In the middle of Europe - German history

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Television series
Original title In the middle of Europe - German history
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1989-1990
length 30 minutes
Episodes 19 in 2 seasons
genre History , documentation
production Project Studio Rüdiger Proske GmbH
music Werner Fischhötter ,
Karsten Günther
camera Falko Ahsendorf u. a.
First broadcast January 8, 1989 on Sat.1
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Harald Pages : Narrator

In the Middle of Europe - German History is a documentary series by producer Rüdiger Proske on European history and German history in particular from 1989.

content

The series deals with European, especially German history. If the first episode is still concerned with the Celts , early Germanic cultures and the Roman Empire , this broad spectrum changes with the third part. In this episode it is explained that after his death the empire of Charlemagne suffered more and more from the raids of the Vikings , the Arabs and the Hungarians and that therefore the quarreling heirs of Charlemagne divided the empire. First in 843 AD with the Treaty of Verdun ; and later again in 880 AD with the Treaty of Ribemont . Finally, it is emphasized that this is how the German empire emerged from the eastern part of the empire. This is how the series finds its real focus in this third part. The series now deals step by step with German history up to reunification in 1990.

background

The series was produced by Projekt Studio Rüdiger Proske GmbH and was directed by Tobias Hoffmann and Gondrand de Bruycker . The scientists Hartmut Boockmann ( medieval expert ), Heinz Schilling (historian) ( expert from the early modern era ) and Hagen Schulze ( modern era expert ) also helped with the production. In the opening and closing credits it was emphasized that the project was supported by various large companies - Hoesch , Bosch and others.

The story series was first shown on the television station Sat.1 in 1989 and has not been repeated since. The last episode was reproduced in 1990. The viewer could order booklets for the programs. These booklets were later reissued in four volumes under the title Die Deutsche Geschichte .

The last volume has been updated for the new edition and thus covers the period from 1961 to 2000.

The series was temporarily distributed on video by the German Film Center .

Sequence index

  1. The Roman legacy 50 BC Chr. – 375 AD
  2. The empire of the Franks 375–814
  3. The beginning of German history 814–1150
  4. The time of the early Hohenstaufen 1150–1215
  5. The center of Europe in motion 1215–1346
  6. Crises and Wealth of the Middle Ages 1346–1378
  7. Autumn of the Middle Ages 1378–1517
  8. Habsburg Empire and Reformation 1480–1521
  9. Struggle for Faith 1521–1555
  10. Religion and State Reason 1545–1648
  11. Age of absolutism 1648–1740
  12. Fall of the Old Empire 1740–1806
  13. The Birth of the German Nation 1806–1849
  14. The Road to the Nation State 1849–1892
  15. Wilhelmine Germany 1888–1914
  16. The Weimar Republic 1918–1933
  17. Under the spell of seduction and violence 1933–1939
  18. Disaster and a new beginning 1942–1961
  19. German history continues from 1961–1990

literature

  • Michael Schmidt (Ed.); Rüdiger Proske (ed.): The German history . Braunschweig, 2001

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ The name Rüdiger Proske is particularly prominent in the credits.
  2. ↑ The first episode aired on January 8th. See The Internet Movie Database - start dates for the middle of Europe - German history
  3. ↑ Film catalog for the 2009 Memorial Year - 60 Years of Germany (PDF file; 117 kB)
  4. ↑ In the first episode of the series there is speculation about whether a female corpse from the moor died as a victim or as an adulteress. According to investigations from 2006, however, the bog body is a boy. This latest finding could not be corrected in the new edition from 2001.
  5. ↑ Organized the new edition