{"id":10449,"date":"2026-01-13T01:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thurnfilm.de\/?page_id=10449"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:36:18","slug":"archiv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thurnfilm.de\/en\/archiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three contributions by Florian Schneider for Quarks & Co. \/ WDR television
Editor WDR Claudia Heiss

First broadcast Oct. 22, 2019, WDR
Repeat Aug. 13, 2020, WDR
Available in the media library until Oct. 22, 2024.<\/p>

Nobody likes to throw food away, and yet it happens: at home, in the supermarket and at the manufacturers. 18 million tons of food end up in the garbage can in Germany every year. Quarks goes on a search and asks why so much good food ends up in supermarket containers.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Ein Film von Lin Sternal
Im Auftrag von 3Sat, “Ab 18!”
Erstausstrahlung: 06.11.2017, 23:40 Uhr
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Eine junge Frau verl\u00e4sst ihre Heimatstadt in Ostpolen und zieht nach Deutschland.
Nun wendet sie sich mit einem Brief an eine alte Freundin in der Heimat um ihr zu erkl\u00e4ren, was der tats\u00e4chliche Grund ihres Umzuges war\u2026
Der Film erz\u00e4hlt die pers\u00f6nliche Geschichte von Ewa (25), einer polnischen Frau, die vor 6 Jahren ihr Kind abgetrieben hat und bis heute unter dieser schmerzhaften Erfahrung leidet. Schlimmer noch, als die traumatische Erfahrung selbst, ist f\u00fcr sie der gesellschaftliche Umgang mit diesem Thema. Ihre Kindheit und Jugend wurde von einem katholisch konservativen Umfeld gepr\u00e4gt, von dem sie trotz des Versuchs einer Emanzipation immer noch beeinflusst wird. Bis heute hat sie kaum einer Person von ihrer damaligen Entscheidung erz\u00e4hlt. Stattdessen hat sie ihrer Heimat den R\u00fccken gekehrt und versucht das Erlebte zu verdr\u00e4ngen.
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Redaktion: Nicole Baum, Udo Bremer (3Sat)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Karin de Miguel-Wessendorf
Commissioned by WDR
First broadcast: November 10, 2016 at 10:40 pm on WDR television

The Rhenish lignite mining area is the largest source of CO\u00b2 in Europe. Opencast mining devours entire villages, and also the Hambach Forest. Resistance is rising against this. Tree houses are being built in the forest, and around 30 tree squatters are trying to prevent the clearing of the valuable biotope. And the residents of the affected villages are by no means all leaving their homes without a fight - some are staying as long as they can. They are supported by a citizens' initiative in neighboring Buir, and by 1,000 climate activists from all over Europe who are occupying the Garzweiler open pit mine for a day and symbolically stopping lignite mining. They want to send a signal to the international climate summits: End the most climate-damaging way of energy production.
The energy company RWE wants to mine lignite until the year 2045, but is under increasing pressure since church groups and local politicians have also joined the resistance. Day 7 accompanied the climate fighters for a year. For example, Clumsy, who built himself a tree house 18 meters above the ground. He has been living at 18 meters for four years to prevent the excavators from advancing: \"Just by living on the tree house, I am already in the way.\" Or Lars Zimmer, one of the last residents of Immerath. Most of the residents have already been relocated, but he doesn't want to leave his home: \"If there was more resistance, RWE wouldn't find it quite so easy to raze these villages here to the ground.\" And Antje Grothus from Buir, a few kilometers from the Hambach open pit mine: \"If we can't stop it, the excavators will be here on our doorstep.\"

Editorial: Andrea Ernst (WDR)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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First broadcast: each Thursday, 17. + 24.11.16 at 23:25, WDR
Repetition on 30.07.17, 02:47, WDR<\/p>

First part in the short version
\"I'm going to be a farmer now! - Big dream, hard everyday life\",
30 minutes: 10.08.17, 22:10, Day7, WDR<\/p>

Second part in the short version
\"Ackern f\u00fcr den Lebenstraum - Die neue Lust auf Landwirtschaft\",
30 minutes: 17.08.17, 22:10 Uhr, Tag7, WDR
Short version \"Geliebter Mist - Ackern f\u00fcr den Lebenstraum\",
30 minutes: 13.08.17, 17:30, Gott und die Welt, ARD<\/p>

Two films by Jessica Krauss & Insa Onken
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN<\/p>

Our series tells of people who want to get out of their virtual working world and back into a life that does not seem out of context.
In which you finish what you have started yourself, in which you bear responsibility and success is tangible in the truest sense of the word. In short: you want to become a farmer.
We tell of city dwellers who realize the romantic dream of country life.
Of career changers who are not satisfied with the learned profession and who want to start completely new as a farmer. And finally, from those who have grown up with sheep and pigs, but are now responsible for their own farm for the first time. Of people who set out to dare the great adventure: a new life.
As different as the biographies of the new beginners are, they are united by their attitude to life. They want to live it consciously, be mindful and farm sustainably.
Of course, that's easier said than done. Whoever becomes a farmer today needs a thick skin and good nerves. A lot of work, little free time, low social
status, high financial risk and dependence on factors that cannot be controlled: Weather, nature, animals - and not to forget the European bureaucracy and King Customer, who is becoming increasingly demanding but at the same time not more generous.
And so the new farmers all face the ethical challenge of wanting to produce considerately to people and nature on the one hand, but on the other hand, under the price pressure of the market, often being forced to do things that run counter to this maxim.
A dream job looks different, doesn't it?<\/p>

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A film by Karin de Miguel-Wessendorf and Valentin Thurn<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 03.11. 2014, 20:15 Uhr, WDR
Wiederholung: 16.05.2015, RBB; 21.07.2015,
Ph\u00f6nix; 06.06.2015,17:00 Uhr; 07.06.2015,
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Die Milch im Supermarkt wird immer billiger. F\u00fcr die Milchbauern hei\u00dft das: wachse oder weiche! Im letzten Jahrzehnt hat ein Drittel der deutschen Milchbauern aufgeben m\u00fcssen \u2013 gleichzeitig hat die Zahl der Megabetriebe zugenommen. In XXL-St\u00e4llen stehen Hunderte von K\u00fchen dicht nebeneinander. Damit sie H\u00f6chstleistungen erbringen, kommen die Tiere auch im Sommer nicht mehr auf die Weide.
Auch die Molkereien werden immer gr\u00f6\u00dfer: Multinationale Konzerne wie Arla oder Friesland-Campina haben die kleinen regionalen Molkereien \u00fcbernommen und exportieren Milch bis nach China. Doch auch sie sind abh\u00e4ngig vom Preisdiktat der Superm\u00e4rkte, in erster Linie von Aldi oder Lidl. “Die Verbraucher sind nicht ehrlich zu sich”, kritisiert ein Landwirt aus Kleve am Niederrhein. “Sie sagen uns, sie seien bereit mehr f\u00fcr Bio- und regionale Lebensmittel auszugeben, doch dann treffen wir sie alle bei ALDI an der Kasse.” Er h\u00e4lt das Bauernsterben f\u00fcr unabwendbar, nur gro\u00dfe Betriebe seien wettbewerbsf\u00e4hig: “Mit der romantischen Landwirtschaft, wie wir sie vor 20, 30 Jahren hatten, kommen wir nicht weiter. Die harte Wirklichkeit ist, es wird nur derjenige \u00fcberleben, der die Kosten im Griff hat.”
Doch einige kleine Milchbauern wagen es, sich gegen die Konzentrationswelle auf dem Milchmarkt aufzulehnen: Sie setzen auf direkte Vermarktung zu besseren Preisen. Zum Beispiel ein Bauer aus dem Kreis Soest, der mit anderen eine Bauernmolkerei gegr\u00fcndet hat, um sich vom Preisdiktat der Giganten zu l\u00f6sen.
Oder eine junge B\u00e4uerin aus dem Siegerland: “Schon in der Ausbildung wird uns nahegelegt, dass wir in gr\u00f6\u00dfere St\u00e4lle investieren sollen. Aber ich w\u00fcnsche mir eine Landwirtschaft in Familienhand, in der jedes Tier nicht nur eine Nummer ist.” Im M\u00e4rz 2015 wird der letzte Schutz f\u00fcr die Kleinbauern fallen: mit dem EU-weiten Ende der Milchquote. Wenn der Milchmarkt liberalisiert wird, f\u00fcrchten viele einen neuen Preisverfall. Es ist ein Kampf David gegen Goliath, denn auf die Unterst\u00fctzung von Bauernverband und Bundesregierung brauchen sie nicht zu hoffen. Die haben sich l\u00e4ngst entschieden, dass eine moderne Landwirtschaft nur in Gro\u00dfstrukturen funktionieren kann.<\/p>

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A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN<\/p>

First broadcast: 13.05.2013, 22:45, ARD
Repetition: 14.06.2015, 16:15, WDR and 20.06.2015, 09:30, WDR<\/p>

More than half of all food ends up in the trash! With this result, the documentary \"Taste the Waste\" (2011) shocked and triggered a heated public debate. Since then, big plans have been made. By 2020, Federal Minister of Food Ilse Aigner wants to ensure that only half as much food is thrown away in Germany as today. But so far there have been few concrete political steps. Why do legislators in Germany, unlike other European governments, only make rather non-binding appeals to the public?
\"Unfortunately, throwing away is all too often worthwhile for companies because food is so cheap and labor is so expensive,\" says nutrition expert Prof. Guido Ritter of M\u00fcnster University of Applied Sciences.
Why is that? Valentin Thurn looks into the matter and searches for solutions throughout Europe. In the process, he meets many people who no longer want to wait for politicians to act on this important issue for the future. For example, the Kotzur family from Ludwigsburg, who want to find out how much they can reduce their food waste with a waste diary. \"This has only made us really aware of what we throw in the trash can every day!\"
Companies in Holland, England, Denmark, Germany and Ukraine are also looking for solutions: A carrot juice factory also uses the small carrots that were previously sorted out, clever designers recycle originally grown vegetables under the label \"Culinary Misfits\" that the trade does not accept in this way, individual supermarkets no longer make junk offers that tempt customers to buy more than they need. Farmers and chefs produce and manufacture according to the maxim: \"Feed the clients, not the bins!\" - \"Feed the customers, not the garbage cans!\". But is the good will of individuals enough?<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Frank Bowinkelmann and Valentin Thurn
Produced for ARTE and NDR<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 09.01.2014, 21:45 Uhr, ARTE
Repetition:
20.02.2015, 21.45 Uhr, ARTE
02.11.2019, 22.40 Uhr, ARTE
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\u201eWir m\u00fcssen die M\u00f6glichkeit haben, auf Antibiotika zur\u00fcckzugreifen, wenn Tiere tats\u00e4chlich krank werden oder eine Grippe in die Gruppe rein kommt.\u201c Dieses Argument h\u00f6rt man immer wieder von Landwirten, wenn man sie fragt, warum in der Tiermast so viele Antibiotika eingesetzt werden. \u00dcber 1700 Tonnen pro Jahr sind es allein in Deutschland \u2013 fast siebenmal so viel wie in den Krankenh\u00e4usern. In Frankreich ist der Einsatz von Antibiotika sogar doppelt so hoch, pro Kilo erzeugtem Fleisch. Die Folge: In den Tierst\u00e4llen bilden sich gef\u00e4hrliche resistente Keime. Vor allem zwei Erreger finden sich immer h\u00e4ufiger auf unseren Lebensmitteln: so genannte MRSA und ESBL-bildende Keime. Beide Erreger sind multiresistent, das hei\u00dft viele Antibiotika sind gegen sie wirkungslos. Nicht nur f\u00fcr Landwirte, die im Stall direkten Kontakt mit den Keimen haben, stellen sie eine Gefahr dar. Wissenschaftler fanden die Bakterien auf Fleisch – und sogar auf Gem\u00fcse. Wie kommen die Keime dorthin? Was passiert wenn wir sie mit der Nahrung aufnehmen? Frank Bowinkelmann und Valentin Thurn wollen diese Fragen beantworten. Zu Wort kommen Wissenschaftler, Bauern, Tier- und Humanmediziner in Deutschland, D\u00e4nemark und den Niederlanden.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A Fim by Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
Commissioned by ZDF and ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 01.10.2013 at 20.15, ARTE<\/p>

No prosperity without growth. This has been the credo of business and politics up to now. Steady economic growth is seen as a guarantee for jobs and for the quality of life of the population. Anyone who doubts the growth dogma is ridiculed as being out of touch with reality.
But the economic crisis and climate change have shaken this belief. Population explosion, energy crisis and environmental pollution are problems that can no longer be suppressed. If all people on earth lived as the Germans do, we would already need the resources of three planets. More and more people are convinced: unlimited growth is not possible in a world of limited resources.
Despite an increase in gross domestic product, personal life satisfaction in the industrialized countries has not grown since the 1970s. Could it be that our consumer society is failing to deliver on the promise of happiness? What do we really need to live a good life?
We join the author as she explores the question: \"What do I need to change to make my lifestyle sustainable? And what can I do without losing quality of life?\" Karin de Miguel Wessendorf embarks on a journey through Europe. She visits people, initiatives and companies that have recognized that economic growth cannot be the measure of all things.
The demographic change, the limited resources of the planet and the current economic crises provide a brake on growth anyway, whether we want it or not. High time to rethink and to steer the exit from the destructive growth itself. A movement has emerged that is looking for alternatives. Instead of falling into the role of victim, entrepreneurs, politicians, scientists and activists are working in theory and practice to build a \"post-growth society\" - a society in which a better life for people and the environment should be possible in the long term.
On her journey, the author finds that the search for a sustainable lifestyle does not necessarily mean doing without, in many cases it is even a gain in quality of life.

Detailed background information and the opportunity to actively participate in the discussion can be found on the Facebook page for the film.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Es brutzelt und dampft, schmurgelt und duftet in alten Gem\u00e4uern: Die Klosterk\u00fcche steht seit jeher f\u00fcr gutes, einfaches Essen. Hier sind die Tricks der Lebensmittelkonzerne weit weg, Gen-Food gibt es nicht, und aus den Resten vom Vortag wird wieder etwas Leckeres zubereitet. Nachhaltigkeit kann man in einer Klosterk\u00fcche sehen, schmecken, riechen.<\/p>

\u201eDas Pfingst- Raclette im Jugend-Kloster Kirchhellen\u201c
\u201eEin Raclette h\u00f6rt sich einfach an!\u201c, r\u00e4umt Pater Klemens ein. \u201eAber es wird himmlisch, wenn sich die vielen einzelnen Zutaten schlie\u00dflich zu einem harmonischen Ganzen f\u00fcgen.\u201c Einheit in der Vielfalt eben. \u201eKaum ein Gericht dr\u00fcckt den Pfingstgedanken besser aus!\u201c, da ist er sich sicher.<\/p>

\u201eDie Oster-Torta der Olper Franziskanerinnen\u201c
Die Torta Pasqualina besteht \u00fcbrigens aus 33 Teiglagen \u2013 als Symbol f\u00fcr die Lebensjahre Jesu Christi, seine Auferstehung wird Ostern gefeiert! Und alle Rezepte sind zum Nachkochen bestens geeignet. Guten Appetit.<\/p>

\u201eHimmlische Gerichte \u2013 Das Weihnachtsmen\u00fc der Benediktinerabtei in Meschede\u201c
\u201eAn einem solchen Festtag gibt es auch bei uns ein ganz besonderes Essen\u201c, verr\u00e4t K\u00fcchenchef Pater Werner. Aus drei G\u00e4ngen komponieren die M\u00f6nche der Benediktiner-Abtei K\u00f6nigsm\u00fcnster in Meschede ihr Weihnachtsmen\u00fc. \u201eUnd mit den Produkten aus unserer eigenen Klosterk\u00fcche wird es einfach himmlisch!\u201c, schw\u00e4rmt der Pater. Ein Film \u00fcber ein besonderes Mahl an einem besonderen Ort.<\/p>

Kamera: Frank Kranstedt, Sebastian Winter
Schnitt: Birgit K\u00f6ster, Bettina Strunk
Produktion: Astrid Vandekerkhove
in Koproduktion mit THURN Film<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Der kambodschanische Grenzort Poipet ist ein unbedeutendes Nest, bis Spielkasinos ihn zu einem Eldorado f\u00fcr thail\u00e4ndische Gl\u00fccksspieler, Gesch\u00e4ftsleute und H\u00e4ndler werden lassen. Aus allen Teilen Kambodschas str\u00f6men die Menschen herbei, in der Hoffnung Arbeit und ein besseres Leben zu finden. Die meisten werden bitter entt\u00e4uscht, die Slumgebiete der Stadt wachsen von Tag zu Tag. Aufgrund der extremen Armut m\u00fcssen alle arbeiten und Geld nach Hause bringen \u2013 auch die Kinder. \u00dcber 70 Prozent von ihnen sind nie l\u00e4nger zur Schule gegangen. Dabei sind gerade die Kinder in st\u00e4ndiger Gefahr, denn mittlerweile gilt Poipet als eine Drehscheibe des Menschenhandels in S\u00fcdostasien.<\/p>

\u201eIch verabscheue den Menschenhandel, f\u00fcr mich ist er ein dreckiges \u00dcbel. Ich habe Kinder und mich trifft das wirklich. Manche Eltern wissen Bescheid. Aber wenn einer zu ihnen kommt und viel Geld bietet, dann geben sie die Kinder her. Sie sind in einer Zwickm\u00fchle, weil sie kein Geld zum \u00dcberleben haben. Die Menschen sind sich durchaus bewusst, dass es schlecht ist, aber sie m\u00fcssen auch etwas essen. Wenn der Magen knurrt, h\u00f6rt der Verstand auf.\u201c<\/em> (kambodschanischer Grenzbeamter)<\/p>

Kamera: Manfred Schmidt
Ton: Luc Vanheel
Schnitt: Birgit K\u00f6ster<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Three contributions by Florian Schneider for Quarks & Co. \/ WDR television
Editor WDR Claudia Heiss

First broadcast Oct. 22, 2019, WDR
Repeat Aug. 13, 2020, WDR
Available in the media library until Oct. 22, 2024.<\/p>

Nobody likes to throw food away, and yet it happens: at home, in the supermarket and at the manufacturers. 18 million tons of food end up in the garbage can in Germany every year. Quarks goes on a search and asks why so much good food ends up in supermarket containers.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Ein Film von Lin Sternal
Im Auftrag von 3Sat, “Ab 18!”
Erstausstrahlung: 06.11.2017, 23:40 Uhr
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Eine junge Frau verl\u00e4sst ihre Heimatstadt in Ostpolen und zieht nach Deutschland.
Nun wendet sie sich mit einem Brief an eine alte Freundin in der Heimat um ihr zu erkl\u00e4ren, was der tats\u00e4chliche Grund ihres Umzuges war\u2026
Der Film erz\u00e4hlt die pers\u00f6nliche Geschichte von Ewa (25), einer polnischen Frau, die vor 6 Jahren ihr Kind abgetrieben hat und bis heute unter dieser schmerzhaften Erfahrung leidet. Schlimmer noch, als die traumatische Erfahrung selbst, ist f\u00fcr sie der gesellschaftliche Umgang mit diesem Thema. Ihre Kindheit und Jugend wurde von einem katholisch konservativen Umfeld gepr\u00e4gt, von dem sie trotz des Versuchs einer Emanzipation immer noch beeinflusst wird. Bis heute hat sie kaum einer Person von ihrer damaligen Entscheidung erz\u00e4hlt. Stattdessen hat sie ihrer Heimat den R\u00fccken gekehrt und versucht das Erlebte zu verdr\u00e4ngen.
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Redaktion: Nicole Baum, Udo Bremer (3Sat)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Karin de Miguel-Wessendorf
Commissioned by WDR
First broadcast: November 10, 2016 at 10:40 pm on WDR television

