PITANN FILM + Grafik GMBH

Germany 2008, 46 min
by Klaus Gralow, Roger Pitann, Klaus Gralow

In 1969, the archaeologist Dr W. E. Wendt discovered in the South of Namibia the oldest dated art of Africa: six palm-size fragmented plates from the cradle of humanity and human art. For a long time, art works like these had been known only in Europe. The groundbreaking discovery of Dr Wendt gave the African continent a cultural find of equal value and importance. On the way to the excavation place of this 28,000 year old "bushmen art" some more archaeological places of discovery are inspected,

Germany 2007, 90 min
by Klaus Gralow, Roger Pitann, Hans Thull

The film tells the personal story of the so-called 'GDR-Kids', who could escape from Namibian liberation struggle to their refuge in East Germany. Touching archive material describes their arrival in 1978 and the life at the East German boarding school up to the day they had to step again onto the ground of their motherland in Africa. Politicians, educators, teachers and adoptive parents from the GDR and from Namibia comment the political background of this time. Today the former 'GDR-children'