Liebe Mutter, mir geht es gut 1972 ( 3)

The unemployed machinist Alfred "Scheff" Schefczyk moves from Württemberg to West Berlin full of hope, where he finds a job as a transporter. There, however, he despairs at the seemingly insurmountable dependency structures and the lack of solidarity among his fellow sufferers. The rent in the workers' hostel is raised disproportionately, but nobody wants to mess things up with the landlord or janitor. At work, piecework hours are tightened, but nobody wants to go on strike, and when they do, they are quickly crushed by the management's tactics. When Scheff tries to mobilize against the dismissal of one of the delegates, he finds only one worker willing to sign. "Dear mother, I'm fine," he nevertheless writes on a postcard.

Der aufrechte Gang 1976

A strike for better wages puts machine fitter Dieter Wittowski in financial difficulties. This upsets his plans for the future and brings his wife a step closer to self-realization, as she now accepts a more responsible job against his will. There are also disagreements with his father, whose blacksmith business he describes as a supplier for mass sales.

Snowdrops Bloom in September 1974

This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany.

Cyclist 2008 ( 6)

Being classified as subversive, GDR photographer Harald Hauswald was for many years observed by the STASI under the code name Radfahrer (Cyclist).

Gespräch mit Harald Hauswald 2009

For this film, director Marc Thümmler visited some of the places that Hauswald photographed in the 1980s with Harald Hauswald. There, the photographer talks about his life in the DDR.

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