Deutschlandspiegel 345/1983 1983

01 New York: balloon ride of captive balloons at the start. Balloon racers start preparation, look at maps. Ballast is removed. Balloons rise. Advertisement: Stadtsparkasse - Hettlage - city of Münster. Balloon racers waving from gondola during ascent. Panoramic view of balloons on landscape with rotating windmill. Balloons flying over city with skyscrapers. Balloons next to steeple. Overlooking the road from balloon. Balloon drops down next to the Windmill. (Archive D 275/7)
(47 m) 02. The new Government Chamber with MEPs. Helmut Kohl in the conversation. Cameramen. Pan across the Hall.
Helmut Kohl at a lectern quote: "the social market economy is suitable like no other order to realize equality of opportunities, property, prosperity and social progress. We don't want more Government, but less. We want not less but more personal freedom."
Pedestrian image filling. Deputies clapping. Government Bank. O-ton: "four priorities will determine the work of the Federal Government to overcome the economic crisis in this legislative period. Reducing unemployment, recovery of reasonable growth, more public finances and securing pensions. Ladies and gentlemen, we want to spark economic straw fire, but we want to achieve a lasting recovery of our economy"workers and workers in factory Hall on the Assembly line, at installation, industry recordings, container terminal. Swivel. Government bank with Genscher and Wörner. Chamber. Original sound: "a dangerous border cuts across Germany - where is still the center of Europe. This border separates the Germans, it separates the Europeans, separating East and West. Reason and humanity can be not resign, that the right to self-determination to stop on this line."
Zone boundary wide off cleared strips and fasteners. Visitors to the border to see over there. Watchtowers. Shield: Here shut the border.
Photos: Reagan - Kohl. EC Conference with Kohl, Mitterand, Genscher. Swivel EC heads of Government and Ministers Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl, Genscher. Recorded interview: "we belong to the West. The Alliance for freedom and peace is an integral part of German politics. Here are our core values, our way of life and our safety connect. Peace needs the East. the friendship with the West and the understanding" Deputies clapping. Minister Wörner. Cabinet members meeting. Kohl sits next to Genscher. Stoltenberg, large.
(89 m) 03. The 17th of June 1953 the wall in Berlin. 3 young people go. Road sign road of 17 June. Looking over there.
Shield: Caution you leave West Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate with flag of East Germany.
Review of S / W: The 17th of June 1953 red flag is taken from Brandenburg Gate and torn. Work in companies of East Germany. Strike call because of new standards. Construction workers have sprung up to protest March. Incineration of newspapers and books. Boundary plate is cut to. Russian tanks drive up. Shots into the crowd. Escape. Deaths and injuries, large.
Col: border transit and border crossing for visitors to Berlin.
(71 m) 04. Bremen: the total of Bremen Schnoor quarter. Old town core with the small half-timbered houses of the Schnoor district. Cat Cafe. A cosy bar. Narrow streets. Antique shop. Craftsmen work in craft shops. Manufacture of musical instruments and organs. Organ grinder playing.
(56 m) 05. The deutsche Kinderhilfswerk boy stands houses wall. Children play between cars. Playground on crash dump. Gymnastics at backyard carpet rod. Usage of the Spielmobils of the Deutsches kinderhilfswerk in Munich. Children at the craft at Basteltisch. Children's faces, great. Game on grass. Throw the ball. Slipping on beer crates at Slate level. Painting on time wall game bus.
(50 m) 06. Portrait of the German champion of gymnastics Regina Weber Regina Weber ball, ZL. Gym. Sports gymnastics training. Coach Livia Medilanski. Regina Weber when training with tire and thighs. Close-up. International tournament in Wiesbaden. Audience clapping. The female jury. Regina Weber turns with Ribbon and ball.
(59 m) 07-US plot: Plittersdorf (district of Bonn-Bad-Godesberg) little America the Rhine Valley near Bonn. Houses of the American settlement Plittersdorf. Shopping Center for American families. Post Office. Embassy Club on the Rhine River with swimming pool and tennis club. Reception of the Jonathan women club. International American school with 60% American students. Negro children in language laboratory. Ecumenical Church. God service. Sports field with baseball game.
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01. a balloon flight check-in for a flight in the style of the ancestors. At Münster in Westphalia, balloon racers from three countries their airships made ready to go - to a race over the Münsterland. The ladies themselves were in the basket. Men were needed only on the ground for startup repair.
In the 200 years that have passed since the first flight of a balloon in France, the airship filled with hot air or hydrogen has hardly changed. And still it is a plaything of the winds. Only his height can be changed. Up through dropping sandbags, down through discharge of gas.
It can go quite already upstairs, up to 6,000 meters. And for the Earth, the driver needs an identity card if he is driven off across borders.
In the Switzerland and in Germany the most balloonists are at home today. Although the air space by the dense air traffic has become tight. But if the balloon pilots after a breezy trip, usually one at the competent flight security officials call: he booked them then for a few hours standing between heaven and Earth - levitate and to dream.

