"Gabi Teichert, a history teacher in Hessen and a patriot." "It means she's interested in all Germany's dead." "THE PATRIOT" "THE KNEE" "A knee walks the earth." "Nothing more than a knee." "It is not a tree, it is not a tent, nothing else." "Once a man was shot down in war." "Only his knee remained untouched, like a holy relic." "Ever since:" "A knee walks the earth, alone." "It is a knee, nothing else." "It is not a tree, it is not a tent." "It's just a knee." "Some say a knee can't speak and express its views." "But I'm proof of the opposite." "I'm the knee left over from Corporal Wieland's leg or body or person I previously belonged to until 29th January 1943 when he fell north of Stalingrad." "I was left over." "I'd like to set things straight and also speak for Corporal Wieland, because no one's simply dead when he dies." "You can't just write us off:" "The desires, the legs, the many joints, ribs, the skin that freezes." "And if only I remain, the knee, then I have to speak." "I must speak, speak, speak." "Even if my life's unusual, as part of an entire man, who's part of a people, that's part of history, of animals, nature, trees, gardens, etc., etc..." "Get used to me speaking." "It's my right." "I demand nothing, neither that you believe me nor that I make sense." "But I must speak. "One doesn't demand a right." "One fights for it."" "It's said I'm interested in history." "Quite right." "I can't forget the story that I'd be part of if Corporal Wieland were still part of something bigger." "Part of our beautiful Germany." "And not in his bunker." "As a German knee, I'm interested mostly in German history:" "Emperors, peasants, flowers, trees, farms, meadows, plants..." "I must clear up a principle error:" "That we dead ones are somehow dead." "That's the truth." "We're full of protest and energy." "Who wants to die?" "We march through history and examine it." "How can I escape history which will kill us all?" "Gabi Teichert was sure the material for history lessons at advanced level was deficient." "It's hard to present a patriotic version of German history." "This is the high-rise of the entrepreneur Selmi." "One night it burns down." "The fire hoses can't reach the top floors." "North Frankfurt at 10 pm." "A puddle has a history of 3 days." "Bomb-disposal Men in the Cellar." "Like so and so." "And that means?" " That means screw it clockwise." "He could have said sooner." "What a fuss!" "Three qualified experts in a factory cellar." "April 1945." "Two bomb-disposal men, one officer." "They could defuse any unexploded bomb." "...it's left-threaded." " Forget it." "The threads are reversed..." "Listen." "It's like this." "To the right, it's closed." "To the left, it's open." "Standard left-threads?" " No!" ""As long as the German Empire stands, things turn right!"" "Whether it's American or English, they turn it like that." "The same for every bomb?" " All except the delayed-action fuse." "It has an additional part." "If you unscrew it, you trip the fuse and it explodes." "So you have to know how it's made." "It's the same, but you shouldn't turn it." "Oh dear, they're coming from the north." "They're English." "That would be lucky. 36% miss..." " How can you tell, sitting here?" "From the sound." " How?" "But who cares..." "I say they're coming from the north." " Let them come." "North or south..." "All the same to me." "There they are, that's it..." "It's best when they're here, lying on the ground." "Then it's easy." "Why?" " We just take the pliers and unscrew them." "But you know which model it is?" " It's easy to see!" "Documentary!" "A man with a cigarette at 800 metres, at night-time." "I can't know his story." "Staging!" "These bombers aren't authentic." "So I don't know if this one's dropping the bombs." "I just know he's up there." "Down below." "One woman, two children, 1944." "Autumn 1943." "Gravedigger Bischof seeks shelter in a freshly-dug grave." "There'll be much work to do." "He prepares by taking a snooze." "These bomber pilots are back from their mission." "They haven't experienced Germany." "They've simply been razing the country for 18 hours." "Now they're off to their quarters for some sleep." "Total 950 Kaput Krauts" "The Party Convention" "One last comment on the solidifying of coal..." "If Gabi Teichert is to teach history, then she wants to actually participate in decisions made, such as those here at this event." "She must try to influence the delegates." "...than power from gas and probably atomic energy." "One must bear these higher costs, if your first priority is going to be coal power." "One must bear them." "Then we can talk about the price or offsetting taxes." "That's a second issue and regional points of view play a role..." "May I return for a moment to the heart of the problem?" "The material available for teaching history in high schools isn't worth using." "Not because German history wasn't moving, but because it was so moving that it's impossible to teach in a positive way." "...what I have to teach, then you'd try change history too." "Harder than you have so far." "...that the final product of history is really that