The Rhenish lignite mining area is the largest source of CO\u00b2 in Europe. Opencast mining devours entire villages, and also the Hambach Forest. Resistance is rising against this. Tree houses are being built in the forest, and around 30 tree squatters are trying to prevent the clearing of the valuable biotope. And the residents of the affected villages are by no means all leaving their homes without a fight - some are staying as long as they can. They are supported by a citizens' initiative in neighboring Buir, and by 1,000 climate activists from all over Europe who are occupying the Garzweiler open pit mine for a day and symbolically stopping lignite mining. They want to send a signal to the international climate summits: End the most climate-damaging way of energy production.
The energy company RWE wants to mine lignite until the year 2045, but is under increasing pressure since church groups and local politicians have also joined the resistance. Day 7 accompanied the climate fighters for a year. For example, Clumsy, who built himself a tree house 18 meters above the ground. He has been living at 18 meters for four years to prevent the excavators from advancing: \"Just by living on the tree house, I am already in the way.\" Or Lars Zimmer, one of the last residents of Immerath. Most of the residents have already been relocated, but he doesn't want to leave his home: \"If there was more resistance, RWE wouldn't find it quite so easy to raze these villages here to the ground.\" And Antje Grothus from Buir, a few kilometers from the Hambach open pit mine: \"If we can't stop it, the excavators will be here on our doorstep.\"

Editorial: Andrea Ernst (WDR)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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First broadcast: each Thursday, 17. + 24.11.16 at 23:25, WDR
Repetition on 30.07.17, 02:47, WDR<\/p>

First part in the short version
\"I'm going to be a farmer now! - Big dream, hard everyday life\",
30 minutes: 10.08.17, 22:10, Day7, WDR<\/p>

Second part in the short version
\"Ackern f\u00fcr den Lebenstraum - Die neue Lust auf Landwirtschaft\",
30 minutes: 17.08.17, 22:10 Uhr, Tag7, WDR
Short version \"Geliebter Mist - Ackern f\u00fcr den Lebenstraum\",
30 minutes: 13.08.17, 17:30, Gott und die Welt, ARD<\/p>

Two films by Jessica Krauss & Insa Onken
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN<\/p>

Our series tells of people who want to get out of their virtual working world and back into a life that does not seem out of context.
In which you finish what you have started yourself, in which you bear responsibility and success is tangible in the truest sense of the word. In short: you want to become a farmer.
We tell of city dwellers who realize the romantic dream of country life.
Of career changers who are not satisfied with the learned profession and who want to start completely new as a farmer. And finally, from those who have grown up with sheep and pigs, but are now responsible for their own farm for the first time. Of people who set out to dare the great adventure: a new life.
As different as the biographies of the new beginners are, they are united by their attitude to life. They want to live it consciously, be mindful and farm sustainably.
Of course, that's easier said than done. Whoever becomes a farmer today needs a thick skin and good nerves. A lot of work, little free time, low social
status, high financial risk and dependence on factors that cannot be controlled: Weather, nature, animals - and not to forget the European bureaucracy and King Customer, who is becoming increasingly demanding but at the same time not more generous.
And so the new farmers all face the ethical challenge of wanting to produce considerately to people and nature on the one hand, but on the other hand, under the price pressure of the market, often being forced to do things that run counter to this maxim.
A dream job looks different, doesn't it?<\/p>

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A film by Karin de Miguel-Wessendorf and Valentin Thurn<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 03.11. 2014, 20:15 Uhr, WDR
Wiederholung: 16.05.2015, RBB; 21.07.2015,
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Die Milch im Supermarkt wird immer billiger. F\u00fcr die Milchbauern hei\u00dft das: wachse oder weiche! Im letzten Jahrzehnt hat ein Drittel der deutschen Milchbauern aufgeben m\u00fcssen \u2013 gleichzeitig hat die Zahl der Megabetriebe zugenommen. In XXL-St\u00e4llen stehen Hunderte von K\u00fchen dicht nebeneinander. Damit sie H\u00f6chstleistungen erbringen, kommen die Tiere auch im Sommer nicht mehr auf die Weide.
Auch die Molkereien werden immer gr\u00f6\u00dfer: Multinationale Konzerne wie Arla oder Friesland-Campina haben die kleinen regionalen Molkereien \u00fcbernommen und exportieren Milch bis nach China. Doch auch sie sind abh\u00e4ngig vom Preisdiktat der Superm\u00e4rkte, in erster Linie von Aldi oder Lidl. “Die Verbraucher sind nicht ehrlich zu sich”, kritisiert ein Landwirt aus Kleve am Niederrhein. “Sie sagen uns, sie seien bereit mehr f\u00fcr Bio- und regionale Lebensmittel auszugeben, doch dann treffen wir sie alle bei ALDI an der Kasse.” Er h\u00e4lt das Bauernsterben f\u00fcr unabwendbar, nur gro\u00dfe Betriebe seien wettbewerbsf\u00e4hig: “Mit der romantischen Landwirtschaft, wie wir sie vor 20, 30 Jahren hatten, kommen wir nicht weiter. Die harte Wirklichkeit ist, es wird nur derjenige \u00fcberleben, der die Kosten im Griff hat.”
Doch einige kleine Milchbauern wagen es, sich gegen die Konzentrationswelle auf dem Milchmarkt aufzulehnen: Sie setzen auf direkte Vermarktung zu besseren Preisen. Zum Beispiel ein Bauer aus dem Kreis Soest, der mit anderen eine Bauernmolkerei gegr\u00fcndet hat, um sich vom Preisdiktat der Giganten zu l\u00f6sen.
Oder eine junge B\u00e4uerin aus dem Siegerland: “Schon in der Ausbildung wird uns nahegelegt, dass wir in gr\u00f6\u00dfere St\u00e4lle investieren sollen. Aber ich w\u00fcnsche mir eine Landwirtschaft in Familienhand, in der jedes Tier nicht nur eine Nummer ist.” Im M\u00e4rz 2015 wird der letzte Schutz f\u00fcr die Kleinbauern fallen: mit dem EU-weiten Ende der Milchquote. Wenn der Milchmarkt liberalisiert wird, f\u00fcrchten viele einen neuen Preisverfall. Es ist ein Kampf David gegen Goliath, denn auf die Unterst\u00fctzung von Bauernverband und Bundesregierung brauchen sie nicht zu hoffen. Die haben sich l\u00e4ngst entschieden, dass eine moderne Landwirtschaft nur in Gro\u00dfstrukturen funktionieren kann.<\/p>

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A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN<\/p>

First broadcast: 13.05.2013, 22:45, ARD
Repetition: 14.06.2015, 16:15, WDR and 20.06.2015, 09:30, WDR<\/p>

More than half of all food ends up in the trash! With this result, the documentary \"Taste the Waste\" (2011) shocked and triggered a heated public debate. Since then, big plans have been made. By 2020, Federal Minister of Food Ilse Aigner wants to ensure that only half as much food is thrown away in Germany as today. But so far there have been few concrete political steps. Why do legislators in Germany, unlike other European governments, only make rather non-binding appeals to the public?
\"Unfortunately, throwing away is all too often worthwhile for companies because food is so cheap and labor is so expensive,\" says nutrition expert Prof. Guido Ritter of M\u00fcnster University of Applied Sciences.
Why is that? Valentin Thurn looks into the matter and searches for solutions throughout Europe. In the process, he meets many people who no longer want to wait for politicians to act on this important issue for the future. For example, the Kotzur family from Ludwigsburg, who want to find out how much they can reduce their food waste with a waste diary. \"This has only made us really aware of what we throw in the trash can every day!\"
Companies in Holland, England, Denmark, Germany and Ukraine are also looking for solutions: A carrot juice factory also uses the small carrots that were previously sorted out, clever designers recycle originally grown vegetables under the label \"Culinary Misfits\" that the trade does not accept in this way, individual supermarkets no longer make junk offers that tempt customers to buy more than they need. Farmers and chefs produce and manufacture according to the maxim: \"Feed the clients, not the bins!\" - \"Feed the customers, not the garbage cans!\". But is the good will of individuals enough?<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Frank Bowinkelmann and Valentin Thurn
Produced for ARTE and NDR<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 09.01.2014, 21:45 Uhr, ARTE
Repetition:
20.02.2015, 21.45 Uhr, ARTE
02.11.2019, 22.40 Uhr, ARTE
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\u201eWir m\u00fcssen die M\u00f6glichkeit haben, auf Antibiotika zur\u00fcckzugreifen, wenn Tiere tats\u00e4chlich krank werden oder eine Grippe in die Gruppe rein kommt.\u201c Dieses Argument h\u00f6rt man immer wieder von Landwirten, wenn man sie fragt, warum in der Tiermast so viele Antibiotika eingesetzt werden. \u00dcber 1700 Tonnen pro Jahr sind es allein in Deutschland \u2013 fast siebenmal so viel wie in den Krankenh\u00e4usern. In Frankreich ist der Einsatz von Antibiotika sogar doppelt so hoch, pro Kilo erzeugtem Fleisch. Die Folge: In den Tierst\u00e4llen bilden sich gef\u00e4hrliche resistente Keime. Vor allem zwei Erreger finden sich immer h\u00e4ufiger auf unseren Lebensmitteln: so genannte MRSA und ESBL-bildende Keime. Beide Erreger sind multiresistent, das hei\u00dft viele Antibiotika sind gegen sie wirkungslos. Nicht nur f\u00fcr Landwirte, die im Stall direkten Kontakt mit den Keimen haben, stellen sie eine Gefahr dar. Wissenschaftler fanden die Bakterien auf Fleisch – und sogar auf Gem\u00fcse. Wie kommen die Keime dorthin? Was passiert wenn wir sie mit der Nahrung aufnehmen? Frank Bowinkelmann und Valentin Thurn wollen diese Fragen beantworten. Zu Wort kommen Wissenschaftler, Bauern, Tier- und Humanmediziner in Deutschland, D\u00e4nemark und den Niederlanden.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A Fim by Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
Commissioned by ZDF and ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 01.10.2013 at 20.15, ARTE<\/p>

No prosperity without growth. This has been the credo of business and politics up to now. Steady economic growth is seen as a guarantee for jobs and for the quality of life of the population. Anyone who doubts the growth dogma is ridiculed as being out of touch with reality.
But the economic crisis and climate change have shaken this belief. Population explosion, energy crisis and environmental pollution are problems that can no longer be suppressed. If all people on earth lived as the Germans do, we would already need the resources of three planets. More and more people are convinced: unlimited growth is not possible in a world of limited resources.
Despite an increase in gross domestic product, personal life satisfaction in the industrialized countries has not grown since the 1970s. Could it be that our consumer society is failing to deliver on the promise of happiness? What do we really need to live a good life?
We join the author as she explores the question: \"What do I need to change to make my lifestyle sustainable? And what can I do without losing quality of life?\" Karin de Miguel Wessendorf embarks on a journey through Europe. She visits people, initiatives and companies that have recognized that economic growth cannot be the measure of all things.
The demographic change, the limited resources of the planet and the current economic crises provide a brake on growth anyway, whether we want it or not. High time to rethink and to steer the exit from the destructive growth itself. A movement has emerged that is looking for alternatives. Instead of falling into the role of victim, entrepreneurs, politicians, scientists and activists are working in theory and practice to build a \"post-growth society\" - a society in which a better life for people and the environment should be possible in the long term.
On her journey, the author finds that the search for a sustainable lifestyle does not necessarily mean doing without, in many cases it is even a gain in quality of life.

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A film by Valentin Thurn
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 20.10.2010, 23:30 Uhr, ARD
Wiederholung: 06.08.2015, Phoenix
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Unterst\u00fctzt von MEDIA (EU-Kommission), Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED), KOCCA (koreanische Filmf\u00f6rderung).
Redaktion: Angelika Wagner (WDR), Andrea Ernst (WDR), Dirk Neuhoff (NDR) und Babeth Vanloo (BOS)
Die internationale Fassung (55 Minuten) lief in den Niederlanden (BOS), Schweden (SVT), Irland (TG4), Spanien (TV3), Litauen (LVT), Finnland (YLE), Schweiz (TSR), Norwegen (NRK), Zypern (CYBC), Griechenland (ERT), S\u00fcd-Korea (CREO) und in weiteren L\u00e4ndern (Liste wird aktualisiert).
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Die Kurzfassung (29 Minuten) lief im WDR-Fernsehen unter dem Titel “Essen im Eimer” am 25.10.2010 und im NDR-Fernsehen am 26.10.2010
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Mehr als die H\u00e4lfte unserer Lebensmittel landet im M\u00fcll! Das meiste schon auf dem Weg vom Acker in den Laden, bevor es \u00fcberhaupt unseren Esstisch erreicht: jeder zweite Kopfsalat, jede zweite Kartoffel und jedes f\u00fcnfte Brot. Das entspricht etwa 500.000 Lkw-Ladungen pro Jahr. Regisseur Valentin Thurn hat das Ausma\u00df dieser Verschwendung international recherchiert \u2013 in den Abfall-Containern der Gro\u00dfm\u00e4rkte, Lagerhallen und Superm\u00e4rkte. Dokumentiert hat er \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigende Mengen einwandfreier Nahrungsmittel, teilweise noch original verpackt, oft auch mit noch g\u00fcltigem Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum. Bis zu 20 Millionen Tonnen Lebensmittel werden jedes Jahr allein in Deutschland weggeworfen. Und es werden immer mehr!
Auf der Suche nach den Ursachen spricht Valentin Thurn mit Supermarktmanagern, B\u00e4ckern, Gro\u00dfmarkt-Inspektoren, Ministern, Bauern und EU-Politikern.
Was er findet, ist ein weltweites System, an dem sich alle beteiligen. Alles soll jederzeit verf\u00fcgbar sein, Superm\u00e4rkte bieten durchgehend die ganze Warenpalette an, bis sp\u00e4t in den Abend muss das Brot in den Regalen frisch sein, zu jeder Jahreszeit gibt es Erdbeeren. Und alles muss perfekt aussehen: Ein welkes Salatblatt, ein Riss in der Kartoffel, eine Delle im Apfel \u2013 sofort wird die Ware aussortiert. Joghurtbecher landen schon zwei Tage, bevor ihr Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum abl\u00e4uft, im M\u00fcll.
Dass die H\u00e4lfte der bereits produzierten Lebensmittel zu Abfall wird, wirkt sich verheerend auf das Weltklima aus. Die Landwirtschaft verschlingt riesige Mengen an Energie, Wasser, D\u00fcnger, Pestiziden und rodet den Regenwald, sie ist damit f\u00fcr mehr als ein Drittel der Treibhausgase verantwortlich. Wenn Nahrungsmittel auf der M\u00fcllkippe verrotten, entweicht zus\u00e4tzlich Methangas, das sich auf die Erderw\u00e4rmung 25mal so stark auswirkt wie Kohlendioxid.
Der Wunsch der Konsumenten, \u00fcber alles jederzeit verf\u00fcgen zu k\u00f6nnen, versch\u00e4rft auch den weltweiten Hunger. Die steigenden Weizenpreise belegen es: Heute kaufen die Industriel\u00e4nder ihre Lebensmittel auf dem Weltmarkt, ebenso wie die Entwicklungsl\u00e4nder. W\u00fcrden wir weniger wegwerfen, m\u00fcssten wir weniger einkaufen; die Preise fielen und es bliebe mehr f\u00fcr die Hungrigen.
Aber es geht auch anders: Valentin Thurn findet weltweit Menschen, die die irrsinnige Verschwendung zu stoppen versuchen: so genannte M\u00fclltaucher, die Nahrungsmittel aus den Abfall-Containern der Superm\u00e4rkte retten, Supermarkt-Direktoren, die ihre Kunden davon \u00fcberzeugen, weniger klimasch\u00e4dliche Produkte zu kaufen, Verbrauchervereine, die Bauern und Kunden direkt zusammenbringen. Kleine Schritte, die aber viel bewirken k\u00f6nnten: Wenn wir in den Industriel\u00e4ndern die Lebensmittelverschwendung nur um die H\u00e4lfte reduzieren, h\u00e4tte das auf das Weltklima denselben Effekt, als ob wir auf jedes zweite Auto verzichten.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Ein Film von Britta Dombrowe
On behalf of ZDF
Erstausstrahlung: 08.10.2010, 22:40 Uhr, ARTE
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Statistisch gesehen gibt es sie gar nicht, die Intersexuellen. In die Geburtsurkunde muss innerhalb der ersten Woche nach der Geburt eingetragen werden: Junge oder M\u00e4dchen – sonst wird sie gar nicht ausgestellt. Und ohne die Geburtsurkunde gibt es keinen Pass, kein Kindergeld, keine Einschulung. Bei einem uneindeutigen Genital raten viele Mediziner zu einer geschlechtsangleichenden Operation. Das Problem dabei: Niemand kann voraussagen, als was sich das Kind sp\u00e4ter f\u00fchlen wird: Als Mann oder als Frau?
W\u00e4hrend der Schwangerschaft waren sich Andrea und ihr Mann Nico einig: “Ob es ein Junge oder ein M\u00e4dchen wird, war uns egal. Da\u00df es beides zugleich sein k\u00f6nnte, auf den Gedanken sind wir nie gekommen!” Drei Monate zu fr\u00fch kommt ihr Baby auf die Welt. “Bei der Entbindung sagte mir die Hebamme, es ist ein kleiner Junge!” erinnert sich Andrea, “als dann mein Mann ins Krankenhaus kam, sagte der Arzt zu ihm, es sei ein kleines M\u00e4dchen!” Ihr Kind hat eine Scheide, eine Geb\u00e4rmutter, im Bauchraum liegende Hoden und einen kleinen Penis. Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die Geschlechtschromosomen ein XY aufweisen, also m\u00e4nnlich sind.
Doch das biologische Geschlecht eines Menschen ist auf verschiedenen Ebenen ablesbar: \u00dcber die Chromosomen, die Hormone und die Geschlechtsorgane. Bei einer normalen Entwicklung stimmen diese Faktoren \u00fcberein, bei Intersexualit\u00e4t stehen sie im Widerspruch. Es gibt \u00fcber 25 unterschiedliche Diagnosen und jedes 5000. bis 3000. Neugeborene ist betroffen.<\/p>

Only in the last few years science has started to research the causes and effects of intersexuality at full speed: The new technical term is now DSD - Disorder of Sexual Development. It is high time, because since the 1950s medicine has been following the theses of the American psychologist John Money, who considered upbringing alone to be the decisive factor. So that the surrounding field can make however a clear sex-specific education, the child needs a clear body: Infants come on the operating table.
With the help of the surgery can be taken away, which is too much or be added missing. Hormone therapy does the rest. But often in the parforceride to the sexual unambiguity the signs are not read correctly or not recognized at all. Who wants to decide on the sex of infants if it is not foreseeable how they will later feel and develop as adolescents? How they want to live?
Even findings from brain research are not yet taken into account. But especially in the case of an intersexual genital, the brain provides important clues, according to brain researcher Dirk Swaab: \"You have to wait until the brain starts to work in a sexually differentiated way. Only from the behavior of a person can we deduce whether he has a male or female brain.\"
The intersexual Christiane V\u00f6lling (50) has suffered for decades from the discrepancy between body and feelings. At birth, the girl was assigned to the male sex due to an enlarged clitoris. Hormone treatment with testosterone followed. The subsequent removal of her uterus and ovaries were sold to her as tumor removal. Only thirty years after the operation does she learn from the files that she was deprived of her femininity at that time. In 2008, she sues her former surgeon - the court case attracts attention.<\/p>

