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Matinee Saxon State Archive 2022
Filmstill Tagebuch eines Schmalfilmers
Diary of a Narrow-Gauge Filmmaker
The experienced amateur filmmaker Liselotte Schließer looks back on her career and wonders at the low number of female directors and camera people.
Filmstill Tagebuch eines Schmalfilmers

Diary of a Narrow-Gauge Filmmaker

Tagebuch eines Schmalfilmers
Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1975
10 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Accompanying Liselotte Schließer, who worked full time as a technical draughtswoman, in her private and professional daily life. She talks about the passion that became her second mission in life. The only woman in organised amateur filmmaking for many years and now head of the amateur filmmakers’ association of Radebeul, she still misses female directors and camera people.

Konstantin Wiesinger

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
Genius Loci 2020
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TAKRAF Railway Slewing Cranes [excerpt]
VEB Schwermaschinenbaukombinat TAKRAF
A commercial for the railway slewing cranes of the TAKRAF Combine: Its successor company is still the world market leader today and operates in Leipzig-Lindenau under the name “Kirow”.
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TAKRAF Railway Slewing Cranes [excerpt]

TAKRAF Eisenbahndrehkrane [Ausschnitt]
VEB Schwermaschinenbaukombinat TAKRAF
Genius Loci 2020
Documentary Film
GDR
1986
10 minutes
Spanish,
German,
Italian,
English,
Russian
Subtitles: 
None

Railway slewing cranes by TAKRAF in global use: salvaging derailed trains, assembling bridges, moving goods. The company, now operating again under the name “Kirow” and based in Leipzig-Lindenau, has been able to maintain its standing on the global market until the present day. Constantly improved operating comfort and increased maximum loads represent 100 years of the art of engineering.

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Director
VEB Schwermaschinenbaukombinat TAKRAF
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Genius Loci 2020
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Crime Scene: Railway Premises [excerpt]
Gabriele Stange
Three boys play near the forbidden tracks. Dangerous situations are commented on by a strict voice. The solution? Kids, why don’t you play with model trains instead!
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Crime Scene: Railway Premises [excerpt]

Tatort Bahngelände [Ausschnitt]
Gabriele Stange
Genius Loci 2020
Fictional Film
GDR
1967
5 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Unusually elaborate in terms of cinematography and dramaturgy, the film illustrates the dangers of careless children playing on railway premises. It’s only logical that this leads to a recommendation to make do with the less dangerous model trains. Quite a number of film and television careers began at the “Iskra” pioneer film studio, headed for many years by the lower grade and handicrafts teacher Rolf Kießling.

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Director
Gabriele Stange
Script
Frank Schumann, Rainer Mutz, Rolf Kiessling
Cinematographer
Frank Schumann
Editor
Gabriele Stange, Rolf Kiessling, Karin Uebelacker
Producer
Pionierfilmstudio 31. Oberschule Leipzig, Transportpolizei Amt Leipzig Abteilung K
Sound
Matthias Heynicke, Peter Förster