which later becomes the raw material for history lessons." "Do you think the delegates will see your point?" "You don't believe we can influence the delegates, but I do." "If I can change history, so can they." "And if you can just see that all your talk and the final product of history defines the raw material for history lessons." "I expect you all to spread this view and help me." "That's why I'm here." "This is a source." "I'm a history teacher." "I want to change history here." "What do you think?" "In my opinion, the material for advanced history lessons isn't positive enough because our German history isn't positive enough either." "I'd like to gather other material, so I can use it in class." "You want to get this material here at the party convention?" " Yes." "Have you obtained any yet?" " No." "I won't get the material here." " I see..." "First we have to change history here." "So I need other material." "I'd like to change history together with you and him." "Right here and now?" "...and today once again, we've run out of time." "That's why I'm proposing a motion to limit each speaker to 5 minutes." "It's fairer to those speaking later." "Are there any objections?" "No discussion." "Then we must vote." "Mr Böhm will speak from western Westphalia, followed by Mr Wenner." "I can't talk now." "Sorry." "The average is 250 syllables." "But you must be able to write 360 to 400 syllables per minute." "I can write around 400." "Are there many deviations from the script?" " What do you mean?" "With Helmut Schmidt?" "Yes, a lot." " Party colleagues!" "I had no idea I'd go first, but the first must begin things." "I could listen to Helmut Schmidt for hours." "We all know that because of the time limit to prepare a new social reform, really prepare it, takes more than slogans, more than computers, more than... let's say... strategic planning." "No!" "It takes hard talk, issues have to be addressed and then worked on." "The SPD must champion this concept as well as a fundamental orientation for "Sozialpolitik", as well as concrete and programmatic statements for those it affects up to the 1980 Bundestag elections and the 9th Legislature." "On October 13th the Party's executive committee finished with this, our manifesto, are our ideas different now about the significance of the role of democracy, than they used be, according to the manifesto?" "Let us remain true to the historical duty of Social Democracy." "The legacy, which we've held in loyal hands, endures not through theories, but through being united in service to our people." "I thank you for your patience." "But now..." "let me ask:" "Do we support history lessons and history books?" "History books are ultimately the final product of history." "As for textbooks, I think, we have a very good institute which does a lot:" "The Brunswick School Book Institute." "But western Westphalia was for atomic energy but against the newest reactors." "...problem of those reactors..." "Yes, but can't you reverse the decision to allow it?" "Western Westphalia has strengthened our position on the coal-burning power plants, for a start." "I support it all the way." "But why must I also side with atomic energy, with such a weakly-formed plan and so few controls?" "I'm really divided." "I'd vote "yes" straight away, if the proposal were simply on coal-burning plants." "I'd vote "yes" hands down." "But never for atomic energy." "RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR COUNTRY" " SPD" "Many thanks." "Those against?" "Abstentions?" "The first holds the majority." "It is so decided." "We now come to number 7..." "Atomic power plants." "How's our proposal doing?" "We just hope it passes." "It's bill two-six." "Hopefully it'll make it." "That's the debate on the floor." "...we've talked about how the executive bill is a compromise, if it actually goes through." "If this bill passes, it will end the confrontation." "It's a simple question of national responsibility for energy." "It has to be clearly said, so what's decided on energy policy can actually be implemented." "The selection of bills goes like this:" "You take a key bill, or the executive makes one, which covers the topic." "Then those bills which coincide with the key bill are dropped along with those which oppose it." "Then the vote's held." "Let's say bill 100." "That means bills 103 to 110, and 120 to 121 are dropped." "Please hold up your cards." "This is the Guillotine Phase in the voting." "Gabi Teichert notes:" ""For 1,000 years, governments have been structured so I can only vote for what I want, by accepting what I don't want." "The word is "key bill"." "Camera!" " Four!" "So is the SPD debate on atomic energy over or just beginning?" "No, if a party discusses an issue for one and a half years and a party convention votes, then the majority decision carries, as it always does." "And all the party members accept the vote and agree to implement it." "After the war he led a normal life as party secretary and delegate." "I mean that the raw material for..." "You worked on the compromise bill but didn't sign it." "Why?" "The executive asked me to work on