WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:20.960 1. Wolf Biermann, Walther Seinsch and the Marion-Samuel-Award December 2015 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:24.640 2. This Wolrd isn´t that bad! Comment from Carolina Acevedo 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.760 3. Escape from the German Democratic Republic 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:32.800 4. Shortnews from Germany 00:00:36.100 --> 00:00:40.260 Calimera and a warm welcome to the 7. broadcast of Channel Welcome 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:45.980 My name is Alisa and today i stand in for Mom-Bee because she´s unfortunately laying sick at home. 00:00:47.020 --> 00:00:53.380 Channel Welcome exists since over a half year and we´re striving to become better from time to time, 00:00:54.220 --> 00:01:01.300 to build up the channel, spread it in the media and win new partners. 00:01:02.820 --> 00:01:06.060 Every interests are warmly welcome to work together with us 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:17.960 with topic ideas, active as authors in the production as interns or just in free collaboration. 00:01:19.180 --> 00:01:23.300 And since our topics are in mind on integration and migration 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:27.180 or the protagonist have such a background, 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:35.120 are people who moved from different countries here, invited to bring in their own knowledge and experiences. 00:01:36.020 --> 00:01:39.440 Imre Kertesz, Götz Aly, Michael Verhoeven. 00:01:40.180 --> 00:01:47.580 3 out of many award winners, who won the since 1999 awarded Marion-Samuel-Award. 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:53.440 In december 2015 the music maker Wolf Biermann 00:01:53.960 --> 00:02:02.340 was awarded by the couple Ingrid and Walter Seinsch and their foundation "Erinnerung" in the Golden Hall in Augsburg. 00:02:03.460 --> 00:02:10.540 Wolf Biermann himself, whose father, a communist and jew who got murdered in Auschwitz, doesn´t have a migration background, 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:16.420 except for the fact that he got expatriated from the DDR in 1976. 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:24.260 But he commited his whole life against the forgetting about the crimes in the Nazidictature 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:25.220 Reason 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.080 for Channel Welcome to be there for the prize. 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:37.620 And so i don't stop and sing a little encouragement to the people. 00:02:41.340 --> 00:02:46.480 For somebody who will become 80 soon, he's really young on the guitar. 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.800 You aren´t supposed to applaud, you´re supposed to be listening. 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:50.020 For somebody, 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.980 who experienced something like that, he´s really optimistic. 00:02:55.660 --> 00:02:56.700 Yes, yes, yes.... 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:01.220 And somebody who´s as in demand as Wolf Biermann, has something to say.... 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:05.180 Every knowledge i learned in the GDR is worth shit. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:12.440 On Kreta i found a Cemetery for Führer and fatherland. 00:03:12.760 --> 00:03:15.860 The other man, not much younger, is Walter Seinsch. 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:20.240 Freeman in Augsburg and something like a hero and a living monument. 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.620 Because decisively through him FCA played in the 1. league. 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:31.080 Less known as this 2 men is the prize which is issued here. 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:33.240 It´s called Marion-Samuel-Preis, 00:03:33.500 --> 00:03:39.560 is awarded since 1999 every year from the couple Ingrid and Walter Seinsch and their foundation. 00:03:39.700 --> 00:03:49.160 It´s vicarious dedicated to a little girl who´s deported to Auschwitz with 11 years and lost since then. 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.840 The people who were often here on this ceremony, 00:03:57.100 --> 00:04:00.020 know the motto i´ll read now. 00:04:00.020 --> 00:04:08.300 Primo Levis said: "It happend, so it can happen again!" 00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:11.340 With it he means, 00:04:12.300 --> 00:04:14.140 the german misdeeds to the Nazi time. 00:04:14.380 --> 00:04:22.360 Primo Levi was a italian author who became world famous with his work "se questo è un uomo" (is that a human) 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.540 in which he told his own survival in Auschwitz. 00:04:26.380 --> 00:04:31.300 "And because i was born under the yellow star in germany" 00:04:36.020 --> 00:04:41.160 "thats why we took the english bombs like heaven presents" 00:04:41.760 --> 00:04:45.460 "We had luck and more luck than understanding 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:49.820 "But 2 pigs don't make a whole fatherland" 00:04:49.900 --> 00:04:52.160 "No whole fatherland" 00:04:54.660 --> 00:04:59.260 I get angry when people say "you can't compare that" 00:05:00.700 --> 00:05:06.220 They talk because they don't know it, but they mean something different. 