Editing: Marion Kane 01. The new German President, Roman Herzog and Richard von Weizsäcker (partial foreign material) review Federal Assembly to the choice of the 7th President of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Reichstag in Berlin. Rita Süssmuth actuality: "I open up the 10 Federal Assembly for the election of the 7th President of the Federal Republic of Germany, and welcome you all."
Clapping of the members of the Bundestag and of the delegates of the area of the parliaments.
Review of Richard von Weizsäcker: Visit to Poland, immediately next to Walesa. Visit of the British Royal couple in Germany. Standing next to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Richard von Weizsäcker speaks interview on the day of the German surrender on May 8: "the 8th of May was a day of liberation. He has freed us all from the inhuman system of Nazi tyranny. Nobody is this liberation will forget, what serious suffering for many people with the 8. First place began in May and followed. But we may not be able to see the reason for flight, expulsion and lack of freedom in the end of the war. We must not separate the 8 May 1945 from January 30, 1933."
In the audience: Willy Brandt, Jochen Vogel, Annemarie RENGER. Voting.
Applicants: Jens Reich, physicist, dissident of the former GDR. Hildegard Hamm-brücher, FDP. Roman Herzog, top German judge in Karlsruhe, Germany. Johannes Rau, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia. Rita Süssmuth actuality: "696 votes accounted for by Roman Herzog... "Johannes Rau, Helmut Kohl, Hildegard Hamm-Brücher congratulate. Among those present Helmut Schmidt next to Scharping. After the election, Roman Herzog speaks interview: "I want to represent Germany in the next five years so as really is this Germany: peaceful - know - powerful - to justice at least try - ready - tolerant - cosmopolitan - for solidarity and what almost me as the most important appears, ladies and gentlemen: uninhibited."
(10:00:25) 02 European elections (partially foreign material) the Euro-Info-Mobile drives. Select go poster. Map of Germany. The Info Mobile on the market square in Schwerin. Discussions. Distribution of brochures.
Girl o-ton: "so I think we have the opportunity to choose what many people can't, and here we should really seize the chance to help decide what will become of us."
Young o-ton: "If you don't go to the elections, then it is a chance, representing the interests of mine the parties actually."
Tree-lined Avenue Mecklenburg. The ZDF election Studio. Of Austria's vote on the accession of Austria to the EU, the Austrian Ambassador Friedrich Hoess speaks interview: "we are not just a member of the Union, but we can have while in the middle of Europe, we can push forward a piece of this peace and stability community."
Dieter Zimmer in the Studio of choice. Projections. The CDU election winner. CDU candidate Günter Rinsche actuality: "it comes us substantially, that the capacity of the community of and the Union on all the issues is significantly reinforced where the citizens have a right to reply. "So, for example in the area of cross-border environmental protection and the creation of competitive jobs with which we then a good future prospect can offer a positive, in the future of too our young generation."
(10:04:40) 03. Mitterrand and Kohl in Heidelberg (own material) Neckar bridge. Mitterrand and Kohl and accompaniment. Students ask the politicians. Helmut Kohl interview: "now I really asking you, who ever had more reason for optimism than a generation who knows that she will live their life in peace and freedom?"
Mitterrand actuality: "Les relations of personnel jouent un role indeniable dans la construction de l'Histoire."
Young o-ton: "maybe it's the prerogative and sometimes the duty of youth, to demand the impossible. -We have been dealing with the issue of solidarity. We encountered with some grievances, we have found in reality Europe."
Helmut Kohl quote: "you know, that is the basic question of philosophy. If Europe says. "The glass is always half empty", then you will have a European future. "And when we say without optimism, but:" the glasses are half full, and we still make them fully ", then it's your job, then you have your chances."
(10:08:00) 04. Environmental award for Wulkow in Brandenburg (own material) glitters through deciduous trees, light. Tree-lined Avenue. Pond with swans. Horse-drawn carriage. Wooden UFO energy House. Fischbruthaus. Helmut breeds ink where threatened fish breeding species for the village pond. Herb Garden in the castle grounds. Curious visit the village. Eco-storage solar reflectors. Sales of organic goods.
(10:10:00) 05. The German national football team at the training camp Malente (partly foreign material) internationals during training. Rudi Völler score goal. Berti Vogts sets out harassment. Illgner in goal. Steffan Effenberg, Andreas Brehme, Jürgen Klinsmann.
Berti Vogts quote: "you have a momentum of its own, they have a sinister will, they want the best. You need not to motivate them, key words. Each player has motivation enough.
Thomas Zawkhun interview: "we are a playful, very strong team, we have an excellent defense, led by Lothar Matthäus, who has so many experiences with his 109 caps in midfield and in attack, I think that there is not a second time, so ' a team like we have."