Die Eltern von Inge haben das Gl\u00fcck, dass sie von den \u00c4rzten nicht dazu gedr\u00e4ngt wurden, eine \u201egeschlechtsangleichende\u201c Operation vornehmen zu lassen. Sie wollen die Entscheidung m\u00f6glichst lange hinausz\u00f6gern:
“Wir ziehen unsere kleine Inge als M\u00e4dchen auf, aber es kann gut sein, dass sie in der Pubert\u00e4t, wenn ihre m\u00e4nnlichen Keimdr\u00fcsen zu arbeiten anfangen, eher zum jungen Mann wird. Wir versuchen sie so normal wie m\u00f6glich zu erziehen. Bei rosa Kleidchen bin ich doch zur\u00fcckhaltend. Ich denke immer, vielleicht will sie sp\u00e4ter als Mann leben und dann sind ihr Bilder in einer solchen Aufmachung bestimmt peinlich.”
Die Dokumentation der Filmemacherin Britta Julia Dombrowe n\u00e4hert sich dem Leben der Betroffenen in intensiven Interviews und zeigt gleichzeitig den aktuellen Stand der Forschung: Ein franz\u00f6sischer Chirurg, der Kinder zur Eindeutigkeit operiert, erkl\u00e4rt seine Motivation die Kinder vor einer grausamen Gesellschaft zu \u201ebewahren\u201c. Inges Lehrerin erz\u00e4hlt uns, wie die Kinder damit umgehen, dass Inge Junge und M\u00e4dchen ist. Neue Erkenntnisse aus der Hirnforschung machen deutlich: Geschlecht entsteht im Gehirn und nicht zwischen den Beinen.
\u00dcber die Lebenswege von Intersexuellen, aber auch \u00fcber den Umgang mit ihnen in Wissenschaft und Medizin wissen wir wenig. Dass es weit mehr als Mann und Frau gibt, darum geht es in diesem Film.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
As part of the Arte theme evening \"Crime Scene Hospital\".<\/p>

First broadcast: 20.04.2010, 21:15, ARTE
Link to ARD report<\/p>

Viele Kinofans feierten G\u00e9rard Depardieus Sohn Guillaume als gr\u00f6\u00dfte Nachwuchshoffnung des franz\u00f6sischen Films. Doch es kam anders. 1995 musste der 24-J\u00e4hrige nach einem Motorradunfall am Knie operiert werden. W\u00e4hrend des Eingriffs drang der Krankenhauskeim MRSA in die Wunde. Eine endg\u00fcltige Heilung gab es nicht, weder durch 17 Operationen noch mittels Antibiotika. 2003 schlie\u00dflich traf Guillaume Depardieu eine harte Entscheidung. Um seinen unertr\u00e4glichen Schmerzen ein Ende zu bereiten, lie\u00df er sein rechtes Bein amputieren.
Im Kampf gegen die Killerkeime gr\u00fcndete der Schauspieler die “Stiftung Guillaume Depardieu” und machte in Talkshows auf unhaltbare Zust\u00e4nde in franz\u00f6sischen Krankenh\u00e4usern aufmerksam. Er drohte dem Gesundheitsminister mit einem “Kreuzzug”, wenn die Regierung nicht gegen die Zust\u00e4nde in den Krankenh\u00e4usern vorgehe. Bald musste er feststellen, dass ihn die Masse der Anfragen \u00fcberforderte. Sein Lebenswerk \u00fcbergab er dem Patientenschutzverband “Lien” und konzentrierte sich auf seine Karriere. W\u00e4hrend er sich zu Dreharbeiten in Rum\u00e4nien aufhielt, erkrankte er an einer Lungenentz\u00fcndung. Pl\u00f6tzlich ging alles ganz schnell. Am 13. Oktober 2008 starb Guillaume Depardieu im Alter von 37 Jahren.
Was ist sein Verm\u00e4chtnis? Seine zornigen Auftritte im Fernsehen sch\u00e4rften das \u00f6ffentliche Bewusstsein f\u00fcr die Gefahr der gegen Antibiotika resistenten Keime in Frankreich und sorgten f\u00fcr politischen Druck. Das Gesundheitsministerium, das zuvor nur ungern Zahlen zum Problem ver\u00f6ffentlichte, \u00e4nderte 2003 seinen Kurs. Seither werden die Erkrankungen landesweit erfasst und publiziert. Und Patienten k\u00f6nnen nachlesen, wie aktiv ihr Krankenhaus im Kampf gegen die Killerkeime mitwirkt.<\/p>

Today, the reform is having an impact: France is the only European country to have reduced the number of infected patients over the past five years, while elsewhere the killer germs continue to spread in hospitals.<\/p>

In his documentary, filmmaker Valentin Thurn lets Guillaume Depardieu's ex-wife Elise have her say. In addition, friends and colleagues express their views. The actor himself is present in numerous archive shots from documentaries and feature films.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 13.09.2009, 16:25, WDR
Link to the Whistleblower Network

\"My loyalty to the constitution takes precedence over my loyalty to my boss,\" Rudolf Schmenger decides on August 30, 2001.
Until then, he is an efficient tax investigator, repeatedly commended by his employer, the Frankfurt tax office. On his behalf, he also searches a major bank and tracks down tax evaders who are smuggling millions into accounts abroad. Without giving any reasons, his employer forbids him to pursue these \"cases\" further. A presumably politically motivated instruction from the Hessian Ministry of Finance, because the investigations in the banks have a negative impact on the state as a business location.
\"It can't be that we hang the small tax evaders and let the big ones go,\" says Rudolf Schmenger. But in the end, the Ministry of Finance orders the dissolution of his department.
Rudolf Schmenger resists - until the office management finally finds a way to get rid of him via a commissioned expert opinion: A psychiatrist certifies Rudolf Schmenger a \"querulatory development\" and writes him \"life-long unfit for service\".
Against his will, he is sent into early retirement in his early 40s. In the meantime, the Hessian Medical Association accuses the psychiatrist of having prepared a favorable opinion in the interest of the state government. Rudolf Schmenger fights for his reputation and continues to rally civil servants around him who, like him, want to follow their conscience.
tag7 rolls up the case of \"Schmenger\" in an exemplary report and asks what enables this man to put his ethical principles above his personal career despite fierce opposition.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn<\/p>

First broadcast: 01.07.2009, 23:30, ARD<\/p>

Link to the website of Harry W\u00f6rz
Link to the song by Nadeem
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Es ist der Alptraum schlechthin, der Tag, mit dem sich alles im Leben \u00e4ndert: Der Tag, an dem ‘Im Namen des Volkes’ ein Richter Schuld ausspricht. Der Verurteilte wei\u00df er war es nicht – Doch keiner glaubt ihm. Auch das deutsche Strafrechtssystem ist trotz aller Regeln, aller Instanzen vor Irrt\u00fcmern nicht gefeit. Und, noch schlimmer: Wer einmal in die M\u00fchlen der Justiz ger\u00e4t, hat kaum Chancen, wieder herauszukommen.
Einer dieser seltenen F\u00e4lle ist Harry W\u00f6rz (41) aus Birkenfeld bei Pforzheim. Er soll seine Ex-Frau 1997 mit einem Schal gew\u00fcrgt haben. Das Opfer ist wegen Gehirnsch\u00e4digung seither ein Pflegefall und kann nicht mehr aussagen. Sie war Polizistin. Ebenfalls unter Verdacht waren ihr Geliebter und ihr Vater, beide ebenfalls Polizisten. Doch f\u00fcr die Polizei steht schnell fest, dass Harry W\u00f6rz der Schuldige ist. Er ist kein Polizist. Das Gericht folgte der Ansicht der Ermittler und verurteilt Harry W\u00f6rz in einem Indizienprozess zu elf Jahren Haft. In einem sp\u00e4teren Zivilprozess allerdings, es ging um Schadensersatz, urteilten die Richter, dass er nicht der T\u00e4ter sein k\u00f6nne. Sie kritisierten, im Strafprozess sei ‘in manchen Punkten nicht objektiv ermittelt worden.’ W\u00f6rz bem\u00fchte sich daraufhin um eine Wiederaufnahme, was ihm drei Jahre sp\u00e4ter tats\u00e4chlich gelang. Mit Erfolg: Freispruch vom Landgericht Mannheim. Doch ein Jahr sp\u00e4ter, im Oktober 2006, hob der Bundesgerichtshof den Freispruch wieder auf. Der Folge-Prozess hat vor wenigen Wochen begonnen und soll noch das ganze Jahr 2009 laufen.
90 Prozent aller Justizirrt\u00fcmer gehen auf eine falsche Identifizierung zur\u00fcck. Denn zunehmend verlassen sich die Richter auf Gutachter. Doch die stehen seit einiger Zeit heftig in der Kritik. Ein ganz gravierender Fehler eines solchen Gutachters hat Donald Stellwag (50) wegen angeblichen Bankraubs unschuldig hinter Gitter gebracht. Der Gutachter hatte ihn auf einem von der \u00dcberwachungskamera am Tatort gemachten Foto ‘zweifelsfrei’ identifiziert. Donald Stellwag bem\u00fchte sich um eine Wiederaufnahme – vergebens. Er sa\u00df die vollen neun Jahre ab, eine vorzeitige Entlassung wurde ihm verweigert, weil er nicht gest\u00e4ndig war. Keine zwei Wochen, nachdem er aus dem Gef\u00e4ngnis entlassen wurde, schnappte die Polizei den echten T\u00e4ter bei einem neuen Bank\u00fcberfall.<\/p>

Ungew\u00f6hnlich: 2007 wurde der Gutachter vom Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt\/Main zu einer Schmerzensgeldzahlung in H\u00f6he von 150.000 Euro verurteilt – der erste Fall, in dem ein Sachverst\u00e4ndiger f\u00fcr ein fehlerhaftes Gerichtsgutachten jemals haftbar gemacht wurde. Der vom Gericht beauftragte Gegen-Gutachter Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm R\u00f6sing kritisiert, dass es zahlreiche Fehlurteile aufgrund der schlechten Qualit\u00e4t der \u00dcberwachungskameras und der unzureichenden Kenntnis vieler Gutachter gibt.
R\u00f6sing ist nun wieder Gegen-Gutachter in einem aktuellen Fall: In der Justizvollzugsanstalt Heimsheim bei Stuttgart sitzt seit fast neun Jahren Andreas K\u00fchn. Er soll der sogenannte ‘Gorillamasken-R\u00e4uber’ sein, der in den 90er Jahren in Stuttgart vier Banken \u00fcberfiel. K\u00fchn beteuert seine Unschuld. Das Gericht st\u00fctzte seine Verurteilung auf mehrere Indizien. Ausschlaggebend war ein Foto aus einer \u00dcberwachungskamera. Der Sachverst\u00e4ndige im Prozess – ein pensionierter Polizist – sagte damals, er k\u00f6nne K\u00fchn als T\u00e4ter nicht ausschlie\u00dfen. Professor Wilhelm R\u00f6sing ist aber davon \u00fcberzeugt: K\u00fchn kann nicht der Bankr\u00e4uber sein. 25 Merkmale hat der Experte f\u00fcr Gesichtserkennung auf den Bildern gefunden, die nicht mit dem Verurteilten \u00fcbereinstimmen – bereits bei 3 Merkmalen k\u00f6nne man sagen, dass das Bild nicht die fragliche Person zeige. Gest\u00fctzt auf dieses Gutachten betreibt K\u00fchn die Wiederaufnahme seines Falls. Ein m\u00fchsames, qu\u00e4lendes Verfahren voller Ungewissheiten und mit offenem Ausgang.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Kadriye Acar and Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by NDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 10.05.2009, 17:30, ARD
Link to ARD Theme Week

\"If I had met Inge earlier, I would have become a more self-confident person. Many things would have been easier. I trust her more than other people because her help is voluntary and therefore comes from the heart,\" says 27-year-old \u00d6znur Demir. She had been looking for help to complete her secondary school diploma - and found 69-year-old retiree Inge Alexy, at the \"Senioren-Lotsen\" project. The volunteer mentor helps the young Turkish woman learn German and find an apprenticeship.
There are currently thirty such senior pilots in L\u00fcbeck, and more are joining them at every meeting. Not only the young foreigners benefit, but also the seniors who want to do something useful in their retirement. A model project that so far only exists in L\u00fcbeck.<\/p>

The volunteer \"pilots\" cannot replace the professionals at the counseling centers. But they can also provide moral support to young people when they find themselves in a desperate situation, like the 17-year-old Kurd Faysal Idris, who fled to Germany when he was 14. \"Without Mr. Pawlowski,\" he said, \"I wouldn't even have a roof over my head. I can't express it in words, but it's the most important person for me in L\u00fcbeck.\" Former teacher J\u00fcrgen Pawlowski came to L\u00fcbeck himself as a refugee after World War 2. He knows the feeling of being a stranger in a country. That's why he wants to help Faysal feel at home in L\u00fcbeck.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette<\/p>

First broadcast: 19.12.2008, 22:35, ARTE<\/p>

2009 ARGUS Foundation Journalism Award for Antibiotic Preservation and Development
36th International Festival of Sustainable Development Films, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2009
International Science Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 2009

The global spread of new super-bacteria in hospitals is causing concern among doctors. The most widespread and dangerous of the hospital germs is called MRSA (multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). In Germany alone, 15,000 patients become infected every year, in France almost twice as many. MRSA is resistant to common antibiotics. And the germ is becoming more and more aggressive: the number of drugs that can still be used is decreasing from year to year. MRSA can lead to severe wound infections, pneumonia, sepsis and not infrequently death. Across Europe, around 50,000 people die every year from the killer germ.
Super germs like MRSA have been around for over 40 years, but in countries like Germany or France the problem was underestimated for a long time. As a result, the germ spread to such an extent that hospitals can hardly control it today. Even the strictest hygiene precautions cannot reduce the risk of infection during surgery to zero.
Since the discovery of penicillin, doctors have relied on antibiotics to effectively fight bacterial infections. But as soon as a new drug was invented, there were resistant strains of bacteria just a few years later. They have spread mainly in countries where antibiotics are used particularly liberally. In contrast, where they are more targeted and sparingly given, there are also fewer super germs.
The filmmakers Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette pursue the question: What is being done in European hospitals to combat the spread of hospital germs? How have the Dutch managed to reduce the number of MRSA cases to almost zero? How do new germs spread against which no antibiotic can help anymore? What hope is there through research into vaccines? And: How do patients cope who were infected with a super germ in the hospital and will probably never get rid of it again?<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Britta Dombrowe and Valentin Thurn
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 18.05.2008, WDR

\"The bread here is 1 A!\", says Hanna and she is absolutely right. It looks appetizing and is neatly wrapped in plastic foil. Nothing seems to distinguish it from the others on the supermarket shelf, except that the 21-year-old has just fished it out of the trash. Hanna has not been buying her food in supermarkets for a long time now, but gets it from the dumpsters behind them.
\"Containerizing\" is what it's called in the scene of self-proclaimed leftover recyclers who refuse to follow the consumer cycle of the throwaway society. Not out of necessity, but out of conviction.
There are no concrete figures on how much food is thrown away in Germany. At the Cologne wholesale market alone, up to ten tons accumulate on a normal market day. The reasons for this vary: sometimes the imprint on the label has slipped, sometimes the refrigeration during transport was not up to standard. Often, however, it is simply cheaper for wholesalers and retailers to throw away food and buy new than to rent storage space. \"Then the whole stuff wanders into the garbage box by box,\" knows remnant recycler Jens from Cologne, who has meanwhile said goodbye to his former bourgeois life completely via \"containerizing\": \"I don't have to bend for anyone, but this freedom can be quite hard.\"
We accompany remnant recyclers on their forays into \"free land\". What freedoms does their self-chosen life bring them and where do they encounter health, social and political limits?<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 07.05.2008, 22:30 clock, Menschen hautnah, WDR
Link to the directory of German sperm banks

When Anna (28) learns from her mother that she was conceived with a sperm donation, she is initially paralyzed. For weeks she looks at the family photo albums, compares her face in the mirror with that of her father and sisters.
Anna's parents had separated eight years ago: to the social father Anna had since then only little contact. Her two younger sisters were born naturally, although a doctor had initially told the father that he was incapable of procreation. The parents had therefore sought the help of a sperm bank in Boston, USA, at the time.<\/p>

Anna goes to Boston to look for her genetic father, or rather to find the \"donor\", because she avoids the word \"father\" in this context: \"I already have a father!\" The search is difficult because her mother Pauline had destroyed all the records at the time; after all, no one was supposed to know about the sperm donation. Realizing how important the \"donor search\" is to her daughter, and when Anna finds a possible donor through an Internet forum, her mother decides to go to Boston as well. They visit Randy, who had donated at the time Pauline was receiving treatment. After a very emotional conversation in his apartment, they take a saliva sample on a cotton swab . They have this examined at home in Munich in a gene laboratory. Anna learns the test result from the lab director in her search for her own identity....<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 27.11.2007, 21:40, ARTE

The invention of vaccines is one of the great success stories of medicine. Epidemics such as smallpox and polio, which terrified people for a long time, were defeated thanks to vaccinations. But the victories that have been won in the history of medicine have rarely been without undesirable side effects or even losses. Even though vaccines are many times safer today than they were 20 years ago, the possibility of vaccine damage still exists. The dangers from infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination are considered by experts to be much higher. The fatal consequences of measles are one example. And yet they are there: consequential damages that lead to disability or even death.
The filmmakers Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette trace the bright and dark sides of vaccinations. A journey into the history of immunization paves the way to the fates of those affected, then and now, and to current, controversial debates about vaccination.<\/p>

Families from Germany and France tell of both sides of the success coin: what can happen if vaccinations are not given, and how even one vaccination can dramatically change lives. Six-year-old Micha is doomed to die because he contracted measles at the age of 5 months in a pediatrician's office. It took years for the disease to break out: SSPE, a chronic brain inflammation and consequence of the measles, which certainly leads to death. Little Joel is also affected. During Germany's largest measles epidemic, which broke out in Duisburg in 2006, he also fell ill. He died while the shooting was still in progress. Madame Zanakolona from Paris, on the other hand, had to fight for years to have the brain damage that her now 15-year-old son suffered after a whooping cough vaccination recognized by the courts. The vaccine has long been off the market, but new vaccines with potential risks are pushing ahead. The Schomaker family, at any rate, is convinced that the six-dose vaccine, introduced 6 years ago, was to blame for their son's death.
Coroner Prof. Randolph Penning has performed autopsies on several children in recent years after six-dose vaccinations. Results: abnormal and worrisome brain swelling. The former employee of the Paul Ehrlich Institute and insider Dr. Klaus Hartmann is also extremely critical of the new combination vaccines. Are they to blame for the death of the children? No one has been able to prove it yet, but the controversy is on. How openly must possible consequential damage be reported without stirring up fear among parents and thus producing low vaccination rates and the return of epidemics?
Most infectious diseases have lost their threat, not least because of the success of vaccinations. Vaccinations therefore no longer seem so important to many. Some vaccines, however, would be welcomed by many people around the world. Like, for example, the new vaccine against tuberculosis being developed at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Millions of people worldwide are affected by TB, and resistant pathogens are spreading more and more. Vaccination could provide a remedy, scientists hope. Because TB is still on the rise.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Britta Dombrowe
First broadcast: 02.09.2007, 16:25, WDR

For hours in November 2006, inmates tortured a 20-year-old fellow inmate in the youth prison Siegburg and finally killed him. The prison staff did not notice the hours-long ordeal. The crime threw a spotlight on the conditions in German youth prisons: Cells are overcrowded, there is an acute shortage of staff, prisoners are locked away for up to 23 hours a day and left to fend for themselves.
19-year-old Ufuk, who is serving time in Siegburg, the \"toughest youth prison,\" as he puts it, also knows this. Ufuk knows what he's talking about; at 14, he already had 140 crimes to his credit, is a regular in German prisons and knows the rules behind the walls. \"When you arrive in jail, the first thing they do is check you out. Either they have respect or you have to get respect. That's where the law of the fist alone applies.\" Yet the penal code states: \"In the execution of the prison sentence, the prisoner should become capable of leading a life without crime in the future with social responsibility.\"
The film shows the causes of growing brutality behind bars and presents new ways in juvenile penal system.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 06.02.2007, 20:40, theme night, ARTE<\/p>

