High on Work: We have left a heroic and post-heroic industrial age behind us. Farewell to an era when work was still abundant. Yet the adage still holds: Only work makes life real (Marx). The turbulent zones of globalization, in the cafeteria of Brecht's Theater, Helge Schneider as an unemployed woman in Spain, "working to pieces" in the concentration camps. Farewell to the safe side of life: Experiences with core activities of our time, for example skyscrapers or Chernobyl. Experts from the fire department and paramedics, engineers, and scientists tell their stories. With Durs Grünbein, Peter Berling, Igor Kostin, Victor Popov, Nikolai Tarakanov, Igor Jassenjawski, Rosemarie Tietze, and Oxana Pentak.
DVD features (2-disc DVD)
DVD 1
- Im Rausch der Arbeit 1997, 15'
- Clintons Chefökonom 2007, 24'
- Postheroisches Management 1999, 24'
- "Ab 50 Eisbein wird es schön!" 2007, 15'
- Der Brückengeher 2007!", 24'
- Frohe Ostern 1998, 24'
- Lagergeld 1995, 10'
- 16page booklet with texts by Alexander Kluge
DVD 2
- Projekt Belsazar 1999, 5'
- Rette sich, wer kann 2003, 15'
- Abschied von der sicheren Seite des Lebens 2002, 25'
- "Der Wind, der reinigt das - -" 1993, 15'
- Sowjetische Patrioten von 1941 1991, 15'
- Achtung Totalverlust! 2001, 15'
- "Die brennende Giraffe" 2007, 4'
- Nur Dosen wurden gerettet 2003, 15'
- Verstand, unterhalb des Verstandes 2008, 4'
- Short stories by Alexander Kluge as ROM features
DVD edited by: Filmmuseum München and Goethe-Institut, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
DVD authoring: Ralph Schermbach
DVD supervision: Stefan Droessler
First edition October 2008
Release date: October 2008
