Deutschlandspiegel 13/1955 27.10.1955

1st Munich City Munich Town Hall, in the background the towers of the Church of our Lady. The Marian column. The alte Pinakothek. Various statues and sculptures. Max II.-monument and Parliament building. Look to the Feldherrnhalle in Leopold Street. Theatine Church, Munich. Pan across a modern new building facade. Cars drive through the Sendlinger Tor. The Hofbräuhaus.
(42 m, 10: 10:00 10:01:50) 02 Munich Oktoberfest parade floats at the Oktoberfest, as the Münchner Kindl dressed up girl. Brewery horses. Waitresses on floats Pan beer mugs. Barrels are rolled. Bierzapfer and waitresses, bi drowning guests. Händlgrill. Get out of the Lukas. Ferris wheel and roller coaster. Beer tent with brass band. Schunkelndes people. In the distorting mirror cabinet.
(40 m, 10:01:45 10:03:05) 03 Munich Geiselgasteig film spotlights car passes. There is a pool of water with ship dummy. A carriage is painted, a dolphin and a statue modeled. In the collection: Knight's armour, uniforms, a gorilla costume. The actor tab is scrolled in the occupation Office. Liselotte Pulver with curlers in the makeup room. Martine car Dein and Max Ophüls in conversation. Scene rehearsal for the film "Hanussen". O. W. Fischer as a Director, the script supervisor, cameramen. "Peace" sign lights up, shut up. O. W. Fischer and partner.
(65 m, 10:03:00 10:05:20) 04 Hamburg Opera newly constructed State Opera At night from the outside. Festively dressed audience to the great inauguration presentation. Theodor Heuss comes in, takes in honor lodge room. In addition to his citizenship Minister Schönfelder. Excerpts from "The magic flute" Mozart. Curtain closes, applause. Heuss standing.
(50 m, 10:05:15 10:07:05) 05. Konstanz Konstanz: Vice-Chancellor Franz Blücher at the International Congress for public opinion research. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann and Erich Peter Neumann in conversation with George H. Gallup. Creates a car ferry. Border crossing to the Switzerland, shield "Customs / douane". Women with bicycles. The Roman Fort of Constance. Old Council building. The Munster House from the 13th century, the Town Hall. The narrow streets of the old town. Dusk at Lake Constance.
(62 m, 10:07:00 10:09:15) 06 Ulm - realisations inauguration of the College of design at the edge of Ulm. Walter Gropius in conversation with Max Bill, the Director. The "design" exhibits. Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier before the model of the Hansaviertel in Berlin. Berlin: Pan across the badly damaged Hansaviertel.
(41 m, 10:09:10 10:10:40) 07 Berlin Heuss and Bonn Bundestag Bellevue Palace from the outside. Heuss visited the restoration work. Border crossing to the Soviet zone of occupation. Border guards with binoculars. Road sign: "Nominal Hauser dam" corner "Brunsbüttel dam". Heuss gets out of car, border guards symbolically open the Turnpike. Bundestag in Bonn: Government statement on tour in Moscow. Konrad Adenauer actuality: "by the Federal Republic as a uniquely Western but European-oriented power will now also have a representative in Moscow, she will enhance there the voice of the West to another. "The German delegation has me emphasize our opinion pointed out that an effective relaxation, we want a real security system on the basis of the Division of Germany impossible." Applause. Erich Ollenhauer, o-ton: "We thank the Lord Chancellor for his persistent struggle for the release of prisoners and sent and we hope that one of the most painful wounds closes with the realization of this meeting in Moscow, which hit the ill-fated war in Hitler." Applause. Federal President Eugen Gerstenmaier reads the resolution to the vote interview: 'the German Bundestag calls again the reunification of Germany, in accordance with its decision of 26 February 1955, printed 1201. He expects from the upcoming meeting of Foreign Ministers in Geneva that the reunification in peace and freedom as one of its essential tasks looks at you and brings the solution. Who will agree to this motion for a resolution, I please a hand signal." All raise their hand. Cross-check: No one collects the hand.
(83 m, 10:10:35 10:13:35) 08 returnees and end in Herleshausen station train. Returnees waving from the door. Wagon with inscription: "We salute the homeland!" Red Cross Sisters provide the soldiers with food and drinks. Sculpture on the release bearing Friedland. The camp Bell is rung. Coaches go through the streets lined with people waving in Eschwege. Crowd waving at the next counter. Welcome scenes. Desperate family members with photos of missing persons. Theodor Heuss visited the camp of Friedland. Heuss to the lectern actuality: "Dear compatriots, returning from the far East! "The greeting, I have to speak for the German people can be quite simple: A warm welcome!" Applause. A returning o-ton: "we are with pounding heart and tear-filled eyes in front of you. We don't be ashamed this tears. We have ten years not cried, not once. We also cry about it, that is a hard time behind us. We cry about it, there is so A lot of love and loyalty as A lot as we were experiencing today." All pray with Bishop Lilje the Lord's prayer. Chorale "Now thank we all our God" will be matched. Joy and hugs, tears.
(24 m, 10:13:30 10:17:55)
(10:17:55)

