Gerd Kroske's Hamburg trilogy

In September, a DVD boxset of 12 films by Gerd Kroske is being released in absolut MEDIEN's "Die großen Dokumentaristen" series. This offers us the occasion to screen contiguously his Hamburg trilogy, which was made between 1999 and 2012, and to discuss it with him. In his un-agitated and reserved manner, Kroske dedicates himself here to outsiders, masters in the art of living, enfants terribles, all colorful characters with disrupted lives. At the same time, the three film portraits are also studies of a particular era and milieu that give an insight into West German subcultures and social conditions.