Sonneborn saves the world
Sonneborn saves the world is a three-part series broadcast on October 10, 2013 on ZDFneo . She was awarded a Grimme Prize in 2014.
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Episode 1: Financial Markets
First task: prevent the collapse of the financial market!
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sonneborn saves the world |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2013 |
| Production company |
SMACfilm |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 |
| genre | satire |
| Director | Andreas Coerper , Susanne Müller |
| idea | Andreas Coerper |
| script | Andreas Coerper |
| music | Joachim Treu |
| First broadcast | October 10, 2013 on ZDFneo |
| occupation | |
Martin Sonneborn on the road in Europe to save the world. Referring to the book “2052. The new report to the Club of Rome ”visits Martin Sonneborn's author Jørgen Randers in Rome, who tells him to stop the collapse of the financial markets, because if we don't“ act quickly ”our world will“ go to hell ”.
So Sonneborn embarks on an odyssey by moped through the European world of finance, industrial companies, politicians, lobbyists and people on the street to find out the essence of the financial world.
His first path leads him to Gregor Gysi , to whom he suggests printing money to relieve the poorest countries. Since this idea is hardly practicable, Sonneborn wants to ask a financial expert for advice next and goes to Frankfurt, where Deutsche Bank has invited him to an interview with its press spokesman Stefan Georgi. Interestingly enough, the financial institution does not want to answer questions from the supposed journalist, but has already prepared its own list of irrelevant questions and answers that should only be presented in front of the camera with assigned roles. Martin Sonneborn seems to get involved in this farce and in the end exposes the wrong game.
Next, Sonneborn attended a seminar for investors, the speaker of which convinced him that bartering would flourish after a collapse of the financial system and that one would be well advised to keep consumer goods in stock, for example vodka. Sonneborn took up the idea and then tried to buy goods in direct exchange for vodka bottles in various shops, with moderate success. Fortunately, there is a so-called gift shop in Berlin , where people can hand in things they no longer need and in return can take goods home as gifts, all cashless.
To answer the question of who is most likely to survive after a financial collapse, Sonneborn asks passers-by from two Berlin districts, rich Charlottenburg and poor Neukölln . It turns out that the people from Neukölln cope much better with everyday problems than the wealthy Charlottenburgers. Local differences are also evident when changing a vacuum cleaner bag successfully.
At the end of the first part, the non-fiction author Georg Zoche explains the advantages of a new independent transnational currency that could save the global economy and at the same time create a more social world.
Episode 2: Environment
Second task: stop the CO2 emissions!
In the second episode, adventure satirist Martin Sonneborn meets Jørgen Randers from the Club of Rome on his mission to save the world , who explains to him how climate-damaging CO2 emissions can be effectively slowed down: by giving 100 million Europeans emission rights for each Buy 5 tons of CO2 and then destroy it, which would drive up the price of these papers. So Sonneborn is now entering the world of the emissions mafia. He buys emission vouchers for a total of 50 euros and visits the then Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier , to whom he sells some and burns them in the minister's office.
On the way to the European power exchange in Leipzig, the maddened satirist asks people on the street which restrictions on their lifestyle they would be willing to accept in order to save the world and receives some interesting creative answers. Further interviews on the electricity exchange convince Sonneborn that politics is ultimately responsible.
He visits the Green politician Bärbel Höhn , who shares this view and, in order to show her good will, buys additional emission certificates from Sonneborn and gives them to the shredder in her office. But it also points to the overpowering lobby interests that would influence the course of politics.
Sonneborn uncovered a twofold scandal of lobbying during a visit to the small town of Proschim , the residents of which are supposed to give way to an open- cast lignite mining project by the energy giant Vattenfall . Through aggressive lobbying , Vattenfall has not only succeeded in eliminating public interests, but is also responsible for the release of billions of tons of CO2 through lignite mining. In solidarity, Sonneborn decides to go to Berlin and staged a street protest in front of Vattenfall's main building.
Finally, the traveling comedian introduces some Berlin initiatives that promote environmentally friendly grassroots projects, for example an initiative that wants to buy back Berliner Stromwerke in order to be able to operate them again on a non-profit basis. Food recycler Raphael Fellmer saves discarded food from garbage cans. A Tempelhof experimental project presents a local system that can be used anywhere, in which fish and plants can be raised in a nutrient cycle.
Episode 3: Lobbyism
Third task: fight corruption!
The third episode revolves around the question of how it comes about that Germany, unlike many other countries, does not ratify the UN Treaty on Combating Corruption because a corresponding initiative has been blocked by the CDU / CSU and FDP for 10 years. Again it is Jørgen Randers who gives the slogan: Find out!
And again it is the LEFT MP Gregor Gysi who shows Sonneborn the way through the parliamentary jungle. This is how he met the CSU politician Wolfgang Götzer , who is one of the most vehement opponents of anti-corruption laws , but who is hopelessly involved in contradictions at an information event on this subject at Sonneborn's request. The windy work of the CSU politician also confirms Karl Lauterbach from the SPD.
Next, however, Martin Sonneborn starts a bus company that drives interested tourists to sights of Berlin's corruption history in the form of a tour.
In the noble China Club he meets the "top lobbyist" Dr. Karl Jurka , who explains the system of corrupt lobbyism and gives concrete tips on how Martin could put his idea of a “world rescue day” into practice - namely with the help of lobbyists. He meets the Berlin insider Michael Müller , who is interested in the topic and promises to help. This introduces Sonneborn to the young SPD politician Matthias Miersch , who is also enthusiastic about the idea and wants to take on the matter.
But first Sonneborn asks passers-by again, this time about the question of whether politicians can save our world at all. Most are skeptical and pessimistic. But - and now the story comes to its happy ending - at the end of the day Martin Sonneborn, as a visitor to a parliamentary debate, can actually hear Matthias Miersch taking up the idea of an extraordinary parliamentary consultation on the major issues of the planet and humanity in a speech in the Bundestag.
Trivia
Due to the interview with Stefan Georgi from Deutsche Bank, the satirist received a complaint from the financial institution.
In 2014, the film received the renowned Grimme Prize in the following categories: Andreas Coerper (idea / book / director), Susanne Müller (director / production) and Martin Sonneborn ("world savior").
Web links
- Sonneborn save the world in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Sonneborn saves the world (ZDF / ZDFneo) , website of the Grimme Institute for the 50th Grimme Prize 2014, accessed on January 29, 2018.
- Sonneborn saves the world at ZDF.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans von der Hagen: The Deutsche Bank and their Sonneborn , article in the SZ from November 12, 2013, accessed on January 29, 2018.
- ↑ Sonneborn saves the world (ZDF / ZDFneo) , website of the Grimme Institute for the 50th Grimme Prize 2014, accessed on January 29, 2018.