Stone Age - The Experiment

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Movie
Original title Stone Age - The Experiment - Life like 5000 years ago
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 2007
length 4 × 45 minutes
Rod
Director Martin Buchholz (village), Harold Woetzel (Alps)
production Walter Seeker
music Klaus Burger
camera Ralf Nowak, Jochen Schmoll
cut Susanne Heller, Peter Hillebrand (Alps)
occupation
  • Families Burberg and Matthes
  • Frauke-Sophia Peters
  • Ingo Schuster
  • Henning Fenner
  • Hans Mittermüller (speaker)

Stone Age - The Experiment - life like 5,000 years ago is the title of a four-part documentary , which in May and June 2007 at the First shown and contributions radio was accompanied by various TV and. The television series about the past in Europe was produced in August / September 2006 by SWR under the direction of Martin Buchholz . The crossing of the Alps by the two protagonists Henning Fenner and Ingo Schuster was documented by Jochen Schmoll (camera) and Harold Woetzel (director). The Stone Age is the continuation of a series of " Living History " which also includes Black Forest House 1902 (2002) or Adventure 1900 - Life in the Manor House (2004) and Adventure 1927 - Summer Freshness (2005), as well as The Bride School 1958 (2007).

action

Two families and an elderly woman, a total of 13 people, live under Stone Age conditions for two months . They have to provide for their own food by growing grain and raising livestock . The two single men set out on foot a few days after the experiment began. Before they crossed the Alps along an old trade route from Bregenz to Bolzano , they drove with a dugout canoe from Langenargen across Lake Constance to Bregenz, but this failed. The documentation shows how people today experience the living conditions of a time before industry, computers and three-field economy .

Before filming began, the actors were trained in basic knowledge and skills, such as making fires using historical means and cooking in ceramic vessels. The modern environment is largely hidden, only those crossing the Alps had to cross some roads or paths. However, the producers intervened to advise and help in emergencies. So they had to z. For example, in the face of heavy rain, seal the roofs of the houses or take the hikers who failed with a dugout canoe across Lake Constance .

Contributors

The participants are all non-professional actors who have applied for participation. Earnings intentions are not known. These are two married couples who are friends with three children each, two single men and a slightly older woman. Some participants have skills that will help them live in the Stone Age, such as: B. Knowledge as a potter or sheep farmer . The advisory staff consists of doctors, archaeologists , archaeologists and other scientists.

The series and other contributions

Stone Age - The Experiment

  • Episode 1 - The acid test - the preparations and first days in the village
  • Episode 2 - The departure - The residents take care of their nutrition, the tour through the Alps begins.
  • Episode 3 - In Ötzi's footsteps
  • Episode 4 - The homecoming

Stone age children

  • How the "Stone Age" children experienced the journey through time
  • Ronja - You can also use soapwort
  • Till - the dream of sausage and fries

More broadcasts

  • Odysso - Discovering Knowledge: The Stone Age Experiment
  • Saturday evening: Adventure - Stone Age
  • W for knowledge : Living Science: Stone Age
  • Planet knowledge : secrets of archeology - from the shard collecting and bone exploration
  • Stone Age - The Village
  • Stone Age - Across the Alps like Ötzi

There were also other contributions on various television and radio stations.

Location

The Stone Age houses in the Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen

The film was shot in the summer of 2006 on a small lake in the Altdorf Forest near Erbisreute ( municipality of Schlier ) in a faithfully reconstructed small pile-dwelling village that was specially built for this purpose. When filming began, the participants found the village as if it had only been left by other residents. Animals lived there, grain grew in a field, and some food was stored in the pantry. After the last shooting in winter at the beginning of 2007, the stone age houses on the shore were dismantled again. They can be seen today in the Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen .

Scientific support

The project was scientifically supported by the Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen and six other scientists from Austria, Switzerland and Germany. The experiment is also part of various research projects at the Hohenstein Research Institute, the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg University Medical Center . The scientists want to use the practical test to check and expand the knowledge gained from archaeological finds. To do this, they examine the villagers with modern devices such as the actometer .

Accompanying exhibitions

There are nationwide accompanying exhibitions in archaeological museums for this project.

literature

  • Rolf Schlenker, Almut Bick: Stone Age. Life like 5000 years ago. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-8062-2099-5
  • Alexander Binsteiner: The Ötzi case - robbery and murder on the Similaun. Documentation. Linz archaeological research, special issue 38, Linz 2007. ISBN 978-3-85484-586-3

Movie

DVDs

  • Stone Age - the experiment. Over the Alps like Ötzi. Director: Harold Woetzel, camera: Jochen Schmoll. Running time approx. 89 min. Complete Media, Grünwald 2008, ISBN 978-3-8312-9484-8 .
  • Stone Age - the experiment. Life like 5000 years ago. 4 parts, total running time approx. 240 min. Complete Media, Grünwald 2007, ISBN 978-3-8312-9483-1 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life like 5000 years ago In: Südkurier of April 12, 2007
  2. ↑ 23.06. - 04.11.2007 "Discoveries - Highlights of State Archeology" ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (With a complete list of museums in which exhibitions can be seen.)