Die Zeit unter der Lupe 928/1967 07.11.1967

01 Berlin: Trial of the death shooting of Benno Ohnesorg and review Karl Heinz Kurras enters courtroom half close. Review of Ohnesorg: student demonstrations after ohnesorg's death. Memorial. Student gives interview, great, of Benno Ohnesorg. Memorial. Student gives interview, big, about Benno Ohnesorg, o-ton: "from my knowledge of his attitude I know that he has often spoken against violence of any kind. His wife told me after the event with almost despair that Benno Ohnesorg himself had defended a police officer when he was attacked from behind and that it was therefore particularly macabre, that the shot from behind would have." Photo of the shot. Visit of the Shah in Berlin. Farah waving from car, great. Shah and Farah from the Deutsche Oper. Student protests with placards. Police chain. Brawl between students and policemen. Casualties are evacuated. The death of Benno Ohnesorg is carried away. Karl Heinz Kurras on the dock. Photographers.

02. Berlin: Russian soldiers marching with wreaths wreath at the Soviet war memorial on the anniversary of the October revolution. Russian soldiers March. Parading Russian boots, half close, arms, faces. General Koschevoi salute is out front. Pan across Memorial. Wreath-laying ceremony. Memorial, great.

03. New York: homes renovation high ladders in houses Gorge. Flats in old buildings are torn down. Prefabricated housing units be through roof houses raised on crane and installed. Crane operator. Electrician when connecting electrical cables. Mayor John Lindsay goes between clapping people.

04. Diamond seeker in New York Negro and Negril get out of the car and go by road from New York. Seventh largest diamond in the world of 601 carats is packed from package at the jewelry store. Diamond in hand, they've found keep Negroes and Negril. Value: 2 ½ million marks.

05. accident Series IV - No. 6 propped to gasoline catches fire Günter Jerschke as funeral entrepreneurs rounded bone to pile up. He swings a bone in the hand. Eiffel Tower artist. Man jumps from a high tower in burning barrels. Young workers is in workshop. He wants to light cigarette. Lighter doesn't work. He filled with gasoline from canisters of lighter and pours gasoline next to it. He wipes up gasoline with cloth and keeps lighter gasoline. Darting flame. Günter Jerschke drinking from bottle and sitting in front of bone pile: "For me, you're right."

06. Bremen: Interviewed Maharishi immediately, the Indian monk half close Yogi Maharishi Thomas Fritsch. It will be presented him flowers. Man with camera, great. Transfokator. Photo in newspaper Maharishi and the Beatles. Maharishi meditation lessons. Among the listeners of Thomas Fritsch, great. Thomas Fritsch takes off his shoes and goes to the monk. He handed him a flower and interviewed him, o-ton: "What is meditation?" - "meditation is the easy way to turn the spirit, so that he comes out stronger and fresher again." - "Maharishi, there is a piece of advice, the young us human being can give, you perhaps can give me as a young actor, to be successful in the private and professional life?" - "the , what an actor like you needs is a fully relaxed mind and body. A few minutes meditating! This is the whole trick."-" I anyway, will again visit Mr Maharishi, if he comes to Germany and try to learn more about his philosophy and I." Thomas Fritsch, big eyes. Laughing monk, great. Thomas Fritsch speaks, half-close.

07. portrait: Dieter Hucks young people crowd behind a barrier. Boxing ring and total viewers. Dieter Hucks boxes. Still photographs of the Boxer Dieter Hucks. Dieter Hucks goes through his local cafe owner. Sign above the entrance of the cafe in Braunlage. "Forest Café of Hucks". HerrLütke interviewed Dieter Hucks in gondola of cable railway, o-ton: "Mr Hucks, what made you the popular Boxer in the early post-war years?" - "my prowess. I won the first 8 matches in 13 rounds by K. O. I became popular with the victory over Gustav Eder in the first round and then came these battles in the forest stage, which attracted the bulk of course. Songs I was not technically gifted, so the technical skills, we say how Gustav Scholz has them, I didn't have that unfortunately."-"Mr Hucks, your fees were as high then?"–"The beginning was 6,000 Reichsmark and the top pay 240,000 reichsmarks." Dieter Hucks in the ring. Dieter Hucks with laurel wreath, photo. Spectators jostling behind barrier. Boxes Dieter Hucks - Conny Rux. Heavy shock Exchange. Hans Söhnker as audience, great. Hucks strongly drawn leaves the ring as a loser in the face. Dieter Hucks kneads dough as an innkeeper.

