Vom Singen, vom Mechanischen und von den Emotionen

Fernand Léger's The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart from Hans Richter's episode movie Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) connects the after-war reality to the importance of the mechanical and the dominant role of objects in avant-garde projects of the 1920s and combines them with the disintegration of subject sovereignty as a category and the substitution of the human body through puppets. Keywords: 1920s avant-garde, dream, popular music, dandy song, gender roles Überlegungen zu Fernand Légers The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart aus Hans Richters Omnibusfilm Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) Reflections on Fernand Léger's The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart, from Hans Richter's Episode Movie Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) 1.Der Kontext: Richters Projekt Dreams That Money Can Buy1 Einer der Filme aus dem Jahre 1947, der bis heute im Gedächtnis geblieben ist, auch wenn ihn viele Zuschauer nicht kennen, wird von Cineasten und Historiografen des Avantgarde-Kinos aber immer wieder als Zeitdokument benannt: Rise and shine Upon the assembly line! [Die Frau, solo] Now, Julie was born as is proper, Her every proportion was planned She was poured from a mould, exquisite and cold, And she grew up untouched by human hand. See her stand Untouched by human hand! [Die Frau, solo] Her chromium nerves and her platinum brain were chastely encased in Cellophane And to top off this daughter of science and art She was equipped with a prefabricated heart [II] [Die Frau, solo, gesprochen] She prepares for life.