experiences a visual and musical romance
The trained opera and chanson singer Thomas W. Mücke and his wife Nina have been an institution throughout Germany for over 30 years with their brilliant 6 x 6 picture quality and unique synthesis of words, singing and music.
The singing adventurer Thomas W. Mücke narrates:
The repressed German past "Between Szczecin and Königsberg" comes to light again.
The Polish Baltic coast spoils holidaymakers not only with a beautiful beach, but also with a huge range of guesthouses, restaurants and entertainment venues.
Cities steeped in history, such as Szczecin, Kolberg, Gdansk and Elbląg, have been restored to their former glory, proving that the Poles are masters of the craft of restoration. Masuria with its many lakes, waterways and forests is a paradise in its own right - here, silence becomes language. We have also visited the Königsberg region with its approximately one million inhabitants several times since the collapse of the Soviet Union and are always amazed at what is gradually emerging here. The area, which was Christianized by the Teutonic Order with the sword, was once the easternmost corner of Germany and later the westernmost of the Soviet empire.
On two nights in August 1944, British bombers turned the capital of East Prussia, Königsberg, into a sea of flames. However, the British cargo was not only intended to hit this city, where the great thinker I. Kant once taught, but all the towns in the region, such as Insterburg, Tilsit, Gumbinnen and many more.
Today, there are Russian activists everywhere who are researching the history of the land that ignored their ancestors who settled here after the destruction. They are fully convinced that this East Prussian history is the icing on the cake of their identity in this part of Russia.
Today Kaliningrad is a little bit Russian, a little bit German and very European.
For us, when we are in Russia, whether in Siberia, on the Volga or on the Don, we always ask ourselves how it can be that so many Russians meet you with such unaffected cordiality, impartiality and warmth.
This new slide show will enchant viewers not only with interesting information, but also with fantastic nature shots.
Content - short and sweet
In the original territory of later Prussia
A quarter of Poland was under German rule
The former Hanseatic city of Szczecin - birthplace of Catherine the Great
Giant shifting dunes - the Polish Sahara
Gdansk - once the richest city on the Baltic Sea
The Oliwa monastery complex - Humboldt called it one of the most beautiful places on earth
Marienburg Castle and the Teutonic Order
Wolf's Lair - the Thousand-Year Reich left behind thousand-year-old ruins
Masterpiece of engineering - the Oberland Canal
Thorn: Copernicus, gingerbread and Hanseatic splendor
The sung-about charm of the Polish women
Landscape straight out of a picture book - Masuria
90 % Catholics are shepherded by 20,000 priests
In the Russian part of the Curonian Spit
Unmistakable flair in the Baltic resort of Rauschen
95 % of the world's amber is mined on the Samland coast
Pillau - once the largest port of refuge in history - today a closed city
Kant and a lot of cult - Königsberg
Trakehnen's horse breeding makes a second attempt Tilsit and East Prussian nostalgia
