Transit (documentary, 2010)

Movie
Original title	transit
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2010
length	80 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Angela Zumpe
script	Angela Zumpe
production	Holm Tadikken / Cine Impus Leipzig , ; Angela Zumpe / Paste Up Production
music	Ilya Coric
camera	Peter Petrides
cut	Regina Bärtschi
occupation
	Henriette Schulz-Molon; Salomea Gernin; Stephan wool; Reinhard Zumpe;

Transit (spelling: TRANSIT ) is a German documentary from 2010 that was directed by the director Angela Zumpe . It was first broadcast in German cinemas on September 30, 2010.

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“'Go over there!' - You heard this saying again and again in 1968. Anyone who criticized the Federal Republic during the hot phase of the student revolts could leave. Over to the GDR. But who would seriously have come up with the idea of daring this crazy step? "

- Spiegel Online on April 16, 2010

In the documentary TRANSIT , director Angela Zumpe goes in search of her brother, who left her conservative parental home in West Germany in 1968 at the age of 21 to move to the GDR. Just eight months later he killed himself without the details of the circumstances being clarified. Forty years after her suicide, the director embarks on a search for clues and on her journey discovers biographies and stories of people who, like her brother, moved from west to east; including people who had not yet given up the longing for a “third way”, a socialism with a human face.

Reviews

The reviews of the theatrical release were mostly positive. The film was broadcast on MDR in 2010 and on rbb in 2011 .

On the day it was first broadcast on September 30, 2010, Anke Westphal presented the film as a “constant change of perspective on German history” in the Berliner Zeitung . With this, director Angela Zumpe achieved something that “after 20 years of reunification was as good as has disappeared from the media ”. With “Transit”, the stories told by native GDR citizens about border crossings are not only presented as a literal sense, “the film also dares to transcend mental boundaries by constantly changing gaze”. "The director doesn't find out much about her brother's life in the GDR, but that also says a lot."

In the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland , Kira Taszman writes about the storyline of the film: “When your own brother, who died 40 years ago, becomes the subject of a documentary, you chase after a phantom. At least that is how it is with Angela Zumpe's very personal documentary »Transit«. “The film portrays citizens who immigrated from the FRG to the GDR, either hopefully through exile or as workers. "These biographies [are] supplemented by archive photos from West and East Berlin or by Stasi surveillance films, which is an impressive reminder of the former division of the city 20 years after reunification."

In the monthly Leipzig city magazine kreuzer Reinhard Zumpe, the director's brother, Sven Näbrich portrays a resettler to the GDR in 1968, among other things out of hatred for his father, a pastor. It is still unclear whether the GDR or his cockiness was the trigger for his suicide 6 months later. 40 years later Angela Zumpe moved with her camera to the East, whereupon the film »Transit« was made, which not only tells the story of his disappearance, but also "above all a strangely contradicting episode of the German-German past". She also tells the private ones in the political story, especially that of her brother. “In the credits it says“ For Reinhard ”and you feel what pictures can barely show in 80 minutes. And yet the film wrote the words. How Angela Zumpe tracks down her brother, tries to find him across time and place, that touches. […] What counts is the story, is Reinhard, is a face whose remote features you think you can fathom at the end. "

More reviews

Alexander Bernstein: The search for the third way . In: Kulturfalter . Magdeburg 2010, p. 10 .
Denis Demmerle et al .: Hedonism and dictatorship - attention. Berlin Festival Report Part 2. Berlin Film Festival, accessed on March 5, 2016 .
Joachim Kurz: Transit (2010 / II). Reverse escape movement. kino-zeit.de, accessed on March 5, 2016 .
Nicolaus Schröder: Relocated . Lost in general: the documentation Transit . In: Tip . No. 10 , 2010, ISSN 0177-333X ( online ).
TRANSIT. Dresden cinema calendar, accessed on March 5, 2016 .
"I want to stay where I've never been". Spiegel Online, April 16, 2010, accessed March 5, 2016 .

advancement

Central German Media Funding (MDM) Leipzig
Saxon State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media (SLM) Leipzig

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ "I want to stay where I've never been". Spiegel Online, April 16, 2010, accessed March 5, 2016 .
↑ Anke Westphal: German-German views in "Transit" by Angela Zumpe. Out of the jeans, in the FDJ blouse. Berliner Zeitung, September 30, 2010, accessed on March 5, 2016 .
↑ Kira Taszman: Mama Party, Papa Stasi . In “Transit” Angela Zumpe tells the story of GDR emigrants . In: New Germany . October 2, 2010, ISSN 0323-3375 .
↑ Sven Näbrich: TRANSIT. "Get over there!" In: cruiser . No. 10 , 2010, ISSN 0943-0547 , p. 39 .

[spiegel-1] "I want to stay where I've never been". Spiegel Online, April 16, 2010, accessed March 5, 2016 .

[2] Anke Westphal: German-German views in "Transit" by Angela Zumpe. Out of the jeans, in the FDJ blouse. Berliner Zeitung, September 30, 2010, accessed on March 5, 2016 .

[3] Kira Taszman: Mama Party, Papa Stasi . In “Transit” Angela Zumpe tells the story of GDR emigrants . In: New Germany . October 2, 2010, ISSN 0323-3375 .

[4] Sven Näbrich: TRANSIT. "Get over there!" In: cruiser . No. 10 , 2010, ISSN 0943-0547 , p. 39 .