes

but once a year.

The house of the red Leni

is closed.

Is closed?

It was discovered that three

of the women have a disease.

A disease?

French disease, Johann Gerhard.

French...

No, that is...

Which women?

No, all of us no!

Many a good Bremer citizen

fathers a child

that is syphilitic.

Pray for the well being of

the father of your children.

A man kills the mother of

his children

by way of strangling her with

his bare hands,

of course, her eyes bulge,

he says to her in a cold way,

well, wife, that makes you look.

A man sleeps with a woman

and bites her breast.

Afterwards he says, don't

pretend that child to be mine.

Which child?

You're pregnant,

your breast has milk.

Milk? No, that was but a

boil, thank you.

You must witness how my wife

loves me.

Come here.

Say:
I love you.

I love you.

Say:
I'm hot for you.

I'm...

And now?

I'm hot for you.

Fetch some brandy.

My wife knows who's the

master here.

She knows what humbleness is.

And yet in bed, dash it all,

she's like a mare gone wild.

She's made for a strong man

like me.

There's an execution

on Friday.

It's very lascivious, the moment

before the head...

Often did I lie in bed

and wonder

what the delinquent must

think in such a moment,

what are his feelings, what...

this is real madness.

I'll go home now. It's been

a long day.

See you tomorrow, Johann Gerhard.

Business, work. Yes.

Till we meet again.

Come, Geesche.

Don't act mad, wife,

you have yet to learn

who is the master of the house

and who may express his wishes.

Help!

Call a doctor.

World goodbye - I'm tired of you.

I want to go heavenwards.

there will be real

peace and

eternal tranquillity of mind.

World, you have war and

disharmony,

nothing but vanity.

In heaven

any time

peace,

joy and happiness.

My dearly beloved...

I should like to let

you know...

the cross of death...

The Lord has...

Pain and tears...

Yellow fever...

on the first inst... Geesche!

You take a long time.

Sit down.

On the first of this month

my dear beloved and

unforgotten husband

completed...

Sit down, Geesche.

Work comes first.

Where were we?

My dear beloved and

unforgettable husband...

My dear beloved and

unforgettable husband, comma.

Johann Gerhard Miltenberger,

comma, after completing, how many?

Thirty three.

...completing thirty three

years of his life, comma.

and in the eighth year of our

marriage, comma,

which was blessed with four

children, comma,

of which two preceded him,

comma, completed

his earthly walk of

life in...

yellow fever.

Yes, full stop.

Convinces - in brackets -

(even without condolences)

that everybody who knew him

will find

the pain and tears justified

which I, joined by all those

who had the pleasure of being

closely acquainted

with him - what shall I say -

paid him by the side of

his coffin.

Yes, paid him, I should like

to add...

What will happen to

the business?

I shall ask Michael Christoph

Gottfried.

A good man, Geesche, for the

transition period.

Afterwards we'll look for

a permanent replacement.

Okay. Where are we?

I add...

I should like to add to this

obituary that the business

shall be carried on by an

efficient subject,

and I shall endeavour

to meet

the confidence of all those

who shall honour me with

their kind orders.

Full stop.

Geesche Maria Miltenberger.

comma, ne Timm.

Mother!

Geesche! My dear, poor soul!

My honourable lady, I should

like to guarantee you all

the friendship, affection and

support which you deserve.

Thank you, Rumpt.

I'd like to say the same.

My sincere sympathy.

Mine...

One question, Gottfried.

Are you prepared to take over

my husband's

business for the time being...

I shall think it...

Yes, honourable lady, yes...

I love you.

I...

I have been...

longing for you... Michael.

Arthur is too slow.

He doesn't work enough.

He's efficient all right.

He's efficient, Geesche, but

slow... coffee...

If a person is slow with

what he has learnt

then the head of the employer

must think...

Quiet...

think, Geesche.

Tell me,

what's your head thinking?

I'm thinking that the business

must be expanded.

Whoever does not intend to

advance is close to death,

which means the end. We should

employ a second harness maker.

Arthur shall do the handicraft

for old established citizens

of Bremen, the second man the work

for clients passing through.

A second harness maker ? He'll

want to be paid, Michael,

he'll need lodging and food.

Think. If you can live on

one harness maker

you ought to be able to live

better on two.

That's plausible. But...

No but, for I have thought

of the difficulties too.

The range of customers must

be enlarged, which will give

a security. How this can be

done must yet be thought over.

It is easy to work out how

many more orders it takes

to make the second man

profitable.

Papers...

At present the orders amount

to about

one thousand thaler

each month,

that is really too much for

one man.

The rent 200 thaler, the

working power 250 thaler,

50 thaler for material,

that leaves us with

500 thaler a month.

For each man-hour which Arthur

fulfits, he gets

15 hours a day multiplied by

26 days makes 390,

that is 65 groschen per hour.

Double that, makes 130 groschen

for us. You understand?

Nearly.

Again.

For each man-hour Arthur

fulfits, he gets

65 groschen, but you get 130.

With two the employer pays

130 groschen,

but then he earns 260

groschen per hour.

Is it that simple?

Your husband was stupid.

How can you, if you have

capital to back you up, get

down to the work-table yourself?

He saved on wages and lost

his health. Coffee...

Newspaper.

Quiet!

I love you.

I beg you, Geesche,

it's daylight now.

Love is to be kept for

the night.

Happy birthday, Mother.

The trouble I have with

Father, my child.

With Father?

And with myself,

for my discourse with God

is impeded.

I spoke to him and have

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