Which city in Bavaria can claim that? That it is inextricably linked to film history; that the title of a Hollywood film will forever carry the name of their commune into the world; and that even the protagonist of this legendary American masterpiece is looking for the one, the unmistakable specialty of this eponymous city in Bavaria?
Only ignoramuses should not have the name of the said commune in mind. Yes, Spencer Tracy played along, Burt Lancaster too, Maximilian Schell as well as Marlene Dietrich. First performance 60 years ago in the Kongresshalle in Berlin, 300 reporters and Willy Brandt as guests, the beginning of a global success. Birthday brush!
Maybe you fast forward to the most enticing scene of the entire bravura piece. A judge on the road, given by Spencer Tracy, wants to get to know his previously unknown location after a day of trial. That’s what you do in a foreign country. His adjutant advises him to go to the local market square and, oh yes, taste “the beer and the sausages” there, after all, this medieval place is world-famous for it!
My God. And now you have this title in front of your eyes, “The judgment of Nuremberg”, and you know from tourism professionals that since then tens, oh well, hundreds of thousands have set out to do the same as Tracy to visit this city and the local specialty and now he sees Mr Tracy standing at a Franconian snack bar, he has a spoon in his hand, he puts the spoon into a mustard jar the size of a pickle jar, and in a moment he will wet sausages, the original Nuremberg sausages, from top to bottom with original Nuremberg sausage mustard He’ll put it in mustard, the film was awarded the Oscar, the Golden Globe, a global success, as I said, an indispensable part of film history, and now the Nuremberg bratwurst must finally come into the picture, there it is – and it is : a frankfurter sausage.
The director’s name was Stanley Earl Kramer, born in Brooklyn, New York City, died in Los Angeles. Nothing was known of Upper Bavarian roots.