The new episode of the "mirror of Germany" begins with images from Munich, the cultural centre of southern Germany. Although the city on the ISAR in the last war to more than a third was destroyed, she kept her familiar, sexy face. This year, Munich celebrated the great folk festival, the Oktoberfest, the 122nd time. Half a million people cheered the 5 km-long pageant. Forty floats and 175 costume groups from all parts of Germany, Austria, of Switzerland, and Belgium moved to the Theresienwiese Oktoberfest grounds. Also Geiselgasteig, the great film terrain in southern Germany to Munich. Here is a significant part of German production.

The new building of the Hamburg State Opera opened with Mozart's immortal magic flute in these days. Donate the hamburger and a lottery proceeds have enabled the reconstruction of the destroyed House, whose Auditorium can hold 1600 people. Federal President Prof. Theodor Heuss took part at the premiere. Vice Chancellor Dr. Blücher spoke at the International Congress for opinion and market research, to the 300 guests from the in and abroad participated. The German researchers, Dr. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann and her husband Erich Peter Neumann in conversation with George H. Gallup, the founder of this new science. As a meeting place, Constance was elected, that ancient city on the shores of Lake Constance die_1200 was years Bishop's seat and is located in a uniquely beautiful landscape. The researchers met in the historic building of the Council.

On the outskirts of the city of Ulm "Hochschule für Gestaltung" emerged, founded the Geschwister Scholl-Stiftung. She should continue the tradition of the Dessau Bauhaus which ladder, Prof. Walter Gropius, appeared many years to the inauguration. Max Bill, the Builder and Director of new College said their mission was to seek new ways of shaping of the simple object to the housing estate.

Federal President Prof. Heuss visited Schloss Bellevue, which is to be the seat of the head of State of the Federal Republic in Berlin. The President used his presence in the former imperial capital, to drive to the border of the Soviet occupation zone.

The Moscow trip of German Chancellor Dr. Adenauer became the subject of a foreign policy debate in the Bundestag, the Chancellor gave a Government Declaration on the results of the Conference in the Kremlin. Establishing political relations with the Soviet Union was decided by the German Bundestag.

Thus, the way for the return of many thousand German prisoner held to date in Russia became free. The "mirror of Germany" closes with harrowing images from the release bearing Friedland, where he wait for the returning thousands of people. The first transport arrived at dawn of one autumn day. A pitiless, often more than ten-year ordeal came to an end for them. The President welcomed one of the transports.

Date of Release:

27.10.1955

Year of Production:

1955

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Reportagefilm GmbH

Commissioned by:

Bundespresseamt

Film Format:

16 mm

Duration:

00:20:00

Film length (in m):

210

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

Afrikaans; Arabisch; English; French; German; Greek; Portuguese; Spanish; Turkish