Films by Olaf Hirschberg

Germany 2011, 89 min
by Anja Dreschke

For several years anthropologist and filmmaker Anja Dreschke accompanied the Cologne Tribes, particular societies whose members imitate "foreign" and/or historic cultures notably Huns and Mongolians as a leisure time activity. Thus she realised an ethnographic long-term study providing a "thick description" of historical reenactment as an outstanding cultural phenomenon.Filmed over several years in the course of an ethnographic research TRIBES OF COLOGNE follows an association of about 80 clubs

Germany 2010, 78 min
by Carolin Schmitz

The people that tell their story in this film are alcoholics. Beyond that they are lawyers bureaucrats, home makers, managers, colleagues and mothers."Portraits of German Alcoholics" explores the life stories and the survival strategies of people who are trying to arrange their daily lives around an addiction.The personal stories contrast, cross and unite with model-like imagery of settings reflecting a supposedly intact society. Residential subdivisions, working environments in factories, etc.