01 10 years Chancellor Helmut Kohl Düsseldorf: CDU Party Congress. Applause for Helmut Kohl. Close-up: Rita Süssmuth and van Velzen. Helmut Kohl interview: "we say yes to the nation and we say yes to Europe. We remain firmly rooted in our regions, and we remain in this Europe of Germans, Italians and French, but we live in a common Europe."
Review: 1982: the Bundestag vote speaks out against Helmut Schmidt. His successor is Helmut Kohl. Helmut Schmidt congratulates the new Chancellor. 1984: war graves of Verdun. Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand meet in Verdun for symbolic reconciliation of peoples. Helmut Kohl visits Poland. Embrace with the then Prime Minister, Mazowiecki. 1989: Fall of the wall. Helmut Kohl in Berlin. Cheering people. Meeting in the Caucasus with Gorbachev. Helmut Kohl in Dresden actuality: "it is a difficult road, but it is a good way, it is about our common future. Our House must be installed under a European House. That must be the aim of our policy." Data: Reunification of Germany. Helmut Kohl in Berlin. Jubilation. 1992: Economic Summit in Munich. Helmut Kohl and George Bush and the British Prime Minister major. Final declaration Helmut Kohl actuality: "hardly ever, the conditions were so cheap to make a lasting peace, to overcome poverty and to preserve the environment."
Group photo of the participants. Düsseldorf: CDU Party Congress. The delegates clap including Ms. Bergmann Pohl, Biedenkopf, Habermann, Hancock, Mrs Merkel, Fischer for their old and new Chairman.
(109 m) 02. Tübingen: beginning of semester cityscape of Tübingen. The old town. Students in the hallways of the University, Frank Vöhringer in his room at the desk. He leaves the House, take the bicycle to school. Students enter into the seminar list. Crowded Lecture Hall. Food in the cafeteria. Frank Vöhringer plays table tennis with Iranian friend and sings in rock band. Stroll with girlfriend Michaela. Look at Tübingen.
(66 m) 03 Germany wine vineyards in the Rhine Palatinate. Grape harvest. Winery owner Dr. Bettina Burklin-Wolf at harvest and in testing the sugar content of the grapes. Cellar with stored wine barrels. Wine tasting is included.
(40 m) 04. Dresdner Kreuzchor the boys of the boarding school of the cross school to wake up in the morning. Wash lessons and choir practice. Football game. Practicing at the piano. Singing with teacher at the piano. The boys get dressed prior to performance. Vespers in the Church of the cross. Choir sings works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
(79 m) 05. Berlin: State funeral for Willy Brandt Bild by Willy Brandt, great. Funeral service in the Reichstag in Berlin. Laid out covered the coffin with a German flag. Arrival of Richard von Weizsäcker with widow Brigitte Brandt. Richard von Weizsäcker actuality: "a great life is completed. He has shaped an era. He was a reconciler of Germans with itself. He has changed the relationship of the Germans to the world such as the relationship of the world to Germany. He has become a historical figure of our century."
Review: 1957: close-up of Willy Brandt. He is Mayor of Berlin. Willy Brandt at the desk original sound: "... to participate, that Germany is one again and Berlin can again assume its role as the capital city of the Germans."
John F. Kennedy in Berlin, Willy Brandt cheered next to him: Richard von Weizsäcker actuality: "and so, what rarely there, was a pragmatic visionary. He responded quietly and in the heart of sovereign."
Willy Brandt in addition to Foreign Minister Walter Scheel. Walter Scheel o-ton: "the strange combination of warmth, recognizable, and distance. When he greeted, he gave you the hand with a firm handshake, but stretched out his arm and saw them then very kindly to."
1969 – Willy Brandt in Moscow. Meetings with Brezhnev and Kosygin. Visit to the GDR. Acclaimed in Erfurt. Visit to Warsaw and genuflection in the former Warsaw ghetto. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to him.
Funeral service in the Reichstag in Berlin. It speaks Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzales o-ton: "Adios amigo Willy".
Bundeswehr officers carrying the coffin. 15s lowers the flag. Brigitte Brandt on the side of Richard von Weizsäcker before the steps of the Reichstag.
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01 10 years Chancellor Helmut Kohl 0'36 congratulations and applause for the Chancellor. For ten years, Helmut Kohl is in power. At the CDU Party Congress in Düsseldorf he advertises the goal one common Europe: "we say yes to the nation and we say yes to Europe. We remain firmly rooted in our regions, and we stay in this Europe of German, Italian and French; but we live in a common Europe."
1'02 es began in 1982: majority of the Bundestag in a no-confidence vote is opposed to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. His successor is Helmut Kohl.
1'19 for the new Chancellor the European integration from the start is at the heart of his policy. It connects him with François Mitterrand. Their encounter at the military cemetery of Verdun, once battlefield of two wars between the Germans and the French, 1984 becomes a document of german French Feundschaft.
1'52 closer also to the neighbors in East Germany. The embrace illustrates the efforts of the Federal Chancellor to peace and relaxation with the then Prime Minister Mazowiecki in Poland.
2'06 of East Germany's peaceful revolution and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 a dramatic development in the heart of Europe triggered. After decades of Division, the story gave the chance to the reunification of the Germans. Helmut Kohl used them: with creativity and tactical skill. In particular the negotiations resulted in the breakthrough with Michail Gorbatschow 1990 in the Caucasus.
2'38 Helmut Kohl has abroad successfully recruited to trust and support for German unity. A merit that has made him the "Chancellor of unity".
