Artur Dieckhoff

In May 1968, no one passes him by: day and night, Peter Ernst Eiffe, who grew up in a Hanseatic family, is on the road in Hamburg with the felt-tip pen and covers toilets, traffic signs, mailboxes with his sayings. Presumably he is the first graffiti tagger in Germany. Highlight of his career: He drives a Fiat Topolino into the Wandelhalle of the main station and proclaims the "Free Republic of Eiffe". Forcibly admitted to psychiatry, he founded the party »Eiffe Brothers«. Christmas 1983 he escapes from the institution and is found frozen months later. In the 1990s, the filmmaker Christian Bau and Artur Dieckhoff began to deal with Eiffe.

Fifteen animated scenes tell the story of a miraculous encounter between a human and a bird. What happens when cyclist Fred finds a young, exhausted bird of prey and lets it spend the winter in his city apartment? By combining woodcut techniques with the medium of film for the first time, Artur Dieckhoff achieves what Dürer had dreamed of: making his figures dance.

A short animation.

Documentary film essay that links the fate of the New York artist Jimmy Ernst and his parents Max Ernst and Louise Straus with the history of the Augustin printing house in Glückstadt.