Films by Otto Schuurman

Germany 2017, 77 min
by Otto Schuurman, Joachim Jäger

THE MAPMAKERS FROM GOTHA tells the story of cartographic publisher Justus Perthes.'Justus Perthes' in Gotha had been the world center of cartography until its cartographers were forced to draw a border in 1945 signaled the end of their business. While the Perthes family had to flee to the West in order to continue producing maps, the Perthes publishing house in the then-East German city of Gotha became the state- owned enterprise VEB Hermann Haack. After the fall of the Wall in 1989, 7th-genera