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Adolf Winkelmann maneuvers through Kassel’s shopping district with a Bolex camera strapped to his body, filming himself and the attention he attracts.

The film Autoportrait is made up of four parts: Part 1: Search, Part 2: Work, Part 3: Daydream, Part 4: Family. Each of the parts can be shown as a self-contained film.

Winter of 1943. Cheerful, shy beginning of a tender love between the electric fitter Paul, who works on the estate on the power poles and the girl Anna. Both encounter each other during the war on a Mecklenburg estate. The three buxom and arrogant maids Elsa I, II and III, who also work in the manor, provide wit and pleasure.

A man walks back and forth along a street, shot in a rapid rhythm according to a fixed editing pattern. He occasionally recovers by drinking a glass of water.

A German Film Award gold medal winning documentary following German archeological digs in Turkey and the Near East. It features Sumerian, Hittite and Hellenic excavations in Urukand and the Sassanids in Ferita.

Pseudo-documentary that repeats everything from fashion to nudism to childbirth that has already been seen in countless "sex education" films.

1966 Otto Pienes studio celebration recorded by Lutz Mommartz with his N8 MOVIKON 16 Bsec in Düsseldorf/Germany on the Hüttenstrasse.

Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

A subversive and experimental film from Otmar Bauer and Günter Brus.

The first film made in black-and-white. Made using my own printing technique. Beforehand: This film, which is basically romantic or, even more, a fairy tale film, with carriages, horses, handmade glass lanterns, as solemn as a merry wedding, with an old Rolls Royce standing at a slant completely drunk and whose magnificent big headlights sit crooked on its fenders. An atmosphere of dancing around and returning and light, lamps and life. A film that even takes its audience to Paris, past the Louvre and into the nights of the boulevards; again and again, light, lamps and life. The film is light-hearted: the sonorous tone indicates a change, difficult to under-stand, a threat or do I hear right? Again and again, the streets, the domes of the churches, the palace wings of the Louvre, the National Library and the small opening in the wall at the Palace Mazarin which leads to the small park with its Picasso statue. What happens in Paris?

How does a young Iranian woman see Federal Republic of Germany? This question is answered in the film, which was made in 1960 on the occasion of the visit of 25 employees of the Iranian postal administration to Germany . The camera accompanies Zohre Hesami on her big journey, during her training at the Deutsche Bundespost, visiting Hamburg, Frankfurt and finally to Munich, where a stroll through the city and a concert are also on the agenda.

The observations of teachers and students at the Stuttgart evening school poses the question of whether everyone has the same education opportunities. Out of the 200 night-school students who start out, only 17 reach their aim: Graduation from school, which is the entry ticket to university and possibly the key to happiness later.

Experimental short film

A documentary on making cameras and photographic equipment, which turns into a philosophical visual essay on the art and nature of photography as it unfolds.

Election campaign for the parliamentary elections for the Bundestag in 1965 in the town of Neu-Ulm, Germany.

This film from 1968, which was later awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize, caused fierce reactions throughout Germany at the time. People had expected a promotionally effective Heimatfilm and now suddenly felt defamed.

It's the first Bundesliga season, and we accompany the team of Borussia Dortmund.

"I am a stranger here,” “I am a foreigner,” “I don't speak German” are all phrases that can be learned in the Goethe Institute’s elaborately produced 26-part language course short film series, Guten Tag (Good Day). With a great deal of artistic imagination, scenes around “Language, Culture, Germany” are staged and slowly intoned in an effort to bring the newly arrived closer. In this final short film the protagonist graduates.

Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Confusion results when a young man walking through a park joins in a game of tennis.

A documentary on the development and evolving situation in Berlin from 1945 until the early 1960s from both a political and human perspective,

About a young woman from East Berlin that is forced to go to Norway to regain her health.

On stage, Christa Ludwig's Leonore puts all others in the shade. In this role, she achieves something rare: a perfect unity of stage character and singer. Her male disguise is believable; this Fidelio is a slender, lanky young man with whom it is easy to imagine the silly Marzelline falling in love.

Turn of the year 1967/68: at the fourth EXPRMNTL festival in the Belgian seaside resort of Knokke, the film documents spontaneous performances, happenings and protest actions, capturing – only a few months before May ’68 – the harbingers of cultural upheaval.