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- A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- Just one year after the Nazis seized power, radio and the press were switched to the same channel. The supreme control organ was the Ministry of Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels. On February 10, 1933, he declared that a "good government" had to carry out "good propaganda," which was a prerequisite for a "spiritual mobilization. His most important weapon: newly founded propaganda companies. The Reichspropagandachef demands that the "slovenliness" in reporting should cease and has word reporters, cameramen and photographers trained in a specially founded Wehrmachtsschule in Potsdam. Goebbels' propaganda war was quickly as effective a weapon as the fighting troops of the infantry, navy or air force. In more than 6000 German cinemas, "Die Deutsche Wochenschau" provided a collage of constantly advancing troops in picture, sound and commentary from the beginning of the war. Whether in Poland, France or Norway: only one can win - the German soldier. Towards the end of the war, the weekly newsreel mainly delivered perseverance slogans. But even Goebbels swayed that the reality of the last days of the war was difficult to adjust. In one of the last issues, the weekly newsreel shows Hitler with his last posse in Berlin: children as cannon fodder. It does not show the wreckage of the Führer, who left behind 50 million dead and mountains of rubble and predicts that his end will also be the end of all Germans. Until the end, the following is true: reality is what you make of it. History will one day be formed from our pictures, boasted Goebbels at the beginning of the war. In the end, all that remained for the Germans was the hope of a miracle.
- The Landesschau are TV broadcasts of the SWR, which can be seen on SWR television from Monday to Saturday.
- At the beginning of the 1980s, a new epidemic came over the world with AIDS. Epidemics were never extinct, they spread fear and terror - in every age. The increase in scientific knowledge has not changed this. New reports are heard almost daily: deadly epidemics with Ebola viruses, new pathogens cause mad cow disease, antibiotics fail against multi-resistant bacteria. Worse still: the old "great epidemics" are returning. The cause: poverty, misery, hunger and wars, collapse of health systems in the East, spread through mass tourism, open borders and globalisation. The three-part television series "The Diseases" describes three of the classic "scourges of humanity": tuberculosis, cholera and syphilis. The films show spread, causes and historical consequences: effects of the respective disease on culture and society, dealing with the infected, scientific search for pathogens and treatment options. Health authorities in major European cities have been registering an increase in sexually transmitted diseases - including syphilis - for years. Every year, 12 million people worldwide fall ill with this "sexually transmitted disease", which until a few years ago had completely disappeared from the statistics. They brought the disease with them from the Third World or from Eastern Europe, where it is still often spread today through unprotected traffic. The film describes the path of the disease, which was introduced from the New World a good 500 years ago. An epidemic that is not regarded as fate, but as punishment for sinful behaviour. It applied - and often still applies today - to venereal diseases: health is proof of virtue, disease an indication of depravity. Poets, thinkers and musicians were particularly frequently infected with syphilis. According to legend, the pathogens cause ingenuity. Then, however, madness quickly threatens: Nietzsche's medical history is exemplary for the course of this fatal disease, which could not be cured until the development of penicillin. Its successor and ally is called "AIDS".
- The second part of the ARD television series "Soldiers for Hitler" illuminates the last years of the Second World War, the decline of the 3rd Reich on all fronts. What happened to those who fought the war, the "soldiers for Hitler"? The beginning of the end began already in 1942. Without the Russian oil in the Caucasus, says Hitler in summer 1942, the war could not be won. To shield the Caucasus operation, the 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army were to advance to the Volga. Their goal: Stalingrad. Half a year later, this secondary war theatre became a symbol of the turning point in the Second World War. The suffering and dying of the 6th Army in Stalingrad has often been described, the events in the many small "Stalingrads" of the Eastern Front never received such interest. It took the Red Army two years to free the soil of the Soviet Union from the Germans. During the many retreat massacres the losses of the Wehrmacht are excessive. Everyone wanted to survive at all costs, but at that time this became a pure lottery game. The fear of Russian captivity and of their own quick courts behind the front is so great that they literally fought to the last round. But not only the inferno of the Eastern Front devours hundreds of thousands, also the other theatres of war demand bloody tribute: in North Africa as on the Atlantic, in the air war over England as on the Western Front, there above all after the beginning of the invasion by the Allies in Northwest France in June 1944. They are the last senseless victims of a fanatical leadership, which above all in the fight for Berlin shortly before the unconditional surrender literally "burns" children in the street fight.
