The documentary filmmaker Mario Schneider describes the East German worlds relentlessly and tenderly. A conversation about the emptiness of the period after the reunification and lessons for today, two and a half months before the general election.
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Ulrike Nimz
As a child he played in the Mordskaule, a barren wood that grew in a bomb crater. The parents live in the district of Totendorf. His homeland, says Mario Schneider, is full of “wonderfully speaking names”. He made three films about the Mansfeld region. The region in the southwest of Saxony-Anhalt is marked by emigration and the end of mining. Anyone who watches Mario Schneider’s films learns more than that.