Steffan Effenberg actuality: "I believe that we are a step ahead all teams in power and strength, I mean, Italians, know that you, or the Brazilians, that can play better football, that they are perhaps a bit accomplished on the ball than we. "But we have the strength and endurance for a so long tournament."
Lothar Matthäus actuality: "not only of the power produced, but also in the playful area we need no longer to hide us from the southerners. For me it is important that we act as a team, because only as a team can win."
(10:12:30) foreign matter: 06. Presidential election beginning of review Weizsäcker (00:00:27 - 00:54:24) State visit Queen (01:03:18 01:17:06) Weizsäcker speaks to the day of the German surrender (01:22:04 02:10:00) presidential election to end (02:10:00 04:40:07) 07. European elections SPD spot (04:48:00 04:53:03) CDU-spot (04:53:03 04:58:01) SPD-spot (04:58:01 00:00:10) graphic European elections (05:04:19 05:07:22) graphic Parliament (06:20:04 06:25:18)
01. the election of the Federal President Süßmuth: "I open Federal Assembly to the choice of 7 President of the Federal Republic of Germany die_10. and welcome you all.
0'40 for the first time the reunified Germans elected their head of State together. MEPs of the Bonn Bundestag and the area of parliaments to the presidential election, delegates are gathered in the Reichstag in Berlin.
0'56 the outgoing President Richard von Weizsäcker had in his time high set standards, inwards and outwards. Is the President of great political influence, but with less political power equipped; von Weizsäcker but has managed to be respected by most Germans as a spiritually moral authority.
1'19 is never forgotten, that he declared the day of the German surrender in World War 2 to the day of liberation.
"The 8th of May was a day of liberation. He has freed us all from the inhuman system of Nazi tyranny. No one is this liberation will forget which severe suffering for many people with the May 8 first place began and followed. But we may not be able to see the reason for flight, expulsion and lack of freedom in the end of the war. "We must not separate the 8 May 1945 from January 30, 1933.!"
2'10 of the Weizsäcker successor was chosen in the so-called Super - election year; to a variety of political decisions called the Germans in 1994 at the polls. The vote in the Berlin Reichstag became also the indicator of the political balance of power in Germany.
2'29 four candidates competed for the highest political office: the physicist Jens Reich, civil rights activist in the former GDR, which is applied as an independent party candidate. 2'44 then Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, the grand old lady of the German Liberals, who has proved in many political offices.
2'54 favourites but were Johannes Rau, the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and candidate of the social democratic opposition,- and Roman Herzog, the highest German judge, Chancellor Kohl and the CDU/CSU had proposed.
3'14 after two rounds of elections withdrew the geek Kingdom and Hamm-brücher her candidacy. The free Democrats, who form the Government with the Union, ensured that the Union candidate Duke made the race.
Süssmuth: "696 votes accounted for by Mr Roman Herzog..."
3'39 Roman Herzog is as Federal President own accents. The confident Bayer is a man, sets the value on his spiritual and political independence. He has a clear picture of Germany and its people. And this image - so he said after his election - will guide him in his administration. "I want to represent Germany in the next five years so as really is this Germany: peaceful - know - powerful - to justice at least try - ready - tolerant - cosmopolitan - for solidarity and what almost me as the most important appears, ladies and gentlemen: uninhibited!"
02. European elections and 03. encounter of Kohl and Mitterand in Heidelberg 4'58 Europe goes mobile. A rolling initiative of the European Parliament informed in particular the people in the new Länder, which can take part for the first time in a European Parliament election.
5'13 actually brings us Europe? Committed Europeans are confronted with this question again and again - like this on the market square of Schwerin.
5'30 young people are far less pessimistic. they know: their future opportunities lie in Europe. "So I think we have the opportunity to choose what many people can't, and here we should really seize the chance to help decide what will become of us."
"If you don't go to the elections, then it is a chance, representing the interests of mine the parties actually."
many Germans feel overused 5. Up to four times are called sie_1994 to the polls; so, election managers and journalists at the studios fear a low participation in the European elections.
6'11 the four major nationwide television rival the most reliable forecasts, the fastest results and the most prominent interlocutors in the Studio if the 255 million Europeans in 12 countries have made their choice.
6'30 nearly everywhere in Germany the Sun on this election day shines: trip weather for the whole family - no weather for political elections. 6'40 in the final preparations bursts a message from neighbouring Austria: two-thirds of all Austrians have a joining of the European Union decided on. Höss: "we are not just a member of the Union, but we can have while in the middle of Europe, we can push forward a piece of this peace and stability community."
7'04 the Germans proved himself would have expected better Europeans than the weather; nearly two-thirds went to the polls.