1001 Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul, 2008
Gold Panda Awards, International Sichuan TV Festival, China, 2007
E. Desmond Lee Africa World Festival, St. Louis, USA und Lagos, Nigeria, 2007
Filmfest Eberswalde – Die Provinziale, Deutschland, 2007: Preis als “beste Dokumentation”
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Die Einwanderung brachte die Frauen-Beschneidung von Afrika nach Europa. Doch immer mehr schwarze Frauen entscheiden: \u201eMit meiner Tochter nicht!\u201c Drei Frauen aus England, Deutschland und Frankreich erz\u00e4hlen vom Tag ihrer Beschneidung, von Problemen beim Urinieren und von den Schmerzen bei der Menstruation, der Angst vor Geschlechtsverkehr und Geburt. Doch es gibt Hoffnung: Dr. Pierre Foldes aus Paris entwickelte eine Technik mit der er die Klitoris wieder herstellen kann.
“Mit meiner Tochter nicht!” erscheint als Bonustrack auf der DVD des Kinofilms “W\u00fcstenblume” mit Waris Dirie.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Mauricio Estrella and Antonio Usc\u00e1tegui
Co-writer: Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR.<\/p>

First broadcast: 19.11.2006, ARD

Abelardo lives illegally in Germany. He has no residence papers, is constantly on guard against the police. Abelardo does not want to return to Ecuador to the slums of the port city of Guayaquil. His mother still lives there; she is sick but does not have health insurance. Abelardo sends her money for medicine.
For six years he has been struggling to make ends meet in Germany. A life in the shadows, determined by the search for cheap jobs where no papers are required. Then he meets Ines, a German, at a dance, quite normal. They fall in love. But does Ines trust him, or does she feel used? As a means to an end, to get a residence permit through her?
Over a million foreigners live illegally in Germany, like Abelardo. For more than a year, Mauricio Estrella and Antonio Usc\u00e1tegui observed two families for whom the daily game of hide-and-seek has become the norm for fear of deportation. As so-called \"economic refugees\", they bravely and also astonishingly normally master a life in which there is everything but security.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn, co-written by Stephan M\u00fcller
Commissioned by NDR in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 29.08.2006, 20:40, ARTE<\/p>

Nominiert f\u00fcr den Deutschen Fernsehpreis als “beste Reportage”
Internationales Leipziger Festival f\u00fcr Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm (DOK Leipzig), 2006
Basel_Karlsruhe Forum (BaKaFORUM), Basel, Schweiz, 2007
Gold Panda Awards, Sichuan TV Festival, China, 2007
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Zacarias Moussaoui ist der einzige Attent\u00e4ter, der wegen der Anschl\u00e4ge am 11. September 2001 vor Gericht gestanden hat \u2013 es war ein Symbolprozess f\u00fcr die USA. Im Mai 2006 wurde er zu einer lebenslangen Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt. Bis an sein Lebensende soll er keinerlei Au\u00dfenkontakte haben.
Ist er der sogenannte 20. Attent\u00e4ter, der ein Flugzeug in das Wei\u00dfe Haus steuern sollte? Oder nur ein psychisch kranker M\u00f6chtegern-Verschw\u00f6rer? Fest steht, dass er vier Wochen vor den Anschl\u00e4gen auf das World Trade Center und auf das Pentagon verhaftet wurde, als er das Fliegen einer Boeing 747 erlernen wollte. Und fest steht auch, dass das FBI die Attentate vom 11. September h\u00e4tte verhindern k\u00f6nnen, w\u00e4ren Moussaouis Notizbuch und Laptop rechtzeitig durchsucht worden.<\/p>

How does a young Moroccan-born Frenchman end up joining al-Qaeda and training to become a suicide bomber in camps in Afghanistan? In his youth, he was not religious, he loved parties and his girlfriend, and sometimes he drank alcohol - until the day he was converted to jihad by radical Muslim preachers in London.
His mother A\u00efcha El-Wafi fought against the death penalty for her son during the trial. On the sidelines of the trials, she met Phyllis Rodriguez in the U.S., the mother of Greg, who was killed in the flames of the World Trade Center. In his documentary, filmmaker Valentin Thurn shows the development of this extraordinary friendship and gently traces the history of the dysfunctional Moussaoui family. Intense interviews with friends and family members, including the two Moussaouis sisters, are complemented by exclusive footage, some of which has never been shown before - including a private video of the teenage Zacarias.<\/p>

On the fifth anniversary of the New York attacks, the film takes a new and unfamiliar look at a young Frenchman from Morocco whose difficult family background and influence from Islamist circles turned him into a death pilot who ultimately did not make it to the field. But it also sheds an illuminating light on Moussaoui's behavior during the trial, his guilty plea, which he has since recanted, as well as the role of justice in the U.S. and the desire of many Americans to convict the only assassin who confessed in court.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF<\/p>

First broadcast: 16.05.2006, 22:15, in the series \"37\u00b0\", ZDF

Surrogacy is forbidden - that's what the law says. But in the anonymity of the Internet, the black market is flourishing. There Hildegard and Anton come across Sarah. The conception of their child takes place in a toilet, with the help of an enema syringe. Hildegard and Anton tell no one, not even their parents. Quite secretly, the child is to be born.<\/p>

Auch Sarah, die f\u00fcr ihre Leihmutterschaft eine betr\u00e4chtliche Summe Geld bekommt, verheimlicht ihre Schwangerschaft vor ihren Eltern. Sie wei\u00df, dass die Eltern niemals damit einverstanden w\u00e4ren. Sarah erz\u00e4hlt von den Vertragsbedingungen, die sie mit Anton ausgehandelt hat und bem\u00fcht sich, jede emotionale Beziehung zu dem Baby in ihrem Bauch zu unterdr\u00fccken. Ganz einfach ist das nicht, denn immerhin ist sie ja die genetische Mutter des Babys. Endlich ist es soweit, die Entbindung steht bevor.
Doch als der ersehnte Anruf “Das Baby ist da” bei Hildegard und Anton ankommt, findet eine \u00dcbergabe des Kindes nicht statt. Hilde und Anton sind offensichtlich einer Betr\u00fcgerin zum Opfer gefallen. Es wird nie gekl\u00e4rt, ob Sarah ihr Baby selbst behalten wollte oder es einem anderen Paar verkauft hat: die Leihmutter bleibt unauffindbar. Ein solches Betrugsrisiko wollen Hildegard und Anton nicht noch einmal eingehen. Sie beschlie\u00dfen, in der Ukraine eine Leihmutter zu suchen und werden in Kiew f\u00fcndig. In der Ukraine ist Leihmutterschaft erlaubt und es gibt einen regelrechten Leihmutterschaftstourismus. Auch Ole und Ingrid sind schon vor Monaten nach Kiew gereist, um eine Leihmutter f\u00fcr ihr Baby zu finden. Das Paar ist \u00fcberzeugt davon, nichts Unrechtes zu tun.<\/p>

In most surrogate motherhoods, the egg comes from a foreign woman, only the man is also the genetic father of the child through his sperm donation. With Ingrid and Ole it is different. The child is genetically entirely theirs, the surrogate mother has only carried it to term. At the notary's office, she assigns all rights to the baby to Ole and Ingrid. Overjoyed, Ole and Ingrid travel back to Germany with their child, who is still officially identified as their biological child on site.
Diana und Steffen finden ihre Leihmutter in S\u00fcdafrika. Auch dort sind Leihmutterschaften legal, und die Befruchtung wird in einer Klinik durchgef\u00fchrt. Diana und Steffen gehen offen mit der geplanten Leihmutterschaft um und haben es bereits der Familie, Nachbarn und Arbeitskollegen erz\u00e4hlt. Sie sind davon \u00fcberzeugt, dass die deutschen Jugend\u00e4mter nichts dagegen unternehmen k\u00f6nnen, wenn sie das Baby nach s\u00fcdafrikanischem Recht adoptieren.
“37\u00ba” erz\u00e4hlt von den drei Paaren und fragt nach der Verantwortung f\u00fcr ein Kind, das durch Leihmutterschaft geboren wird. Dessen Identit\u00e4tsfindung kann durch das Wissen um seine verschiedenen M\u00fctter ein lebenslanges Problem sein.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 10.01.2006, 20:40, Theme night: \"Poor children\", ARTE<\/p>

Poverty in the rich EU - for many children, this means multiple disadvantages. First of all, in education: they perform less well at school and drop out more often. Or in health: they are sick more often than children from better-off families, and in material opportunities: Often no vacation is possible. However - as was shown in Germany as well as in England and France - when parents have little, they scrape together all the money they can to at least buy presents for their children, prefer to tighten their belts, save on food or the car and want to avoid at all costs that their children experience poverty as a restriction.<\/p>

Governments are helping to varying degrees: the situation is still worst in England, but in the last 5 years the government has managed to reduce what was once the highest rate of child poverty in all of Europe by a quarter. Billions are being pumped into early childhood education to provide equal opportunities from preschool age. The situation in Germany is quite different. Whereas social inequalities were relatively cushioned in the past, they are now constantly moving down to the British level. France is slightly better off, but here, too, persistently high unemployment ensures permanently high child poverty.<\/p>

A big contrast, however, in Scandinavia, first and foremost in Denmark, where there is virtually no poverty among children and families. What are the Danes doing better? The film takes us on a tour of four European countries in search of answers to the question of where the fight against poverty can begin and which models are promising.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Kadriye Acar
Commissioned by NDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 02.08.2005, 20:40, ARTE

Fatma Bl\u00e4ser was threatened with death by her own family because she refused to marry the man chosen for her, and then still fled to her German boyfriend. There, brothers and uncles besieged the house, for six weeks, seeking her life in order to purify the family honor. Fatma was able to hide, and for over 15 years had no contact with her family, only secretly with her mother. Today her father is an old man. Fatma wants to reconcile with him. He has become meek with age, and yet he does not regret what he and the other men in the family did back then. Fatma is unsure: How will the clan in Turkey that expelled her back then react? We accompanied her to her Kurdish home village, located 1500 kilometers from Istanbul on the former border with the Soviet Union, and observe Fatma's cautious approach to a world that was once her home and is now so foreign. Fatma recalls how, as an eight-year-old, she watched the stoning of a woman accused of being an adulteress. She searches for the grave, but is told that such \"eyesores\" are buried far away in the mountains.<\/p>

Hatun S\u00fcr\u00fcc\u00fc was also disowned by her family and sought contact again out of longing. But her story ends tragically: she was murdered by her three brothers. The reason: she had separated from the man her family chose for her and wanted to raise her son Can alone. The crime took place on the open street in Berlin: The older brothers stood lookout, the youngest brother took the pistol and shot. Families often seek out the youngest because they know they will be punished more leniently under juvenile criminal law. Their friends and co-workers can't believe it. But immigration has carried the cruel tradition into the heart of Europe. Hatun's family also comes from southeastern Turkey, where tradition requires brothers to watch over the integrity of their sisters until they marry. Misconduct must be atoned for because the family honor is tarnished and the family runs the risk of being outcast from the village community. This still plays a role even in today's Berlin, because the clans keep close contact, even with relatives who have remained in Turkey.<\/p>

Honor killings occur not only among Turks and Kurds, but also among other peoples such as Albanians. The conflicts often announce themselves years in advance: Ulerika Gashi had come to Germany from Kosovo with her family when she was two years old. The father often beat the mother, and later the four daughters, especially Ulerika, when she began to wear makeup and fashionable clothes at 16. When the father learns that Ulerika has a boyfriend, he strangles her with duct tape in the basement of his own house and throws the body into a quarry pond.
Many justify the honor killings with Islam. But in reality there is not a word about it in the Koran. However, few imams openly oppose this pre-Islamic tradition. But there are forces that help with honor conflicts: For example, a Kurdish member of the state parliament in Berlin, a Turkish cultural association in Paris and the Rosa e.V. association in Stuttgart, which maintains several girls' shared flats where young women who have been sentenced to death by the family council hide out. There, and in one of the strictly guarded women's shelters in Istanbul, it becomes clear that beatings alone are not enough to drive a Turkish woman into a women's shelter; the feeling of shame is too great, even among the women themselves, most of whom flee only after the first murder attempt in order to save their lives and those of their children.<\/p>

For their documentary, shot in Germany, France and Turkey, filmmaker Kadriye Acar, who grew up in Germany as the daughter of Turkish parents, and her colleague Valentin Thurn spoke with Turkish, Kurdish and Kosovar women who hide out in anonymous high-rise apartments and closely guarded women's shelters to save their lives and those of their children. The film also depicts the stories of two women who, despite rejection and death threats, sought contact with their families again after years - out of an insatiable longing for life in the extended family. One, Fatma Bl\u00e4ser, who came to Germany as a child, was able to reconcile with her relatives in her native Kurdish village. The other, Hatun S\u00fcr\u00fcc\u00fc, paid for her attempted rapprochement with the family with her life - she was murdered by her brothers on the open street in Berlin. The film also visits one of only two women's shelters in Istanbul and makes clear how similar the fates of the persecuted women are - whether in Berlin or in Istanbul.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 26.04.2005, 21:45, ARTE

Hans S. could no longer sleep without pills. He was an executive, but no one noticed his addiction, for over 17 years, until the breakdown came: first he lost his job, then his driver's license, then his children, finally he was admitted to a psychiatric clinic for withdrawal. His doctor, who regularly prescribed him Rohypnol tablets, should have known that the pills were addictive. After Hans S. had overcome his addiction, he sued his doctor before the Arbitration Court of the North German Medical Associations, and was proven right: for the first time in such a case, the patient was awarded compensation and a medical malpractice was condemned. It is also called the \"silent addiction\" because it is not noticeable, but nevertheless about as many people are addicted to sleeping pills and tranquilizers as to alcohol: In Germany there are over one million tablet addicts, in France even three million. Housewives have the worst sleep: As early as 1967, the Rolling Stones sang about \"Mother's little helper\" - benzodiazepine-type pills.<\/p>

Until the 1980s, the pharmaceutical industry, against its better judgment, concealed its addictive dangers - just as it had previously downplayed the damage to embryos caused by the sleeping pill thalidomide, and also the toxicity of barbiturates. These early sleeping pills were often used for suicides and have been banned since the 1960s. Today, they are only used in Switzerland - for euthanasia, which is legal there. Modern sleeping pills are now lethal only in combination with other drugs, but junkies quickly found that the pills mixed with heroin gave a longer high. And criminals found that sleeping pills could be used as knockout drops and rape drugs. Abuse is difficult to prove in court because sleeping pills break down quickly in the body.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 01.02.2005, 20:45, ARTE

Every sixth couple in Germany waits in vain for offspring. In order to have a child after all, more and more women and men are turning to modern reproductive medicine. Twenty years ago, the first German test-tube baby was born, and since then hundreds of thousands of children have been conceived in the test tube, using methods such as in vitro fertilization that are legal in this country and financed by health insurance up to a certain number. But if these attempts fail and the desire to have their own child is too powerful, then increasingly infertile couples also use techniques prohibited in Germany, such as egg donation or preimplantation diagnostics, and for this reason travel to nearby European countries.<\/p>

Susanne and Hans B\u00fcnger-Biel Susanne and Hans desperately want a child. And they have wanted it for years. Because Susanne can't get pregnant naturally, they tried artificial insemination . After the seventh attempt, Susanne finally got pregnant. Again she lost the child. But they do not want to give up. To increase their chances, they travel to Belgium: Here, at Brussels University Hospital, couples who want to have children are allowed to have the genetic material of the fertilized cells examined for possible genetic damage by PGD, a method that is banned in Germany. Ines and Christoph have already had more than ten attempts at artificial insemination. They, too, simply don't want to give up; their desire to have a child together is too overpowering. Ines is now 45 years old. Their last attempt for the time being takes them to a fertility clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, where they want to try egg donation. This is prohibited in Germany. For Michaela and Ralf, egg donation is also the last chance to have a child. Although they are still young, they have been trying unsuccessfully for years to have a child. Michaela, who has already had eight miscarriages, suffers from a rare hereditary disease. To finally get closer to their wish, they travel to the Czech Republic. Will the three couples finally be able to fulfill their most ardent wish?<\/p>

Filmmaker Valentin Thurn follows the often hard paths of the three couples to their desired child with great sensitivity and consideration. He explains the latest state of research, sheds light on the different treatments of fertilization in the laboratory and asks about side effects. He interviews clinic operators in the Czech Republic or South Africa, for whom the rigid German law means a welcome increase in profits, because here the desperate couples are now being charged large sums of money. Valentin Thurn provides a well-founded look at the status quo of artificial insemination in Germany and does one thing above all: he gives an ear to the couples who want nothing more in the world than a child.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF<\/p>

First broadcast: 16.11.2004, 20:45, ARTE

Why is the population shrinking more in some European countries than in others? Why do France and Sweden succeed in convincing young families to have children? Among German politicians, an active population policy was frowned upon until recent times; people felt too much reminded of the Nazis' cult of motherhood. The consequences are unmistakable: In eastern Germany, entire high-rise neighborhoods are being demolished because there is a shortage of people. In the Ruhr region, the proportion of foreigners is rising because they have a higher birth rate. And aging threatens to unhinge the social systems - in thirty years at the latest, every working person will have a pensioner to support. To escape the demographic downward pull, municipalities and companies are working on solutions.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 26.04.2004, “Die Story”, WDR
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Es war der deutsche Tropenarzt und Epidemiologe Dr. Siegwart-Horst G\u00fcnther, der 1991 zum ersten Mal auf die h\u00f6chst gef\u00e4hrlichen Sp\u00e4tfolgen von sogenannten Uran-Geschossen hingewiesen hatte. W\u00e4hrend des Golfkrieges wurde diese Munition von der US-Armee tonnenweise verschossen.
Der Film begleitet G\u00fcnther und seine amerikanischen Kollegen bei ihren Untersuchungen im Kosovo, in Bosnien und im Irak. \u00dcberall dort hatten amerikanische Truppen die gef\u00e4hrliche Uran-Munition eingesetzt. Der Film zeigt bislang wenig bekannte Langzeitfolgen unter denen besonders die Kinder in den Kriegsgebieten zu leiden haben. Nach Ende des j\u00fcngsten Irak-Krieges entdeckten die Experten in der Umgebung von Basra kontaminierte Kriegsschaupl\u00e4tze, deren radioaktive Verseuchung die nat\u00fcrliche Erdstrahlung um das 20.000fache \u00fcbertrifft.<\/p>

As early as 1991, after the Gulf War, Prof. G\u00fcnther had noticed people in Baghdad University Hospital with symptoms of illness that he had never seen before in the 40 years of his work in this country. He also examined many malformed infants and children, most of whom did not survive long, and documented the cases. He diagnosed severe kidney and liver dysfunction, cancer, and genetic damage. After similar disease symptoms then appeared in American and British Gulf War veterans and their children, the connection was clear to G\u00fcnther and many other scientists. They are calling for a comprehensive ban on this ammunition, which is part of the standard armament of U.S. troops.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 14.03.2004, ARTE

Ben and Meret Becker were practically born to act. Mother and father are actors, and even their stepfather Otto Sander. But it's hard to develop your own profile in the shadow of overgrown parents. Valentin Thurn observed Ben and Meret during filming and concerts and shows how the siblings reached the goal of an independent artist personality on different paths. Now there is even a third generation at the start: Ben's daughter Lilith and Meret's daughter Lulu were there and moved on the set like the grown-ups, just as Ben and Meret had once accompanied their parents during filming.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF<\/p>

First broadcast: July 22, 2003, in the series \"37\u00b0\", ZDF
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Christian (14) wurde von seiner Mutter grob vernachl\u00e4ssigt. Sein schwuler Onkel entf\u00fchrte ihn in einer Nacht-und-Nebel-Aktion und rettete ihn so vor dem drohenden Kinderheim. Damals war er neun. Alles andere als begeistert, verbrachte er die ersten Wochen bei seinem neuen “Vater” und dessen Freund. Von seinen Klassenkameraden wurde er geh\u00e4nselt, weil im Dorf alle wussten, dass Christian nun bei den beiden “Schwulen” wohnte. In dem kleinen Ort in der Eifel gibt es kein Verstecken, und Christian musste Farbe bekennen. Das fiel ihm
zunehmend leichter, weil sich seine beiden neuen “Eltern” r\u00fchrend um ihn k\u00fcmmerten, sodass sogar das zust\u00e4ndige Jugendamt von so viel F\u00fcrsorge und elterlicher Kompetenz beeindruckt war. Heute haben sich alle im Dorf schon fast an das etwas andere Familienmodell gew\u00f6hnt,
und Christian ist froh, bei seinem Onkel zu sein. Trotzdem ist f\u00fcr ihn mit seinen 14 Jahren klar, dass er sich auf jeden Fall mehr f\u00fcr M\u00e4dchen interessiert als f\u00fcr Jungen.
Bei Patricia war es ganz anders, denn die Ehe ihrer Eltern schien gl\u00fccklich, als eines Tages, Patricia war damals zw\u00f6lf, ihr der Vater erz\u00e4hlte, dass er sich scheiden lassen wollte.<\/p>