00:05:06.580 --> 00:05:09.540 They mean you can't equate it. 00:05:09.700 --> 00:05:13.800 And the fear that it can happen again is shared by many in Germany and Europe. 00:05:14.380 --> 00:05:19.520 And thats why everybody have to stand up before its too late. 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:28.360 Walter Seinsch, from a biography, also from a holocaust surviver out of the Warsaw ghetto, the musician Wladyslaw Szpilman. 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:33.020 Better known as the Pianist from the same named Movie by Roman Polanski. 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.380 "I´m proud to be german!" 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:40.020 "What a pathetic idiot sentence!" 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:45.740 "How beautiful and noble the line of Brecht´s Child Anthem" 00:05:47.400 --> 00:05:52.140 "And not above and not under, we want to be other folks!" 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:57.280 I got more confident over the last 20 years since establishing this foundation. 00:05:58.460 --> 00:06:05.220 Since the historic research doesn't allow repression, false accusations anymore. 00:06:07.100 --> 00:06:15.240 Because Germany is included in the European Union, because the Soviet Union has dissolved and many easteuropean states are free 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.240 and can become EU members. 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:21.480 And because of my hope that one day our grandchildren can live in a united Europe 00:06:22.020 --> 00:06:28.160 with one pass, with one military and one foreign policy. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:34.740 And my sorrow go all these years to the left side. 00:06:35.820 --> 00:06:41.660 What happens with Pegida and AFD in part of the educated folks 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:51.160 Shocked me and revived the quote of Levi that IT can happen again. 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.860 On Kreta i found a cemetery, 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:03.200 for Führer and Fatherland. 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:11.640 There are sleeping a lot of german soldiers on the hill of the streets. 00:07:15.880 --> 00:07:21.260 and over them proliferates the yellow raisin wine 00:07:22.900 --> 00:07:26.320 to sweet, the wine for raisins 00:07:26.940 --> 00:07:35.760 i was stuffing it , i was stuffing it into me 00:07:40.580 --> 00:07:45.160 The Hitler war was ending with 12 million 00:07:45.740 --> 00:07:53.480 torn apart war refugees, who was taken on into the broken rest germany and got integrated. 00:07:54.220 --> 00:07:59.020 Of course only germans came who were also christians. 00:07:59.580 --> 00:08:02.480 But a lot of them were also deformed. 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:06.800 Morally cored victims of the dictatorship. 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.820 Submissive conformers incited informers. 00:08:11.200 --> 00:08:13.200 Trained torturer. 00:08:13.620 --> 00:08:15.780 Fanaticised killers. 00:08:20.420 --> 00:08:23.020 I know it the fags are alive 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.680 and they want to be visited by someone. 00:08:28.940 --> 00:08:32.260 Who past by cold past the colds 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.100 will get jinxed and cursed. 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:40.640 Not me! 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:46.140 My fathers grave stone stands everywhere! 00:08:46.400 --> 00:08:50.480 I don't have to search his grave stone 00:08:50.980 --> 00:08:54.520 It´s too easy to find 00:08:57.220 --> 00:09:02.740 There where the chimney is smoking 00:09:03.140 --> 00:09:07.360 Born 1936 in Hamburg. His father a communist and jew 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:08.580 murdered in Auschwitz 00:09:08.980 --> 00:09:11.500 He moved 1953 to the GDR. 00:09:11.980 --> 00:09:17.880 Was banned in 1965 because of his radical view. 00:09:18.300 --> 00:09:21.080 And got expatriated after all in 1976. 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:28.800 When we got question about why theres rejection about refugees. The hate. Mostly from East Germany, 00:09:29.560 --> 00:09:36.220 Because dictatorship is a system which destroys the people. 00:09:37.180 --> 00:09:41.860 Of course they´re deformed, marked and destroyed from it. 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:46.000 And the new challenges from history 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.000 which i tried to say in my speech, 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:58.840 the teachings from history don't give you a medium in the hand to solve the problems in the moment. 00:09:59.900 --> 00:10:04.240 Every knowledge i learned in the GDR is worth shit 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.660 measured on the problems we got now here. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:15.120 There i can talk smart and act like i am experienced. 00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:21.460 Basically the head start in experience is badder for me, because i have to think more than you. 00:10:21.700 --> 00:10:28.580 And so i don't stop Pamela i will sing these people braveness that you can breathe again. 00:10:29.940 --> 00:10:36.340 Pamela is the artist, manager and wife 00:10:36.560 --> 00:10:40.980 and probably the one who calms the musician down. 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:47.860 Don't let you harden you in this hard times. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.320 the one who are too hard will break 00:10:52.580 --> 00:11:01.180 the stings will point and break at the same time.... 00:11:05.640 --> 00:11:09.080 Don't let embitter you 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.520 in this bitter time 00:11:11.580 --> 00:11:15.780 the rulers tremble 00:11:15.780 --> 00:11:23.240 behind bars from a sorrow... 00:11:32.580 --> 00:11:37.940 Just pick the good things and not only the bad 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:42.180 that will Carolina Acevedo do in her comment. 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:53.280 Sometimes, when i stand on a big intersection in the city, 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:55.860 wait for the green of the Traffic lights, 00:11:56.160 --> 00:12:02.080 watch the way too strong car traffic, which pollutes our air, 00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:10.600 but also the many people who are on foot, with the bike, with wheelchairs or a other way try to reach their goal. 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:17.720 Then there happens the coolest moments in which the whole float becomes a fascination at the same time 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:19.720 and i start to smile. 00:12:21.040 --> 00:12:25.120 How can all this happen so smooth? 00:12:26.920 --> 00:12:37.100 When i fly to brazil in my semester holidays and watch the crowds, the queues on the railway station, on airport and soccer stations 00:12:37.800 --> 00:12:42.700 this little wonder, then i´m amazed and smile again. 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:44.700 With the same thought. 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.220 When the media show the picture of the many helpers, 00:12:49.980 --> 00:12:53.480 the many voluntaries who act selfless 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.700 to stand in for other people. 00:12:55.700 --> 00:12:59.040 Dosen´t matter if it´s for refugees or other help seeking people, 00:12:59.180 --> 00:13:06.440 Who spend over 5 billion euros alone in 2015 in germany to charities, 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:11.240 then im thinking our world isn't that bad. 00:13:12.560 --> 00:13:17.480 After terrible pictures of the worldwide wars, 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:20.360 attacks and violence follows rage and sorrow. 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:25.120 How pathetic this little heap of creatures have to be 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:32.560 to express their bitterness, dumbness, ignorance, their egoism with terror and violence with this medium against 00:13:32.560 --> 00:13:38.280 peaceful, celebrating, life affirming, innocent children, 00:13:38.280 --> 00:13:44.160 women, men, elder. 00:13:45.400 --> 00:13:50.860 I learned in school to report me instead of screaming in class. 00:13:51.420 --> 00:13:56.080 To set me up with discipline, with peaceful mediums for my things. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:01.100 That works like the traffic, 00:14:01.100 --> 00:14:02.400 with conurbations 00:14:02.400 --> 00:14:05.200 skyscrapers on confined space. 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:07.200 Through respect. 00:14:08.100 --> 00:14:15.020 Since a lot of people use their intelligence and feels to feel for others. 00:14:16.260 --> 00:14:21.940 For this its also worth it to offer an end to this idiots. 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:29.300 That violence is only an expression of the primitives to get attentive for themselves or their outrages. 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.100 Our world isn´t that bad even with them. 00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:36.780 Who only make a pathetic minority. 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:43.220 Even with this mindset i will go hopefully to the year 2016. 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:07.360 Channel Welcome will still deal with the topic: Escape! 00:15:08.020 --> 00:15:13.060 There people think instantly on Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia or Iraq. 00:15:13.540 --> 00:15:19.040 But even countless germans escaped once or escaped from the own country. 00:15:19.460 --> 00:15:23.480 Channel Welcome will employ with that even in the next series. 00:15:24.660 --> 00:15:28.520 They say, people who came from the zone, 00:15:28.520 --> 00:15:33.500 they starved or tell any other fairytales. 00:15:33.500 --> 00:15:41.040 You lived normally with all the cut in life. 00:15:41.040 --> 00:15:44.800 You had to stay in line really often. 