Hans-Dieter Grabe

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell stories about the country and its people. The teams filmed at 20 different locations between June and August 2010 under the same production conditions: four days of filming, one week of editing.

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Portrait of the Federal President Gustav Heinemann.

Hans-Dieter Grabe recollects his memories of his experiences in 1945, when he was eight years old and living in Dresden.

Hans-Dieter Grabe portrays his neighbour, Raimund, one year before his suicide.

Despite or perhaps because of his position at the public television channel ZDF, Hans-Dieter Grabe has developed his own unmistakable signature style which falls between journalism and documentary (similar to Klaus Wildenhahn during his time at the TV channel NDR).

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

From the diaries of a German official in occupied Poland 1940-42.

They leave their home country with the intention of working in Germany for a year or two, hoping that this time will be enough to bring them the prosperity they long for. Then they realize that the time was not enough and they set a new deadline. This is how most ‘guest workers’ begin to experience the rupture of a life whose planning overwhelms them. One of them: Mehmet Turan.

A long-term film documentary about the Vietnamese Do Sanh, who lost his parents as an eight-year-old boy in the Vietnam War and was critically injured by a grenade. Grabe accompanied and filmed him from 1970 until his death. This film is the fifth and final documentary in this series.

A portrait of documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

The story of Ludwig Gehm - a German resistance fighter against Nazism.

On March 22, 1983, Abdullah Yakupoglu, a Turkish worker living in Germany, killed his daughter Perihan. The documentary looks at the motives of Yakupoglu, who is interviewed in prison.

Grabe's film about his friend, fellow filmmaker, and painter Jürgen Böttcher aka Strawalde.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

It has been nearly 15 years since Do Sanh returned to Vietnam. He is now 29 years old. In the documentary, Sanh talks about his current life, the experiences he has had, and the tough times he had to go through since the filming for director Hans-Dieter Grabe's documentary "Sanh und seine Freunde - Beobachtung einer Rückkehr nach Vietnam" ended in 1974.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.