01-external aspects of German unity EC driving Special Summit in Dublin the 2 + 4 Conference in Bonn double-decker bus around Dublin. City images. Map of EC with Germany. Arrival politician. Car ride. Mitterrand gets out of car. Arrival of Kohl and Genscher. EC flag. Helmut Kohl before the press interview: "I tell you that everyone in the EC will have a considerable advantage of the German unification process. From what is happening now in the GDR on investment and what is commercially and economically in this context, a considerable push for overall development in Germany and of course also in the European Community shall come forth."
Cameramen. Group Portrait of the politician of the Special Summit in Dublin.
Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Bonn. Genscher in addition to GDR Foreign Minister Markus Meckel. 2 + 4 talks. Shevardnadze, US Secretary of State Baker, Foreign Minister Hurd, United Kingdom. Roland Dumas, France Press Conference: Shevardnadze actuality. Baker o-ton: "in helping Germany achieve freedom and unity I believe all the states and people of Europe can be winners and that should be our aim in these talks."
Genscher actuality: "for us Germans is an emotional day. We want that the Association of Germans becomes a contribution to stability in all of Europe. For this to work the European vocation of the Germans, committed to the policy of responsibility instead of the power politics of the past."
Group picture of the Foreign Minister.
(105 m) 02. domestic aspects of German unity wall demolition Brandenburg Gate Government Declaration of Lothar de Maiziere treaty over monetary union elections in the GDR the Berlin wall falls at the Brandenburg Gate. Working at night. Looking East Berlin through the Brandenburg Gate. Repair scaffolding around the Brandenburg Gate.
Session of the people's Chamber. Close-up of Thierse, SPD. Government Declaration of Lothar de Maiziere actuality: "the election, from which this Parliament were elections of the people. The people in the GDR was constituted as a part of a people, as part of a German people that you want to grow together again. Our voters have expressed clearly that their political will, in the elections of March 18, 1990. This will commit us." Negotiations for the Treaty between the two German States.
Local elections in the GDR. Schwerin. Election posters. Polling station. DOM. PIA Madelaine Garitz, top candidate of the CDU in Schwerin, go to the election. Cityscape Schwerin. Schwerin theatre.
(74 m) 03. The brothers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein, Oscar - winners interview with Wolfgang Lauenstein for its film film students balance.
"Balance is our 4th film. There is a theme that runs through all our films, and that is the single bound being in certain mechanisms."
"The Oscar is a popular, well marketed price, which certainly also going to help me for the future."
Scenes of the animation film - the dark vision of a world in which the human community is destroyed by selfishness."
(52 m) 04. opening of a construction market in the GDR - Bahr-Baumarkt in Dresden Dresden's cityscape. Restauerierter kennel. Ruins of the Church of our Lady. Dilapidated houses. DIY Bahr. People with shopping carts. Shopping. Interviews with buyers. Scaffolding on houses. Painter paints window.
(61 m) 05. Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at rehearsal of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, succeeding Herbert von Karajan.
"What has attracted the most you, to work with the Berlin Philharmonic together?" It is a great pleasure for me of course. This is the best Orchestra in the world, with a tradition of old, big, and it was always really very nice this together playing music with the Berlin Philharmonic,."
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01 foreign policy aspects of the German unit of Dublin - the capital of Ireland, which currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Community. A special summit to the German reunification took place here. The growing together of Germans gives also the EC on their way to a political Union-new dynamics.
The heads of State and Government of the 12 Mitglledsstaaten unanimously pledged their support to the Association of Germans in one State. You see this as a win for the political stability in Europe. The area of today's East Germany, so, it is the unanimous will of the 12 rapidly and harmoniously in the European, integrated community. Before the press, Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced that will benefit them throughout Europe, also the economically weaker regions.
"You tell ahead, all in the EC will have a considerable advantage of the German unification process. What now happens in the GDR investment and what is commercially and economically in this context, a considerable push for overall development in Germany and of course also in the Europälschen will come forth out of community. "
The consensus of the heads of State and Government made the Special Summit in Dublin to a milestone on the way to the State unit of in Germany, which remains inextricably linked to the development of Europe. The EC partners strengthened this back for further international negotiations, which will accompany the unification process of the Federal Government.
A few days after the Dublin Summit brought together the Foreign Ministers of the two German States and the four victorious powers of the second world war for the first time in Bonn.
This 2 + 4 - negotiations, Foreign Minister Genscher received his counterparts from East Germany, the USSR, the United States, France and England. Topic of the talks: foreign and security policy aspects of German unity, such as the Bündniszugehörlgkeit of a United Germany, the confirmation of its endgüItigen borders and the detachment of four power responsibility for Germany as a whole. The main problem: The Soviet objection to eino NATO membership of United Germany. But in Bonn, it became clear: the Soviet Union is the immediate enforcement of the Association does not oppose, as Foreign Minister Schewardnadse confirmed to the world press.
He look at the Bonn Conference as an hlstorisches event because the completion of German unity for Europe and the whole world is significant.
Also, U.S. Secretary of State Baker was confident. All countries would benefit from the Association of Germans, so Baker. That is the goal of further talks. "In helping Germany achieve freedom and unity I believe all the states and peoples of Europe can be winners and that should be our aim in these talks."
German Foreign Minister Genscher said that now nothing more in the way of realization of the right of self-determination of all Germans.