it." "Everyone should do his part." "What didn't please me was a loophole:" "In some cases, new plants can be built without complying with the first section of the bill." "...to clarify the petition a little?" " Yes, that's why I'm here." "With a clear vote, we'd have had a chance." "Our colleagues from the coal regions have seen once again that this marks an escalation of what's been the case all along:" "Those supplying power are trying to rely on atomic energy and not coal." "That's the issue." "We of western Westphalia, the dominant majority, think that this bill must be seen in relation to the coal bill." "We have to use the same tactics and force the energy suppliers to really use coal for power, by ensuring that this bill goes further than the first bill, then that first bill, which western Westphalia worked on, was in vain." "That's why I'm very disappointed with the vote." "Fellow colleagues, a party faction cannot be made of two factions." "The majority cannot talk first only to be followed by the minority." "There can only be one party faction!" "Everyone has a right to his personal opinion." "But that's his personal opinion and not some kind of faction within the faction." "That must be made perfectly clear." "Fellow colleagues..." "In such situations there exists a danger that the very foundations of collective government will shake, or even crumble as Herbert Wehner made clear." "Fellow colleagues, let's guard against such excesses and slogans that we're increasingly entering a society and entering a party situation, in which we can no longer..." "Man's wishes take many forms." "A temple of the future. 16 BC." ""There once was a stubborn child, disliked by God and his mother." "Soon he lay on his deathbed." "Yet every night after he was buried, his hand reached out from the grave." "A senseless death. 1813." "Two days after the surrender." "Memorial Sunday" "The mountains will rise up one day." "They are just sleeping a short while." "Today Gabi Teichert is correcting essays." "That means she crosses out errors." "It's her job... even if the errors are the best parts." "My name is Steinerbach." "I'm head of the toy department." "This is the Dress-Partner doll..." "She's called that because children can dress her in their old clothes." "And that's her major attraction." "Our best offer is this Walking-Talking-Singing doll." "Quite something for 49 Marks." "And if I tell you it sold 2 years ago for 59 Marks, you can see it's a real bargain." "Yes, she walks alone." "She has a slight pull to the left, that's why I..." "Come on!" "Yes, come to me!" "That's how to do it." "On this floor you'll find most of... the housewares department." "Except for lamps and electrical appliances." "Here you'll find furniture, bedding, curtains..." "THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI" "Mortgages taken out today run until 1998." "A researcher for peace." "Buried beneath the city lie undetonated bombs from World War II and valuables from Emperor Augustus or the Celts." "Previously they were just cups, pots, utensils." "Now they're treasures." "The Ancient History Museum is under-staffed." "So everywhere a bulldozer digs out some earth, citizens, called "grave-robbers" dig and salvage the treasures of history." "How deep can you dig?" "Zero metres is the rule." " Zero metres?" "That's nothing." "Digging is always a legal grey area." " I've done it for ten years." "But never caught?" " Reported but never caught." "Know what happens if you're caught?" " What?" "A 10,000 or 15,000 Mark fine." "And a record." " Do I lose my job?" "I'd imagine so." "Are you still on for Friday?" " You bet!" "You bet." "I can never relax these days." "Bad sleeping habits." "Most people go to sleep, then fall into a deep sleep." "But I have deep sleep during the day and still have to keep my eyes wide open." "From now on we must concentrate on limiting the topic "history"." "Personally I think that's very wise." "What you're saying is that students should be exposed to everything that ever happened since it directly affects him." "There are hopes..." " But it does!" "No, I'd like to say..." " It does!" "Sorry, but history lessons aren't about proving that everything is related to the subject or student, but that there are things that have nothing to do with his experience." "He should see that change occurs, only slowly and with great effort." "To trace a line, to put it bluntly, from Bismarck to Hitler..." "I'll skip the other names for now..." "is the accepted version of history." "History's written in a certain way for an historical reason." "Historical truth is what runs through daily life and consciousness." "We could even learn from the Soviets because their history is rewritten in accordance with their politics." "At least it's consistent." "So, Ms Teichert, I'm really surprised." "You've been chewing my ear off as well as my colleagues', but you've not said a word here." "One morning Gabi Teichert has a new idea." "She pursues it immediately." "A phrase which is perhaps useful and can apply here is "The Imprisonment of the Foot"." "That's what we do to our feet when we put shoes