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- ShotlistErich Kuby: about Fritz Kortner and Wolfgang Harich and the fact that they overestimated him; the foundation of the two German states; article by Fritz J. Raddatz on the German states; correspondence developed with Harich about this, unfortunately lost; relationship between Rudolf Augstein and Harich: distanced, of course there were intellectual points of contact and wave movements of political sympathy; about Wolf Biermann and his first concert in Cologne; aversions to Nietzsche; Harich as a unique specimen, which the consequences of imprisonment had not left untouched; 1949 concrete experience of the founding of the FRG and GDR as correspondent of the Süddeutsche Zeitung; friendship with Carlo Schmid; about Harich: not a decorative piece, but for many it was a fatality; about Carlo Schmid; foundation of the FRG under Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard; about Axel Springer, a job offer for Kuby, Springer's visit to Moscow and arguments with him; efforts by Harich and others to unite Germany; about Berg; first visit to the GDR, in Cottbus for research; about a caretaker who did not know the name of the mayor; about his book "Das ist des Deutschen Vaterland" and his contract with Springer; about Kubys literary breakthrough; the "lower way" and his anti-German attitude; "it's not only Hitler, it's the Germans"; short emigration to Yugoslavia; about Konrad Adenauer's attitude to the division of Germany: Adenauer was from the beginning for a West state; development of the German economic miracle; visit in the house of Ludwig Erhard at the Tegernsee; the "lower way" as economic and psychological modesty in the "fourth Reich" of the Germans; about his book "Das ist des Deutschen Vaterland" and sympathy for the way of life of the East Germans; absurdities of the customs controls on entry into the GDR, for example, the "German Federal Republic" and the "German Federal Republic".B. Confission of the "Frankfurter Hefte" (Frankfurt Booklets); exiles who left the country after the 2nd World War. Like Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch and Hanns Eisler, they went to the East after World War II and for reasons: not to live in an American satellite state; "Links, where the heart beats"; no contact with the circle of opponents and the magazine "Der Gegner"; Kuby as a loner; the subversive method to cope with capitalism; one cannot say as an individual: "I am subversive"; Journalist Prize of the City of Munich and the designation as Kassandra; Journalism today, decay of the press and his work as a columnist; Süddeutsche Zeitung, music critic Kaiser with his own handwriting; Anarchism and (in)possibilities to make a difference as a journalist; about constructive writing; conversations with Rudolf Augstein; about Wolfgang Harich, his carelessness and his not fitting in; about (missing) sense of reality; recognizing tendencies as a constructive basis for writing; as an example for absurd civic regulations: Expulsion of a young delinquent Turk Mehmed; Harich was a unique specimen, in a positive and negative sense; the imaginary Harich group; Harich at the height of his fame as a young philosopher during a conference of the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB); lack of sense of reality damaged Harich; grievances in the world and motto of today's Germany "No experiments" (Adenauer); collective criticism of the system missing; there is no more room for experiments; Mrs. Kuby: In the middle of the 80's work on a project: anthology of the most important political texts of the world stage of the first years in the Soviet occupation zone; contact with authors to clarify rights, e.g. with Harich; aim of the work was to show that it was In 1947/48, Harich had given an all-German perspective to a greater extent than previously perceived; there was more room for manoeuvre than was later communicated; about who had promoted the German division; about the role of the Russians and the Americans; the People's Congress movement against the Marshall Plan; for a non-aligned all-Germany; other possible ways of building up post-war Germany by one's own efforts and making reparations; talks with Harich about the printing rights of the early articles; Harich wanted to dissuade her from this project; Sectional views: Italy, Tuscany, landscape with lake; house with mural; church
- TagsGermany; Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); German Democratic Republic (GDR); German unity; post-war period; journalism; media; print media; press; Marshall Plan; Italy; Tuscany;
- Decade1990
- Production Year1998
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- Personalities Kuby, Erich Kuby
- DirectorThomas Grimm
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- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A00ADWV
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