"It's an emotional day for US Germans. We want that the Association of the German becomes a Beltrag for stability in Europe. For this to work the European vocation of the Germans, committed to the policy of responsibility instead of the power politics of the past."
The Foreign Ministers will discuss the outstanding issues in welteren meetings. They are the events then a CSCE Summit Conference present in the autumn.
02. the Berlin wall falls domestic aspects of the German unit now at the Brandenburg Gate. Special vehicles are needed, because before the former symbol of German Division, the iron curtain was the most massive. The 200-year-old Brandenburg Gate is fitted to the tent because of Restaurierungsarbelten. Looking over at the other tell of the city that now grows together, is finally free. The rapid unification of the Germans was the explicit will of the voters of the GDR. In his much-acclaimed Government statement said Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere.
"The election, from which this Parliament were elections of the people. The people in the GDR konstitulerte as part of a people, as part of a German people that you want to grow together again. Our voters have expressed clearly that their political will, in the elections of March 18, 1990. This will commit us."
A State Treaty between the Federal Republic and the GDR, through which the representatives of the two Governments in Berlin advised controls what will happen on this way next. The main point of the draft: in the 2. July the mark of the Federal Republic is introduced as a means of payment in the GDR. The Economic Union between the two German States, complemented by an extensive system of social security for the citizens of the current GDR is associated. Equally important for the German unification process: the progress of the democratization in the GDR.
Like here in Schwerin the first free local elections were held on May 6 anywhere in the GDR. An independent action of the cities and towns had not been possible in old-style centralized command State. Now, the SED functionaries employed by top also in the town halls were replaced by democratically elected members of Parliament. PIA-Madelaine Garitz, the 27 years young candidate of the CDU in Schwerin is one of them. The license options, which had held the old system exactly a year ago, could they become politically active. Last but not least on the electoral fraud of the SED ignited the peaceful revolution in the GDR. The new Statdverordneten need to tackle pressing problems. For example lacking everywhere commercial premises for private companies, which are important for the economic upturn.
Tourism can become a major source of income for Schwerin. A lot of work waiting - but only so the fresh start can succeed.
03. "OSCAR" for German students a balancing act between underground and Hollywood. Hamburger film students Wolfgang Lauenstein and his brother the rise in the film Olympus succeeded in suddenly.
"Balance is our 4th film. There is a theme that runs through all our films, and that is the single bound being in certain mechanisms."
2 years the Lauensteins have worked on their animated film. He was fascinated by the jury in the United States: you him awarded the most coveted film trophy, the "Oscar". "The Oscar is a popular, well marketed price, which certainly also going to help me for the future."
Even after the degree 28 twin brothers as free filmmakers want to work, together make up stories, which can be pinned up - as well as "Balance", the struggle for existence of 5 fantastic figures on shaky ground.
7 minutes long is the animated film of the brothers Lauenstein: the dark vision of a world in which the human community is destroyed by selfishness.
04. hardware store in Dresden Dresden - the Saxon metropolis which was once praised as "Elb-Florenz" due to their einmallgen cultural monuments. The former residence of was almost completely destroyed in the second world war. Meanwhile some of the historic buildings could be rebuilt, never the Baroque Zwinger, laboriously.
The ruins of the Frauenkirche is reminiscent of the devastation of the war. City District spared the war, were the further decline of Dresden by 40-year mismanagement to the victims.
A West German construction and DIY market opened a branch in Dresden – the first in East Germany now. Now, the chronic lack of available building materials and tools, which had been typical for the planned economy, can be resolved gradually. The citizens of Dresden have the opportunity to be active and to preserve your apartments and houses in Eigeninitlative from further decay. In addition to private individuals craftsmen are up at the hardware store, who want to independently make after the end of the old system and find a first basic equipment for their operations.
"I'm going to arm themselves and me with the business: day-to-day goods." That everything is concentrated and you can come in and know you get it and saves many kilometers, and know exactly the time you get out again."
"It is very good. "I gather ', it of all relatively expensive for us, I must also eagen, but there's everything that never was there with us."
"Unimaginable for us." "Compared to earlier?", "well, once we knew Yes something not at all."
"The market? I know the so well over there. Wonderful!. The idea is great. "You may, if a piece is Wallace we make, I'm from the district Meißen."
The economic optimism in Dresden is great. Also, visible expression of this is that now of old villas and townhouses scaffolding to grow up. The inhabitants of Dresden now help the once most beautiful cities in Europe will again homely.
05. Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie a new Maestro took the baton in hand: the Italian Claudio Abbado was nominated to succeed of Herbert von Karajan. "Giückliche a choice", ruled the world. Claudio Abbado, who has acquired great prestige in his home town of time land in London and Vienna as Chief conductor, will finally also the composer of the 20th century dirigieron in Berlin. Recourse to the classical music: Beethoven's 7th Symphony - here a sample snippet - managed in the new constellation of Philharmonic Maestro.
"What has attracted the most you, to work with the Berlin Philharmonic?"
"It is a great pleasure for me cheapest. This is the best Orchestra in the world, with a tradition of old, big, and it was always really very nice this together playing music with the Berlin Philharmonic,."
The 57-Jährigo Abbado and his West Berlin Philharmonic Berlin belong now. You want to give a series of concerts in the Osttell of the city for the first time.
