Films
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I love Deutschland!
What is typically German? Plants that grow to a uniform height in garden colonies? The erotic pull of brand new cars? In four episodes, American comedian John Doyle sets off to explore the astonishing world of German idiosyncrasies as only a foreigner can. As an outsider looking in, he lovingly picks the Germans and their habits apart. 'I love Deutschland!' is funny and light-hearted, never serious and heavy. 2006, WDR, 4 x 30 min
Inheriting the Farm
Two years passed by since director Matti Bauer spend a summer with the dairymaid Uschi on a mountain pasture near Tegernsee and followed her with his camera. A lot has happened since then, much of which Uschi did not plan. Eighteen month ago she gave birth to her son Jacob. On shaky legs, he is already exploring the farm on which his mother, too, grew up. As a single mum, Uschi bears a lot of responsibility and soon she will also take over her parents’ estate. It’s a new challenge for the young woman who has just passed her agricultural… 2007, BR, 45 min
Inside the Potter´s garden
Whoever enters the garden of Loesche, the potter, feels as if time has been turned back. Passing by Loesche´s 18th century house, you reach a garden of vegetables and herbs, in which ceramic manufactures sprout like exotic plants: spheres in various forms, colours and glazes, which are balanced on sticks like the trophies of a hunter; black-annealed jugs and bowls, hung on laces and dangling in the wind; small masterpieces besides miscarried items, which are broken in two. Collectively, they form a fascinating open-air museum in which now and then an amazed visitor gets looses his way. Loesche doesn´t mind.… 2007, BR, 45 min
Jack the Ripper
In the late summer and autumn of 1888, Victorian London was shaken by a series of murders which were to become ingrained in the collective memory of the world. Still today, nobody knows who murdered five women in the impoverished district of Whitechapel or who wrote the anonymous letter claiming to be the murderer. It was this letter, signed by Jack the Ripper, that gave birth to the name that still lives on. More than one hundred years later, a host of criminologists and hobby researchers are still trying to bring the identity of the murderer to light. They have… 2009, ZDF, 45 min
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