Nach 18 Jahren Ehe musste er erkennen, dass er seine immer st\u00e4rker werdenden homosexuellen Neigungen nicht l\u00e4nger abtun konnte. Er hatte sich in einen Mann verliebt. Patricia war fassungslos. Dass sich ihr Vater aus einem solchen Grund von ihrer Mutter trennen wollte, war f\u00fcr Patricia nur schwer zu verkraften. Ihr glanzvolles Vaterbild brach von einem Tag auf den anderen zusammen. Fast ein Jahr lang verschwieg Patricia die “Schande”, die ihr Vater \u00fcber sie gebracht hatte. Ihre Schwester Carina sprach von Papas neuem Lebensgef\u00e4hrten Bernd sie bei ihren Freunden nur als “Bernadette”, um nach au\u00dfen den Schein zu wahren. \u00dcber ein Jahr verging, bis sie eines Tages vor Wut platzte, als Schulfreunde \u00fcber Schwule herzogen.<\/p>

Out of her need to explain why she was so involved, she took flight and talked about her father and his friend. Almost all of her friends stood by her. Patricia also gradually changed her attitude toward her father. The sisters moved in with their father and now live with him and his partner in Cologne.
Valentin Thurn tells how young people cope when fathers are suddenly very different from what they have assumed all along and from the usual role model. How does the relationship between father and child change - how does one change oneself?<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 10.07.2003, in der Reihe “Weltweit”, WDR
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Im Mittelpunkt steht der Cowboy Gerardo und sein Arbeitgeber Cesar Chico. Er besitzt eine Herde Kampfstiere, die den Winter auf ihrer Farm in Andalusien verbringen, im Sommer aber, wenn in S\u00fcdspanien die Hitze alles verdorrt, in die zentralspanischen Berge ziehen. Um sie zu f\u00fchren heuert er jedes Jahr einen Trupp Cowboys an. Sie werden von Gerardo angef\u00fchrt. Wir folgen der Stierherde auf der Wanderung 600 Kilometer quer durch Spanien folgen und erleben dabei den Zusammenprall des alten und des neuen Spanien: Gerardo und seine Cowboys treffen zum Beispiel auf Autobahnen, die die traditionellen Viehwanderwege durchschneiden und die sie m\u00fchsam umgehen m\u00fcssen.<\/p>

The Spaniards, however, are enthusiastic about the revival of the old tradition. They greet the cowboys like heroes when they roam their villages, because Spain's historical identity is closely tied to its large herds of cattle: The origin of cowboy culture is in Spain and was first brought to the Americas by Columbus and his successors. Bullfighting also originated in the cattle pasture, as a pastime for the cowboys. The Toros Bravos, as the Spanish call their fighting bulls, are bred to be as aggressive as possible. At the age of four, the bravest bulls are sold to the bullfighting arenas, for up to 5000 marks. The cattle breed still has the wandering instinct in its genes. Cowboy Gerardo doesn't have to show them where the trail leads. Already kilometers before the next watering hole, their pace quickens, the cattle know exactly where the water is.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
On behalf of WDR
First broadcast: 31.01.2003, SWR \/ WDR \/ BR alpha

For more than 160 million years, the dinosaurs dominated life on earth. Then they disappeared from our planet in a period of a few hundred thousand years, and with them more than half of the animals living at that time. Why did they die out? And why so many species at once? Many scientists suspect that a huge meteorite impact triggered the mass extinction. Others believe rather in a series of devastating volcanic eruptions.
The end of the dinosaurs came suddenly, one believes the most well-known theory. 65 million years ago, a meteorite from outer space collided with Earth. When the ten-kilometer chunk hit the Earth's surface, its impact force was 10,000 times as powerful as the explosion of all nuclear weapons in existence today. It hurled soot and dust into the atmosphere. As a result, the sky darkened, the climate cooled, and the cold-blooded dinosaurs froze to death or their eggs could no longer develop in the cool climate.<\/p>

Remains of the killer meteorite were found on the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula - but nothing can be seen of the 200-kilometer-wide crater today because it has been covered by younger layers of rock. That this meteorite changed the world climate seems to be proved by the metal iridium, very rare on earth but often contained in meteorites. Iridium was found in rock layers around the globe, exactly at the border between Cretaceous and Tertiary.
The rare metal could come however also from another source, because Iridium is ejected also by volcanoes. And from it the second theory proceeds to the extinction of the dinosaurs, which finds increasingly supporters in the science: Long-lasting volcanic eruptions spewed massive amounts of sulfur, carbon dioxide and dust into the atmosphere, causing global dimming and cooling. Location of the mega volcano: Central India. There one finds today the gigantic highland of Dekkan, whose volcanic rocks are exactly 65 million years old.
For the volcano thesis speaks that other known impacts of meteorites as for example in the N\u00f6rdlinger Ries (Bavaria) no world-wide mass extinction released, but only short term and regionally limited devastations. Volcanoes, on the other hand, may have been a steady source of dust and gas for several 100,000 years. Finally, the dinosaurs did not die out suddenly, as would be expected from a meteorite impact, but over a long period of more than 500,000 years, about as long as the volcanoes in India were active. There are other examples of apocalyptic volcanic eruptions in Earth's history, for example at the end of the Permian, when the huge volcanic plateau in northern Siberia was formed. At that time, the trilobites, a crustacean family that previously virtually dominated the world's oceans, became extinct.
The reason that the killer meteor is so popular is probably because it is spectacular: In the course of the dino fashion, the catastrophe theory could be marketed simply better, for example in the dinosaur film of Walt Disney. That's where man's lust for the apocalypse wins out.<\/p>

Why the climatic catastrophe at the end of the Cretaceous period survived other animal groups such as the mammals, but not a single dinosaur, the researchers ultimately do not yet know. Previously, they assumed that the dinosaurs froze to death because they were cold-blooded, meaning that their body temperature depended on the temperature of their environment. Accordingly, the mammals would have survived because they were warm-blooded. But today we know that this assumption is more than questionable. After all, other warm-blooded lizards also survived the Cretaceous period. And at today's cold pole of the earth in Siberia, the only vertebrate species living there is a salamander - truly not a warm-blooded animal. There is also evidence that some dinosaur species may have been warm-blooded.<\/p>

Das f\u00fchrt zu der Frage: Was w\u00e4re eigentlich passiert wenn die Dinosaurier vor 65 Millionen Jahren nicht ausgestorben w\u00e4ren? Der Pal\u00e4ontologe Dr. Michael Maisch von der Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen vermutet, dass es in diesem Fall heute wohl keine Menschen geben w\u00fcrde. Denn: “Die Dinosaurier hatten \u00fcber 100 Millionen Jahre die Nase vorn und lie\u00dfen die S\u00e4uger nicht hochkommen.” Das Fazit des Wissenschaftlers: W\u00e4ren sie nicht ausgestorben, dann w\u00fcrden heute vielleicht intelligente Dinos die Welt beherrschen, und nicht die Menschen.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 07.11.2002, ARTE

\"Lucky housewife clears millions\" - \"Elementary school teacher stumbles over fourth-grade question. An embarrassment for the whole school\" This is the stuff of the new tabloid headlines. Heroes and goofs are determined by the media in a fraction of a second these days: Bright spot or black out! - Winner or loser!<\/p>

Einmal Kandidat sein in einer Quizshow im Fernsehen: Diesen Traum verwirklichten sich Sybille, 28, und Jean-Pierre, 72. Sybille Longlez, 28 Jahre, alleinstehend, schaut gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter die Quizshows im Fernsehen, und beide raten mit.
Jean-Pierre ist ein “mordu”, wie die Franzosen sagen w\u00fcrden, ein “Gebissener”, der fast jeden Abend bei einem anderen Quiz-Club verbringt, wo die Fernsehshows nachgespielt werden – mit eigenen Fragen. Und warum? “Nachdem man mich zum vorzeitigen Ruhestand gedr\u00e4ngt hat, wollte ich den jungen Spunden mal zeigen, dass ich nicht zum alten Eisen geh\u00f6re”, meint Jean-Pierre.
Bei Sybille war es die Mutter, mit der sie t\u00e4glich die Quizsendung “Questions Pour Un Champion” sieht, die sie zur Bewerbung dr\u00e4ngte. Jean-Pierre hat sich schon sieben Mal vergeblich beworben. Beide schaffen den strengen Test und setzen sich gegen \u00fcber 100 Kandidaten aus ganz Belgien durch. Doch im Studio in Paris sind die Bedingungen h\u00e4rter: Jean-Pierre hat in der Nacht zuvor im Hotel so gut wie nicht geschlafen. Und Sybille ist mit den Nerven am Ende. Zum Gl\u00fcck haben beide eine Unterst\u00fctzung im Publikum sitzen.<\/p>

The reportage will accompany the candidates, ask about motivations, record the preparations that are made in the family, in the circle of friends. We will be there when it goes into the studio, when the candidates are briefed once again, when the personal tension grows from hour to hour, until the moment when it is said \"We are on the air!\" - not entirely unobserved, of course...<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 17.06.2002, WDR
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The clocks found with the 150 charred bodies all show the same time: 9 a.m. 11 p.m. The fire must have spread so lightning-fast in the narrow tunnel that the passengers of the Kaprun Glacier Railway suffocated and burned to death in one fell swoop - including those who ran up to 142 meters on the emergency stairs.<\/p>

How did the flash fire happen, in which only twelve passengers survived because they smashed through the windows with their ski poles? WDR author Valentin Thurn spoke with survivors who report two explosions. He visited the ill-fated train and found a round steel tank that the force of an explosion shattered. It contained hydraulic oil for the emergency brake. The Gletscherbahn itself did not expect a fire at all, as its technical director explained. Therefore, there were neither emergency hammers nor fire extinguishers in the passenger compartments, and neither emergency lighting nor ventilation in the tunnel. The Gletscherbahn blames the manufacturer of the cable car, who installed a faulty fan heater and a body made of plastic. The manufacturer in turn blames the T\u00dcV, which did not check the fire protection. The latter, in turn, blames the Ministry of Transport, which forgot to issue the appropriate regulations. A system of sloppiness. In which good money is made: This winter was a record winter, more skiers than ever before vacationed in Austria. In Kaprun, too, the accident seems to have been forgotten, the hotels are fully booked, and skiers are now being transported to the glacier by the gondola lift that was hastily built after the accident.<\/p>

At the trial of 16 people responsible in Salzburg, the relatives of the dead can expect only a few thousand euros in compensation for pain and suffering under Austrian law. New York star lawyer Ed Fagan convinced most of them to sue in America for this reason. The looming billion-dollar U.S. lawsuit could become a precedent for other major accidents in Europe.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
On behalf of ARD<\/p>

First broadcast: 20.06.2001, ARD

When Barbara realizes in her mid-20s that she loves women, she says goodbye for the time being to a lifelong dream - the desire to have a child. Only gradually the thought matures: it also works without a man. Together with her partner Irmgard, she goes to a Dutch clinic and buys donor sperm. The adventure of lesbian motherhood can begin.<\/p>

Ursula Ott and Valentin Thurn accompanied the two future mothers for nine months. They went with them to the sperm bank to buy sperm - forbidden in Germany for unmarried women, but common practice in Holland. They were there when the two women transferred the individual sperm samples into special nitrogen-cooled containers in their living room for storage purposes, and were shown how to carry out artificial insemination at home. They accompanied the lesbian couple to the gynecologist and to the ultrasound, to the scene disco and to the lesbian volleyball tournament, to the lawyer and to the priest, and finally to the postpartum. Little Lili will not be able to meet her father until she is 16. To do so, she must contact the sperm bank - but the mothers only know about the Dutch sperm donor that he has white skin, dark hair and neither AIDS nor hepatitis.<\/p>

Despite new laws, the two women and their baby still encounter considerable reservations in Germany: It is true that Irmgard can commit herself by contract to pay child support for the rest of her life. But she hardly gets any rights in return: neither can she adopt the child as a \"stepmother,\" nor can she be sure that she will still be allowed to visit the child in the event of separation.
For a long time now, this has no longer been the marginal problem of a social fringe group. Today, around 1.5 million children in Germany are growing up with homosexual parents, estimates Lela L\u00e4hnemann, the Berlin Senate representative for same-sex lifestyles. Most come from the heterosexual \"previous life\" of the now lesbian mothers, but more and more are created through insemination. The Munich family researcher Professor Wassilios Fthenakis even considers this number to be understated, because in the USA 10 million children already live with homosexual parents. And they don't live any worse than in \"traditional\" families, according to Fthenakis, who also advises the German government: \"We haven't found any differences in child development.\" Neither would these children later develop behavioral disorders - nor would the likelihood increase that they themselves would become gay or lesbian.<\/p>

Neighbors and teachers have already gotten used to the colorful new families in many places. For example, in Monschau in the Eifel, where two gay men are lovingly raising their foster son Christian on a former farm, among geese, rabbits and ducks. They are supported by neighbors in the village - and by the youth welfare office. \"The two of them have a sustainable relationship and offer the child a stable home, which he hasn't had for a long time,\" praises the family nurse from the Youth Welfare Office. She can even imagine placing a second foster child with the gay couple.
Or that extended family of two gay fathers and two lesbian mothers raising two daughters together. Most of the time, the children live with their moms; they often spend weekends and vacations with their dads - and find it wonderful. Mia (9): \"I have two moms and two dads at home, the other kids only ever have one.\"<\/p>

In good times, these new \"rainbow families\" are an exciting social experiment. In bad times, however, human dramas play out. Because homosexual love can also break up, and the non-birth parent is then completely without rights. Like the social worker Sigrid, who took care of her friend's jointly planned baby for four years and, after the breakup, has no chance of ever seeing little Janek again. \"I love you to the moon and back,\" she greets him over children's television on his birthday. But the courts have ruled: no kinship relationship, no rights.
The laws lag hopelessly behind social reality. Just a few years ago, homosexuals could not imagine having children at all - \"today they sit in the pub and get big ears when it comes to having children,\" says Ingo Wolf, a gay father in Berlin. There's even an agency there that matches lesbian women with gay men who want to have children.Queer&Kids owner Susan Darrant has already advised 750 interested parties. She uses a questionnaire to find out who suits whom: \"Homo, bi or hetero? Joint or separate custody? Living together or not?\" The first babies created in this way will be born this spring.<\/p>

Politicians and church representatives are still relatively helpless in the face of these new families. Is homosexual parenthood \"unnatural\", as Norbert Geis (CSU) thinks ? Do children with two gay fathers lack the \"maternal breast\", as Hanna-Renate Laurien of the Central Committee of German Catholics fears ? Or must children from homosexual relationships at least have the same rights as children of single parents, as Volker Beck (Greens) demands ? In any case, the law on \"homosexual marriage\", which Beck initiated, does not regulate the question of children at all. That two homosexuals go to the registry office was just about doable with the SPD, but that they now also want children went too far.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 20.10.2010, 23:30 Uhr, ARD
Wiederholung: 06.08.2015, Phoenix
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Unterst\u00fctzt von MEDIA (EU-Kommission), Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED), KOCCA (koreanische Filmf\u00f6rderung).
Redaktion: Angelika Wagner (WDR), Andrea Ernst (WDR), Dirk Neuhoff (NDR) und Babeth Vanloo (BOS)
Die internationale Fassung (55 Minuten) lief in den Niederlanden (BOS), Schweden (SVT), Irland (TG4), Spanien (TV3), Litauen (LVT), Finnland (YLE), Schweiz (TSR), Norwegen (NRK), Zypern (CYBC), Griechenland (ERT), S\u00fcd-Korea (CREO) und in weiteren L\u00e4ndern (Liste wird aktualisiert).
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Die Kurzfassung (29 Minuten) lief im WDR-Fernsehen unter dem Titel “Essen im Eimer” am 25.10.2010 und im NDR-Fernsehen am 26.10.2010
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Mehr als die H\u00e4lfte unserer Lebensmittel landet im M\u00fcll! Das meiste schon auf dem Weg vom Acker in den Laden, bevor es \u00fcberhaupt unseren Esstisch erreicht: jeder zweite Kopfsalat, jede zweite Kartoffel und jedes f\u00fcnfte Brot. Das entspricht etwa 500.000 Lkw-Ladungen pro Jahr. Regisseur Valentin Thurn hat das Ausma\u00df dieser Verschwendung international recherchiert \u2013 in den Abfall-Containern der Gro\u00dfm\u00e4rkte, Lagerhallen und Superm\u00e4rkte. Dokumentiert hat er \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigende Mengen einwandfreier Nahrungsmittel, teilweise noch original verpackt, oft auch mit noch g\u00fcltigem Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum. Bis zu 20 Millionen Tonnen Lebensmittel werden jedes Jahr allein in Deutschland weggeworfen. Und es werden immer mehr!
Auf der Suche nach den Ursachen spricht Valentin Thurn mit Supermarktmanagern, B\u00e4ckern, Gro\u00dfmarkt-Inspektoren, Ministern, Bauern und EU-Politikern.
Was er findet, ist ein weltweites System, an dem sich alle beteiligen. Alles soll jederzeit verf\u00fcgbar sein, Superm\u00e4rkte bieten durchgehend die ganze Warenpalette an, bis sp\u00e4t in den Abend muss das Brot in den Regalen frisch sein, zu jeder Jahreszeit gibt es Erdbeeren. Und alles muss perfekt aussehen: Ein welkes Salatblatt, ein Riss in der Kartoffel, eine Delle im Apfel \u2013 sofort wird die Ware aussortiert. Joghurtbecher landen schon zwei Tage, bevor ihr Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum abl\u00e4uft, im M\u00fcll.
Dass die H\u00e4lfte der bereits produzierten Lebensmittel zu Abfall wird, wirkt sich verheerend auf das Weltklima aus. Die Landwirtschaft verschlingt riesige Mengen an Energie, Wasser, D\u00fcnger, Pestiziden und rodet den Regenwald, sie ist damit f\u00fcr mehr als ein Drittel der Treibhausgase verantwortlich. Wenn Nahrungsmittel auf der M\u00fcllkippe verrotten, entweicht zus\u00e4tzlich Methangas, das sich auf die Erderw\u00e4rmung 25mal so stark auswirkt wie Kohlendioxid.
Der Wunsch der Konsumenten, \u00fcber alles jederzeit verf\u00fcgen zu k\u00f6nnen, versch\u00e4rft auch den weltweiten Hunger. Die steigenden Weizenpreise belegen es: Heute kaufen die Industriel\u00e4nder ihre Lebensmittel auf dem Weltmarkt, ebenso wie die Entwicklungsl\u00e4nder. W\u00fcrden wir weniger wegwerfen, m\u00fcssten wir weniger einkaufen; die Preise fielen und es bliebe mehr f\u00fcr die Hungrigen.
Aber es geht auch anders: Valentin Thurn findet weltweit Menschen, die die irrsinnige Verschwendung zu stoppen versuchen: so genannte M\u00fclltaucher, die Nahrungsmittel aus den Abfall-Containern der Superm\u00e4rkte retten, Supermarkt-Direktoren, die ihre Kunden davon \u00fcberzeugen, weniger klimasch\u00e4dliche Produkte zu kaufen, Verbrauchervereine, die Bauern und Kunden direkt zusammenbringen. Kleine Schritte, die aber viel bewirken k\u00f6nnten: Wenn wir in den Industriel\u00e4ndern die Lebensmittelverschwendung nur um die H\u00e4lfte reduzieren, h\u00e4tte das auf das Weltklima denselben Effekt, als ob wir auf jedes zweite Auto verzichten.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Ein Film von Britta Dombrowe
On behalf of ZDF
Erstausstrahlung: 08.10.2010, 22:40 Uhr, ARTE
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Statistisch gesehen gibt es sie gar nicht, die Intersexuellen. In die Geburtsurkunde muss innerhalb der ersten Woche nach der Geburt eingetragen werden: Junge oder M\u00e4dchen – sonst wird sie gar nicht ausgestellt. Und ohne die Geburtsurkunde gibt es keinen Pass, kein Kindergeld, keine Einschulung. Bei einem uneindeutigen Genital raten viele Mediziner zu einer geschlechtsangleichenden Operation. Das Problem dabei: Niemand kann voraussagen, als was sich das Kind sp\u00e4ter f\u00fchlen wird: Als Mann oder als Frau?
W\u00e4hrend der Schwangerschaft waren sich Andrea und ihr Mann Nico einig: “Ob es ein Junge oder ein M\u00e4dchen wird, war uns egal. Da\u00df es beides zugleich sein k\u00f6nnte, auf den Gedanken sind wir nie gekommen!” Drei Monate zu fr\u00fch kommt ihr Baby auf die Welt. “Bei der Entbindung sagte mir die Hebamme, es ist ein kleiner Junge!” erinnert sich Andrea, “als dann mein Mann ins Krankenhaus kam, sagte der Arzt zu ihm, es sei ein kleines M\u00e4dchen!” Ihr Kind hat eine Scheide, eine Geb\u00e4rmutter, im Bauchraum liegende Hoden und einen kleinen Penis. Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die Geschlechtschromosomen ein XY aufweisen, also m\u00e4nnlich sind.
Doch das biologische Geschlecht eines Menschen ist auf verschiedenen Ebenen ablesbar: \u00dcber die Chromosomen, die Hormone und die Geschlechtsorgane. Bei einer normalen Entwicklung stimmen diese Faktoren \u00fcberein, bei Intersexualit\u00e4t stehen sie im Widerspruch. Es gibt \u00fcber 25 unterschiedliche Diagnosen und jedes 5000. bis 3000. Neugeborene ist betroffen.<\/p>

