Films by Katrin Meier

Germany 1983, 60 min
by Ingrid Molnar, Katrin Meier

Wives and friends of shipyard workers of Hamburg's traditional shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW) and its neighbouring supplier MAN (a subsidiary of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg GmbH) are developing a strategy for mobilising the media to point out planned mass layoffs.A hunger strike lasting several days in the first week of September 1983 tagsüber at the Landungsbrücken and at night in the rooms of the main church St. Michaelis, combined with the distribution of leaflets,