Deutschlandspiegel 307/1980 1980

1 Munich: curling, curling, shoots over the ice and meets little red wooden cubes. 2 crows on Schneeberg. Curling in the Park in front of the Nymphenburg Castle. Woman throws, various ice shooters. Strengthening through drink.
(41 m) 2nd participation (some archive material) profession: woman with tweezers, large, filling tube. Welder. Man at desk on the phone, desk woman, woman sees through magnifying glass, technical draughtsman, assembly line, open-plan office. Works Constitution Act (text). Sign with arrow Works Council. Going to the meeting. Betriebsratssitzung. Confidence men of the Works Council to discuss with workers in workshop. The Group of men, small, behind huge rotating machine screw. S/W: landscape of rubble after the war. Industries. Blast furnace. Headframe. Miners in coal mining. Mine closures.
Col: Trick with hats and helmets on table. Composition of supervisory boards for joint participation with equal shares by representatives of capital and workers. Vote the Chairman of the Supervisory Board shall be decisive. Headquarters of Esso, FARBWERKE Höchst, Edeka, Hamburg Mannheimer insurance. Offices and factory workers. Training of the DGB to participation. Workers leave the factory of the Vulkan shipyard in Bremen at closing time. Parking. Workers go from the premises.
(117 m) 03 Hamburg: Jazz in school students help when carrying musical instruments in the school. Jazz Band "Bobcats" in gym by school answered questions from students interview: "I wanted to ask whether this is your profession, or your hobby?" -We all have yet another job by the way, but we consider us already as A little bit as a semi professional, or how you should express that. -I want to ask whether you play just jazz, or other music? -We play only jazz. I play for now first of all only a harmony schema you by a blues. Listen, maybe recognizes it after a couple of times." Faces of pupils and students, great. The Bobcats play jazz and To give explanations to the sound sequence. Musicians interview: "and to fit a melody. You can now make sure. Now, Jochen will play the melody of "Coming home, Baby" on the flute and I go with him this harmony scheme." Band plays, clapping pupil.
(59 m) 04 Foundation Volkswagen work with Holsten Lübeck. Restoration of old facades. Gothic brick facade from the 15th century appears under the decapitated plaster. The Panel of experts of the Foundation of Volkswagenwerk in assessment of applications. Faces, great. Operation at the Munich University Clinic. Transplantation of a torn-down heel. Close-up of the surgical field. Sewing of veins. Tendons, nerves. Technical equipment of micro-surgery was funded by the Foundation. Guest House of the Technical University of Braunschweig. Foreign researchers are supported by the Foundation. Eastern scientists, Indian, big faces. (Archive DSP 283 + remnants of Lübeck)
(65 m) 05. Berlin: Bundesdruckerei of ornate candelabra as street lighting. Candelabra as a postage stamp. Banknotes, bank stocks, securities, government bonds, passports and forms. Production in the Federal Printing Office. Engraver transmits template for stamp on steel plate. Pressure cylinder for mark printing. In Hall, women check the sheets for errors. Print template for bills with security thread. Production of forms in the light set procedure. Print rotation machines. Chute of finished phone books. Production of the art leaves of the Bundesdruckerei to old engravings.
(58 m) 06. The Halligen (see D 226/4) flying Seagull. The Hallig surrounded by sea, with thatched houses. Hallig road cyclist. Cruising ship to the Hallig. Post is passed. Stone banks of the Hallig of waves plays. Hallig Bauer at the cut out of ditches and ramparts against the flood building. Flock of sheep and cows graze. Children to ride on the bicycle to school. The teacher will start before the class in room and taught the generators.
Read: Smaller girl ponders storybook and reads above.
Geography: Blond boy faces map.
The sea with sunset evening sky.
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Royal backdrop for a national sport: curling. Like here before the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich supporters of sport, which is more on fun than on high-performance meet elsewhere in each winter. But ambitious host also tournaments and Championships with a 6-pound cone made of hard rubber.
Who is the target, a wooden cube, closest, gets the most points. Four of them, the shooters form a team.
It must be not always records, a little movement in the fresh air will Do it also. Who is on more out, it has the German Championships, which are held since 1926. 40,000 citizens join in, from 35,000 in Bavaria alone.

At least 8 hours a day of citizens exercising his profession: half of his conscious life. He therefore has the right to shape its workforce and to influence: in the workplace and in operation. The participation and participation rights of workers and trade unions in the Federal Republic are going further than in most other countries. That contributes to the social peace in Germany.
According to the so-called labor-management relations act, every worker has an information and listen right in all matters that affect him and his work.
The Works Council, choose the workers and employees from their midst is even more important. So that the Works Council has enough time for its tasks, A few of its members from their professional work will be exempted. They relate the content Of course continue.
The Works Council takes care of the social needs of the workforce and supports and advises them. If the company wants to fire a worker, the Works Council must agree first.
Soon after the second world war, in the midst of the General destruction, trade unions called for a participation of the workers in the German economy. Through direct influence on the large-scale industry wanted to ensure last but not least, that a similar political mishap as in the Nazi era remained in the future-excluded. The joint participation was introduced first in the mining and the iron and steel industry. Since representatives of workers as owners of capital sitting on the Supervisory Board of the company regardless.
In addition, the trade unions provide a so-called working Director who represents the special interests of workers in management as an equal member of the Board.