Only in the last few years science has started to research the causes and effects of intersexuality at full speed: The new technical term is now DSD - Disorder of Sexual Development. It is high time, because since the 1950s medicine has been following the theses of the American psychologist John Money, who considered upbringing alone to be the decisive factor. So that the surrounding field can make however a clear sex-specific education, the child needs a clear body: Infants come on the operating table.
With the help of the surgery can be taken away, which is too much or be added missing. Hormone therapy does the rest. But often in the parforceride to the sexual unambiguity the signs are not read correctly or not recognized at all. Who wants to decide on the sex of infants if it is not foreseeable how they will later feel and develop as adolescents? How they want to live?
Even findings from brain research are not yet taken into account. But especially in the case of an intersexual genital, the brain provides important clues, according to brain researcher Dirk Swaab: \"You have to wait until the brain starts to work in a sexually differentiated way. Only from the behavior of a person can we deduce whether he has a male or female brain.\"
The intersexual Christiane V\u00f6lling (50) has suffered for decades from the discrepancy between body and feelings. At birth, the girl was assigned to the male sex due to an enlarged clitoris. Hormone treatment with testosterone followed. The subsequent removal of her uterus and ovaries were sold to her as tumor removal. Only thirty years after the operation does she learn from the files that she was deprived of her femininity at that time. In 2008, she sues her former surgeon - the court case attracts attention.<\/p>

Die Eltern von Inge haben das Gl\u00fcck, dass sie von den \u00c4rzten nicht dazu gedr\u00e4ngt wurden, eine \u201egeschlechtsangleichende\u201c Operation vornehmen zu lassen. Sie wollen die Entscheidung m\u00f6glichst lange hinausz\u00f6gern:
“Wir ziehen unsere kleine Inge als M\u00e4dchen auf, aber es kann gut sein, dass sie in der Pubert\u00e4t, wenn ihre m\u00e4nnlichen Keimdr\u00fcsen zu arbeiten anfangen, eher zum jungen Mann wird. Wir versuchen sie so normal wie m\u00f6glich zu erziehen. Bei rosa Kleidchen bin ich doch zur\u00fcckhaltend. Ich denke immer, vielleicht will sie sp\u00e4ter als Mann leben und dann sind ihr Bilder in einer solchen Aufmachung bestimmt peinlich.”
Die Dokumentation der Filmemacherin Britta Julia Dombrowe n\u00e4hert sich dem Leben der Betroffenen in intensiven Interviews und zeigt gleichzeitig den aktuellen Stand der Forschung: Ein franz\u00f6sischer Chirurg, der Kinder zur Eindeutigkeit operiert, erkl\u00e4rt seine Motivation die Kinder vor einer grausamen Gesellschaft zu \u201ebewahren\u201c. Inges Lehrerin erz\u00e4hlt uns, wie die Kinder damit umgehen, dass Inge Junge und M\u00e4dchen ist. Neue Erkenntnisse aus der Hirnforschung machen deutlich: Geschlecht entsteht im Gehirn und nicht zwischen den Beinen.
\u00dcber die Lebenswege von Intersexuellen, aber auch \u00fcber den Umgang mit ihnen in Wissenschaft und Medizin wissen wir wenig. Dass es weit mehr als Mann und Frau gibt, darum geht es in diesem Film.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
As part of the Arte theme evening \"Crime Scene Hospital\".<\/p>

First broadcast: 20.04.2010, 21:15, ARTE
Link to ARD report<\/p>

Viele Kinofans feierten G\u00e9rard Depardieus Sohn Guillaume als gr\u00f6\u00dfte Nachwuchshoffnung des franz\u00f6sischen Films. Doch es kam anders. 1995 musste der 24-J\u00e4hrige nach einem Motorradunfall am Knie operiert werden. W\u00e4hrend des Eingriffs drang der Krankenhauskeim MRSA in die Wunde. Eine endg\u00fcltige Heilung gab es nicht, weder durch 17 Operationen noch mittels Antibiotika. 2003 schlie\u00dflich traf Guillaume Depardieu eine harte Entscheidung. Um seinen unertr\u00e4glichen Schmerzen ein Ende zu bereiten, lie\u00df er sein rechtes Bein amputieren.
Im Kampf gegen die Killerkeime gr\u00fcndete der Schauspieler die “Stiftung Guillaume Depardieu” und machte in Talkshows auf unhaltbare Zust\u00e4nde in franz\u00f6sischen Krankenh\u00e4usern aufmerksam. Er drohte dem Gesundheitsminister mit einem “Kreuzzug”, wenn die Regierung nicht gegen die Zust\u00e4nde in den Krankenh\u00e4usern vorgehe. Bald musste er feststellen, dass ihn die Masse der Anfragen \u00fcberforderte. Sein Lebenswerk \u00fcbergab er dem Patientenschutzverband “Lien” und konzentrierte sich auf seine Karriere. W\u00e4hrend er sich zu Dreharbeiten in Rum\u00e4nien aufhielt, erkrankte er an einer Lungenentz\u00fcndung. Pl\u00f6tzlich ging alles ganz schnell. Am 13. Oktober 2008 starb Guillaume Depardieu im Alter von 37 Jahren.
Was ist sein Verm\u00e4chtnis? Seine zornigen Auftritte im Fernsehen sch\u00e4rften das \u00f6ffentliche Bewusstsein f\u00fcr die Gefahr der gegen Antibiotika resistenten Keime in Frankreich und sorgten f\u00fcr politischen Druck. Das Gesundheitsministerium, das zuvor nur ungern Zahlen zum Problem ver\u00f6ffentlichte, \u00e4nderte 2003 seinen Kurs. Seither werden die Erkrankungen landesweit erfasst und publiziert. Und Patienten k\u00f6nnen nachlesen, wie aktiv ihr Krankenhaus im Kampf gegen die Killerkeime mitwirkt.<\/p>

Today, the reform is having an impact: France is the only European country to have reduced the number of infected patients over the past five years, while elsewhere the killer germs continue to spread in hospitals.<\/p>

In his documentary, filmmaker Valentin Thurn lets Guillaume Depardieu's ex-wife Elise have her say. In addition, friends and colleagues express their views. The actor himself is present in numerous archive shots from documentaries and feature films.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 13.09.2009, 16:25, WDR
Link to the Whistleblower Network

\"My loyalty to the constitution takes precedence over my loyalty to my boss,\" Rudolf Schmenger decides on August 30, 2001.
Until then, he is an efficient tax investigator, repeatedly commended by his employer, the Frankfurt tax office. On his behalf, he also searches a major bank and tracks down tax evaders who are smuggling millions into accounts abroad. Without giving any reasons, his employer forbids him to pursue these \"cases\" further. A presumably politically motivated instruction from the Hessian Ministry of Finance, because the investigations in the banks have a negative impact on the state as a business location.
\"It can't be that we hang the small tax evaders and let the big ones go,\" says Rudolf Schmenger. But in the end, the Ministry of Finance orders the dissolution of his department.
Rudolf Schmenger resists - until the office management finally finds a way to get rid of him via a commissioned expert opinion: A psychiatrist certifies Rudolf Schmenger a \"querulatory development\" and writes him \"life-long unfit for service\".
Against his will, he is sent into early retirement in his early 40s. In the meantime, the Hessian Medical Association accuses the psychiatrist of having prepared a favorable opinion in the interest of the state government. Rudolf Schmenger fights for his reputation and continues to rally civil servants around him who, like him, want to follow their conscience.
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A film by Valentin Thurn<\/p>

First broadcast: 01.07.2009, 23:30, ARD<\/p>

Link to the website of Harry W\u00f6rz
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Es ist der Alptraum schlechthin, der Tag, mit dem sich alles im Leben \u00e4ndert: Der Tag, an dem ‘Im Namen des Volkes’ ein Richter Schuld ausspricht. Der Verurteilte wei\u00df er war es nicht – Doch keiner glaubt ihm. Auch das deutsche Strafrechtssystem ist trotz aller Regeln, aller Instanzen vor Irrt\u00fcmern nicht gefeit. Und, noch schlimmer: Wer einmal in die M\u00fchlen der Justiz ger\u00e4t, hat kaum Chancen, wieder herauszukommen.
Einer dieser seltenen F\u00e4lle ist Harry W\u00f6rz (41) aus Birkenfeld bei Pforzheim. Er soll seine Ex-Frau 1997 mit einem Schal gew\u00fcrgt haben. Das Opfer ist wegen Gehirnsch\u00e4digung seither ein Pflegefall und kann nicht mehr aussagen. Sie war Polizistin. Ebenfalls unter Verdacht waren ihr Geliebter und ihr Vater, beide ebenfalls Polizisten. Doch f\u00fcr die Polizei steht schnell fest, dass Harry W\u00f6rz der Schuldige ist. Er ist kein Polizist. Das Gericht folgte der Ansicht der Ermittler und verurteilt Harry W\u00f6rz in einem Indizienprozess zu elf Jahren Haft. In einem sp\u00e4teren Zivilprozess allerdings, es ging um Schadensersatz, urteilten die Richter, dass er nicht der T\u00e4ter sein k\u00f6nne. Sie kritisierten, im Strafprozess sei ‘in manchen Punkten nicht objektiv ermittelt worden.’ W\u00f6rz bem\u00fchte sich daraufhin um eine Wiederaufnahme, was ihm drei Jahre sp\u00e4ter tats\u00e4chlich gelang. Mit Erfolg: Freispruch vom Landgericht Mannheim. Doch ein Jahr sp\u00e4ter, im Oktober 2006, hob der Bundesgerichtshof den Freispruch wieder auf. Der Folge-Prozess hat vor wenigen Wochen begonnen und soll noch das ganze Jahr 2009 laufen.
90 Prozent aller Justizirrt\u00fcmer gehen auf eine falsche Identifizierung zur\u00fcck. Denn zunehmend verlassen sich die Richter auf Gutachter. Doch die stehen seit einiger Zeit heftig in der Kritik. Ein ganz gravierender Fehler eines solchen Gutachters hat Donald Stellwag (50) wegen angeblichen Bankraubs unschuldig hinter Gitter gebracht. Der Gutachter hatte ihn auf einem von der \u00dcberwachungskamera am Tatort gemachten Foto ‘zweifelsfrei’ identifiziert. Donald Stellwag bem\u00fchte sich um eine Wiederaufnahme – vergebens. Er sa\u00df die vollen neun Jahre ab, eine vorzeitige Entlassung wurde ihm verweigert, weil er nicht gest\u00e4ndig war. Keine zwei Wochen, nachdem er aus dem Gef\u00e4ngnis entlassen wurde, schnappte die Polizei den echten T\u00e4ter bei einem neuen Bank\u00fcberfall.<\/p>

Ungew\u00f6hnlich: 2007 wurde der Gutachter vom Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt\/Main zu einer Schmerzensgeldzahlung in H\u00f6he von 150.000 Euro verurteilt – der erste Fall, in dem ein Sachverst\u00e4ndiger f\u00fcr ein fehlerhaftes Gerichtsgutachten jemals haftbar gemacht wurde. Der vom Gericht beauftragte Gegen-Gutachter Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm R\u00f6sing kritisiert, dass es zahlreiche Fehlurteile aufgrund der schlechten Qualit\u00e4t der \u00dcberwachungskameras und der unzureichenden Kenntnis vieler Gutachter gibt.
R\u00f6sing ist nun wieder Gegen-Gutachter in einem aktuellen Fall: In der Justizvollzugsanstalt Heimsheim bei Stuttgart sitzt seit fast neun Jahren Andreas K\u00fchn. Er soll der sogenannte ‘Gorillamasken-R\u00e4uber’ sein, der in den 90er Jahren in Stuttgart vier Banken \u00fcberfiel. K\u00fchn beteuert seine Unschuld. Das Gericht st\u00fctzte seine Verurteilung auf mehrere Indizien. Ausschlaggebend war ein Foto aus einer \u00dcberwachungskamera. Der Sachverst\u00e4ndige im Prozess – ein pensionierter Polizist – sagte damals, er k\u00f6nne K\u00fchn als T\u00e4ter nicht ausschlie\u00dfen. Professor Wilhelm R\u00f6sing ist aber davon \u00fcberzeugt: K\u00fchn kann nicht der Bankr\u00e4uber sein. 25 Merkmale hat der Experte f\u00fcr Gesichtserkennung auf den Bildern gefunden, die nicht mit dem Verurteilten \u00fcbereinstimmen – bereits bei 3 Merkmalen k\u00f6nne man sagen, dass das Bild nicht die fragliche Person zeige. Gest\u00fctzt auf dieses Gutachten betreibt K\u00fchn die Wiederaufnahme seines Falls. Ein m\u00fchsames, qu\u00e4lendes Verfahren voller Ungewissheiten und mit offenem Ausgang.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Kadriye Acar and Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by NDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 10.05.2009, 17:30, ARD
Link to ARD Theme Week

\"If I had met Inge earlier, I would have become a more self-confident person. Many things would have been easier. I trust her more than other people because her help is voluntary and therefore comes from the heart,\" says 27-year-old \u00d6znur Demir. She had been looking for help to complete her secondary school diploma - and found 69-year-old retiree Inge Alexy, at the \"Senioren-Lotsen\" project. The volunteer mentor helps the young Turkish woman learn German and find an apprenticeship.
There are currently thirty such senior pilots in L\u00fcbeck, and more are joining them at every meeting. Not only the young foreigners benefit, but also the seniors who want to do something useful in their retirement. A model project that so far only exists in L\u00fcbeck.<\/p>

The volunteer \"pilots\" cannot replace the professionals at the counseling centers. But they can also provide moral support to young people when they find themselves in a desperate situation, like the 17-year-old Kurd Faysal Idris, who fled to Germany when he was 14. \"Without Mr. Pawlowski,\" he said, \"I wouldn't even have a roof over my head. I can't express it in words, but it's the most important person for me in L\u00fcbeck.\" Former teacher J\u00fcrgen Pawlowski came to L\u00fcbeck himself as a refugee after World War 2. He knows the feeling of being a stranger in a country. That's why he wants to help Faysal feel at home in L\u00fcbeck.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette<\/p>

First broadcast: 19.12.2008, 22:35, ARTE<\/p>

2009 ARGUS Foundation Journalism Award for Antibiotic Preservation and Development
36th International Festival of Sustainable Development Films, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2009
International Science Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 2009

The global spread of new super-bacteria in hospitals is causing concern among doctors. The most widespread and dangerous of the hospital germs is called MRSA (multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). In Germany alone, 15,000 patients become infected every year, in France almost twice as many. MRSA is resistant to common antibiotics. And the germ is becoming more and more aggressive: the number of drugs that can still be used is decreasing from year to year. MRSA can lead to severe wound infections, pneumonia, sepsis and not infrequently death. Across Europe, around 50,000 people die every year from the killer germ.
Super germs like MRSA have been around for over 40 years, but in countries like Germany or France the problem was underestimated for a long time. As a result, the germ spread to such an extent that hospitals can hardly control it today. Even the strictest hygiene precautions cannot reduce the risk of infection during surgery to zero.
Since the discovery of penicillin, doctors have relied on antibiotics to effectively fight bacterial infections. But as soon as a new drug was invented, there were resistant strains of bacteria just a few years later. They have spread mainly in countries where antibiotics are used particularly liberally. In contrast, where they are more targeted and sparingly given, there are also fewer super germs.
The filmmakers Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette pursue the question: What is being done in European hospitals to combat the spread of hospital germs? How have the Dutch managed to reduce the number of MRSA cases to almost zero? How do new germs spread against which no antibiotic can help anymore? What hope is there through research into vaccines? And: How do patients cope who were infected with a super germ in the hospital and will probably never get rid of it again?<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Britta Dombrowe and Valentin Thurn
A co-production with SCHNITTSTELLE K\u00d6LN
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 18.05.2008, WDR

\"The bread here is 1 A!\", says Hanna and she is absolutely right. It looks appetizing and is neatly wrapped in plastic foil. Nothing seems to distinguish it from the others on the supermarket shelf, except that the 21-year-old has just fished it out of the trash. Hanna has not been buying her food in supermarkets for a long time now, but gets it from the dumpsters behind them.
\"Containerizing\" is what it's called in the scene of self-proclaimed leftover recyclers who refuse to follow the consumer cycle of the throwaway society. Not out of necessity, but out of conviction.
There are no concrete figures on how much food is thrown away in Germany. At the Cologne wholesale market alone, up to ten tons accumulate on a normal market day. The reasons for this vary: sometimes the imprint on the label has slipped, sometimes the refrigeration during transport was not up to standard. Often, however, it is simply cheaper for wholesalers and retailers to throw away food and buy new than to rent storage space. \"Then the whole stuff wanders into the garbage box by box,\" knows remnant recycler Jens from Cologne, who has meanwhile said goodbye to his former bourgeois life completely via \"containerizing\": \"I don't have to bend for anyone, but this freedom can be quite hard.\"
We accompany remnant recyclers on their forays into \"free land\". What freedoms does their self-chosen life bring them and where do they encounter health, social and political limits?<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 07.05.2008, 22:30 clock, Menschen hautnah, WDR
Link to the directory of German sperm banks

When Anna (28) learns from her mother that she was conceived with a sperm donation, she is initially paralyzed. For weeks she looks at the family photo albums, compares her face in the mirror with that of her father and sisters.
Anna's parents had separated eight years ago: to the social father Anna had since then only little contact. Her two younger sisters were born naturally, although a doctor had initially told the father that he was incapable of procreation. The parents had therefore sought the help of a sperm bank in Boston, USA, at the time.<\/p>