00:15:45.100 --> 00:15:52.040 When theres something special like oranges or south fruits. 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:59.200 There were some swims, like White cabbage swims. 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:03.220 They layed on the streets, you almost could serve yourself with that. 00:16:03.220 --> 00:16:07.020 You also ate bread soups or elderberry soups, 00:16:07.140 --> 00:16:14.920 The postwar generation utilize everything you could utilize. 00:16:15.540 --> 00:16:21.920 Then my father always listened to radio London, a free voice of the free world. 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.320 TV wasn´t there around that time 00:16:25.780 --> 00:16:30.940 and i always sat there too and listened to it. 00:16:31.260 --> 00:16:35.700 And he always told me, the germans are such a dumb nation. 00:16:35.700 --> 00:16:39.240 They all following Hitler. 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.460 It already started at the apprenticeship. 00:16:42.700 --> 00:16:47.440 I made a schooling in Meisen for 4 years as a motor maker. 00:16:48.340 --> 00:16:52.280 I then applied at an art school in Dresden. 00:16:53.140 --> 00:17:00.940 I thought you gotta do something out of your life. 00:17:01.540 --> 00:17:08.280 We should shape the socialist home with figures and elements of buildings. 00:17:08.280 --> 00:17:11.000 That was the goal of the study. 00:17:11.340 --> 00:17:20.380 It wasn´t occasion to get out of the GDR it was the mindful narrowing. 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:29.880 I thought it couldn´t be everything in my life, you had to learn russian, sports, leninism and marxism. 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.620 I was in the FDJ. You had to or you could´t study. 00:17:33.760 --> 00:17:39.740 You had to be in these massorganistions to even get a university place. 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.960 The contradiction, nation friendships and brother countries. 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.260 It was too hard to even travel these brother countries. 00:17:48.260 --> 00:17:52.280 Country friendships aren´t something bad, but it didn't take place. 00:17:52.380 --> 00:17:56.400 You even couldn´t get near the soviet soldiers. 00:17:56.560 --> 00:18:01.760 They always got controlled when they had exit to the zoo or something. 00:18:01.760 --> 00:18:04.360 Then other officers went with them. 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.620 Through there that i had a friend which i knew form Meisen. 00:18:08.360 --> 00:18:10.920 He was a turner and i was a repairer. 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:14.540 So he turned the vases 00:18:15.280 --> 00:18:20.100 And i put figures together i always made the puzzle games. 00:18:20.360 --> 00:18:24.480 But without this friend, i probably wouldn´´t make it. 00:18:24.820 --> 00:18:28.400 And then he came with this idea, 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:32.020 as a frogman through the Donau to Hungary then to Yugoslavia. 00:18:32.700 --> 00:18:39.900 They always said Dresden was the valley of the unknown because we didn´t got West TV. 00:18:40.060 --> 00:18:43.640 But radio was everywhere. 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:48.560 You could listen to news everywhere even if it was with jammer. 00:18:48.600 --> 00:18:52.520 Of course we knew that Radio London was always growling. 00:18:52.520 --> 00:19:01.620 But the channel was smart enough to bring escape stories. 00:19:01.980 --> 00:19:06.340 Something like it succeed again and this and that. 00:19:06.340 --> 00:19:13.340 Then we knew about smuggling because the west needed a lot of doctors. 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:19.960 Then we got the idea, that we had to go to the Saxon library. 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:25.740 There were magazines for the society for sports and technology. 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:30.440 It was a sport organization 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:37.380 and they tried to establish diving clubs or something. 00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:40.140 It was also important for the army. 00:19:40.600 --> 00:19:46.500 They brought frogmen to the army and there really was.... 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.420 it´s really unbelievable when you think about it. 00:19:50.740 --> 00:19:59.240 a guidance on how to build a diving suit (frog man) 00:19:59.740 --> 00:20:03.720 How to make it and which materials to you need. 00:20:04.520 --> 00:20:09.140 Everything was in there even the companies who produced this materials. 00:20:09.940 --> 00:20:15.560 It was the whole guidance for escape. 00:20:16.600 --> 00:20:21.600 You couldn't smuggle magazines over from the west. 00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:33.200 No, you just went to the library and there was christian, his name was Christian also, Christian Schulze he was from Görlitz so no Saxon. 00:20:35.020 --> 00:20:43.700 And he had a lot of ideas on how to make it, how to cut it and everything. 