Suche nach Glücksland. Die Geschichten des Jurij Brězan
In Search of the Promised Land. The Stories of Jurij Brězan
Imagery of village life and Lusatian landscapes that depict roadside crucifixes and carts, as well as the local power station and surface mining, interwoven by the author's stories, which encompass a century of local history: Sorbian resistance to National Socialism, and then the conscious decision in favour of one country. For a country and its language. The continued tensions with Germany and the sense of belonging to two cultures. How does a minority writer position himself in the national, and international, literary scene? What prospects does a literature written in a minority language possess? How is one to counter the depletion of this people's living space?
An in-depth portrait that has lost none of its topicality. At the time the complex of issues associated with the Sorbs was such a sensitive issue that permission to screen the film was only granted a year after the film was released, and only then due to the personal intervention of Brězan himself. GL
DigiBe | Farbe / colour
Konrad Herrmann, Elke Schieber
Ulrich Wrede
Jan Bulank
Michael Schramm
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)