Anna goes to Boston to look for her genetic father, or rather to find the \"donor\", because she avoids the word \"father\" in this context: \"I already have a father!\" The search is difficult because her mother Pauline had destroyed all the records at the time; after all, no one was supposed to know about the sperm donation. Realizing how important the \"donor search\" is to her daughter, and when Anna finds a possible donor through an Internet forum, her mother decides to go to Boston as well. They visit Randy, who had donated at the time Pauline was receiving treatment. After a very emotional conversation in his apartment, they take a saliva sample on a cotton swab . They have this examined at home in Munich in a gene laboratory. Anna learns the test result from the lab director in her search for her own identity....<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 27.11.2007, 21:40, ARTE

The invention of vaccines is one of the great success stories of medicine. Epidemics such as smallpox and polio, which terrified people for a long time, were defeated thanks to vaccinations. But the victories that have been won in the history of medicine have rarely been without undesirable side effects or even losses. Even though vaccines are many times safer today than they were 20 years ago, the possibility of vaccine damage still exists. The dangers from infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination are considered by experts to be much higher. The fatal consequences of measles are one example. And yet they are there: consequential damages that lead to disability or even death.
The filmmakers Valentin Thurn and Sabine Goette trace the bright and dark sides of vaccinations. A journey into the history of immunization paves the way to the fates of those affected, then and now, and to current, controversial debates about vaccination.<\/p>

Families from Germany and France tell of both sides of the success coin: what can happen if vaccinations are not given, and how even one vaccination can dramatically change lives. Six-year-old Micha is doomed to die because he contracted measles at the age of 5 months in a pediatrician's office. It took years for the disease to break out: SSPE, a chronic brain inflammation and consequence of the measles, which certainly leads to death. Little Joel is also affected. During Germany's largest measles epidemic, which broke out in Duisburg in 2006, he also fell ill. He died while the shooting was still in progress. Madame Zanakolona from Paris, on the other hand, had to fight for years to have the brain damage that her now 15-year-old son suffered after a whooping cough vaccination recognized by the courts. The vaccine has long been off the market, but new vaccines with potential risks are pushing ahead. The Schomaker family, at any rate, is convinced that the six-dose vaccine, introduced 6 years ago, was to blame for their son's death.
Coroner Prof. Randolph Penning has performed autopsies on several children in recent years after six-dose vaccinations. Results: abnormal and worrisome brain swelling. The former employee of the Paul Ehrlich Institute and insider Dr. Klaus Hartmann is also extremely critical of the new combination vaccines. Are they to blame for the death of the children? No one has been able to prove it yet, but the controversy is on. How openly must possible consequential damage be reported without stirring up fear among parents and thus producing low vaccination rates and the return of epidemics?
Most infectious diseases have lost their threat, not least because of the success of vaccinations. Vaccinations therefore no longer seem so important to many. Some vaccines, however, would be welcomed by many people around the world. Like, for example, the new vaccine against tuberculosis being developed at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Millions of people worldwide are affected by TB, and resistant pathogens are spreading more and more. Vaccination could provide a remedy, scientists hope. Because TB is still on the rise.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Britta Dombrowe
First broadcast: 02.09.2007, 16:25, WDR

For hours in November 2006, inmates tortured a 20-year-old fellow inmate in the youth prison Siegburg and finally killed him. The prison staff did not notice the hours-long ordeal. The crime threw a spotlight on the conditions in German youth prisons: Cells are overcrowded, there is an acute shortage of staff, prisoners are locked away for up to 23 hours a day and left to fend for themselves.
19-year-old Ufuk, who is serving time in Siegburg, the \"toughest youth prison,\" as he puts it, also knows this. Ufuk knows what he's talking about; at 14, he already had 140 crimes to his credit, is a regular in German prisons and knows the rules behind the walls. \"When you arrive in jail, the first thing they do is check you out. Either they have respect or you have to get respect. That's where the law of the fist alone applies.\" Yet the penal code states: \"In the execution of the prison sentence, the prisoner should become capable of leading a life without crime in the future with social responsibility.\"
The film shows the causes of growing brutality behind bars and presents new ways in juvenile penal system.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 06.02.2007, 20:40, theme night, ARTE<\/p>

1001 Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul, 2008
Gold Panda Awards, International Sichuan TV Festival, China, 2007
E. Desmond Lee Africa World Festival, St. Louis, USA und Lagos, Nigeria, 2007
Filmfest Eberswalde – Die Provinziale, Deutschland, 2007: Preis als “beste Dokumentation”
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Die Einwanderung brachte die Frauen-Beschneidung von Afrika nach Europa. Doch immer mehr schwarze Frauen entscheiden: \u201eMit meiner Tochter nicht!\u201c Drei Frauen aus England, Deutschland und Frankreich erz\u00e4hlen vom Tag ihrer Beschneidung, von Problemen beim Urinieren und von den Schmerzen bei der Menstruation, der Angst vor Geschlechtsverkehr und Geburt. Doch es gibt Hoffnung: Dr. Pierre Foldes aus Paris entwickelte eine Technik mit der er die Klitoris wieder herstellen kann.
“Mit meiner Tochter nicht!” erscheint als Bonustrack auf der DVD des Kinofilms “W\u00fcstenblume” mit Waris Dirie.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Mauricio Estrella and Antonio Usc\u00e1tegui
Co-writer: Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR.<\/p>

First broadcast: 19.11.2006, ARD

Abelardo lives illegally in Germany. He has no residence papers, is constantly on guard against the police. Abelardo does not want to return to Ecuador to the slums of the port city of Guayaquil. His mother still lives there; she is sick but does not have health insurance. Abelardo sends her money for medicine.
For six years he has been struggling to make ends meet in Germany. A life in the shadows, determined by the search for cheap jobs where no papers are required. Then he meets Ines, a German, at a dance, quite normal. They fall in love. But does Ines trust him, or does she feel used? As a means to an end, to get a residence permit through her?
Over a million foreigners live illegally in Germany, like Abelardo. For more than a year, Mauricio Estrella and Antonio Usc\u00e1tegui observed two families for whom the daily game of hide-and-seek has become the norm for fear of deportation. As so-called \"economic refugees\", they bravely and also astonishingly normally master a life in which there is everything but security.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn, co-written by Stephan M\u00fcller
Commissioned by NDR in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 29.08.2006, 20:40, ARTE<\/p>

Nominiert f\u00fcr den Deutschen Fernsehpreis als “beste Reportage”
Internationales Leipziger Festival f\u00fcr Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm (DOK Leipzig), 2006
Basel_Karlsruhe Forum (BaKaFORUM), Basel, Schweiz, 2007
Gold Panda Awards, Sichuan TV Festival, China, 2007
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Zacarias Moussaoui ist der einzige Attent\u00e4ter, der wegen der Anschl\u00e4ge am 11. September 2001 vor Gericht gestanden hat \u2013 es war ein Symbolprozess f\u00fcr die USA. Im Mai 2006 wurde er zu einer lebenslangen Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt. Bis an sein Lebensende soll er keinerlei Au\u00dfenkontakte haben.
Ist er der sogenannte 20. Attent\u00e4ter, der ein Flugzeug in das Wei\u00dfe Haus steuern sollte? Oder nur ein psychisch kranker M\u00f6chtegern-Verschw\u00f6rer? Fest steht, dass er vier Wochen vor den Anschl\u00e4gen auf das World Trade Center und auf das Pentagon verhaftet wurde, als er das Fliegen einer Boeing 747 erlernen wollte. Und fest steht auch, dass das FBI die Attentate vom 11. September h\u00e4tte verhindern k\u00f6nnen, w\u00e4ren Moussaouis Notizbuch und Laptop rechtzeitig durchsucht worden.<\/p>

How does a young Moroccan-born Frenchman end up joining al-Qaeda and training to become a suicide bomber in camps in Afghanistan? In his youth, he was not religious, he loved parties and his girlfriend, and sometimes he drank alcohol - until the day he was converted to jihad by radical Muslim preachers in London.
His mother A\u00efcha El-Wafi fought against the death penalty for her son during the trial. On the sidelines of the trials, she met Phyllis Rodriguez in the U.S., the mother of Greg, who was killed in the flames of the World Trade Center. In his documentary, filmmaker Valentin Thurn shows the development of this extraordinary friendship and gently traces the history of the dysfunctional Moussaoui family. Intense interviews with friends and family members, including the two Moussaouis sisters, are complemented by exclusive footage, some of which has never been shown before - including a private video of the teenage Zacarias.<\/p>

On the fifth anniversary of the New York attacks, the film takes a new and unfamiliar look at a young Frenchman from Morocco whose difficult family background and influence from Islamist circles turned him into a death pilot who ultimately did not make it to the field. But it also sheds an illuminating light on Moussaoui's behavior during the trial, his guilty plea, which he has since recanted, as well as the role of justice in the U.S. and the desire of many Americans to convict the only assassin who confessed in court.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF<\/p>

First broadcast: 16.05.2006, 22:15, in the series \"37\u00b0\", ZDF

Surrogacy is forbidden - that's what the law says. But in the anonymity of the Internet, the black market is flourishing. There Hildegard and Anton come across Sarah. The conception of their child takes place in a toilet, with the help of an enema syringe. Hildegard and Anton tell no one, not even their parents. Quite secretly, the child is to be born.<\/p>

Auch Sarah, die f\u00fcr ihre Leihmutterschaft eine betr\u00e4chtliche Summe Geld bekommt, verheimlicht ihre Schwangerschaft vor ihren Eltern. Sie wei\u00df, dass die Eltern niemals damit einverstanden w\u00e4ren. Sarah erz\u00e4hlt von den Vertragsbedingungen, die sie mit Anton ausgehandelt hat und bem\u00fcht sich, jede emotionale Beziehung zu dem Baby in ihrem Bauch zu unterdr\u00fccken. Ganz einfach ist das nicht, denn immerhin ist sie ja die genetische Mutter des Babys. Endlich ist es soweit, die Entbindung steht bevor.
Doch als der ersehnte Anruf “Das Baby ist da” bei Hildegard und Anton ankommt, findet eine \u00dcbergabe des Kindes nicht statt. Hilde und Anton sind offensichtlich einer Betr\u00fcgerin zum Opfer gefallen. Es wird nie gekl\u00e4rt, ob Sarah ihr Baby selbst behalten wollte oder es einem anderen Paar verkauft hat: die Leihmutter bleibt unauffindbar. Ein solches Betrugsrisiko wollen Hildegard und Anton nicht noch einmal eingehen. Sie beschlie\u00dfen, in der Ukraine eine Leihmutter zu suchen und werden in Kiew f\u00fcndig. In der Ukraine ist Leihmutterschaft erlaubt und es gibt einen regelrechten Leihmutterschaftstourismus. Auch Ole und Ingrid sind schon vor Monaten nach Kiew gereist, um eine Leihmutter f\u00fcr ihr Baby zu finden. Das Paar ist \u00fcberzeugt davon, nichts Unrechtes zu tun.<\/p>

In most surrogate motherhoods, the egg comes from a foreign woman, only the man is also the genetic father of the child through his sperm donation. With Ingrid and Ole it is different. The child is genetically entirely theirs, the surrogate mother has only carried it to term. At the notary's office, she assigns all rights to the baby to Ole and Ingrid. Overjoyed, Ole and Ingrid travel back to Germany with their child, who is still officially identified as their biological child on site.
Diana und Steffen finden ihre Leihmutter in S\u00fcdafrika. Auch dort sind Leihmutterschaften legal, und die Befruchtung wird in einer Klinik durchgef\u00fchrt. Diana und Steffen gehen offen mit der geplanten Leihmutterschaft um und haben es bereits der Familie, Nachbarn und Arbeitskollegen erz\u00e4hlt. Sie sind davon \u00fcberzeugt, dass die deutschen Jugend\u00e4mter nichts dagegen unternehmen k\u00f6nnen, wenn sie das Baby nach s\u00fcdafrikanischem Recht adoptieren.
“37\u00ba” erz\u00e4hlt von den drei Paaren und fragt nach der Verantwortung f\u00fcr ein Kind, das durch Leihmutterschaft geboren wird. Dessen Identit\u00e4tsfindung kann durch das Wissen um seine verschiedenen M\u00fctter ein lebenslanges Problem sein.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 10.01.2006, 20:40, Theme night: \"Poor children\", ARTE<\/p>

Poverty in the rich EU - for many children, this means multiple disadvantages. First of all, in education: they perform less well at school and drop out more often. Or in health: they are sick more often than children from better-off families, and in material opportunities: Often no vacation is possible. However - as was shown in Germany as well as in England and France - when parents have little, they scrape together all the money they can to at least buy presents for their children, prefer to tighten their belts, save on food or the car and want to avoid at all costs that their children experience poverty as a restriction.<\/p>

Governments are helping to varying degrees: the situation is still worst in England, but in the last 5 years the government has managed to reduce what was once the highest rate of child poverty in all of Europe by a quarter. Billions are being pumped into early childhood education to provide equal opportunities from preschool age. The situation in Germany is quite different. Whereas social inequalities were relatively cushioned in the past, they are now constantly moving down to the British level. France is slightly better off, but here, too, persistently high unemployment ensures permanently high child poverty.<\/p>

A big contrast, however, in Scandinavia, first and foremost in Denmark, where there is virtually no poverty among children and families. What are the Danes doing better? The film takes us on a tour of four European countries in search of answers to the question of where the fight against poverty can begin and which models are promising.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn and Kadriye Acar
Commissioned by NDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 02.08.2005, 20:40, ARTE

Fatma Bl\u00e4ser was threatened with death by her own family because she refused to marry the man chosen for her, and then still fled to her German boyfriend. There, brothers and uncles besieged the house, for six weeks, seeking her life in order to purify the family honor. Fatma was able to hide, and for over 15 years had no contact with her family, only secretly with her mother. Today her father is an old man. Fatma wants to reconcile with him. He has become meek with age, and yet he does not regret what he and the other men in the family did back then. Fatma is unsure: How will the clan in Turkey that expelled her back then react? We accompanied her to her Kurdish home village, located 1500 kilometers from Istanbul on the former border with the Soviet Union, and observe Fatma's cautious approach to a world that was once her home and is now so foreign. Fatma recalls how, as an eight-year-old, she watched the stoning of a woman accused of being an adulteress. She searches for the grave, but is told that such \"eyesores\" are buried far away in the mountains.<\/p>

Hatun S\u00fcr\u00fcc\u00fc was also disowned by her family and sought contact again out of longing. But her story ends tragically: she was murdered by her three brothers. The reason: she had separated from the man her family chose for her and wanted to raise her son Can alone. The crime took place on the open street in Berlin: The older brothers stood lookout, the youngest brother took the pistol and shot. Families often seek out the youngest because they know they will be punished more leniently under juvenile criminal law. Their friends and co-workers can't believe it. But immigration has carried the cruel tradition into the heart of Europe. Hatun's family also comes from southeastern Turkey, where tradition requires brothers to watch over the integrity of their sisters until they marry. Misconduct must be atoned for because the family honor is tarnished and the family runs the risk of being outcast from the village community. This still plays a role even in today's Berlin, because the clans keep close contact, even with relatives who have remained in Turkey.<\/p>

Honor killings occur not only among Turks and Kurds, but also among other peoples such as Albanians. The conflicts often announce themselves years in advance: Ulerika Gashi had come to Germany from Kosovo with her family when she was two years old. The father often beat the mother, and later the four daughters, especially Ulerika, when she began to wear makeup and fashionable clothes at 16. When the father learns that Ulerika has a boyfriend, he strangles her with duct tape in the basement of his own house and throws the body into a quarry pond.
Many justify the honor killings with Islam. But in reality there is not a word about it in the Koran. However, few imams openly oppose this pre-Islamic tradition. But there are forces that help with honor conflicts: For example, a Kurdish member of the state parliament in Berlin, a Turkish cultural association in Paris and the Rosa e.V. association in Stuttgart, which maintains several girls' shared flats where young women who have been sentenced to death by the family council hide out. There, and in one of the strictly guarded women's shelters in Istanbul, it becomes clear that beatings alone are not enough to drive a Turkish woman into a women's shelter; the feeling of shame is too great, even among the women themselves, most of whom flee only after the first murder attempt in order to save their lives and those of their children.<\/p>

For their documentary, shot in Germany, France and Turkey, filmmaker Kadriye Acar, who grew up in Germany as the daughter of Turkish parents, and her colleague Valentin Thurn spoke with Turkish, Kurdish and Kosovar women who hide out in anonymous high-rise apartments and closely guarded women's shelters to save their lives and those of their children. The film also depicts the stories of two women who, despite rejection and death threats, sought contact with their families again after years - out of an insatiable longing for life in the extended family. One, Fatma Bl\u00e4ser, who came to Germany as a child, was able to reconcile with her relatives in her native Kurdish village. The other, Hatun S\u00fcr\u00fcc\u00fc, paid for her attempted rapprochement with the family with her life - she was murdered by her brothers on the open street in Berlin. The film also visits one of only two women's shelters in Istanbul and makes clear how similar the fates of the persecuted women are - whether in Berlin or in Istanbul.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 26.04.2005, 21:45, ARTE

Hans S. could no longer sleep without pills. He was an executive, but no one noticed his addiction, for over 17 years, until the breakdown came: first he lost his job, then his driver's license, then his children, finally he was admitted to a psychiatric clinic for withdrawal. His doctor, who regularly prescribed him Rohypnol tablets, should have known that the pills were addictive. After Hans S. had overcome his addiction, he sued his doctor before the Arbitration Court of the North German Medical Associations, and was proven right: for the first time in such a case, the patient was awarded compensation and a medical malpractice was condemned. It is also called the \"silent addiction\" because it is not noticeable, but nevertheless about as many people are addicted to sleeping pills and tranquilizers as to alcohol: In Germany there are over one million tablet addicts, in France even three million. Housewives have the worst sleep: As early as 1967, the Rolling Stones sang about \"Mother's little helper\" - benzodiazepine-type pills.<\/p>

Until the 1980s, the pharmaceutical industry, against its better judgment, concealed its addictive dangers - just as it had previously downplayed the damage to embryos caused by the sleeping pill thalidomide, and also the toxicity of barbiturates. These early sleeping pills were often used for suicides and have been banned since the 1960s. Today, they are only used in Switzerland - for euthanasia, which is legal there. Modern sleeping pills are now lethal only in combination with other drugs, but junkies quickly found that the pills mixed with heroin gave a longer high. And criminals found that sleeping pills could be used as knockout drops and rape drugs. Abuse is difficult to prove in court because sleeping pills break down quickly in the body.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 01.02.2005, 20:45, ARTE

Every sixth couple in Germany waits in vain for offspring. In order to have a child after all, more and more women and men are turning to modern reproductive medicine. Twenty years ago, the first German test-tube baby was born, and since then hundreds of thousands of children have been conceived in the test tube, using methods such as in vitro fertilization that are legal in this country and financed by health insurance up to a certain number. But if these attempts fail and the desire to have their own child is too powerful, then increasingly infertile couples also use techniques prohibited in Germany, such as egg donation or preimplantation diagnostics, and for this reason travel to nearby European countries.<\/p>

Susanne and Hans B\u00fcnger-Biel Susanne and Hans desperately want a child. And they have wanted it for years. Because Susanne can't get pregnant naturally, they tried artificial insemination . After the seventh attempt, Susanne finally got pregnant. Again she lost the child. But they do not want to give up. To increase their chances, they travel to Belgium: Here, at Brussels University Hospital, couples who want to have children are allowed to have the genetic material of the fertilized cells examined for possible genetic damage by PGD, a method that is banned in Germany. Ines and Christoph have already had more than ten attempts at artificial insemination. They, too, simply don't want to give up; their desire to have a child together is too overpowering. Ines is now 45 years old. Their last attempt for the time being takes them to a fertility clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, where they want to try egg donation. This is prohibited in Germany. For Michaela and Ralf, egg donation is also the last chance to have a child. Although they are still young, they have been trying unsuccessfully for years to have a child. Michaela, who has already had eight miscarriages, suffers from a rare hereditary disease. To finally get closer to their wish, they travel to the Czech Republic. Will the three couples finally be able to fulfill their most ardent wish?<\/p>