on." "If this is the cerebral area in which the motor cells are located, here are the cells commanding organs." "The hand is about this big, then here's the torso, and here is the foot, which in relation is only about so big." "That shows how many finer functions the hand has and how underrated the foot has been." "What time is it?" "You're up early." "New material for lessons comes at the strangest times." "This here has to do with history as history of human bodies." "They will be destroyed or not." "Yes, Mr Supervisor." " You can drop the title, and listen instead." "We've had complaints." " About what?" "You've cancelled classes." "You use superfluous material." "Ms Teichert, you can't go on like some wild mouse!" "The government deals with thousands of teachers." "It could get out of hand." "It's been that way since 1634." "You lecture about the human body and your lesson plan's at the year 800." "Why do we publish plans?" "I'm making an effort!" " Obviously at the wrong things!" "I'll do better." " You're rebellious." "At house's foundation, Gabi Teichert's making an effort." "I work with my eyes." "I'm interested in perceptions." "By day I work for State Security and Political Criminal Cases." "Right now I'm observing..." "My job leaves me unfulfilled." "I don't get enough sleep." "That's why I never feel on top of it at work or in my hobbies." "I'm dissatisfied." "Hello, can I help you?" "Quiet." "I'm working." " I'm down here now." "What?" "A peeping Tom has to relax." "If you're relaxed, you can see better." "Take this here..." "Lack of sleep." " No!" " I work too much..." "Allow me a professional observation?" " Sure." "Seen correctly, your day and night activities are contemporary research." "I'd say reality research." " I'm a historical researcher." "Our fields are related." "A researcher like you must relax." "Hah!" "I'm never relaxed." "Your mistake is that you're straining your eyes." "By day when you snoop around, and by night with your perversions." "That ruins the eyes." "And if I just can't relax?" "I simply can't do it." "Do this... as if you were taking pictures with a camera." "It releases the energy." "Not with me." " You have to practice." "A Love Story in Relation to History" "Rome, August 1939" "Fred Tacke and wife, Hildegard, née Gartmann." "Their first trip." "The servant will get your suitcase." "September 1st." "He must report to his regiment." "Four leaves, one lasting three days." "7 cancelled leaves because of offensives like on Charkov." "In 1953 Tacke returns home from a Russian POWcamp." "And the couple are supposed to resume their love story of August 1939." "Jenny the Elephant, who worked for the soldiers in Flanders, plays acrobat in the evening." "Make way over there." "1979." "A television set for the raffle in the Officers' Club." "Give him a drink." "I always wanted a set like this." " He gets one too, right?" "I always wanted such a tiny TV!" " Thanks." " Cheers." "Thanks a lot." "We could do with a boss like you." "I'd get you a uniform and a haircut as well." "A song for Mr Simon!" " Come on!" " A song!" "Quick!" " A song!" "Don't worry about me, darling," "I'll remain faithful as you know." "As it was, so it is today and tomorrow," "I'm yours forever, after all I'm your "Frau"" "Then you return one fine day," "And the world's changed for us." "Even though it may be difficult for you today..." "My heart says to you, you're definitely coming home, to rest in my arms." "2 weeks ago we had a lengthy meeting in which I clarified the government's position, or so I thought." "Yet today I walked through the teacher's room and unfortunately saw posters like this:" ""Things can't go on as they are." "Songs and essays from East Germany." Without my authorization." "Look here:" ""Russell Tribunal on Vietnam." "Organization for the Preparation of the 3rd Russell Tribunal."" "Look!" "I don't see my signature or school stamp anywhere." "The point is that certain things be made available and public." "I think the posters serve that function." "My dear colleague, this poster, which is far from the worst, and please excuse my language, makes an ass of one of our national parties!" "And, moreover, insidiously uses our colours as a background." "JOB BLACKLISTING" "And I repeat that I know for a fact the word "job blacklisting" doesn't exist, even if it were practiced." "How can you say that?" "I remember your words 2 years ago." "I appeal to your sense of reality." "That sense of reality is proved by the fact" "I notice what's happening around me." "That was different 2 year ago." "I hope you've noticed it." "You know how it affects students." "It destroys your lessons and efforts." "No, it provokes political discussion which we want and they want." "I can't believe a few harmless posters could create such uproar here." "The real issue is freedom of information." "Harmless?" "Harmless?" " It's just indoctrination." "Come on!" "Show that..." " In triplicate!" "It's manipulation!" "There were three copies hung here." " Oh come on!" "If you attack this poster without taking any notice of its purpose, you yourself are practising manipulation." "That's