Berlin long shot: Steinstrasse
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Berlin long shot: Steinstrasse |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Veronika Otten |
| production | State film documentation |
| camera | Roland Worel |
Berlin-Totale: Steinstraße is a documentary by the State Film Documentation at the State Film Archive of the GDR by Veronika Otten from 1976 .
action
The camera shows Steinstraße with its tenement houses that are no longer plastered , the windows to the former basement apartments and shops are bricked up, the steps to the house entrances have been partially repaired. You can see from some windows that the apartments belonging to them are no longer inhabited. There is no longer a shop in the street, but you can still partly read what was behind the walls, for example there was a hair dye shop, a pedicure and a shop for modern hairdressing.
In one of the ground floor windows , Aunt Anna leans on the windowsill and talks to Veronika Otten, the editor of this film. When asked what she would see in the street if she could turn back time by 50 years, Aunt Anna replied that at that time she could not see out of this window because she was still living at number 12 at the time. But a little later she moved into this house, which was next to a coal yard. The only thing she could see then were the numerous prostitutes . They didn't look bad, they walked neatly and neatly dressed, but they are no longer on Steinstrasse today. At first Aunt Anna didn't know what these people were all about. When she went for a walk with her dog, she was scolded by the ladies because they suspected that she was a competition , and she couldn't even open her window without being attacked. Life on the street today is completely different than it used to be, but still full of activity.
There used to be five pubs on Steinstrasse that no longer exist. When asked whether Aunt Anna would move to a different, more modern apartment in a nicer environment, all she says is that she will stay in her room until she dies. She has no wishes, because she is perfectly happy.
Then Aunt Anna should tell you what kind of shops there used to be on Steinstrasse. It starts immediately with house number 17 opposite, which housed a clothing store, a bicycle shop, a cigarette shop and a shoemaker's workshop. In the no. 16 was also a cigarette store in the no. 15 was a barber shop, a grocery store , in the No. 13/14. Was a brothel . On the right side of the street was a furniture store, a workshop for plaster figures, in the next house was a bottling plant for beer and seltzer and then there was a carpentry shop. At the corner of Steinstrasse and Rosenthaler Strasse was a bakery that she fondly remembers.
The residents of the street were and are, with a few exceptions, workers, i.e. all little people.
Production and publication
The full title of this 16mm film is:
Berlin-Totale A film document from the State Film Documentation
III. Living and housing conditions
2. Berlin-Mitte old building area
g. Steinstrasse
The film was not intended for public screening in the GDR .
See also
- Film list with additional information