Kontinent Hoffnung
Continent of Hope
It was the “desire to discover an unknown continent of hope” that drove him, a clergyman's son from Upper Lusatia, on his travels around the world: from Görlitz to Dessau, and on to Russia, the Caucasus and Persia. A formative influence was and remained however the artist childhood paintings, full of symbolism, the wonders of the Lusatian countryside and the mythology of Sorbian culture. How do the cultures of bygone times, as well as the subconscious, shape the artistic process?
Questions that Konrad Herrmann raises in this bold, intense montage of fragments of Wehle's art and thoughts. In the absence of answers all that remains are the inner conflicts of an unjustly forgotten artist. GL
DigiBe | Farbe / colour
Alfred Krautz, Lutz Körner, Konrad Herrmann
Lutz Körner
Peter Gotthardt
Manfred Schulz, Majka Kowarjec, Marja Ulbrichec
Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 20
14482 Potsdam
Germany
Tel.: +49.331.581.21 03
dra-babelsberg@dra.de
www.dra.de
Konrad Herrmann - born 1948 in Bautzen, Germany. He studied directing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”, GDR, and switched from East German state television to the DEFA Documentary Film Studio in 1986. Since 1994 Herrmann has been working as a freelance director and author. He is also founder of the HerrmannFilm production company Berlin.
RUBLAK – LEGENDA WÓ WUMĚRJANEM KRAJU (1983)
ALLTAG DER TRÄUME (1986, short, exp)
LIEB GEORG (1988, doc)
DIE ANGST UND DIE MACHT (1989, doc)
HONECKERS ZERMONIENMEISTER (1991, doc)
LEBEN GEGEN DIE ZEIT (1993, doc, Cottbus 2016)
SIEG ÜBER DEN HASS (1995, doc, Cottbus 2016)
EIN ALTROCKER IN AMT UND WÜRDEN (1998, doc)
IM UNRUHESTAND (2004, doc)
