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- 3 Young Germans travel to Cuba in search of one of the younger brother's friend who is there researching Manatees. One arrogantly searching for love, while the other is denied and the third rewarded. Set on the beautiful beaches of Cuba, this tale takes one on a slow burning, romantic and picturesque trip.
- Karla has a quick mouth and her heart in the right place, she is the soul of the house community. All the 'troubled and burdened' people in the house come to her to unload their problems or make use of her practical services.
- In order to win him over, the STASI deceives Werner Teske and promises him that he can continue to work scientifically. However, when Teske joins the company, he soon feels uncomfortable, starts drinking and works carelessly.
- Superstars from the west play in East Germany? An unthinkable scenario up until the spring of 1988. But suddenly, within a few months, the top stars are stepping in: Depeche Mode, Bryan Adams, Joe Cocker, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The documentation reflects this exciting time with contemporary witnesses and exclusive concert excerpts.
- Bout Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891 - 1969) the German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they regarded Dix as a degenerate artist and had him sacked from his post as an art teacher at the Dresden Academy.
- The period of anarchy from November 1989 to March 1990 acted as a catalyst for sex culture and business. Suddenly everything was possible, the state authorities disappeared from the scene, the state as such could no longer set any limits. Busy business people from West and East quickly recognize the new scope, the new lucrative business areas with sex. Beate Uhse flooded what was still East Germany with colorful catalogues, Playboy presented a naked Magdeburg dental assistant as the first East German Playmate. Agencies like that of Heidi Wittwer from Leipzig place strippers for all sorts of occasions and conditions, except for sex.
- A trip from Leipzig to the Black Sea with journalist Julia Finkernagel. The journey takes the audience in 6 weeks from Germany to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, always from the perspective of a backpacker looking for new adventures.
- Women's prison "Frauenzuchthaus Hoheneck" - the most notorious women's prison in East Germany is known under this name. Up to 23,000 women are said to have lived through their imprisonment in Stollberg, Saxony, until 1989. During the days of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the prison housed ex-Nazis, political prisoners, criminals of all sorts and so called social misfits.
- A legend during her lifetime - this description undoubtedly applies to Jutta Müller. The most successful figure skating coach in the world has left her indelible place in sports history with 57 medals at Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships. She formed personalities on the ice whose names are still echoed today: daughter Gaby Seyfert, Jan Hoffmann, Anett Pötzsch and of course Katarina Witt. For her and many others, Jutta Müller's 90th birthday is the occasion for a journey through shared times and personal memories. They return to Chemnitz to surprise their trainer, to bow to the figure skating icon with grateful gestures and to roll out the red carpet not only symbolically.
- The death penalty in East Germany was often subject to political interference. Initially executions were carried out in Dresden. The location was then to moved to Leipzig. Since 1960 it was located in the middle of a residential area, at Alfred-Kästner-Straße in the south of Leipzig. It was a strictly sealed part of a prison system. Neither prisoners nor residents have ever noticed anything of the approximately 68 executions. It was not until 1990 that the public found out about this place.
- Yuri Gagarin lay at her feet, Lotte Ulbricht wanted to adopt her, a Syrian sheik offered 300 camels for a marriage with - Bärbel Wachholz. She became a legend during her lifetime, a pop favourite in the 50s and 60s. Until the Wall was built, she was one of the very few all-German stars. On the 25th anniversary of her death, Ilse Bähnert remembers her encounter with Bärbel Wachholz: gossip, rumors and truths that only Ilse could have experienced. Ilse Bähnert brings to life the image of a very private, shy and fragile, but also a perfect show goddess with a charisma that is still unmatched today. Contemporary witnesses such as Peter Wieland, Julia Axen, Günter Gollasch, Leni Statz, Gerd Natschinski, Lutz Jahoda and others tell stories about a very special woman and artist. But the best information about Bärbel Wachholz is still provided by her songs, with which she wrote entertainment history.
- Schießerei Unter den Linden Am 18.06.1978 desertiert ein bewaffneter Sowjetsoldat aus der Garnison Vogelsang bei Berlin. Er stiehlt ein Auto, will nach Westberlin flüchten. Doch auf der Straße Unter den Linden stoppen ihn Volkspolizisten. Es kommt zu einem Feuergefecht mitten am Tag. Augenzeugen und Einsatzkräfte erinnern sich. Geiselname durch Sowjetsoldaten In der Nähe von Magdeburg nimmt am 25.06.1990 ein ebenfalls desertierter sowjetischer Soldat eine Familie in deren Auto als Geiseln. Dramatische Stunden bis zur Befreiung.