Title brand Spotlight Kurras process and review (Ohnesorg) camera: Pahl origin: Archive: Ohnesorg materiel information Soviet. Parade in West Berlin (wreath a. Memorial) camera: Pahl houses renovation in N.Y.. origin: USIS diamond seekers in N.Y.. origin: Metro accident story series IV/6 exclusive Thomas Fritsch at Yogi Maharishi camera: L., Jackson, wild Hagen time stage Dieter Hucks portrait camera: Jürgens origin: Archive A and E

Spotlight on confident he entered the Hall of 500 of the District Court in West Berlin. Karl-Heinz Kurras, crime top master - charged with negligence to have killed the student Benno Ohnesorg during a demonstration.
At that time, in the days of the Shah's visit, this Act attracted the German students between Munich and Berlin. How hardly ever exploded at the same time many years of sociopolitical tensions in their protests. The fatal shot - that's for sure today - hit an innocent man.
"From my knowledge of his attitude, I know that ex against violence of any kind has expressed in many cases." His wife told me after the event with almost desperation, Benno Ohnesorg himself had defended a police officer, when he was attacked from behind and that it was therefore particularly macabre, that he got the shot from behind."
Here the log of the critical hours: the Imperial couple before the Deutsche Oper Berlin receives the cheering Persians - a radical Shah-friendly protestor group -. Students react to the other side of the road with violent protests. Objects are thrown. A thick police line is designed to protect guests.
Kurras Moreover, the riot is underway." Police officers were injured"- he said. The film footage that does not claim to be complete, show only injured civilians with one exception.
The demonstrators are marginalised. Is Kurras in these moments of students followed, harassed and threatened with fixed blade knives when he shot Benno Ohnesorg?
He acted negligently or in self-defense? It is certain only that Karl-Heinz Kurras regrets his deed.

The Red Army of the West population presented information for the second time this year: a Russian formation in the goose-stepping to the Soviet war memorial in the British sector of the city marched to the 50th anniversary of the October revolution.
General Koschevoi, Commander of the Soviet forces in Central Germany, had this parade honoring those soldiers of the Red Army, who died in the battle for Berlin.
Owners of old buildings who want to increase their rent without angering the tenant, look hopefully to New York recently. The total renovation leaving little more than the facade with a hammer and crowbar. Through holes in the roof and floor, prefabricated units slide on precisely calculated place. Within 48 hours, the ruined tenement into a comfortable apartment block. It gives its residents a totally new feel and John Lindsay - to the Mayor with Kennedy look - a campaign hit.
No later than in New York, Petrus Ramoboa was the certainty that he had once done the right grip with his marriage in distant Africa. Grateful rested his eyes on the chubby wife who made him the lucky man of the year.
The Guide, they explained the unknown wonders of a big city. It then pulled her to her new business partner - a jeweler. They had sent the goods by registered ahead: a handy subject was the wife Ernestine at the gravel mixed in the sieve slopes remained. The 601 Carat were the jeweler 2 1/2 million marks worth one - as it appeared the Ramoboas - market-driven price for the world's fourth largest diamond in the world. "Today it's me a need to talk, who love the exceptional risk... like this from those here... But also in ordinary everyday life, friends, opportunities can be found, if it itches you to take a risk.
Let's try it with lighter and skill. Just think, just plug.
Well, please - if you want to have it also times hot, you take the next opportunity,... because for me you are right!"

Time stage his name was fascinated not only box trailer - the big money, he brought his organizers: Dieter Hucks - called the "white bomber" the most spectacular train number in the box of the first postwar years. After 8 knockout victories in continuous order, he became German Champion in the middleweight division. his best year was in 1947.
Today, 20 years later, the time-Lupe visited the ex-champion in his forest Café in Braunlage.
"Mr Hucks, what you made for the most popular Boxer in the early post-war years?"
"My prowess. I won the first 8 matches in 13 rounds by knockout I became popular with the victory over Gustav Eder in the first round and then came this battle in the forest stage, which attracted the bulk of course. Unfortunately, I was not technically gifted, so the technical skills, we say how Gustav Scholz has them, I unfortunately didn't have that."
"Mr Hucks, were as high then your fees?"
"The beginning was 6,000 Reichsmark and the top pay 240,000 reichsmarks."
at the time, a good place cost 50 to 70 reichsmarks. To see the blacksmith from the Rhine - as he was known - his fans offered up to 1000 Mark - the black for 5 pound of butter.
in 1949, his opponent Conny Rux assumes the role of the magnates of cashier after a knockout win. Hucks' dreaded left but not rest: you kneads henceforth to the glory of the confectioner's Hucks.

Exclusively with the magic word of "transcendental meditation", the Indian monk applied to jokes was descended once from the heights of the Himalayas. Yogi now in Germany is Maharishi Mahesh in the course. A believing church waited in Bremen flower Valley, the seat of the first European Academy of meditation. For a week's pay, everyone can hope through scuttling to the harmony with himself and his environment. 50,000 around the world now believe the masters, including the Beatles, who exchanged LSD against his teaching.
Twen Idol Thomas Fritsch - at the time the young Theatre in Hamburg - rose for the time magnifying glass out of the shoes and asked the Yogi Monk: "What is meditation?"
Meditation is the easy way to turn the spirit, so that he comes out stronger and fresher again.
"Maharishi, there is an advice us the young people can give you maybe can give me as a young actor, to be successful in the private and professional life?"
What an actor like you needs, is a totally relaxed mind and body. A few minutes meditating! This is the whole trick. "I anyway, will again visit Mr Maharishi, if he comes to Germany and try to learn more about him and his philosophy."
Hamburg, November 7, 1967

Date of Release:

07.11.1967

Year of Production:

1967

Camera Work:

Jürgens; Labudda; Pahl, Georg; Wildhagen

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Usis; Metro

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German