The first politically controversial employee was their test in the crisis known himself as due to lack of sales at coal and iron tens of thousands of workers had to be dismissed, unions their responsibility after both sides although many works and collieries were closed, remained the social peace be maintained. Mid 70's participation was then extended to all large enterprises.
The Supervisory Board of any company with at least 2,000 employees is filled half with capital and employee representatives. New addition was that the Chairman of the Supervisory Board when votes are decisive. In this way, the shareholders have retained a slight overweight. The Supervisory Board elects and controls, the company's management. Here, the Trade Union and employee representatives on the Supervisory Board take influence on the commercial policy of the 600 largest companies in the Federal Republic.
The employee representatives are elected usually from the workforce. Workers as well as salaried and executive employees must be considered. Also, representatives of the Union to the Supervisory Board are elected.
German unions train qualified members for the work of the Supervisory Board in their education site of the Fort. Who wants to participate, must have the necessary knowledge. The employee has positively influenced the social climate in the Federal Republic. The old antagonism between capital and labour was replaced by the "social partnership". One of the reasons that the Federal Republic has become a country with a few strikes and high income for the workers.

Students in a suburb of Hamburg docked itself with hand. They were curious about: a new form of music teaching them was announced.
Music in the gym to warm up a short question and answer game.
"Is that your profession or just your hobby?"
"We have all along the way another job. We consider ourselves as semi professional". "Do you play only jazz or other music?"
"We do just jazz. We play now first a simple diagram of the harmony of a blues. Listen, vlelleicht realize again after a couple of times it." "To Paß a melody. Now, Jochen will play the melody of "Coming home, baby" on the flute, and I go with him this harmony scheme".
The Bobcats, a jazz band from northern Germany, came on years the idea of different way to teach students the subject music ago: in the interplay of music and loose information. The administrators were. And the student also. Since then, the band is booked out in the morning. She presented their kind of music teaching in more than 150 schools a year.

Lübeck. Precious testimonies of the great past of the former Hanseatic League City appear flush old houses: Gothic brick facades of the 14th and 15th century. That the historical monuments in Lübeck can be documented and restored, is also the largest private foundation of the Federal Republic.
Volkswagenwerk Foundation 20 years ago from the automotive group's received an endowment of 1 billion marks. Since then, it supports large-scale research projects in science, culture and technology. An independent panel of experts examines the applications - like this of the University Clinic in Munich. He was granted.
The operations team under Dr. Biemer had served already pacemaker of microsurgery in the field - such as transfer of skin grafts or torn limb surgery. During this operation there was a four-year girl who ran with his heel into a lawn mower, to insert a graft at the injured site.
Not only the skin, the veins, veins and nerve connections are made on Microsurgical ways. The costly equipment daflir financed the VW Foundation.
Another example of the work of the Foundation: the Guest House of Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany. Foreign scientists who take a teaching position at the University, work, live, and live with the help of Foundation money in Braunschweig. The promotion of scientists and scientific institutions abroad did the Foundation became a focal point. While she equates basically support requests the German applications from abroad. With its Förschungsförderung across State boundaries, the VW Foundation contributes to international cooperation.

Make millions of copies of an original: it belongs to the daily work of the Federal Printing Office. Shares, Treasury bonds, postal savings, ID cards, passports, driver's licenses. And in particular banknotes and stamps: all products which are manufactured only on behalf of Government. For 100 years the Federal and former imperial printing company in West Berlin works.
High technical skill is still required. For example, when the engraver, which transmits the template for a postage stamp on a polished steel plate.
The stitch gravure: also an original, which is reproduced on the pressure cylinder to a trademark bow.
The rest is handmade: upper check for typographical errors and get ready for shipping.
Especially carefully it is the banknote printing. Security thread and watermark to protect against counterfeiting. The actual printing form arises from two different print templates.
The light setting procedure is used for tables and forms. The full-page display on the screen simplifies and speeds up the production. The large rotating machines are set up - also for phone books for pressures of all kinds.
The multicolored prints are among the specialities to etchings of old masters who To find lovers all over the world under the title "Art leaves of the Federal Printing Office".

These islands lie off the West coast of Schleswig-Holstein. They are called Halligen. They are the remnants of a strip of mainland, which went down in the 11th century by a large storm surge. These islands are not through levees protected and therefore exposed to the forces of nature. Solidarity action in the fight against the sea is paramount for the inhabitants of the island.
Each island is a small world of its own. The smallest school in the Federal Republic was built for the 23 residents of Nordstrandischmoor.
5 students learn literacy and numeracy, and learn from the great world behind the sea for the first time. Nordstrandischmoor knows neither cinemas nor department stores or traffic. And yet no Hallig residents finds his simple life as a deficiency.

Year of Release:

1980

Year of Production:

1980

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Reportagefilm GmbH

Commissioned by:

Bundespresseamt

Film Format:

16 mm

Duration:

00:14:00

Film length (in m):

160

Colour:

Colour

Audio:

Sound

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