Kuhlenkampff's Shoes

by Regina Schilling
  • Archive ARD & private | zero one film GmbH
  • Archive ARD & private | zero one film GmbH
  • Archive ARD & private | zero one film GmbH

    Synopsis

    Just as the Federal Republic of Germany went uphill, German entertainment television developed so splendidly. And the showmasters took part in forgetting the war and its traumatic events: Kulenkampff, Hans Rosenthal and Peter Alexander. All three fell into the turmoil during the war, Kulenkampff and Alexander as soldiers, Rosenthal as a Jew, who, with unbelievably luck, narrowly escaped deportation several times. Like my father, they belonged to a very special generation: First abused by National Socialism, then harnessed to the hamster wheel of reconstruction, they knew nothing of traumatization, or did not want to know.

    Festivals

    3sat Documentary Award - Duisburger Filmwoche 2018
    Grimme Prize 2019