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 Rainer Hällfritzsch, Ulrike Hemberger, Karl Hoffmann The 3rd Generation of Feeling Fine WIM e V., Deutscheland 1999, 12’ In 1994, the Daimler-Benz corporation started constructing a new part of the city on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. It describes itself as a good corporate citizen giving the public a brand-new Potsdamer Platz as a present. But whom does it all really belong to? The political and urban discussions of the early '90s have long since been forgotten. On the symbolically-laden eve of the "Day of German Unification", October 2, 1998, "Daimler City" had its grand opening and is now a matter of fact. The video shows the building investors, operators and politicians in the way they present this project and themselves to the media. The film is the first in a series examining the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin between 1990 and today. Rainer Hällfritzsch (b. 1952) and Ulrike Hemberger (b. 1954) are both members of Werkstatt für Interkulturelle Medienarbeit (WIM) (Workshop for intercultural media work) in Berlin, Germany, and have been directing and producing documentary films together since 1988 on urban, ecological, socio-political and historical topics. Films include "Bitteres aus Bitterfeld", 1988, on the ecological catastrophe in a region of East Germany, "Schöne Aussichten für Langerwisch", 1991, on an attempt to develop a small town in an ecologically-sound way, "Enkelkinder / A Generation Twice Removed", 1997, on youths from the USA and Germany on a trip to Auschwitz where they perform a theatre play written by the daughter of holocaust survivors, and "Archiv der Erinnerung", 1998, six exemplary interviews with Jews persecuted during the Third Reich. They are currently working on a documentary on school teachers dealing with Neonazi and racist pupils today. Karl Hoffmann (b. 1959) is a free-lance author, film musician, and director. Films include "Ein Tag in Hassloch" (with Thomas Schunke), 1991, a documentary on an amusement-park in a small German town and "BILD LEIPZIG", 1995, an experimental feature film on the rapid urban changes taking place after German unification in the city of Leipzig, which was shown at the documenta X in Kassel in 1997. |
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