01 40 years Deutsche Welle.
Emblem "40 years Deutsche Welle". Anniversary celebration. Journalists regatta in Warnemünde. Director Dieter Weirich interview: "we have been the classic shortwave stations, so like other foreign broadcasters also, but dramatically decreases the importance of short wave in the future. Therefore, we must increasingly promote satellite radio. We must still do more for the spread of the German language. We are so kind of like "Germany's largest classroom", "Germany's largest language school". And above all we must expand our now launched daily 14-stündiges news television program. Because television is the most important cultural, socio-political instrument of the present."
German shaft high-rise building in Cologne, Germany. Production of the magazine. Mixer. News sport report Motorcross. "Here is the Deutsche Welle... "Review of 1953 sw: international broadcasting with the simplest means." Training of technicians from developing countries. Interview technique is rehearsed. Amounts of mail delivered. Director Dieter Weirich interview: "we have Germany as objective, to represent so realistically, so distant, as it should be in a diverse country. "We are organized like any other public service broadcaster: independent, non-partisan, State."
Employees at monitors. Satellite screen.
(100 m, 00:01:25 00:05:00) 02 Bremerhaven: exhibition "Aufbruch in die Fremde" (U.S. emigrants).
Tall ships. Pictures of emigrants 200 years ago, o-ton: "mouse potato, nothing like mouse potatoes! Who will know about that tired?" "Be filled? "I no longer know how it is: be satisfied!"
Images of crowded emigrant ships in the storm. The statue of liberty New York. Expatriates working in the slaughterhouses of Chicago and in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Photos of Germans in the United States: Levy Strauss, inventor of the jeans. Albert Einstein. Wernher von Braun. The statue of liberty. (58 m, 00:04:55 00:07:00) 03 Rhine. Main-Danube Canal.
Ships and freighters on the Rhine Main-Danube Canal. The channel on the map of dinghy and sports boats on the Canal as a protest against the destruction of the landscape. The altmühl Valley before the construction of the Canal and today. Applied wetlands with waterfowl and herons. Walkers on the shore. Lock to overcome difference in height. Hub with cranes. The waterway with tourist boats. Long shot of the Canal and the landscape.
(70 m, 00:06:55 00:09:30) 04. The former transit transitions.
Flower blooms before abandoned border crossing. Paper blowing in the wind. Decaying transit transitions with their control houses, rusted mouthpieces, broken stop sign. Watchtower. Barrier descends. Policeman checked. GDR plate broken. Through traffic on the road. New industrial settlements at the edge of the road.
(42 m, 00:09:25 00:10:55) 05. New forms of work in the automotive industry - Mercedes-Rastatt car on tape. Installation of motor in team work.
Workers discussed in groups to more effective work processes o-ton: "it is so important that the cable holder into the right hole of right side, sitting in there, on the right side, is attached. There is a hole, M8, which is at the bottom... "Why is it so important that the cable holder into the right hole is?"
"So, I have imagined, that the 8-hole, where normal having fixed the banana, because take a photos of the cable band, performs the cable and pulls the cable band. Because we have saved a step."
"So you can realize his ideas, it many opinions come together, which flow together then. "And it brings good then also of the Executive Board."
Direct communication with the engineers and designers actuality: "the hierarchy is built off a bit. There is a closer contact to his master, because they are just in the environment there. They were really every day in mind."
"With us, that makes a lot of fun to work in the group. We can talk with each other a bit, it's not as monotonous as to the band."
Food in the canteen. Common food.
An employee of the management actuality: "we want to strengthen the motivation of our employees with the team work, we in Rastatt for the first time consistently in all areas of a factory introduced, where they have more tasks, more tasks, more personal responsibility, and thus we want to improve quite naturally also the economic efficiency, the result of the work, by for example the quality is substantially increased."
(68 m, 00:10:50 00:13:20) 06 Münster: World skateboard Championships.
Cityscape of Munster. Skateboarders in the streets and on course. Skateboard training. Sports in the Hall. Jumping over obstacles. Jumps ZL in the half pipe. Feats on the upper edge of the halfpipe. The first nine places will be occupied by drivers from the United States.
