As a member of the final generation of DEFA directors, Herwig Kipping settled old scores with East Germany in sarcastic fashion in 1992's "Das Land hinter dem Regenbogen" and shot DEFA's last feature in 1993. With his experimental no-budget project DER OBDACHLOSE HÖLDERLIN (Germany 2015), he approaches the German poet once again following his graduation film "Hommage à Hölderlin", with the poet appearing this time round as a homeless man looking for the meaning of human existence, confronted with omnipresent media images of the misuse of power, violence, war, and destruction. "The German poet Hölderlin – homeless? That is the provocative, disturbing view of this film that pierces everyone to the heart – when he throws up all the questions that move each of us from day to day, to which we find it harder and harder to find an answer, the first and last questions as to the meaning of our human existence – in the 'final days of humanity'?" (Herwig Kipping) (jr) (1.8.)
