Films by Patrick Popow

Germany 2011, 92 min
by Christoph Rüter

On 3 November 2001 the poet Thomas Brasch died at 56 years of age. Like virtually no other writer of his time, he balanced on a slender tightrope between the GDR and the FRG, between history and the present, between being Jewish, being German and being in the world. By relating the contradictory story of Brasch’s life and work, aided by video material shot by Brasch himself, this film creates a radical image of a seeker who was likewise in search of himself. Everything and everyone was disturbed