TC of Betacam SP Cassette No. 469. (62 m, 00:13:15 00:15:30)
01-Deutsche Welle 0'36 40 years Deutsche Welle - a reason to celebrate. While others live their Mitlife crisis, pace makes Germany's only foreign channels. And not only at the international Joumalisten regatta in Warnemünde. Director Dieter Weirich relies on new media: 0'52 'so far we were also the traditional shortwave transmitters, so like other foreign broadcasters, but dramatically decreases the importance of short wave in the future. Therefore, we must increasingly promote satellite radio. We must still do more for the spread of the German language. We are so kind of like 'Germany's largest classroom', 'Germany's largest language school'. And above all, we must expand our now launched daily television. Because television is the most important, cultural, socio-political instrument of the present."
1 ' 25 in Cologne and Berlin runs the program expansion in full swing. Messages and a total of 25 magazines are produced, usually in multiple languages.
1 ' 50 range is diverse: environmental feature, latest trends from the culture scene, or political reporting on international issues - the program is specifically tailored to the various interests in the world.
Of course, the sport should not be missed - at important events, TV crews on the ground are.
2'23 "here is the deutsche Welle" - the radio is still the domain of the sender. The information in all over the world will be in 35 languages. Focus is and remains German.
2'37 Germany's foreign broadcasting went with a three-hour program on the air in 1953. The technical equipment was modest. But soon relay stations and transmitters were installed on several continents.
the understanding between peoples to promote 2 is main idea of Deutsche Welle. This includes also the training of technicians from developing countries. 3'08 in a seminar with Eastern European journalists is about interview techniques. What you learned is practically tested in the canteen of the Funk House.
3'27 about lack of work can not sue the post office. Nearly half a million listeners and viewers letters will be processed each year. -Since German unification, the significance of the Deutsche Welle has grown. But nothing changed on the journalistic principles.
3'42 "we have to represent Germany as objective, so realistically, so distant, as it should be in a diverse country. "We are organized like any other public service broadcaster: independent, non-partisan, State."
3'58 interest in Germany has become greater. Deutsche Welle is also technically prepared: the expanded programme in the future more people will can hear and see.
02. dawn of the alien 4'14 sailors romance from Bremerhaven. Almost 200 years it's been, that started from here the emigration to North America – many were persecuted, others suffered from hunger in Europe.
4'28 "mouse potato, nothing like mouse potatoes! Who will know about that tired?" "Be filled? "I no longer know how it is: be satisfied!"
4'39 the departure of the a total of 50 million people from Europe to the new world, often tedious the preparation was dangerous and risky. The trade with America had resulted in that middle of the last century already 16 sailing ships from Bremerhaven from regularly sailed across the Atlantic.
5'01 "America, they say in our paradise must be. There's work in abundance, since nobody must starve."
5'11 the crossing lasted up to one hundred days. People of different nationalities and religions were crammed together in confined spaces.
5'28 the freedom statue at the entrance of New York has become a symbol of hope, of bouncing - up in recent history. There are reasons many, especially poverty, distress, political and religious persecution.
5'46, found work, for example in the slaughterhouses of Chicago, then in the rapidly developing industries of America. -Some Germans have set visible signs - such as the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Or Levi Strauss, the inventor of the jeans. So was the German physicist Albert Einstein to America - and the space pioneer Wernher von Braun. The immigrants have helped that America and Europe are closely related to this day.
03. Rhine Main-Danube Canal 6'22 "Full speed ahead" - it means recently in the Frankish ALB. One of the biggest and most controversial buildings was completed in Bavaria.
6'30 with a length of 170 kilometres a new waterway connects the main with the Danube. An old dream became a reality: the Rhine Main-Danube Canal. 6'46 documented the North route completed twenty years ago the typical channel construction: A linear concrete tub, ugly set in the landscape. -Occasion for violent protests of many environmentalists who saw one of the most beautiful German floodplain areas endangered by further expansion.
7'08 from the altmühl Valley saw once - in the middle of the Church – and so today. Almost unrecognizable. -Have the Canal builders committed to nature conservation, E.g. along the Canal constructed wetland habitats. -Clearly an effort to preserve the originality of the fairytale landscape in Bavaria, Germany.
7'46 architects of the channel were faced with the task to overcome the immense difference in altitude of less than 250 meters! Special lock with a lift height had to be constructed up to 25 meters.