what this poster is all about." "Are you even aware of Mr Russell's achievements?" "And now you're trying to involve him in your attack?" "Show me the indoctrination in this poster." "The indoctrination is the fact that three of them were hanging together and the system of law and order had no chance to defend itself." "But you're doing it!" " The head teachers are speaking!" "If this emperor were still ruling," "Hessen's history at least, so says Gabi Teichert, would have been different." "During the emperor's reign," "Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm dug intensively into German history." "They dug and found fairytales." "Their content:" "How a people dealt with their wishes over 800 years." "They dug and dug and studied the fairytales..." "One of the women who told fairytales." ""Brother and Sister."" ""Little brother in the lake so deep, how my heart weeps." "The cook already whets his knife."" "All my life I've loved reading fairytales, not in a very orderly or systematic way, but simply taking each tale point by point." "I read them aloud with my wife and then dictate an analysis to her which she records in shorthand." "We've done about 30 concise analyses from a legal point of view." "I want to collect this material." ""Cat and Mouse in Partnership." Verdict." "Story of a swindler, or better:" "The cheating of the mouse by the cat with a deadly result." ""The Wolf and the 7 Little Kids"?" "That's a story of mass murder with a curiously happy ending." "A fairytale full of legal points is "Table Set Yourself"." "It's overflowing with legalities." "What about the witch's estate in "Hansel and Gretel"?" "The witch made no will." "May the children claim the gold, silver and jewels?" "Obviously the estate's not theirs, but belongs to the witch's family." "If she has none, it's the State's." ""The Poor Boy in the Grave"?" " No!" "What a horrible title!" "They're folklore or legends!" " No..." "Hans Heckel, former chief of Hessen's school supervisory board." "What did your job entail at the Culture Ministry?" "Co-ordinating the sub-departments." "First there was a plan to co-ordinate the school departments under Hessen's Culture Ministry." "They were somewhat chaotic when I took office." "That resulted in the co-ordination of the entire ministry, especially since I was on friendly terms with Culture Minister Schütte." "He used me as an expert advisor and asked me to undertake projects when he was too busy." "When you ask about Sleeping Beauty and the 12th fairy..." "That's an area that's legally beyond grasp, because it concerns things above and beyond the law." "The 12th fairy wishes for Sleeping Beauty to prick her finger on a spindle and die, or at least seem to be dead." "Then the 13th fairy comes and saves the day..." "Fairytales usually have happy endings..." "She wishes Sleeping Beauty doesn't die forever, but that after 100 years she's saved by a prince who braved the thorny forest." "You can see the 12th fairy as a murderer in the legal sense." "Not exactly a cold-blooded killer, but almost." "She tries to kill with evil desires, but it doesn't work." "And the 13th?" " She undoes the evil." "In "The 7 Ravens" the king and queen finally have a daughter, after seven sons and many years." "And they're so happy that the father decides to kill the seven sons so his kingdom will go to his daughter." "It's all told in the style of Biedermeier or late Baroque." "The parents are so insanely happy to have their longed-for daughter that out of pure joy they kill their other 7 children." "And the legal interpretation?" "Legally it's nothing." "The father has patria potestas, and as king and absolute ruler he can kill his children unpunished." "Isn't that obvious?" "Up to 1914 geese in Silesia sold for 18 pfennig." "HOMECOMING" "He who laughs at fairytales has never suffered." "Her parents were away when Hamburg burned." "Otherwise they wouldn't be here." "He who works hard is fortunate." "The soul of a person who works hard is like a factory, workshop, cellar or witch's kitchen." "Execution of German terrorists, including juveniles, the so-called "Werewolves", Spring 1945." "In a sandpit, under the hot sun, the sentence will be carried out according to martial law." "The 6th man, Captain Kurt Bruhns, from Bad Kissingen, ordered the execution of 2 American POWs." "This bush stands outside Kaliningrad in the Soviet Union, 45 km from the Polish border." "The area was once called Königsberg." "It doesn't concern the bush." "Out of the way!" "...the leader of the German Social Democratic Party and support him!" "I won't have you calling me "Father, Sir"." "Then I'll call you "Theo"." " I'm not your son, either." "Or your little brother." " Sorry, then you're my procreator!" "Don't be so insolent!" "Watch how you speak to me!" " Shall I call you "Papa"?" "Think about how you address me." "I want you to speak up to me when we discuss things!" ""Mr Prosecutor..." Is that better?" "Very good." "You just want to provoke me." "I work for your sake and you make fun of my job." "Listen up, buddy!" "Definitions are the sum of labels." "And the sum of labels