- For almost 30 years, German youth welfare offices have handled children and adolescents on pedophile men, some of whom were even criminal record due to child abuse. It was only when some people affected for compensation in 2017 did this scandal became public. Now there is a new book.
- There is a dispute in the party Die Linke about Sahra Wagenknecht. The reason: their polarizing positions, for example on arms deliveries to Ukraine, migration and sanctions against Russia. She is popular on the street, although she opposes the course of the party and acts provocatively towards it. Voices are being raised within the party calling for Sahra Wagenknecht to be expelled.
- The "Winzerclub" not far from Konrad Erben's home is a meeting place for neo-Nazis and the city of Jena is the starting point of the worst right-wing extremist murder series in recent German history. Although Konrad was still a child at that time, he still felt what it was like to grow up as a black child in a xenophobic environment. Today he conducts research on precisely those topics: extremism and radicalization. His academic career was not predetermined. Konrad had to fight his way up from secondary school to vocational school in his mid-20s. On each anniversary of the murder of a person or an assassination attempt by the NSU, Konrad Erben held commemorative events in Jena together with other committed people.
- 2015–TV Episode"Sights on Crime - The Aschersleben School of Criminology" - Police officers were already being trained in Aschersleben in GDR times. After reunification, the Saxony-Anhalt Police College was established here - one of the most modern training facilities for young police officers in Germany. Trainees and students from seven federal states are prepared here for police service.
- For years, Ilse Koch lived with her family in the commander's villa on the Ettersberg, while just a few meters away tens of thousands of people starved, were tortured and forced to do forced labor, and died a painful death. But who was the "witch of Buchenwald"? Based on the trial protocols, the film traces the life of Ilse Koch on the Ettersberg near Weimar and explores how she was able to lead a lower middle-class life in such a place, with the declared aim of giving her husband a cozy evening "after work". to create home? How did she see her role as a wife at the side of a concentration camp commander?
- 2015–TV Episode"What to do with our toxic waste? The Dangerous Legacy of Humanity." - It's the dark side of our industry: toxic waste. Industrial chemical waste has been accumulating in Germany for over 100 years, which was often simply dumped into the landscape. Especially bad in Bitterfeld-Wolfen. In this film, MDR WISSEN shows how this problem came about and what solutions international research offers.
- "From today on, your receiver's screen will light up night after night - for two hours the life of our republic, but also the life of distant countries, will come over the ether to your home and the cultural space of your company." With these words In 1952, a young lady in a smart blouse greeted the few viewers at the start of "German television broadcasting" - Margit Schaumäker, the first of a whole group of young ladies, and a few gentlemen, who worked as program announcers on GDR television in the years that followed to lead.
- "Of course I'm a perpetrator", says Eberhard Schwarzer, a former Stasi employee from Frankfurt an der Oder, and I'm ashamed of it too. Frank Heymann from Leipzig adds: One resists for a long time, but today it is clear to me: the GDR rightly failed the way it was. Former employees of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) step in front of the camera to express their remorse and their respect for the victims. They talk about their life after the GDR, about the difficult new beginning and the often lengthy integration into West German society.
- "The Nazis were all in the West" - this was and is often the common opinion about the whereabouts of National Socialist perpetrators and followers after the Second World War. But did all the Nazis who stayed in the SBZ and the GDR actually receive their just punishments or did they go to the West prematurely? Or were there also brown shadows in the biographies of some East Germans?
- Voenix is a shaman and a well-known guy in the neo-pagan scene. He is often at events all over Germany, is an artist and author and runs his own YouTube channel. There he publishes films about topics and people from the pagan scene. Pagans believe in many gods, and they refer to the religions of old cultures such as the Norse world of gods. In search of meaning and orientation, a growing number of people are interested in these ancient myths and rites. They see neo-paganism as an alternative to the modern, consumer-oriented way of life. A religion that they feel to be closer to nature, more mysterious and more sensual than what is offered by the classic churches.
- More than 10 years ago, Jenny Rasche, who is now 38, discovered a Roma settlement during a trip to Romania. Some of the people live in holes in the ground - without water, without electricity. A slum. In the middle of Europe. Hidden behind a mountain village near Sibiu - Hermannstadt. "Little children die here. Of hunger and cold".
- 2008–202315mTV EpisodeA trip from Leipzig to the Black Sea with journalist Julia Finkernagel. This journey will take the audience in 6 weeks from Germany to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. always from the perspective of a curious backpacker looking for new adventures.
- 2008–2023TV EpisodeA trip from Leipzig to the Black Sea with journalist Julia Finkernagel. The journey takes the audience in 6 weeks from Germany to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, always from the perspective of a backpacker looking for new adventures.