8'04 the channel the expectation to reduce road, has not yet fulfilled. Stagnant traffic and throughput. 8'16 for it is booming - unexpectedly - a different Division: the waterway and the Altmühltal have become a tourist attraction.
8'30 the highest channel of Europe is the heart of a continental water Street from the North Sea to the Black Sea and connects with each other 15 countries.
8'42 es remains to be seen whether this opportunity is used for a faster convergence of Eastern and Western Europe.
04. the former transit transitions 8'57 the wind catches no longer on walls and barbed wire - today, on the third anniversary of German reunification. No one has stopped long ago at the former border crossing in the divided Germany. Only relics reminiscent of the inhuman and-vernichtende border.
9'19 particularly hard hit were the 2 million West Berliners could; entering on land just across this border by the GDR in the free West long queues formed when broke up the part of town for the holidays. 9'40 us so they saw from: border crossings. Each passenger was glad when he had the long, often bullying waits behind him.
9'51 it is era ended, there is here no longer border. Instead of the free traffic flows past the last ruins of the defunct dictatorial regime.
the need to catch up, which has the structure in the new Länder, the former transit routes are to new lifelines for recovery can be 10; Industrial settlements on the transit routes set sign of confidence.
05. new forms of work in the automotive industry 10'27 one of the most modern car factories in the world: Mercedes in Rastatt. Other innovative concepts to help to bring the world's coveted Nobel cars cheaper on the international market.
10'45 which increase productivity - that is the goal - not through the use of more robots, but by motivating staff yet. The magic word is team work. Arbeimehmer advise groups about more efficient workflows and quality improvement.
11'00 "it is so important that the cable holder into the right hole of right side, sitting in there, on the right side, is attached. There's a hole, M 8, which istganz down."
11'10 "why is it so important that the cable holder into the right hole is?"
11'14 the group discussions illustrate: monotony and pure muscle working out – creative thinking is required.
11'22 "so, I have imagined, that the 8-hole, where normal having fixed the banana, as does the cable band and pulls the cable band. Because we have saved a step."
11'38 the group itself distributed the tasks. The scope is expanded. The workers are satisfied: 11'43 "you can realise his ideas so, it many opinions come together, which then flow together. ' And getting good then even the Executive Board ' over there. '
11'53 direct communication with the engineers and designers.
11'57 "the hierarchy is built off a bit. There is a closer contact to his master, because they are just in the environment there. They were really every day in mind."
12'05 with us makes a lot of fun to work in the group. We can talk with each other a bit, it's not as monotonous as to the band."
the breakdown of hierarchies and responsibilities become greater 12 promote the commitment of staff. Both sides have advantages: workforce and management. This is also the intention of the management. 12'28 "we want with the team work, we in Rastatt for the first time consistently in all areas of the factory have implemented, strengthen the motivation of our employees, where they have more tasks, more tasks, more personal responsibility, and do we improve quite naturally also the economic efficiency, the result of the work, in for example the quality is substantially increased."
06. skateboarding World Championships in Munster 12'56 idyllic, dreamy and gerade_1. 200 years old: this is Münster, largest city in Westphalia. -Loud, flashy and just times older than ten, those were some anniversary guests.
13'13 they came - as others also - on four wheels. Steering wheel and brakes were missing but on their ride - sometimes with painful consequences.
13'26 also by the highway code they thought were little. But it remained without consequences this weekend. The Münster pushed to an eye, because more than 10,000 visitors came to the skateboard Championship traveled to... Excuse me: rolled. Was practiced until the top riders in the Hall showed how it is done.
13'50 but also among the professionals not every trick worked.
13'56 without competition: the rider from the United States, which occupied the first nine places in the street-style discipline.
14'05 then the high point of the World Cup: the Jam Session in the halfpipe.
14'16 astonished looks, because in the halved tube showed acrobatics deposits fascinating the driver.
14'24 skateboard is no less dangerous sport, even though the many falls lightly ran out.
14'36 who wants to include to the top of the world, must master a Repertory of daring Liptricks. These are pieces of art on the upper edge of the halfpipe.
14'53 no doubt - after this World Cup is in Germany again thousands of young people there, who want a skateboard. Poor parents, joy is sometimes give even with fear associated...
