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Writer Thomas Brasch died in 2001. Born in London into a Jewish immigrant family, he grew up in the GDR where his father quickly rose through the ranks to become Vice-Minister for Culture in 1965. His father's career was to experience a slump when his son was arrested after having posted flyers protesting against the clamp down on Prague Spring. Prior to this, Thomas Brasch had often clashed with GDR authorities: once it was for having 'slandered leading personalities', another time for objecting to the banning of a Berlin Volksbühne production of a stage play about Vietnam. His stage plays, texts and poems but also his three feature films never fail to fascinate on account of their myriad references and the seemingly effortless way in
which he manages to interweave the past, contemporary events, classical and pop culture, as well as Jewish and German heritage. The Gelsen - kirchen-born director of this documentary has made a point of looking at Brasch's life and work from both Western and Eastern perspectives.
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