00:20:43.800 --> 00:20:46.700 It was all written in the magazines on what you need. 00:20:47.080 --> 00:20:50.140 We needed a lead belt. 00:20:50.300 --> 00:20:52.540 So we asked our selves on where to get lead? 00:20:52.540 --> 00:21:01.800 So we went to old ruins and they got lead pipes or water pipes. 00:21:01.800 --> 00:21:08.380 We pulled them out and got all the lead things. 00:21:08.380 --> 00:21:17.700 It was all laborious but when you got the ideas then you'll make it. 00:21:18.060 --> 00:21:25.080 First we went from Dresden to Leipzig and this companies were a little outside. 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:30.720 They produced balloon rubbers for huge balloons. 00:21:31.040 --> 00:21:36.060 We needed cuffs for the suit, 00:21:36.060 --> 00:21:41.320 a neck cuff to seal it up. 00:21:41.600 --> 00:21:43.600 This was the hardest. 00:21:43.600 --> 00:21:46.680 The suit itself was made of tarpaulin. 00:21:47.080 --> 00:21:54.900 We imagined that we will go to the Society for Sports and Technology and that we needed replacement rubber which was worn. 00:21:55.380 --> 00:21:59.440 And they really gave us these rubbers. 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:06.840 During the day we made our socialist buildup formed our socialist anthropogenetic and the whole school. 00:22:07.340 --> 00:22:11.320 And in the evenings we worked on our frogman. 00:22:11.320 --> 00:22:14.480 We needed room to do this things. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:24.780 Then we rent a flat which wasn't possible because you don't get flats because of the lack. 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:34.080 We had a basement which we disguised as a workshop. 00:22:34.080 --> 00:22:41.360 To motivate us and work on it we needed a basement. 00:22:41.980 --> 00:22:45.060 I also worked at home on the suits. 00:22:45.060 --> 00:22:47.060 We took them home. 00:22:47.060 --> 00:22:55.700 You had to glue the parts. The rubber parts and it smelled bad. 00:22:55.700 --> 00:23:02.300 Even my mother asked what is smelling what are you doing on the rooftop?. 00:23:02.820 --> 00:23:11.120 We want to go to Hungary, there is a lake somewhere. 00:23:11.120 --> 00:23:15.240 There was a big vacation home for the GDR citizens. 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:21.640 We told her that there has to be a treasure anywhere we wanna dive there. 00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:32.320 We went outside of Dresden and sneaked our way to the Elbe to try everything out on the shore. 00:23:33.540 --> 00:23:42.340 Then we noticed that the suit got creases you didn´t have to suck out the air of it. 00:23:42.340 --> 00:23:49.800 On the chest was a snorkel, 00:23:49.800 --> 00:23:55.900 you sucked out the air and it pulled together. 00:23:56.420 --> 00:24:03.760 Under the suit we had turtle neck pullovers and a lot of underwear. 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:10.420 And it sucked on the clothes and it might not arise too many creases. 00:24:10.420 --> 00:24:12.420 Especially not on the joints. 00:24:12.980 --> 00:24:17.140 Because they really disturbed on the movements. 00:24:17.140 --> 00:24:23.020 So when you snorkeled you had to take breaths 00:24:23.540 --> 00:24:30.940 And on every breath it went to the lungs and boosted us up. 00:24:30.940 --> 00:24:36.540 And on breathing out you could dive down. 00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:44.520 So you couldn't dive down and had to stay on the water surface. 00:24:44.520 --> 00:24:49.920 But only so that nobody could see you and that you could take breath. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:52.260 And you had to dive up a little 00:24:53.220 --> 00:24:54.680 to see the positions. 00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:58.360 We got cards from Yugoslavia 00:24:58.360 --> 00:25:02.240 and i took my journeyman labor with me. 00:25:02.820 --> 00:25:07.920 Christian did not but i made pagodas. 00:25:08.260 --> 00:25:17.800 You probably now it, such pagoda buddhas who can move with the hands and nod. 00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:24.200 I bet back then the ladies were really amused by it. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:35.120 Then i thought to make it perfect ill take the pagoda buddha with me and sell it to westgerman tourists in Hungary. 00:25:35.520 --> 00:25:41.860 And with this west money you can travel really good around yugoslavia. 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:52.440 But we had really luck on the borders. We thought we have to take a train when the GDR citizens make holidays. 00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:59.320 When the trains a fully loaded that the customs won't come through. 00:25:59.320 --> 00:26:03.100 And it was really like that. The borders couldn't pass 00:26:03.100 --> 00:26:10.920 They didn´t control us and our passports 00:26:11.300 --> 00:26:17.080 so we got to czech republic. They didn´t control us there. 00:26:17.860 --> 00:26:21.960 Not even in Hungary which was a lot of luck. 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:30.480 We didn´t hat a lot of time it was a little timespan. 00:26:32.360 --> 00:26:42.300 And then there was my Buddha i had to sell it as quick as possible to westgermans there where the travel busses were. 