describes human relations." "If we can't find a definition for our relationship, we're in no relation!" "Remember that!" "And stop that cheeky smirking you always give me!" "Start acting like a grown-up in your relations with me and others!" "I fight with my son." "He rejects my job and lifestyle." "In the Middle Ages 3 generations always lived together." "The first was educated, the second worked, and the third was looked after and prepared for death." "My son won't care for me in my old age." "I blame the influence of his teacher, Ms Teichert." "CRUSADE 1204" "Gabi Teichert is self-assured." "But she has no idea how to cram German history into 45 minute periods." "I'm Prosecutor Mürke!" " Let go!" "Introduce yourself properly." "I'm father of Hanno Mürke, one of your students." "I implore you to convince Hanno that he's to inherit everything I amass in my lifetime." "You mean money or furniture?" " No!" "Knowledge and experience." " You have a strange idea of my job." "Ms Teichert, don't underestimate me." "I consider you a suspicious person!" "No one talks to me like that, Mr Prosecutor." "See the parent committee!" "And now go knock yourself out, you lout!" "Dust!" "Fire Chief Schönecke, injured on a raid on Opladen." "With the first alarm, the fire trucks leave the city and turn back during the raid." ""In principle, we hose down everything."" "TO THE LORD MAYOR" "TO THE CITY ADMINISTRATION" ""If it's true,"says Schönecke," ""that fire-fighting experience mirrors the nature of hostile attacks, then a fireman's training must be changed radically." "That starts with the restructuring of society and its people, beginning with the 6 year-old kids, whose ABCs are worthless against bombs."" "Ms Teichert, I've been asked to speak for the whole class." "Enrollment for this history course has dropped from 30 to seven." "That should raise some questions." "You're hitting us with either too much or too little." "Anyway, your grading's too tough." "You should make more effort." "Don't pester me." "I've got stomach problems." "I'm over-worked." ""One Saturday, before Christmas..."" "It doesn't matter which group I was in!" "I was standing there." "Here..." ""The reason for police action is the disruption of Christmas spirit at the department store by juveniles."" "Look, kids, I'm no longer responsible..." "Watch it!" "Piss off!" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "What's going on here, man?" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "I didn't do anything!" "My arm!" "Pigs!" "Pigs!" " Freedom of speech!" "What was that all about?" " What?" " What was that about?" "No idea, I just got here." "Now I've got to clean up here." "It's really hard to control a crowd of 200 or 250 people." "You can only ever throw a few of them out, but that'd lead to an escalation that I can't answer for." "What'll happen next weekend?" " I can't focus on that right now." "At the moment, I'm just thinking about our shoppers' well-being, for whom we're ultimately responsible." "I can't allow things to get out of hand here." "I'm not criticising the police." "We can't just think about the 200 youngsters who came in." "What about the 1,000 already here?" "What's your position?" " Store manager." "Why did you call the police?" " I'm in charge here." "The merchandise is waiting." ""...explosions in the distance." "She was dressing the children when bombs struck the shelter of Koch's Printing Works, house numbers 26 and 69, opposite." "The door to the garden-house bursts, a wave of dust and smoke." "She and 2 children fell to the floor." "A third ran in and fell." "'They're close,' she thought."" ""At least, Gerda's group didn't scatter, but sought contact..."" " Let's skip the next part, and you read from the top, Anna:" ""It wasn't the moment..."" ""It wasn't the moment for beginning to develop a strategy..."" "Another Monday." "Subject material:" "Gerda Baethe." "In 1944 this woman is being bombed and wants to defend herself." "But her last chance to guard herself against the misery of 1944 was 1928." "In 1928 Gerda Baethe could have rallied together with other women." "You can't just organize people and then use them as puppets..." "I just said that." " Uli only said that organization's the key." "You have to organize 20,000 people." "I can only do that if they're aware of what they're fighting." "Look at the text:" ""For the kind of strategic perspective Gerda Baethe wished for on April 8th, 70,000 teachers would have had to work 20 long years."" "Right." "That kind of organization requires awareness." "And then things can be organized." " Gerda has such an awareness." "But it was too late!" " It developed." "We shouldn't forget that the RAF incinerated 60,000 people in Hamburg." "November 10th, 1944." "The 5th RAF bomber fleet is the night's main danger." "After shooting down 5 British bombers" "Dennerlein balls out of his aircraft, but gets caught on the tail, his plane in a dive." "Sergeant Detering, Searchlight Battery at ÖIstrum, tries to help his comrade by giving him light." ""150 m above ground, I free myself."" "If one wishes very hard, the wish will come true." "Strategy