2'50 while he saw that United Germany as part of the common Europe, as he emphasized already in 1989 in Dresden: "it is a difficult road, but it is a good way, it is about our common future. Our House must be installed under a European roof. That must be the aim of our policy." 3'18 on April 3. October 1990 Germany was United.
3'39 Munich, 1992: situated on the Economic Summit hosts Helmut Kohl the heads of State and heads of Government of the major industrial Nations. For him, the partnership dialogue is a prerequisite for the solution of global problems.
3'58 the Joint Declaration highlights the opportunities for a more equitable world economic order: "hardly ever, the conditions were so cheap to make a lasting peace, to overcome poverty and to preserve the environment."
4'19 on the CDU Party Congress in Düsseldorf was Helmut Kohl by a large majority again elected Chairman. A sound basis for its future work.
02. beginning of the semester 4'35, famous university town in Swabia. 4'42 after the summer break filled the small town again with more than 26,000 students. among them about 4,000 new Tuebingen, once must - look at a room in the picturesque old town of Tübingen a nearly impossible task.
5'04 has this problem Frank Vöhringer behind. He paid monthly 200 marks for his teilmöbliertes room on the outskirts. He can be demanding. The 23-year-old studied regional science in the 3rd semester, i.e. He is involved in the development of the countries of Africa and Latin America.
5'30 Frank is in a hurry. He wants a place in a seminar that is coveted by many. Tuition fees are not levied in Germany, the State helps every fifth student to finance his living. Frank is supported by his parents, others earn her degree work.
5'53 lectures are overcrowded - as in almost all German universities. 6'08 the short time in the canteen enough just to meet some friends, to date - for example, for a table tennis match with his Iranian boyfriend Merano.
6'23 the University City offers more variety as a zealous student. Frank hired sichin of a rock band as a singer.
6'45 his evenings include Michaela however preferred. She studied at the 500 year old University, which has produced many great head.
03. wine in Germany 7'01 the Rhine Palatinate in southwestern of Germany. The ertragreichstem wine region is a dream summer to end. High season is now in the villages and vineyards.
7'15 one of the most famous wineries of this region belongs to a woman. in 1990, Bettina acquired Bürklin by Guradze the estate of her family. She knows the old readers of wine since early childhood.
7'33 on the 110 hectares of vineyards of this Riesling vineyard is quality a top priority. The amount of cultivation was therefore limited, long before the EC issued a corresponding order.
7'49 the German wine is world famous for his kindness; also the 1992 promises to be a good year. The examination confirms: the grapes have a sugar content of 95 percent.
8'06 despite its quality German wine has a hard time to compete in the international market. The competition has become bigger and the wine in many places a mass consumer goods. To get also the German winemakers feel - especially those who sit less than on class.
04. the Dresdner Kreuzchor 8'32 a new day begins in Dresden's most famous boarding school. Fathers and grandfathers of many students were already the cross school - and that means: up to graduation in Christian humanist tradition - but open for new learning.
8'53 what distinguishes the students: they are among the nearly 800-year-old Kreuzchor. 9'05 26 cantors have Gothart Bull led this choir; for him the highest which can be reached in his career!
the high quality of the choir to get 9, requires patience, sacrifice and discipline. There remains little time for children's games. Each of the 150 Kruzianer learned an instrument in addition to choir rehearsals and vocal training.
9'58 a Kruzianer has a good chance on the stages of the world. Great singers like Peter Schreier started here.
10'17 in bad times in its long history compulsory performances at weddings and funerals of the rich the livelihoods of young Dresdner singer backed up.
110'33 if the Kruzianer today not just in the world are on the way, heard the Vespers in the Church of the cross on Saturday in Dresden to their program with works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
05. State funeral for Willy Brandt 11'24 mourning for Willy Brandt. In the Berlin Reichstag, politicians from many parts of the world proved respects the Social Democrats and former Chancellor. Federal President von Weizsäcker: "the life of a great has completed itself. He was a reconciler of Germans with itself. He has changed the relationship of the Germans to the world such as the relationship of the world to Germany. He has become a historical figure of our century."
12'00 1957 was Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Where the Division of Germany was most visible, he made himself to the task, "... to participate, that Germany is one again and Berlin can again assume its role as the capital city of the Germans."
12'20 this vision Association Willy Brandt with a clear commitment to the integration with the West. Together with Kennedy, he was hoping to end the cold war, and to be able to overcome the wall by new impulses.
"And so he was rarely there, - a pragmatic visionary." He responded quietly and in the heart of sovereign."
12'48 a long-time political companion of Willy Brandt was the then Foreign Minister. As experienced Walter Scheel people Willy Brandt?
"The strange combination of warmth, recognizable, and distance. "If he was greeted, you he you the hand with a firm handshake, but the arm stretched out and ah you's then very friendly."
13'14 with the social liberal coalition in 1969 began a new epoch of German foreign policy. In the five years of his tenure as Chancellor, a term became synonymous with his work: the new Eastern policy. In East Germany, Willy Brandt was a hope for many citizens.
13'43 in the former Warsaw ghetto symbolized Willy Brandt by his knees fall impressively the reconciliation will of many Germans.
13'57 was his effort to relaxation and understanding in Europe, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.
14'14 Willy Brandt remained faithful to his ideals even after his chancellorship. Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González is reminiscent of his commitment in the North-South Commission and the Socialist International.
"(...) Adios amigo Willy."
14'33 it was Willy Brandt granted yet to experience his vision of a United Germany. In the city, which has shaped him - in Berlin - he finds his final resting place.
