ANDERS HAT ES JA NICHT FUNKTIONIERT

Elli is a single saleswoman in a empty furniture store in the GDR. During working hours she does the shopping, organizes the family, goes to the municipal office and does her own business with food, furniture and learns to show solidarity. With the fall of the Wall, she loses her job and her security and feels how capitalism changes people. Elli sits together with her son in her atelier today and talks retrospectively about the class conditions before and during the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. She observes how cohesion is lost and how money becomes more and more an issue between people. She gives her son an insight that clarifies which future and existential fears in the working class are connected with the fall of the Berlin Wall and which atmosphere she associates with this event and why it simply didn’t work any other way.