02. the new Government in Bonn has her first busy weeks behind the new Government. The voters expect above all improve the economic situation of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his coalition of Christian Democrats and Liberals. Helmut Kohl wants to achieve this goal through the renewal of the social market economy.
The social market economy, so Kohl before the German Bundestag, guarantees equality of opportunity, prosperity, and social progress like any other economy. His Government wanted less Government and more personal freedom.
As a primary focus of his economic policies, Kohl called reducing unemployment, new growth, the rehabilitation of public finances and securing pensions. No economic straw fire was the target, but a lasting upturn in the economy.
The consequences of the Division of Germany for the people remain a constant challenge for the Federal Government.
Helmut Kohl recalled that the border, which tears apart Germany, divides Europe, separating East and West. The right to self-determination should not stop beyond this limit. The Germans have a claim to recover their unity in peace and in a larger European homeland and preserve.
The membership of the Atlantic Alliance and the European Community remains the foreign policy foundation of the new Government. Helmut Kohl has become known clearly in his first months of Office to do so.
The strong commitment to the West in the program of the Federal Government is also associated with a range of understanding, compensation and permanent cooperation with the East. The new Cabinet started his business in a difficult economic and foreign policy situation in Bonn. It has made no promises. Now, the citizens expect that the Government gets the economic and social problems and can contribute to a reduction of tension in the world.

03. the 17th of June 1953 the wall in Berlin. Nowhere, the Division of Germany seems absurd, brutal as right here. These young Germans have not themselves experienced the Division of their country and this city. With the East German State, barricaded behind the wall, they link far less personal experiences than the older ones, and the workers uprising is only a date of German history before 30 years beyond the Brandenburg Gate for them.
On June 17, 1953, these scenes: the red flag is brought down by demonstrators workers and torn into pieces.
The movement in the East Berlin has started. An acute economic and supply crisis tried to offload the party and State leadership of the GDR on the workers. The rise of the labour standards and prices for food. Strikes were the result.
In the Stalin Allee of East Berlin formed the construction worker to a powerful protest train and demand the reduction of standards. As the Government remains hard, strike a political rebellion spreads. Calls for resignation of the Government and free elections. A years of pent-up discontent discharges.
Kiosks and copies of party and Government newspapers go up in flames. But then roll tanks. The Soviet occupying power fears for the existence of the regime set up by her. Fists and stones against tanks. Images that went around the world 30 years ago: impotent rage of people who could never decide about their State order itself.
Gunshots. The spontaneous breaks up after two days, which is without leadership, together. He called for deaths and injuries. It was the first uprising against the Soviet socialism after the second world war. It was followed by Poland, Hungary and the CSSR. The difference of systems has not changed to this day. The Federal Government has managed persistent negotiations and treaties in recent years, to make the border more permeable. Efforts continue to make more bearable the consequences of the Division of Germany for the people.

04. the Schnoor quarter of Bremen a commercial metropolis with a centuries-old, good reputation in the world. Bremen. The port town on the river Weser has preserved its medieval town centre: the façades of the houses of fishermen, boatmen and craftsmen shape the city streets.
The 'Schnoor' means the district. "Sairo" is the German word for cord. Because the low and schmalbrüstigen houses are lined up like on a string. The cafes and restaurants have been built not only for the many tourists who come here now. They belong to the historical inventory of the Schnoor. Would he kept by law of decay and demolition was, they had long since modern concrete structures course.
There are treasures in antique shops to admire. The visitors of the Schnoor can see today the makers of traditional craftsmanship on the finger.
The Bremer wanted no museum or entertainment district, but an organic, full of life and work area. Wind instruments and organs are built; You can even rent it.
The Schnoor is a remarkable example of the alive preserved urban architecture of a bygone era. A village in the city.

05. the German children's charity children in the city. In densely populated residential areas, between traffic and concrete, limited space for development remains for children. Sure: childlike imagination and improvisation take possession of barren backyards. But proper playgrounds are rare.
Game mobile can help where appropriate space of action for children is missing in the vicinity of the apartments. In Munich, the Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk demonstrated the possibilities of such mobile game boxes, which have a whole assortment of various tools, craft supplies and equipment on board.
Here, the kids not to play be turned off so the adults have their peace of mind. Here your creativity should be promoted, their enjoyment of the game. Playing is a skill that often only have to learn it. You need no expensive toys, also empty beer crates can make a hell of a time.
There are 100 such game mobile in Germany. Children's Fund wants to be a lobby for children, a child-friendly environment. Children are entitled to their childhood, a space in a society dominated by adults.

06. Gymnast Regina Weber Regina Weber, 20 years old, German Champion in the Rhytmischen sports gymnastics. This kind of sport, at the next Olympics was for many years for the first time in the program, a pure domain of Eastern European countries.
For the first time, thanks to Regina Weber, Western Europe can compete with world class. The coach Livia Medilanski requires precision. With it came the success, not only for Regina Weber. The whole German team's hopes of future titles.
The sports gymnasts must do hard work in training. Physical performance is required, but also a natural relaxation and grace as in almost a different sport.
At this major international tournament in Wiesbaden, Regina Weber was rewarded by the jury, where only women may, with several first and second courses. Artistic Regina, who is still at school, is interested in the Ballet. You realize it's their precise rhythmic sense and the aesthetics of their lectures.

Year of Release:

1983

Year of Production:

1983

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Reportagefilm GmbH

Commissioned by:

Bundespresseamt

Film Format:

16 mm; 35 mm

Duration:

00:14:00; 00:14:00

Film length (in m):

160; 410

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Colour; Colour

Audio:

Sound; Sound

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