01 Bonn: organ builder Hans Gerd KLAIS organ manufacturer workshop. Organ Builder tool when testing the sound of organ pipes. Professor Bucher, Switzerland, examines the construction plans for the organ appointed by him. Tin lead alloy material is poured out and edited. Production of organs almost exclusively in manual work. 70 specialists work at the plant. Check the tones of the organ pipes. Organ in the St. Antonius Church in Wuppertal (see D 330/5, own text) (53 m) 02. Hamburg: A day for Africa Bell ringing. Towers of the churches of Hamburg St. Michaelis, Petri, Catherine. Balloons on Mönckebergstraße. Poster: January 23, 1985 - a day for Africa - together against hunger. Appeal of Richard von Weizsäcker in the television interview: "alone in Ethiopia..." (Memory of the hunger in Germany after the 2nd World War)... "It's good that we have not lost the memory it."
Violinist on Mönckebergstrasse next to poster. Child next to life-size. Mayor Klaus von Dohnany. Volunteers with donations cans. Sister collects. Celebrities make soup. Balloons rise on the City Hall square. 20 rock bands produce record for hunger aid. Donations will be registered (110 million DM) Bishop Desmond Tutu thanks on behalf of Africans in Hamburg.
Sermon by Nobel Laureate Tutu with German pastor in the Petrikiche. Original sound. Call to overcome all racial barriers.
(63 m) 03 Heidenheim: hydroelectric turbines for the 3rd world city image of Heidenheim. The Voith works produce hydroelectric turbines for the largest hydroelectric power stations in the world. Computer calculations. Program design for milling machine. Pump. Turbine on the test stand. Turbine construction according to the respective needs. Power plant in Mali. Voith turbines in use. Impressions of Mali. Car driving. Go color.
(58 m) 04. Schleswig-Holstein: active in the age old man at chopping wood and wood saws. Farm for old in Schleswig-Holstein. Old woman in chicken coop chickens is feeding and takes eggs from nest. Women sit around table and peel potatoes. Man cleaning out the chicken coop. Sausage making. Knife sharpening. Laundry Ironers. Calf is fed. Old people in old people's home. Dining room. Branches of a tree without leaves screen.
(54 m) 05 architect Otto - pioneer of the lightweight tent roof of the German Pavilion of the world exhibition 1967 in Montreal is free today in Stuttgart. His engineer Frei Otto, pioneer of the lightweight construction, working on table. The Olympic roof in Munich. New forms in the model. Leafy tree houses at construction exhibition in Berlin. Free draws Otto. Creation of organic structures according to nature. Bird cage in prison.
(56 m) 06. table tennis champion Susanne Wenzel Susanne Wenzel at the table tennis game in ZL and tournament. Hard smashes. Viewers.
People (50 m) 07 Hamburg on the frozen Alster go on the Alster. Alster full of people total. Mulled wine stands. People drink mulled wine on the Alster. Summer pictures of the Alster with Alster steamers and rowers. Children are pulled on sleds. Skier. Sausages grilled and sausage eaters. Dogs. Hockey game. Slippery. Curling. Skater. Ice surfing. Pale sun as a round disc in the sky.
(50 m) 08 Bonn: US Professor David Heeschen guest at a German University, Max Planck Institute for radio astronomy, David Heeschen on the way to the Institute. Welcome of the staff. Heeschen works as a Humboldt Prize 1 year in the Federal Republic. Computer. The largest moveable radio telescope in the world of the Institute. Heeschen actuality at the desk (English) City stroll Heeschen and wife in Bonn.
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01 organ builder of KLAIS organ builder of KLAIS. For over 100 years, this family business in Bonn to build high-quality organs and exported in all over the world.
The organ pipes are since ancient times made of a tin-lead alloy. The ratio depends on the shape and size of the pipes. Each part of the organ is made as in the past in his own workshop.
The "Queen of instruments" is crafted. The company is based on 70 specially trained professionals. Who once started in KLAIS, staying mostly his entire working life. Specialist technical knowledge and craftsmanship in generations acquired and refined: this is a capital of the life can be even in difficult economic times.
Each organ is a Special Edition for a given space. If you want to sound, technique, intonation, and architecture must form a unit.
Fine tuning in the intonation. After that, the organ parts and assemblies is brought to their destination.
Largest foreign KLAIS customers are the United States and Japan. This organ built KLAIS some time ago for a church in the city of Wuppertal.
02. a the church bells rang for Africa day at 12:00 noon in the entire Federal Republic. The streets and squares are filled. It was the day on which the German citizens to an unprecedented relief operation for the starving in Africa came together.
Many million citizens had heard the night before to the German Federal President, who called television for donations, and to the famine of the German World War II remembered at the end of the 2nd.
To show solidarity with the needy people in the drought areas of Africa: it was in this campaign. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers swarmed with the donation box. Public events dominated the streetscape. Well-known politicians and showbiz stars gave a soup so that the donation pot is filled. And otherwise no idea was too low to promote a good cause.
The 20 most famous rock bands together produced an LP, the proceeds of which is intended for the famine relief at their expense. At the headquarters of all German banks established for this day, the donations was registered every hour. In the evening the earnings: DM 110 million, the highest amount in the history of the Federal Republic. Bishop Desmond Tutu thanked on behalf of the Africans. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was the political emphasis with his appearance in Hamburg the "Africa Day".
