Deutschlandspiegel 195/1971 1971

01. the German championship in canoe slalom held on the Castle mill in Lippstadt. The exciting title fights in the individual disciplines are already largely devoted to the Olympics in 1972 in Munich.

02. the Turkish President Sunay comes on an official visit to the Federal Republic. During his five-day stay, President Sunay will also organize talks with Turkish compatriots who live in the Federal Republic and are here working.

03. in Bensberg, architect Gottfried Böhm creates a harmonious combination of medieval and modern architecture with the construction of the new town hall. The closed-despite its utilitarian breakdown looking building complex was built over the remains of an old Castle.

04. Freiburg im Breisgau commits the 850th year of his founding of the city in festive frame. The Festival of the Baden city at the foot of the Black Forest will be opened by President Heinemann.

05. The workshop of the sculptor and steel plastic engineer Erich Hauser is located in Rottweil, in the black forest. Tube and surface walls made of stainless steel are welded together by him space structures, whose optical stimulating WINS dimensions only in the open air.

06 the Röhn in the Hessian Bergland Wasserkuppe glider pilots in all kind of is a term for fifty years. German and foreign sailing flying clubs jointly celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first flight competition on the Wasserkuppe. The most prominent guest of honour is Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 became the first man walk on the moon.

07. Berlin is meeting place of the stars and the avant-garde of the International Jazz for the eighth time. At the Philharmonie, instrumental groups and singers demonstrate the possibilities of expression this music genre that has become a global expression and means of communication.

German championship in canoe slalom. Germany's best slalom kayakers will compete on the small river Castle mill, which was recently reconstructed as a whitewater course. 1972 Olympics in Munich canoe slalom will be for the first time Olympic discipline.
Frogmen, ready on the banks to help.
Jürgen Gerlach, German Champion in canoe slalom. The Düsseldorf was started as a high favorite. But this time, his vaunted routine leaves him. At the second gate, which must be passed through in backward rotating him fails. Precious time is running out before he manages to bring his boat on the prescribed course.
The loss of time is too large. The German Champion loses his title and reached only the seventh place.
Alfred Baum from Wickede - a young talent that carefully made in the last year by good performances in. Slow motion studies show how masterfully the young Rhinelander dominated the difficult route.
Alfred Baum is faster than all others. He wins the title and can calculate how experts think - also for Munich good chances -.

Turkish President General Sunay came to a five-day visit to the Federal Republic with a special machine. Federal President Heinemann welcomed President Sunay at the Cologne-Bonn airport.
The relations between Germany and Turkey are traditionally good. The President used his stay for talks with fellow countrymen: working and living 350,000 Turks in Germany.

Bensberg - scene of a successful experiment to combine medieval and modern architecture.
The new City Hall.
The architect Gottfried Böhm designed a building that rises like a modern ring fortress above the remains of an old Castle and is almost maintenance-free to the delight of the city fathers. Interior architectural diversity is Trump: irregular spiral staircases, work spaces and meeting rooms in the form of round light niches. The Bensberger have gained rapid acceptance of its new town hall, which pleasantly stands out from the usual drawing board architecture. Baumeister Böhm called his work a free, walk-in sculpture.
The Freiburger Münster - it survived the war as if by a miracle. Flags and garlands on the facades of the rebuilt houses. The city's birthday: Fribourg is celebrating the 850th year of the founding of the city.
Federal President Heinemann opened the Festival in the city of the black forest. On the streets, customs and folklore dominated for 7 days. Alemannic traditional associations and Baden Hessian vigilantes animated locals and guests to travel into the past.
Free bürg, surrounded by wine varieties and praised because of its scenic location, belongs today to the German cities with the strongest rate of growth - point of attraction for retirees and young people, where you can find the living on the edge of the black forest. A German sculptor, whose Werke Meanwhile international stir is called steel plastic engineering. in 1969, he received the Grand Prize at the "10th Biennale of Sao Paolo" for his steel sculptures. Erich Hauser, a steel engraver, in Rottweil, in the Black Forest has workshop was set up ne, whose sober cool Atmosphäre seems to be working fine the material and the technique. Hauser is rehearsing the spatial effect of his designs on the miniature model made of wood, varies the basic forms, which he predominantly preferred today over: columns and surface walls.
Is the design is mature, is the workshop of the machine Hall: art as a product of industrial technology. Welding machines and cutting machines assemble the metal parts of the sculpture, tubular structures which Hauser realized his conceptions of space.
The material - stainless steel - polished reflecting smooth. Earlier Hauser, with intent, leaving the traces on the surface of the material to give an additional optical stimulus of sculpture by manifold broken surfaces. Today, the metal sculptor prefers a Matt shiny surface, which - as he says - the buckles and obvious curvatures of the plastic can be.
Artistic ideas and mechanical precision create space entity, who win their real dimension only outdoors.

Anniversary on the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön - boasted the highest elevation in the Hessian mountain landscape, from glider pilots from all over the world as "Mountain of the pilot". Germany's gliding community and friendly clubs of abroad celebrated the anniversary: the 50th anniversary of the first gliding competition on the Wasserkuppe.
Prominent guest of Honor: Neil Armstrong, who became the first man walk on the moon.
The American astronaut had climbed age of 16 for the first time in a glider. In an exhibition, he familiarised himself with the history of development of its leisure hobbies and watching their reunion with the record equipment and flight pioneers from the early days of the silent aircraft gliding veterans.
Armstrong, who likes to mix up the ship with a high-performance controller from Germany in his spare time, thanked for the invitation: there is nothing better - he - meant as friendship among Segelflugsportlern.
Then, the Moon riders into the air settled tow - to a flight over one of the most beautiful and the most traditional glider airfield in Germany.
The favorable updrafts on the Wasserkuppe aircraft carry up often many thousand meters - a prerequisite for record flights themselves. Even in the age of space travel, none of its fascination has lost gliding. Silent gliding through the air, the exclusive pleasure of a sworn community.
Jazz days in Berlin. To the 8. Times here met stars and avant-garde of the international jazz. Among them "Sun RA" and his "intergalactic research ARKESTRA".
The Berlin Jazz Festival to set milestones, is intended to influence with the development of jazz. Joachim Ernst Behrendt, the artistic director, aim and purpose of the jazz days is: "the Melody Maker, the biggest music magazine in the world, published in London, has written in the past year: Berlin is the best Jazz Festival in the world - in any case it is probably so that impulses emanating from the Berlin Jazz days throughout Europe." We find: Berlin is a fascinating city. First, of course, by the Philharmonic, which is Yes an incomparably beautiful concert space, but also due to the political situation. The jazz is a music of tolerance and freedom now. He fits in this city."
He wears his instruments gebündet in the Backpack: Leon Thomas, vertical take-off among American jazz singers, who rediscovered the music of the Indians and Pygmies and the archetype of the Blues for modern jazz.
With Jerry Mulligan, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was one of the highlights of the four-day Festival.
The applause was great. In Berlin, the jazz justified his claim to be global expression and means of communication.

Year of Release:

1971

Year of Production:

1971

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Federal Republic of Germany

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Deutsche Reportagefilm GmbH

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Bundespresseamt

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16 mm

Duration:

00:17:00

Film length (in m):

170

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