- Police constable Studer is called to the Randlingen sanatorium to investigate the death of the director. Studer investigates in a difficult environment, dives into the realm of "Matto" and looks deep into human abysses.
- At the beginning of the 1980s, a new epidemic came over the world with AIDS. Epidemics were never extinct, they spread fear and terror - in every age. The increase in scientific knowledge has not changed this. New reports are heard almost daily: deadly epidemics with Ebola viruses, new pathogens cause mad cow disease, antibiotics fail against multi-resistant bacteria. Worse still: the old "great epidemics" are returning. The cause: poverty, misery, hunger and wars, collapse of health systems in the East, spread through mass tourism, open borders and globalisation. The three-part television series "The Diseases" describes three of the classic "scourges of humanity": tuberculosis, cholera and syphilis. The films show spread, causes and historical consequences: effects of the respective disease on culture and society, dealing with the infected, scientific search for pathogens and treatment options. Tuberculosis is the most common infectious disease today. About two billion people are infected and three million die from it every year. The trend is rising. The causes are multi-resistant germs - a time bomb for the industrial nations. The danger comes, among others, from the slums of the former Soviet Union. Overcrowded prisons are often the breeding ground for the disease. The film shows the development of consumption as the most important cause of death in the last and penultimate century. How it changed in social and literary perception - from a romantically transfigured disease of the young elite to what it always was: a disease of misery. Prominent tuberculosis patients were Frédéric Chopin and Franz Kafka. The film uses their curriculum vitae to describe the symptoms of the disease and the long death of the consumptive. Almost 60 years after Robert Koch's discovery of the pathogen and the development of X-ray diagnostics, the disease was defeated with effective antibiotics - this seemed to be the case until a few years ago ...
- At the beginning of the 1980s, a new epidemic came over the world with AIDS. Epidemics were never extinct, they spread fear and terror - in every age. The increase in scientific knowledge has not changed this. New reports are heard almost daily: deadly epidemics with Ebola viruses, new pathogens cause mad cow disease, antibiotics fail against multi-resistant bacteria. Worse still: the old "great epidemics" are returning. The cause: poverty, misery, hunger and wars, collapse of health systems in the East, spread through mass tourism, open borders and globalisation. The three-part television series "The Diseases" describes three of the classic "scourges of humanity": tuberculosis, cholera and syphilis. The films show spread, causes and historical consequences: effects of the respective disease on culture and society, dealing with the infected, scientific search for pathogens and treatment options. "Currently not to extinct !" - is the WHO's declaration of bankruptcy. Particularly in Bengal, Africa and South America, cholera claims tens of thousands of victims every year. The treatment is not a problem, as long as simple medical facilities are available - and - clean water. Conventional vaccines have lost their effectiveness - the side effects are considerable. Developing new vaccines suitable for children costs a lot of money. The pharmaceutical industry has no interest in production - the victims are not solvent, the epidemics are far away. In its cultural arrogance, the Occident felt safe from the Indian epidemic. But especially in the centres of the so-called cultural states: Berlin, Paris, London, and in the rich port cities such as Hamburg, the epidemic struck particularly relentlessly and unmasked the social grievances here. Dying of cholera is unappetizing and often takes place in public. Death often comes within hours. This simply leaves no time for a fateful transfiguration of the disease. At the beginning of the 20th century, cholera set itself in motion from the Indian subcontinent. In 1830 it was on the borders of Central Europe. Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz, the great Prussian theorist on the art of war, fails to avert the epidemic by military means. He dies of it. Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch compete to be the first to discover the pathogen. Here, too, it took 50 years to find an effective medical therapy. But as long as there is poverty, misery and war, the disease cannot be defeated.