Matti Geschonneck produced the Wannsee Conference for ZDF. About the reconstruction of an hour and a half in which the implementation of the mass murder of the Jews was agreed – and the question of what that has to do with us.
Interviewed by
Alexander Gorkow and Joachim Käppner
The conversation with Matti Geschonneck, 69, takes place on the premises of Constantin in Munich-Schwabing. You have to imagine the director as a tall, friendly Berliner who carefully weighs up his answers, doubts, searches, and then, this too: Berliners. The fact that he has a deeply mischievous side becomes clear in the preliminary and follow-up talks when we talk about the history of his family and therefore about family histories, and he has something to offer and knows it both happily and, where necessary, desperately tell. That would be worth a separate interview. However, Geschonneck obviously didn’t make it easy for himself with his film. He first reports in detail that he didn’t want to make this film for a long time, too many scruples. Then it starts.