Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg: encounters between May 1st and July 1st 1990
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg: encounters between May 1st and July 1st 1990 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Petra Tschörtner |
| script | Petra Tschörtner Jochen Wisotzki |
| production | DEFA -Studio for Documentary Films GmbH |
| camera | Michael Lösche |
| cut | Angelika Arnold |
Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg: Encounters between May 1 and July 1, 1990 is a documentary film made by DEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme GmbH in 1991 .
action
The pirate station Radio P broadcasts from an apartment in Prenzlauer Berg . In May 1990 there was still no law on the basis of which such a station can be registered normally. Therefore, it is simply sent on until clarification. The next track to be played is “We need revolution” by the group “ Herbst in Peking ”, which can be seen rocking on the former wall at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark .
In the next shot, the camera goes after three funny, singing women on the sidewalk who are on their way to the corner bar “Hackepeter” on Dimitroffstrasse . Off-screen question to the women "How do you think you will be after monetary union"? A woman replies: "Oh God, well, I accept everything as it comes, we can't change anything ... the stupid will always be us ... the little one is always the stupid one". And then there is dancing again.
In the “Treffmodelle” clothing factory on Greifswalder Strasse, a seamstress helps a customer try on a coat. But the size, as well as the cut and the material, do not give cause for joy. One of the seamstresses says: “At the moment there is no model for what I would wear,” her colleague agrees. Then there is talk about the Vietnamese seamstresses, who are now the first to be dismissed, but it would be "... unjust, we would be dismissed and the Vietnamese would stay here ... if the Germans were kicked out, racial hatred really arises"
In the “GEWA” department store at the Schönhauser Allee subway station, the senior and junior bosses give information on the current situation. Kinners, one is against it, the other is for it, we all want the wall again, look uff, that'll come again, hopefully. The state has betrayed us anyway, we get shit by the second one, it doesn't matter ... "and" ... this is a private company, the business has existed for 40 years and was opened in October 49. As you can see, we are in the process of doing this, here, we have carried out price cuts, the store is really empty, of course we are trying to get through this as far as possible first "
In Berlin Prater in Kastanienallee we learn the photographer Harald Hauswald at work know. He is observed while taking photos and then answers questions about his relationship to the present day in his apartment.
The next shot shows care and kitchen staff handing out lunch to waiting residents in front of their rooms. Two residents eat at their room table while a domestic worker squirts poison against vermin on the walls and window frames. One of them, known as Knatterkarl, has been in the home for ten years. Originally together with his wife, who died three years ago. Now he is 85 years old and goes to Berlin-Karlshorst to dance every Sunday, at table 41 he has his regular seat. There he also finds his constant dance partner.
In the “Wiener Cafe” in Schönhauser Allee, a guest celebrates his birthday to the sound of a Romanian two-man band. He says that it was originally intended for the national prize and how in 1954 he made 36,000 marks in just three months. A woman who claims to have been Manfred Krug's fiancée once sings a serenade, which nobody wants to hear. In front of the restaurant, a young man, with a bottle of champagne in hand, sings the song “ Our Home ”.
In the Franz-Klub you can hear the bells ringing at midnight from the nearby church. It is July 1, 1990, from now on the D-Mark is the official national currency in the GDR, so the monetary union between the two German states comes into force. On the stage, in front of a GDR flag, the wind instruments of a rock group play the GDR national anthem with a line in verse: "... Germany, united fatherland" .
At dawn, East Berlin's most famous snack bar “Konnopke” opens without the boss knowing what to expect. The prices were simply converted 1: 1, which is practically twice the price, but the quality is also higher. Your first turnover in the new currency is 6.00 marks.
production
The black and white film was shot almost without exception in Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg and premiered on February 19, 1991 in the series “New German Films” at the Berlin International Film Festival . Furthermore, the film was shown at the beginning of April during the 14th International Border Film Festival in Selb , Franconia . The first regular screening took place on April 26, 1991 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin, distributed by CON Film (Bremen). It was first broadcast on television on November 20, 1991 by the television station N 3 .