Political roots may have the hunger and want, that the black Bishop from South Africa drew attention when he preached with a Hamburg parish priest at the St. Peter's Church. In his closing prayer, he called for the overcoming of all racial barriers.
03. Water turbines for the third world in Heidenheim, Germany, a small town in southern Germany. She lives by an industrial company, which produces large objects: hydroelectric turbines for the largest power plants in the world.
130 years ago, the Voith works were still a simple locksmith's shop. While manual labor is written also today still large, but only, if the computer has done its work. He calculates the geometry and speed of the impeller of pump turbine and designing the program for the automatically controlled milling machine a pump turbine on the way to the experimental Department. Each new development produced a model in 1:10 scale that must bring the power calculated on the test stand.
Turbine construction - this is high precision work. It is located the Swabia, this tribe of the tinkerers and accuracy fanatic. The 6000 employees at the main plant Heidenheim feel challenged by every order. Because every time it comes to a custom-made, tailored to the geographical conditions and water forces in the field. You need hydraulic flow machines for irrigation in agriculture, for the water supply of cities or the economic development of entire regions. This power in the African State of Mali is one of many in the third world that run with Voith turbines. By using the natural forces of water to generate electricity: this is an important step towards the modernisation of their economy for many developing countries.
04. active in the age you have worked their lives and place but your hands not in the lap. As well as in other countries, the number of old people who don't deport themselves want to leave, but remain stubborn in a sympathetic way is growing also in Germany: as long as they can, they want to work and provide for themselves. This farm in Schleswig-Holstein is an example of the new trend. 40 old folks here spend their retirement years according to the motto: "Active age".
Many have never seen a farm from the inside. Now they muck out the chicken coop, provide livestock, sawing wood or help in sausage making. Voluntarily assumed tasks that give new courage to face life.
The State helped to rebuild the farm for the needs of the elderly. Economic woes drive here no. Old people receive a sufficient pension in Germany. What many of them depressed, are their isolation and loneliness after the retirement from working life. A social problem which is urgent in the Federal Republic from year to year. Today, every fifth citizen is over 65 years old.
In the coming years, the age structure due to the low birth rate will move yet: the old be so more. This helps them to enforce their claims. And the boys will have to learn again that the age has his rights and his dignity.
05. free Otto - one of the most famous German Architects this tent straddling the German Pavilion at the world exhibition in 1967 still stands in Montreal's in Stuttgart. His designer has brought back it because he wanted to live themselves in it and work: free Otto, the champion of lightweight, Maverick and outsider of German architecture.
The tent roof as an expression of natural building and natural technique: this philosophy realized Otto also on a large scale. His Olympic roof in Munich was during the Spiele_1972 every day all over the world to see.
The constructions of nature to imitate, a snail, a spider web, is also a technical challenge. For the calculation of the static forces, Otto had to develop free computer programs. The organic architect constantly tried new forms. He wants to present these leafy tree houses in 2 years at the international building exhibition in Berlin.
On the idea of spanning large areas with light metal, Otto was released as young glider pilots. The lightweight, he recognized a principle of construction of nature. Now he has set his goals higher. Together with his team of architects, engineers and biologists, he searches for a new synthesis forms of sensible coexistence between plants, humans and animals. This nature holds many role models, says Otto freely, and he occupied his thesis with organic structures according to the nature.
06. table tennis champion Susanne Wenzel Wenzel hot playing before a tournament. Studies of a table tennis player, who is on his way to the top.
The national sport of table tennis faces a fresh start. After years of international mediocrity, the climb to the top of the European is now rehearsed. Many hopes rest on Susanne Wenzel, the multiple German Champion, who won even European tournaments.
The 21-year old student of Economics is also due to its profihaften setting as a model in competitive sports. You unmoved announces their club and changes the University if you are available somewhere else more money and better training opportunities.
Refined cut Bäller are the kick-off for their "power-play", which is characteristic of their offensive game.
No tournament of in recent years, which had not won the blonde Norddeutsche. But it is the best of the total 670000 player of the German Table Tennis Federation, their guard self-criticism has not waned. She knows: the way to the top of the world is still far.
07. a US Professor to guest at a German University: Professor Heeschen (caution! US-Sujet) an American on his way to his workplace in German, at the Max Planck Institute for radio astronomy in Bonn. Professor David Heeschen, an internationally renowned radio astronomer, will work with his German colleagues here some time. A distinction has led him to Bonn. He received the Humboldt prize. The offer for a year to research at a scientific Institute in the Federal Republic is associated in addition to a high amount of money. David Heeschen mainly went to Bonn because belongs to this Max Planck Institute the largest moveable radio telescope of the world.
Over 800 American scientists were awarded a Humboldt prize today. This 1972 endowed award will help to strengthen the German-American academic relations. During a stroll through town, David Heeschen confirmed us that he and his wife are well have settled in the Federal Republic of Germany.
08 the frozen Alster Hamburg who wants to experience the Hamburger as people like you and I, must wait for a severe winter. Only the cool Hanseatic League are hot on the ice: the time of mulled wine. The feet stay cold, the head is hot and may believe it's hardly the Alster underneath an ice sheet disappeared: the idyllic Lake in the middle of the city, each hamburger as vision carries in his heart.
The Alster Lake rarely freezes over. Then it says to use all conceivable ice sports concentrated. The metropolis Hamburg is shrinking in one such weekend on a Lake, and hundreds of thousands come closer for a few wintery hours.
