Around the same time the film was made, the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) formed in the district, opening one of the darkest chapters in recent German history, involving the resurgence of neo-Nazi terror groups and the targeting of Turkish-German citizens for murder.
Between 2000 and 2007 the NSU killed 10 people all over Germany, resulting in a long trial with suspicions of state complicity and xenophobic police bias. Some of the high contrasts in human behaviour revealed by the post-East German context of Winzerla – utopia, decay, loss, silence, freedom, violence – continue to mark Seidel’s identity and art.
winzerla woods
Experimental Film (Fragment), D 2005, 1:37 min
Film + Music: Robert Seidel
Full HD, color, 16:9 (letterboxed)