above." "Gerda Baethe." "Strategy below." "If one wishes very hard for something..." "In the years 1138 - 1268" "During the 12th century, wishes are very simple." "Soldiers yelled at us." "We had nothing." "They wanted something." "So now I must dig." "My land and property are burned." "Now I dig my own grave." "The children are calling already." "I'm coming." "God, help me get to Heaven." "The horde from above." "Hans Alberti, machine-tool maker." "In 2 weeks his workers rebuilt a bombed-out factory, although experts estimated it would take 6 months." "They were Alberti, Metzner, Pfmpfert, Pfeiffer, Schfer and Peter Kühne." "In 1939 Gerda Baethe knew a man from the Todt Organization." "He always said:" ""It's all about organization."" "He didn't want to build highways, but canals instead." "Then a ship could go from the North Sea, through the Alps to the Adriatic." "We'd planned it elaborately." "One mustn't give in to despair." "These are the tunnels where the canals entered the Alps." "Well?" "18th century or earlier?" " Mid-18th century." "It's interesting." "Two... five, six, seven..." "School chief Wedel says," ""I repeatedly told Ms Teichert she lacked a sense of order." "She then admitted that perhaps she lacked a sense of order, but she's not cold-hearted." "Faced with the charge that her statement was confusing, she repeated that she was not cold-hearted." "She doesn't appear to be capable of rational argument..."" "I can't imagine moving troops in that weather." "It's impossible." "What would your military say?" "It'd make waging war impossible." " You divide war and weather?" " Yes." "...cars separated from the streets." "I'd have the cars here and the street there." "Theoretically!" " The climate would be where I needed it, and I'd have the world in order." "I'd focus on a particular time so the war's concentrated." "I could shorten it." "People get bored with war quickly." " Stop it, Theo!" "If all revolutions occurred at the same time and place the world would advance to enjoy a long, beautiful, restful and ordered time of peace." "One should also put counterrevolutions in order, by God." "There'd be one big counterrevolution and another step back." "Progression and regression, war and peace." "There'd be order!" "One could separate space and time and finally unravel history." "There'd be no end to it." "If I had weather in one place, I'd have clear roads in another." "If I had the cars, the weather and the people all separated," "I'd have a well-ordered, rational system which is simple and reasonable and allows genuine progress." "Franz, if your military cannot comprehend this, it'll always be chaotic." "Always totally chaotic..." "At absolute zero, minus 273 degrees, matter behaves in an orderly manner." "In this lab we study... phenomena at around absolute zero." "You're familiar with phenomena at room temperature." "That's about 300 degrees Kelvin above what we call absolute zero." "So 300 degrees Kelvin separate the world of life from the world where most material is as ordered as possible." "We lack sensors for measuring such low temperatures." "My skin, like yours, can only feel temperature changes around room temperature." "Absolute stasis is not the same as what happens at absolute zero." "In principle, stasis is impossible to achieve." "There's always movement at zero." "Everything moves, even at absolute zero." "That's clear because helium remains fluid..." "During the Winter campaign of 1942 we tried to hack the frozen earth." "We made shallow holes by detonating land mines." "The lifeboats for World War III" ""Once there was a little man who built his house upon the ice." "'O Lord,' he said, 'let it stay frozen, or I'll lose my little house.'" "But the house sank and the little man drowned."" ""A question of connection..."" ""Arising from cracked open coffins it stands in a choir of angels..."" "Who?" " "Arising from cracked open coffins it stands in a choir of angels..."" ""Toward the steep hill of Virtue, the sufferer trudges on." ""Atop the mountains of Faith, one sees Joy's banners..."" ""Atop the mountains of Faith, one sees Joy's banners..."" ""From the fiery mirror of Truth, Joy laughs at the scholars..."" "New Year's Eve." "Gabi Teichert is exploring the wording of the third stanza of "Ode to Joy"." ""...one see's Joy's banners waving."" ""Arising from cracked open coffins, Joy stands in a choir of angels..."" ""Joy overflows the goblets."" ""Brothers!" "Rise up from your seats when the brim-filled goblet's passed, let the foam gush up to Heaven..."" "But that's so macabre." " "Brother, rise up from your seats, when the goblet's passed..." What was that?" ""Let the foam gush up to Heaven..."" "What?" " "Joy overflows the goblets."" ""Joy..." "Joy overflows the goblets..." "Joy overflows..."" "It makes me think of the saying that you put an extra stone on the grave of a person with a big mouth, so he'd be quiet, you know." "We want to work out the lyrics." "They're not here anywhere!" "We read clearly in the grey sky how thick the Winter days are." "Slow life is long." ""The closer one looks at a word, the further it recedes