Klaus Dieter Schmutzer

Klaus Dieter Schmutzer

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Po-lin. Shards of Memory 2008 (8.5)

Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish and Polish, coexisted wall-in-wall; cottage in a cottage; town next to town. "Po-lin" - meaning "we will stop here" in Yiddish - does not deny the painful past. It only shows that there was something more next to them. Worth remembering and - perhaps - reconstruction.
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Borderland 2021

The river Oder: A historical and cultural land-scape churned again and again by the tide of events of the past century. A tale told in concentric circles about a region which was and still is the scene of the beginning, end and open middle of voluntary and involuntary migrations. Virulent issues of daily life and politics that, asked with confident casualness, provide a robust account of the present.
Klaus Schmutzer

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Kategorie C 2008 (8)

A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.
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Die Allee 2024

A journey from Alexanderplatz to Lichtenberger Brücke through the avenue in East Berlin: Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin is an internationally significant architectural ensemble. Its significance for the history of Germany is just as great. And this avenue has accompanied me throughout my life. As a child, it was part of my route to school. My aunt Lotte lived on it. I was often in the Karl Marx bookshop. As a young filmmaker, I made my first long documentary about it. Thirty years later, I now cycle through the avenue to work every morning. My movement through the street is also a movement in time.
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Stalinallee 1991

Unusual camera angles and eyewitness accounts of the planning and construction process capture the spirit of the early GDR and the idea of socialist urban planning and architecture. The "National Development Program Berlin" envisaged Stalinallee as the focal point of a district of residential and high-rise buildings and as a model for the architecture and urban planning of the capital. The section of road between Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Tor is considered the beginning of the construction of the "socialist capital of Germany - Berlin" and was designed in the style of socialist classicism, the so-called "Zuckerbäckerstil", by the architects Hermann Henselmann, Hanns Hopp.