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:48.800 So where do we get people with money? There were only cheap tourist busses around. 00:26:49.320 --> 00:26:55.340 That wasn´t well thought out so we stayed on this little peace. 00:26:56.220 --> 00:26:58.360 It´s probably still in Hungary. 00:26:58.360 --> 00:27:06.320 We moved fast to the border because of the lunar eclipse. 00:27:06.320 --> 00:27:10.460 The name of the border city was Moacs. 00:27:10.760 --> 00:27:16.920 We couldn´t stay on the borders and had to get out really quick. 00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:21.240 There where the crossing was and then we had to rush into the cornfields. 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:26.500 That was the point where Christian really had trouble. 00:27:26.500 --> 00:27:33.720 He was afraid but we had to go into the Donau. 00:27:33.900 --> 00:27:38.640 He said i can't im feeling sick 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.520 I can´t do it i don't fell good. 00:27:41.580 --> 00:27:46.500 Then he gave me his lead belt 00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:51.360 When somebody would have saw me they would say that i am a ghost. 00:27:51.360 --> 00:28:01.640 I already wore everything except from the fins on my arm the glasses wear on my head 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:11.100 So i walked through the corn fields to get to the shore. 00:28:11.100 --> 00:28:19.880 But everything worked well and i could go to the water easily. 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:27.020 The diving wasn´t needed. I was really scared. 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:34.180 I was afraid that the border police would be everywhere. 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:42.360 You´re going mad because you´re thinking about it all the time. 00:28:42.360 --> 00:28:45.960 I was thinking like is there anywhere a police boat or something. 00:28:46.020 --> 00:28:52.380 It was really crazy i haven´t see a single boat on the water or something. 00:28:52.780 --> 00:29:00.240 Only the ships there was a lot going on on the Donau. 00:29:00.560 --> 00:29:10.400 Sometimes i thought to hang on a boat to be faster. They also had little boats. 00:29:10.700 --> 00:29:17.380 Then i thought just hang on there but then i haven't. 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:25.860 I said to myself ill do it how i learned and trained it. 00:29:26.740 --> 00:29:34.520 The idea was to stay on the flow bed but not where the ships where but on the shore. 00:29:34.860 --> 00:29:47.640 That you had the option to get to the land when the suit tears or something. 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:53.700 We didn´t have long training session because when you would stay the whole night there. 00:29:53.920 --> 00:30:01.240 You were standing in the water and paddled a bit with the lead weights. 00:30:01.360 --> 00:30:06.880 You paddled to get away from the shore 00:30:07.360 --> 00:30:15.100 The good thing was, when a River was shipped there always were position lights. 00:30:16.700 --> 00:30:21.880 There and there are lights, its made for the ship navigators. 00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:32.660 That they can go the right way and its was for me like i was a bottle message. 00:30:33.180 --> 00:30:40.400 I swam through and Muhadz 00:30:41.180 --> 00:30:45.160 and knew that i am at the border now. 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:56.340 And the i always had to pop up but only a little to see some things. 00:30:57.320 --> 00:31:07.820 Then you got the craziest ideas that they got radars under water where they can detect lead or metal. 00:31:08.800 --> 00:31:16.560 It´s all insane but you make it up when you know 00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:24.320 that you cross the border, the iron curtain. 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:34.120 I guess i was about 3-4 hours in the water. 00:31:35.580 --> 00:31:37.180 As flotsam. 00:31:37.460 --> 00:31:42.480 And that was the critical moment i was really scared. 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:52.100 I ran into the bushes and got into a swamp and stayed there the whole day. 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.060 I just layed there and waited for the next night. 00:31:57.420 --> 00:32:02.800 Then i heard noises and thought the border police will come now. 00:32:03.460 --> 00:32:06.220 But that probably were only tourists or angler. 00:32:07.360 --> 00:32:15.820 And the hard part on this way was that i always past through villages and they all stay next to the street. 00:32:16.540 --> 00:32:19.480 And in the south its usual to have dogs. 00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:22.720 So called villages dogs. 00:32:23.340 --> 00:32:32.600 And when you come as a stranger into a village then you get instantly attacked by dogs. 00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:35.220 I was really scared there. 00:32:36.020 --> 00:32:44.360 And i sometimes had to walk through villages because i was thirsty by walking in the heat. 00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:47.980 First i only walked in the nights. 