For over 25 years, the BBC gave voice to the silenced people of East Germany by inviting them to secretly write in to a radio programme called Letters without Signature. Broadcast on the BBC’s German Service, the programme…
Category: Productions
First broadcast: November 20, 2020 19:30 ARTE
Broadcast NDR television: March 20, 2021, 12:45 - 13:15 p.m.
Stanislav Vysotskyi is a juggler with heart and soul. Actually, the 37-year-old Ukrainian, who lives in Berlin, was supposed to perform together with 12 other artists in the current autumn show of the Krystallpalast Varieté in Leipzig. But on the day of the premiere, the news of the upcoming second lockdown reached them.
It is the largest and the oldest, over 850 years old church in the trade fair city of Leipzig. In addition, along with St. Thomas Church, it is one of the city’s most important tourist magnets and one…
Is it permissible to commit people to psychiatric care because they pose a danger to themselves and others? Doesn't this forced admission violate the right to self-determination? And who decides on treatment against one's own will?
The town of Hainichen in Saxony. In June 1945 the automobile manufacturer Hans Rasmussen is routed out of bed, arrested and brought to Silesia to a so-called special camp of the Soviet NKVD. He dies little later at…
According to statements by the union Germany currently has a shortage of 80.000 nurses. Chronical overcrowding and lacking support of staff members facilitate trends of turning a blind eye to assault or even a serial killing, as a…
The final round of debates on the future of the much disputed gas pipeline “Nord-Stream 2” has begun. Whether a European consortium, led by the Russian state-owned company Gazprom, will be able to build another pipeline through the…
A refugee aid worker and a member of the right wing party AfD: Elvira Ploß and Heiko Müller live in Dresden and are both critical contemporaries. However, they have drawn completely different conclusions from their life experiences. What…
How are 150,000 DM made to one hundred million Dollars? How is a formerly publicly owned company made to an American start-up company? The documentary tells the moving stories of the Rizma factories in Eisfeld and of an…
