To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago, the Austrian Film Museum showed one of the most important ‘Defa’ films:
Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser … (Director: Gerhard Klein, Screenplay: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, GDR, 1957) A film about a youthful clique in Berlin in 1957, which was divided but not yet separated by a wall. Afterwards, journalist Renata Schmidtkunz spoke with screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, born in 1931, about the time in the GDR before and after the wall was built, about the production conditions of the film and about how the world has changed since the end of actually existing socialism. The 5B class attended as part of their BE lessons and were able to see for themselves the aesthetic modernity of this important black-and-white film.
MMag.a Katrin Cebul-Deimel