00:32:48.940 --> 00:32:55.860 And later on as i got further i was more trustful and walked on the daylight. 00:32:56.200 --> 00:33:02.960 Then i tried to get a pick up as a tramp. 00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:09.440 And i told them that i came from Greece and that i am a geologist. 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:20.840 I told that i write geology exam and study the people the life and this area. 00:33:20.840 --> 00:33:26.120 Then they often even invited me to a coffee. 00:33:26.120 --> 00:33:36.560 I couldn't really talk to them because they only spoke yugoslavian but they invited me and i could drink coffee. 00:33:37.340 --> 00:33:44.420 Then i thought get in the line of a bread issue. 00:33:45.020 --> 00:33:50.100 They had cutted white bread and other sorts in the big bakeries. 00:33:50.940 --> 00:33:54.520 And the people were always on the line bought something there. 00:33:55.420 --> 00:34:03.820 And then i thought how can i steal a little bit of bread. 00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:17.340 And then i really got it. I watched them for a really long time. 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:25.700 Then i sneaked my way through the gates in the middle of the night into the port. 00:34:26.520 --> 00:34:35.040 I saw it on the daylight over a wall. I watched and chose a ship. 00:34:35.780 --> 00:34:39.320 A ship with a german name and flag. 00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:42.160 A german ship. That was perfect. 00:34:42.600 --> 00:34:51.100 You could from the wall sneak your way in to the ship through floor boards. 00:34:51.600 --> 00:35:01.480 I sneaked my way into some kind of chamber where they put their clothes in. 00:35:01.720 --> 00:35:11.200 The sun popped during the day on the chamber and there was no air-conditioning or something, 00:35:11.200 --> 00:35:18.800 and i was in this hot stuffy chamber and didn´t knew when they will go from there. 00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:24.380 And they had huge water bottles on the shore, 00:35:24.380 --> 00:35:31.520 which was for the worker. 00:35:32.620 --> 00:35:38.280 I just thought ill go out and take on of these bottles. 00:35:38.560 --> 00:35:44.100 And i really did it. The people just walked around. 00:35:44.100 --> 00:35:51.180 They were dirty and i was dirty too so i looked like one of them 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:57.940 The ships didn´t want to stay long on the port because they had to pay taxes for it. 00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:05.300 And then they started to take off the of the port in the night. 00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:08.420 And i thought how can i make it? 00:36:08.420 --> 00:36:18.960 Wait until the dawn comes and go to the captain and tell you´re a stowaway. 00:36:19.700 --> 00:36:25.320 And i did it. I went out and i had my GDR passport with me 00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:29.540 and could proof that i am from the GDR 00:36:29.540 --> 00:36:40.300 The sailors looked at me. It wasn´t really sailors more like warehouse staffs. 00:36:41.240 --> 00:36:47.520 He was was flabbergasted when i told him from my story 00:36:47.520 --> 00:36:53.280 it was like an encounter of the 3rd kind. 00:36:54.160 --> 00:36:59.560 Then the captain thought i gotta be a convict or something. 00:36:59.560 --> 00:37:08.040 He was really scared that he got a convict who escaped from the yugoslavian jail onboard. 00:37:09.640 --> 00:37:16.200 But then i could proof that i was a GDR citizen and i told them what i did. 00:37:17.300 --> 00:37:27.960 And then i ate like a shun drescher and the other ones just looked at me like an animal. 00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:34.120 Then i had to knock and work with them on the ship. 00:37:34.120 --> 00:37:43.320 And then a also got a bunk and was a normal worker on the ship. 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:54.540 And then on the south point form italia is the so called street of Messina. 00:37:54.540 --> 00:37:58.380 It´s near Sicilia and there are storms. 00:37:58.380 --> 00:38:17.100 And it was really stormy then. The ship wiggle back and forth and i got seasick, puked and they laughed at me. 00:38:17.100 --> 00:38:23.600 They pointed at me and said he pukes all the time. 00:38:23.620 --> 00:38:30.720 It was a really long way up to barcelona. 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:41.680 There the captain probably messaged before that he got a stowaway on board an that i am from the GDR. 00:38:41.740 --> 00:38:55.380 Around that time Spain was a fascist country. The message got to the police and they wouldn´t take me if i don't got valid papers. 00:38:56.220 --> 00:39:09.000 But i was lucky that the consulship worker came from barcelona down to the port and 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:21.640 cutten my passport picture out and set it into a Federal German passport put a stamp on it and with that i was a Federal German. 00:39:21.640 --> 00:39:27.260 Then they got a train for me. It all worked really fast then. 00:39:27.260 --> 00:39:37.460 Then i bought a huge map from barcelona. 