Ein Leben in der Lausitz. Der Schriftsteller Jurij Koch
A Life in Lusatia. The Author Jurij Koch
This documentary film was produced to coincide with the 75th birthday of Jurij Koch, a writer who remains an active freelancer for the public regional broadcaster rbb’s Lower Sorbian to this day. The viewer encounters him chopping wood in his yard, at work in his study, in the workshop of artist Günter Rechen, visiting the grave of his father, at his grammar school in Varnsdorf in the Czech Republic and at play with his grandchildren, as well as at work in the rbb studio. Reminiscences and reflections on a childhood paradise, loss and betrayal, journalism and literature, influences both Sorbian and German, as well as resistance. GL
Julia Kunert
Mirko Hoffmann
rbb Studio Cottbus
Hellmuth Henneberg
Berliner Straße 155
03046 Cottbus
Germany
+49.35.51.43.92 00
www.rbb-online.de
hellmuth-henneberg@rbb-online.de
Konstanze Weidhaas - born in 1950 in Halle, Germany. From 1974 to 1991 she worked as dramaturge and editor for the television of the GDR. Until 2015 she worked as freelance editor, author and filmmaker, mainly for the German TV stations ORB and rbb.
SECHS AUF EINEN STREICH (2008, serial)
