Hans-Dieter Rutsch

North of Neuruppin lies the Ruppiner Schweiz, the smallest “Swiss” area on German soil. Fontane loved the seclusion and enigmatic appeal of this region’s landscape. As an idyllic recreational and holiday region, it attracts countless tourists every year. But the industry has left its mark: what were previously common sights in the wild can only now be found by vacationers in museums or small zoos. A film about a regional landscape, its history, and how people treat it.

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

Germans in Poland? For many in Germany, this does not sound like the European present, but rather like the past, after war and expulsion, after political and ideological disputes. In fact, German-Polish relations are often still overshadowed by the past, especially by the Second World War, which began exactly 70 years ago with the invasion of the Wehrmacht. Yet a surprising European success story has taken place in western Poland, in the former German Silesia, in recent years.