from sight."" "Germany" "In the name of the dead of Germany and the 6th Army," "I'd now like to express my principle views." "If everyone can speak, so can I." "A dead knee sees things a bit differently." "For example, Bismarck, who is said to have made history." "Often I'm asked where I learned so much." "It's a mistake to think that the printed matter in libraries is related to history." "We, the dead and their parts, are history." "Every cell that doesn't want to die knows everything, from the beginning right to the very end." "Only the quarrelsome brain doesn't." "We dead cells know everything and have reason to." "The resurrection of the dead, and who really wants to die, presupposes a thorough knowledge of history." "Basically I'm a historical expert." "Other dead colleagues refer to me as the "Father of Accuracy"." "They say I'm so precise." "Maybe I can show you what I mean." "I want to be as clear as possible." "The Hessen Culture Ministry wants to abolish history altogether." "And combine it with geography and government to make "social studies"." "RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR COUNTRY" " SPD" ""THE SLEEPING ARMY", A NOVEL BY" "Anarchy eats away at our institutions." "The Federal Crime Office knows why." "They've stolen the "s"" "from the alphabet, now they build barricades." "She lives here." "13 years, 6 weeks until World War III or 2 years and 11 months." "Gabi Teichert is usually confused." "It's a question of connection." "Speed is of the essence." "She's a patriot in her work." "That is, she's overburdened." "Often she can't pay attention to her students during class." "This was once my master, Corporal Wieland, 8 years before Stalingrad." "He wanted to live, but found himself in the wrong history." "RECEIVER FOR SOLAR RAYS" ""How a city will look in 50 years." "(Drawn in 1932)"" "WESTERN FLIGHT ROUTE" "HANGING GARDENS" "Note than a knee strides forward in principle." "Over 2,000 km to Stalingrad, it bends and stretches every half metre, directed by an obstinate brain that's still there and has no more to say." "Some say I use the word "principle" too much." "Quite right." "It's a habit I picked up from Corporal Wieland's brain." "It always said "principle" when it was under pressure." "I myself have no principles, just a firm will to survive." "To hurry somewhere and have experience, but not principles." "You shouldn't believe what I say." "I'm not talking as a knee." "I have no vocal organ." "I'm not the knee-cap or the space behind it." "I'm neither the lower nor upper leg." "They died." "I'm in-between." "Try to find an enemy who will hit the bit in-between." "What they say about witches!" "And what will be said about knees?" "As if knees only existed to march into war..." "In principle, knees should never just stretch like this." "They should bend and then stretch." "This is the goddess Lilith, a murdered goddess." "Dead like me." "That's solid material, believe me." "That's history and nothing nice or flabby." "We formed an 8 km front and blew the enemy to pieces." "Then they got round us and we retreated 50 km." "If we die, I'd at least like to say that it was effort and work." "At least..." "At least for the knee." "That brings me the point:" "What can you do?" "The practical application, I'm speaking as a knee." "Here's Lenin's apartment." "What can you do?" "A cook is to direct the national government." "Untested." "What can you do?" "Attack en masse as a dead knee Or disguise oneself?" "Changing all relations." "That's a perception." "If this history didn't exist, simply did not exist, another definitely would." "From a dead knee's point of view, it should be put negatively." "Not what can you do?" "What do I do?" "Rather, what should I not do?" "When my nagging brain says "Do that," I know what not to do." "I don't run, but I stumble etc." "I wanted to say something about the army in '44, but forgot what it was." "I'd like to make it even clearer." "Alcuin says: "Silentium in sacerdote pernicies est populi."" "'Loqui' has a purpose, an inherent goal." "It's the key to 'imperium regnum caelestis', while the text 'linguae'speaks as 'clavis caelistis imperii', the official 'linguae', or 'Ioqui'." "And therefore is the country's qualified spokesman and has greater understanding: 'erudire'." "It'll become clear later how far 'eruditio ad regnum die' is the real spiritual problem, similar to the goal of action, which is at the same time entrance to the 'imperium caelestis'." "Therefore, 'eruditio' really means 'fidei rationes praecepta dei scire', and this 'sobria conversatione ostendere ea implere'." "The 'ductor' or 'doctor gregis' leads to 'docendo et ammonendo'..." "You see, my Corporal Wieland couldn't recite from memory the key achievements of Charlemagne." "But I, a dead knee, can." "Every New Year's Eve, Gabi Teichert reflects on the 365 days ahead." "The hope remains for improving the material for advanced history in the coming year." ""The dew has fallen for 1,000 years." "Tomorrow it will stop." "Stars disorderly enter a new house."" " Bertolt Brecht." "Subtitles" "Film und Video Untertitelung Gerhard Lehmann AG"