In the organizer's words:

Photo-film live reportage by and with Peter Gebhard

The starting point for "360° Germany" was Flensburg in the far north on the Danish border. We chugged along the Baltic coast towards Poland, towards the mouth of the Oder. On the island of Fehmarn, we met the pioneers of surfing, the wonderful Charchulla twins, and on the island of Rügen, we encountered pithy fishermen who can't imagine life without their cutters. The east is wilder, more melancholy - whether with organic farmers in the Oderbruch, steel stoves in Eisenhüttenstadt or returnees in the Erzgebirge.

The north and east are authentic and honest, the south is lush, a large theater stage in front of the mountains. At the foot of the Alps, I came across young beer brewers, a wise bell strap maker and a good-humored ferryman. Whether at the cattle drive on the Allgäu Hochgrat, at the grape harvest on the Kaiserstuhl, with an old countess in her castle in the Ardennes or with the steadfast families who were able to save their village from the voracious lignite excavators - everywhere I went with Bulli "Erwin" I met great people with their touching stories.

And each time, the landscape in this diverse Germany changed: one minute we were battling our way through the megalopolis of the Ruhr region with its labyrinth of freeways, imposing industrial plants and pulsating inland ports, the next we were in the quiet corners of the Lower Rhine and the vast moors of Emsland. There, "Erwin" made friends with winged vintage cars, biplanes from the 1940s. Together with the equally cool pilot crew, they spontaneously flew through the air to the East Frisian Islands, then with a shrimp cutter from the Weser estuary to the North Sea. After 16,000 kilometers, we finally reached our destination high up in the north, the wonderful world of the Halligen islands in the Wadden Sea, lapped by the eternal rhythm of the tides. Up here at the end of the long tour, I felt that "360° Germany" was not only a fascinating journey of discovery, but also a deep look into the soul of our country.

Price information:

16 € plus advance booking fee