7'15 already the first projections put the positive result: the right-wing extremists crashed far below 5% and are not represented to Germany in the European Parliament. -Clear winner of the elections is the CDU ruling in Bonn. Their top candidate: Günter Rinsche.
"We're essentially also a question, that the capacity of the community of and the Union on all the issues is significantly reinforced where the citizens have a right to reply. "So, for example in the area of cross-border environmental protection and the creation of competitive jobs with which we then a good future prospect can offer a positive, in the future of too our young generation."
8'01 exactly these issues were in Heidelberg French President Francois Mitterand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Questions about the future of European youth - uncomfortable questions, critical questions, students from France and Germany had dreamed up.
8'22 worried about adequate jobs, a good education were unmistakable and always a plea for solidarity with the third world and the most vulnerable groups in Europe. Cabbage: "I ask you really now, who ever had more reason for optimism than a generation who knows that she will live their life in peace and freedom?"
8'52 the President of the French Republic emphasized trust and personal relationships between statesmen are as important to move something in the policy. Mitterrand: "armed personnel Les relations jouent un rôle indéniable dans la construction de l'Histoire."
"Maybe it's the prerogative and sometimes the duty of youth, to demand the impossible. -We have been dealing with the issue of solidarity. We encountered with some grievances, we have found in reality Europe."
Kohl: "you know that is the basic question of philosophy. If Europe says: "The glass is always half empty", then you will have a European future. "And when we say without optimism, but:" the glasses are half full, and we still make them fully ", then it's your job, then you have your chances."
04. environmental award for Wulkow 10'07 An idyll at the eastern edge of Germany near the border to Poland: the small village of Wulkow. But the time is not stopped here. Die_160 residents provide headlines for four years: they have revived their village, which had been given to the GDR, and ecological remodeling.
Visible characters: the wooden house of"UFO". It is Germany's first low energy; it consumes only one-eighth the energy of a normal House.
10'44 "Ecological renovation" is the keyword of success - old, almost forgotten production methods have created new jobs. Recently, the municipality received the most prestigious environmental award. -In the Fischbruthaus - it belongs to one of the 11 small businesses - Helmut breeds endangered species - for the new decorated village pond, but also for selling ink. Only if the balance between economy and ecology, that know the Wulkower by now, going to their village.
Species-appropriate animal husbandry ecological landscape, agriculture, alternative energy: in Wulkow, everyone now has a task. The 200-year-old Castle Park was turned into the herb garden.
It is environmentally friendly with wood and clay built and restored - and the streams of curious visitors do not tear off.
11'47 in the heart of the small village is the "eco stores". The redesigned granary is now illuminated with solar energy and heated.
11'58 at the weekend the villagers offer their products to visitors from surrounding towns.
12'10 is great interest, because Wulkow is now regarded as a model in the new Länder. And that die_160 citizens can be proud, because with their enthusiasm and their commitment, they have brought back a hip dead village to life.
05. The German national football team 12'30 as it is known, the German national football team: goal by Völler, the "Grey Wolf", and the wave of enthusiasm is rolling through the stages.
12'41 Rudi Völler is the fan favorite, and he has authority in the squad of 22 hard-working individuals.
12'52 sovereign and unchallenged: Lothar Matthäus, the captain. How he will conduct his variable labyrinth, in which the opponent is to run, is not to guess before the cameras.
13'06 wisely sets out the Fußballehrer of the nation, Berti Vogts, the harassment; He was once hard and sacrificially "Terrier", a player with a bite - - 4 years, he is head coach.
13'21 Bodo Illgner - the number 1 in the German goal. his enemies fear his bounce, his safe eye, his fantastic reflexes.
13'32 Rudi Völler with his 34 years is invaluable psychological.
13'42 when he comes as a Joker in the team, a Jolt through the team goes. 13'50 long, blonde Hamburg wants Stefan Effenberg a personality with corners and edges remain - or he is fighting for his place in the German team.
14'07 this team is no longer the youngest - but she is top fit and highly motivated. Bailiff: "have a momentum of its own, they have a sinister will, they want the best. You need one not so to motivate these tags are. Each player has motivation enough.
Häßler: "we are a playful, very strong team, we have an excellent defense, led by Lothar Matthäus, who has many experiences with his 109 caps in midfield and in attack, I believe, is that there no a second time, so' a team like we have."
Effenberg: "I believe that we are a step ahead all teams in power and strength, I mean the Italians, that knows you, or the Brazilians, that can play better football, that they are perhaps a bit accomplished on the ball than we." "But we have the strength and the stamina for such a long tournament."
Matthew: "not only of the power produced, but also in the playful area we need no longer to hide us from the southerners. For me it is important that we act as a team, because only as a team can win."