00:39:38.160 --> 00:39:45.520 Then i wrote that i arrived and that the trip was nice and so on. 00:39:45.860 --> 00:39:59.140 Then i also wrote, when you wanna write back later in Giessen. I also wrote the street on the letter to reach me. 00:40:00.080 --> 00:40:04.140 I still got the card its all standing on it. 00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:09.840 On the emergency edition i was there again with GDR people. 00:40:10.220 --> 00:40:16.120 Then the Federal Intelligence Service asked all the questions. 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:23.040 Also the CIA was interested about this crazy guy who dos something like that. 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:27.600 Is it legal or is he crazy? 00:40:27.600 --> 00:40:36.640 Because it was extraordinary. They only knew the average border refugees but not something like that. 00:40:39.520 --> 00:40:44.840 Then one of these CIA Agents told me to sit down and write everything down. 00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:47.940 He couldn't do it himself. 00:40:48.420 --> 00:40:51.440 I did everything Point for Point. 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:12.020 Shortness from Germany December 2015. 00:41:13.160 --> 00:41:18.760 Majority of the Bundestag vote for a Army operation in Syria with 1200 Soldiers. 00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.840 To answer with war is the wrong solidarity! 00:41:23.540 --> 00:41:33.280 Thats what SPD Financepolitian Cansel Kiziltepe said, who belongs to the 146 opponents against the Syria operation. 00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:39.700 We are already in the focus of the terrorists. The danger will rise with this operation. 00:41:40.340 --> 00:41:44.140 She also said in a Spiegel Online interview: 00:41:44.620 --> 00:41:54.060 I think everybody know that this Waroperation has a huge scope whom consequences we can't estimate. 00:41:55.640 --> 00:41:59.020 Linke faction leader says: 00:41:59.180 --> 00:42:02.560 Military intervetions will help IS. 00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:09.940 Also confesses the fraction leader against the Military operation in Syria. 00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.140 The bombardments will lead to many civil victims which will nourish the hate. 00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:16.960 she also says: 00:42:17.580 --> 00:42:22.720 The americans destabilized Syria on purpose to overthrow Assad. 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:29.600 The Pentagon even confessed that IS got supported from them. 00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:37.240 Of course is Assad a dictator but its matter of the Syrian people and not the americans to decide who rules Damaskus. 00:42:39.580 --> 00:42:41.580 Amnesty International. 00:42:41.740 --> 00:42:45.080 Weapons of the terror militia IS also come from Germany. 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:51.400 States who trade weapons carry responsibility on the spreading of IS. 00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:55.080 This accusation rises Amnesty International. 00:42:55.240 --> 00:43:01.580 Also Germanys activities are a example for how to convey atrocities with a big style. 00:43:02.680 --> 00:43:08.100 Refugee crisis. Bavaria deports most peoples. 00:43:08.580 --> 00:43:13.820 The federal countries deported already 16´700 people this year. 00:43:14.520 --> 00:43:17.940 On the pole position is Bavaria with ca. 4000 deportations. 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:26.140 I only can advise all rejected refugees to voluntarily leave or he will be deported. 00:43:26.660 --> 00:43:29.720 Said the bavarian Home Secretary, Joachim Hermann. 00:43:31.260 --> 00:43:32.380 Thalia Theater: 00:43:32.980 --> 00:43:37.160 Latvian Director cancels Guestplay as a protest against refugee help. 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:45.880 Since the thalia theater engages for refugee help, the director Alvis Hermanis canceled his Guestshow. 00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:52.500 The holds the humanitarian help for wrong and don't want to get connected with it. 00:43:53.460 --> 00:44:01.160 The german excitement to open the borders for Refugees is extremely dangerous for europe because there are terrorist under them. 00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:09.340 We would never thought it would be possible, that humanitarian engagement for needy people would lead to termination of collaborations. 00:44:09.780 --> 00:44:14.320 Said the interdict of the Hamburgian Theater Joachim Lux. 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:17.780 Right winged violence! 00:44:18.360 --> 00:44:20.660 Thomas de Maizière talks about shame for Germany. 00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:26.180 Thomas de Maizière requests all citizens to fight xenophobia. 00:44:26.940 --> 00:44:32.880 The extent of right offenses is frightening. Said the Federal Interior Minister to Spiegel. 00:44:33.640 --> 00:44:34.880 New numbers show: 00:44:35.300 --> 00:44:38.700 Assaults against refugees increased dramatically. 00:44:39.740 --> 00:44:48.220 We gotta be carefully that xenophobia and rightwinged extremism doesn´t crowl in the middle of our society. Said the Interior Minister.