Filmmaker Valentin Thurn follows the often hard paths of the three couples to their desired child with great sensitivity and consideration. He explains the latest state of research, sheds light on the different treatments of fertilization in the laboratory and asks about side effects. He interviews clinic operators in the Czech Republic or South Africa, for whom the rigid German law means a welcome increase in profits, because here the desperate couples are now being charged large sums of money. Valentin Thurn provides a well-founded look at the status quo of artificial insemination in Germany and does one thing above all: he gives an ear to the couples who want nothing more in the world than a child.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF<\/p>

First broadcast: 16.11.2004, 20:45, ARTE

Why is the population shrinking more in some European countries than in others? Why do France and Sweden succeed in convincing young families to have children? Among German politicians, an active population policy was frowned upon until recent times; people felt too much reminded of the Nazis' cult of motherhood. The consequences are unmistakable: In eastern Germany, entire high-rise neighborhoods are being demolished because there is a shortage of people. In the Ruhr region, the proportion of foreigners is rising because they have a higher birth rate. And aging threatens to unhinge the social systems - in thirty years at the latest, every working person will have a pensioner to support. To escape the demographic downward pull, municipalities and companies are working on solutions.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 26.04.2004, “Die Story”, WDR
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Es war der deutsche Tropenarzt und Epidemiologe Dr. Siegwart-Horst G\u00fcnther, der 1991 zum ersten Mal auf die h\u00f6chst gef\u00e4hrlichen Sp\u00e4tfolgen von sogenannten Uran-Geschossen hingewiesen hatte. W\u00e4hrend des Golfkrieges wurde diese Munition von der US-Armee tonnenweise verschossen.
Der Film begleitet G\u00fcnther und seine amerikanischen Kollegen bei ihren Untersuchungen im Kosovo, in Bosnien und im Irak. \u00dcberall dort hatten amerikanische Truppen die gef\u00e4hrliche Uran-Munition eingesetzt. Der Film zeigt bislang wenig bekannte Langzeitfolgen unter denen besonders die Kinder in den Kriegsgebieten zu leiden haben. Nach Ende des j\u00fcngsten Irak-Krieges entdeckten die Experten in der Umgebung von Basra kontaminierte Kriegsschaupl\u00e4tze, deren radioaktive Verseuchung die nat\u00fcrliche Erdstrahlung um das 20.000fache \u00fcbertrifft.<\/p>

As early as 1991, after the Gulf War, Prof. G\u00fcnther had noticed people in Baghdad University Hospital with symptoms of illness that he had never seen before in the 40 years of his work in this country. He also examined many malformed infants and children, most of whom did not survive long, and documented the cases. He diagnosed severe kidney and liver dysfunction, cancer, and genetic damage. After similar disease symptoms then appeared in American and British Gulf War veterans and their children, the connection was clear to G\u00fcnther and many other scientists. They are calling for a comprehensive ban on this ammunition, which is part of the standard armament of U.S. troops.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 14.03.2004, ARTE

Ben and Meret Becker were practically born to act. Mother and father are actors, and even their stepfather Otto Sander. But it's hard to develop your own profile in the shadow of overgrown parents. Valentin Thurn observed Ben and Meret during filming and concerts and shows how the siblings reached the goal of an independent artist personality on different paths. Now there is even a third generation at the start: Ben's daughter Lilith and Meret's daughter Lulu were there and moved on the set like the grown-ups, just as Ben and Meret had once accompanied their parents during filming.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ZDF<\/p>

First broadcast: July 22, 2003, in the series \"37\u00b0\", ZDF
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Christian (14) wurde von seiner Mutter grob vernachl\u00e4ssigt. Sein schwuler Onkel entf\u00fchrte ihn in einer Nacht-und-Nebel-Aktion und rettete ihn so vor dem drohenden Kinderheim. Damals war er neun. Alles andere als begeistert, verbrachte er die ersten Wochen bei seinem neuen “Vater” und dessen Freund. Von seinen Klassenkameraden wurde er geh\u00e4nselt, weil im Dorf alle wussten, dass Christian nun bei den beiden “Schwulen” wohnte. In dem kleinen Ort in der Eifel gibt es kein Verstecken, und Christian musste Farbe bekennen. Das fiel ihm
zunehmend leichter, weil sich seine beiden neuen “Eltern” r\u00fchrend um ihn k\u00fcmmerten, sodass sogar das zust\u00e4ndige Jugendamt von so viel F\u00fcrsorge und elterlicher Kompetenz beeindruckt war. Heute haben sich alle im Dorf schon fast an das etwas andere Familienmodell gew\u00f6hnt,
und Christian ist froh, bei seinem Onkel zu sein. Trotzdem ist f\u00fcr ihn mit seinen 14 Jahren klar, dass er sich auf jeden Fall mehr f\u00fcr M\u00e4dchen interessiert als f\u00fcr Jungen.
Bei Patricia war es ganz anders, denn die Ehe ihrer Eltern schien gl\u00fccklich, als eines Tages, Patricia war damals zw\u00f6lf, ihr der Vater erz\u00e4hlte, dass er sich scheiden lassen wollte.<\/p>

Nach 18 Jahren Ehe musste er erkennen, dass er seine immer st\u00e4rker werdenden homosexuellen Neigungen nicht l\u00e4nger abtun konnte. Er hatte sich in einen Mann verliebt. Patricia war fassungslos. Dass sich ihr Vater aus einem solchen Grund von ihrer Mutter trennen wollte, war f\u00fcr Patricia nur schwer zu verkraften. Ihr glanzvolles Vaterbild brach von einem Tag auf den anderen zusammen. Fast ein Jahr lang verschwieg Patricia die “Schande”, die ihr Vater \u00fcber sie gebracht hatte. Ihre Schwester Carina sprach von Papas neuem Lebensgef\u00e4hrten Bernd sie bei ihren Freunden nur als “Bernadette”, um nach au\u00dfen den Schein zu wahren. \u00dcber ein Jahr verging, bis sie eines Tages vor Wut platzte, als Schulfreunde \u00fcber Schwule herzogen.<\/p>

Out of her need to explain why she was so involved, she took flight and talked about her father and his friend. Almost all of her friends stood by her. Patricia also gradually changed her attitude toward her father. The sisters moved in with their father and now live with him and his partner in Cologne.
Valentin Thurn tells how young people cope when fathers are suddenly very different from what they have assumed all along and from the usual role model. How does the relationship between father and child change - how does one change oneself?<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

Erstausstrahlung: 10.07.2003, in der Reihe “Weltweit”, WDR
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Im Mittelpunkt steht der Cowboy Gerardo und sein Arbeitgeber Cesar Chico. Er besitzt eine Herde Kampfstiere, die den Winter auf ihrer Farm in Andalusien verbringen, im Sommer aber, wenn in S\u00fcdspanien die Hitze alles verdorrt, in die zentralspanischen Berge ziehen. Um sie zu f\u00fchren heuert er jedes Jahr einen Trupp Cowboys an. Sie werden von Gerardo angef\u00fchrt. Wir folgen der Stierherde auf der Wanderung 600 Kilometer quer durch Spanien folgen und erleben dabei den Zusammenprall des alten und des neuen Spanien: Gerardo und seine Cowboys treffen zum Beispiel auf Autobahnen, die die traditionellen Viehwanderwege durchschneiden und die sie m\u00fchsam umgehen m\u00fcssen.<\/p>

The Spaniards, however, are enthusiastic about the revival of the old tradition. They greet the cowboys like heroes when they roam their villages, because Spain's historical identity is closely tied to its large herds of cattle: The origin of cowboy culture is in Spain and was first brought to the Americas by Columbus and his successors. Bullfighting also originated in the cattle pasture, as a pastime for the cowboys. The Toros Bravos, as the Spanish call their fighting bulls, are bred to be as aggressive as possible. At the age of four, the bravest bulls are sold to the bullfighting arenas, for up to 5000 marks. The cattle breed still has the wandering instinct in its genes. Cowboy Gerardo doesn't have to show them where the trail leads. Already kilometers before the next watering hole, their pace quickens, the cattle know exactly where the water is.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
On behalf of WDR
First broadcast: 31.01.2003, SWR \/ WDR \/ BR alpha

For more than 160 million years, the dinosaurs dominated life on earth. Then they disappeared from our planet in a period of a few hundred thousand years, and with them more than half of the animals living at that time. Why did they die out? And why so many species at once? Many scientists suspect that a huge meteorite impact triggered the mass extinction. Others believe rather in a series of devastating volcanic eruptions.
The end of the dinosaurs came suddenly, one believes the most well-known theory. 65 million years ago, a meteorite from outer space collided with Earth. When the ten-kilometer chunk hit the Earth's surface, its impact force was 10,000 times as powerful as the explosion of all nuclear weapons in existence today. It hurled soot and dust into the atmosphere. As a result, the sky darkened, the climate cooled, and the cold-blooded dinosaurs froze to death or their eggs could no longer develop in the cool climate.<\/p>

Remains of the killer meteorite were found on the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula - but nothing can be seen of the 200-kilometer-wide crater today because it has been covered by younger layers of rock. That this meteorite changed the world climate seems to be proved by the metal iridium, very rare on earth but often contained in meteorites. Iridium was found in rock layers around the globe, exactly at the border between Cretaceous and Tertiary.
The rare metal could come however also from another source, because Iridium is ejected also by volcanoes. And from it the second theory proceeds to the extinction of the dinosaurs, which finds increasingly supporters in the science: Long-lasting volcanic eruptions spewed massive amounts of sulfur, carbon dioxide and dust into the atmosphere, causing global dimming and cooling. Location of the mega volcano: Central India. There one finds today the gigantic highland of Dekkan, whose volcanic rocks are exactly 65 million years old.
For the volcano thesis speaks that other known impacts of meteorites as for example in the N\u00f6rdlinger Ries (Bavaria) no world-wide mass extinction released, but only short term and regionally limited devastations. Volcanoes, on the other hand, may have been a steady source of dust and gas for several 100,000 years. Finally, the dinosaurs did not die out suddenly, as would be expected from a meteorite impact, but over a long period of more than 500,000 years, about as long as the volcanoes in India were active. There are other examples of apocalyptic volcanic eruptions in Earth's history, for example at the end of the Permian, when the huge volcanic plateau in northern Siberia was formed. At that time, the trilobites, a crustacean family that previously virtually dominated the world's oceans, became extinct.
The reason that the killer meteor is so popular is probably because it is spectacular: In the course of the dino fashion, the catastrophe theory could be marketed simply better, for example in the dinosaur film of Walt Disney. That's where man's lust for the apocalypse wins out.<\/p>

Why the climatic catastrophe at the end of the Cretaceous period survived other animal groups such as the mammals, but not a single dinosaur, the researchers ultimately do not yet know. Previously, they assumed that the dinosaurs froze to death because they were cold-blooded, meaning that their body temperature depended on the temperature of their environment. Accordingly, the mammals would have survived because they were warm-blooded. But today we know that this assumption is more than questionable. After all, other warm-blooded lizards also survived the Cretaceous period. And at today's cold pole of the earth in Siberia, the only vertebrate species living there is a salamander - truly not a warm-blooded animal. There is also evidence that some dinosaur species may have been warm-blooded.<\/p>

Das f\u00fchrt zu der Frage: Was w\u00e4re eigentlich passiert wenn die Dinosaurier vor 65 Millionen Jahren nicht ausgestorben w\u00e4ren? Der Pal\u00e4ontologe Dr. Michael Maisch von der Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen vermutet, dass es in diesem Fall heute wohl keine Menschen geben w\u00fcrde. Denn: “Die Dinosaurier hatten \u00fcber 100 Millionen Jahre die Nase vorn und lie\u00dfen die S\u00e4uger nicht hochkommen.” Das Fazit des Wissenschaftlers: W\u00e4ren sie nicht ausgestorben, dann w\u00fcrden heute vielleicht intelligente Dinos die Welt beherrschen, und nicht die Menschen.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by ARTE<\/p>

First broadcast: 07.11.2002, ARTE

\"Lucky housewife clears millions\" - \"Elementary school teacher stumbles over fourth-grade question. An embarrassment for the whole school\" This is the stuff of the new tabloid headlines. Heroes and goofs are determined by the media in a fraction of a second these days: Bright spot or black out! - Winner or loser!<\/p>

Einmal Kandidat sein in einer Quizshow im Fernsehen: Diesen Traum verwirklichten sich Sybille, 28, und Jean-Pierre, 72. Sybille Longlez, 28 Jahre, alleinstehend, schaut gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter die Quizshows im Fernsehen, und beide raten mit.
Jean-Pierre ist ein “mordu”, wie die Franzosen sagen w\u00fcrden, ein “Gebissener”, der fast jeden Abend bei einem anderen Quiz-Club verbringt, wo die Fernsehshows nachgespielt werden – mit eigenen Fragen. Und warum? “Nachdem man mich zum vorzeitigen Ruhestand gedr\u00e4ngt hat, wollte ich den jungen Spunden mal zeigen, dass ich nicht zum alten Eisen geh\u00f6re”, meint Jean-Pierre.
Bei Sybille war es die Mutter, mit der sie t\u00e4glich die Quizsendung “Questions Pour Un Champion” sieht, die sie zur Bewerbung dr\u00e4ngte. Jean-Pierre hat sich schon sieben Mal vergeblich beworben. Beide schaffen den strengen Test und setzen sich gegen \u00fcber 100 Kandidaten aus ganz Belgien durch. Doch im Studio in Paris sind die Bedingungen h\u00e4rter: Jean-Pierre hat in der Nacht zuvor im Hotel so gut wie nicht geschlafen. Und Sybille ist mit den Nerven am Ende. Zum Gl\u00fcck haben beide eine Unterst\u00fctzung im Publikum sitzen.<\/p>

The reportage will accompany the candidates, ask about motivations, record the preparations that are made in the family, in the circle of friends. We will be there when it goes into the studio, when the candidates are briefed once again, when the personal tension grows from hour to hour, until the moment when it is said \"We are on the air!\" - not entirely unobserved, of course...<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
Commissioned by WDR<\/p>

First broadcast: 17.06.2002, WDR
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The clocks found with the 150 charred bodies all show the same time: 9 a.m. 11 p.m. The fire must have spread so lightning-fast in the narrow tunnel that the passengers of the Kaprun Glacier Railway suffocated and burned to death in one fell swoop - including those who ran up to 142 meters on the emergency stairs.<\/p>

How did the flash fire happen, in which only twelve passengers survived because they smashed through the windows with their ski poles? WDR author Valentin Thurn spoke with survivors who report two explosions. He visited the ill-fated train and found a round steel tank that the force of an explosion shattered. It contained hydraulic oil for the emergency brake. The Gletscherbahn itself did not expect a fire at all, as its technical director explained. Therefore, there were neither emergency hammers nor fire extinguishers in the passenger compartments, and neither emergency lighting nor ventilation in the tunnel. The Gletscherbahn blames the manufacturer of the cable car, who installed a faulty fan heater and a body made of plastic. The manufacturer in turn blames the T\u00dcV, which did not check the fire protection. The latter, in turn, blames the Ministry of Transport, which forgot to issue the appropriate regulations. A system of sloppiness. In which good money is made: This winter was a record winter, more skiers than ever before vacationed in Austria. In Kaprun, too, the accident seems to have been forgotten, the hotels are fully booked, and skiers are now being transported to the glacier by the gondola lift that was hastily built after the accident.<\/p>

At the trial of 16 people responsible in Salzburg, the relatives of the dead can expect only a few thousand euros in compensation for pain and suffering under Austrian law. New York star lawyer Ed Fagan convinced most of them to sue in America for this reason. The looming billion-dollar U.S. lawsuit could become a precedent for other major accidents in Europe.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A film by Valentin Thurn
On behalf of ARD<\/p>

First broadcast: 20.06.2001, ARD

When Barbara realizes in her mid-20s that she loves women, she says goodbye for the time being to a lifelong dream - the desire to have a child. Only gradually the thought matures: it also works without a man. Together with her partner Irmgard, she goes to a Dutch clinic and buys donor sperm. The adventure of lesbian motherhood can begin.<\/p>

Ursula Ott and Valentin Thurn accompanied the two future mothers for nine months. They went with them to the sperm bank to buy sperm - forbidden in Germany for unmarried women, but common practice in Holland. They were there when the two women transferred the individual sperm samples into special nitrogen-cooled containers in their living room for storage purposes, and were shown how to carry out artificial insemination at home. They accompanied the lesbian couple to the gynecologist and to the ultrasound, to the scene disco and to the lesbian volleyball tournament, to the lawyer and to the priest, and finally to the postpartum. Little Lili will not be able to meet her father until she is 16. To do so, she must contact the sperm bank - but the mothers only know about the Dutch sperm donor that he has white skin, dark hair and neither AIDS nor hepatitis.<\/p>

Despite new laws, the two women and their baby still encounter considerable reservations in Germany: It is true that Irmgard can commit herself by contract to pay child support for the rest of her life. But she hardly gets any rights in return: neither can she adopt the child as a \"stepmother,\" nor can she be sure that she will still be allowed to visit the child in the event of separation.
For a long time now, this has no longer been the marginal problem of a social fringe group. Today, around 1.5 million children in Germany are growing up with homosexual parents, estimates Lela L\u00e4hnemann, the Berlin Senate representative for same-sex lifestyles. Most come from the heterosexual \"previous life\" of the now lesbian mothers, but more and more are created through insemination. The Munich family researcher Professor Wassilios Fthenakis even considers this number to be understated, because in the USA 10 million children already live with homosexual parents. And they don't live any worse than in \"traditional\" families, according to Fthenakis, who also advises the German government: \"We haven't found any differences in child development.\" Neither would these children later develop behavioral disorders - nor would the likelihood increase that they themselves would become gay or lesbian.<\/p>

Neighbors and teachers have already gotten used to the colorful new families in many places. For example, in Monschau in the Eifel, where two gay men are lovingly raising their foster son Christian on a former farm, among geese, rabbits and ducks. They are supported by neighbors in the village - and by the youth welfare office. \"The two of them have a sustainable relationship and offer the child a stable home, which he hasn't had for a long time,\" praises the family nurse from the Youth Welfare Office. She can even imagine placing a second foster child with the gay couple.
Or that extended family of two gay fathers and two lesbian mothers raising two daughters together. Most of the time, the children live with their moms; they often spend weekends and vacations with their dads - and find it wonderful. Mia (9): \"I have two moms and two dads at home, the other kids only ever have one.\"<\/p>

In good times, these new \"rainbow families\" are an exciting social experiment. In bad times, however, human dramas play out. Because homosexual love can also break up, and the non-birth parent is then completely without rights. Like the social worker Sigrid, who took care of her friend's jointly planned baby for four years and, after the breakup, has no chance of ever seeing little Janek again. \"I love you to the moon and back,\" she greets him over children's television on his birthday. But the courts have ruled: no kinship relationship, no rights.
The laws lag hopelessly behind social reality. Just a few years ago, homosexuals could not imagine having children at all - \"today they sit in the pub and get big ears when it comes to having children,\" says Ingo Wolf, a gay father in Berlin. There's even an agency there that matches lesbian women with gay men who want to have children.Queer&Kids owner Susan Darrant has already advised 750 interested parties. She uses a questionnaire to find out who suits whom: \"Homo, bi or hetero? Joint or separate custody? Living together or not?\" The first babies created in this way will be born this spring.<\/p>

Politicians and church representatives are still relatively helpless in the face of these new families. Is homosexual parenthood \"unnatural\", as Norbert Geis (CSU) thinks ? Do children with two gay fathers lack the \"maternal breast\", as Hanna-Renate Laurien of the Central Committee of German Catholics fears ? Or must children from homosexual relationships at least have the same rights as children of single parents, as Volker Beck (Greens) demands ? In any case, the law on \"homosexual marriage\", which Beck initiated, does not regulate the question of children at all. That two homosexuals go to the registry office was just about doable with the SPD, but that they now also want children went too far.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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