Bernd Dost

In May 1968, Dost was sent to Paris to report on the student revolts as backup correspondent. After a period in Paris, he began his career as a documentary filmmaker in Munich. But, while working in the business program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavaria’s public Radio and TV complex), he seldom saw eye to eye with the editor-in-chief (and later TV director) Wolf Feller, an intimate friend of the Bavarian Prime Minister, Franz Josef Strauss, about the political content of their work. Nevertheless, he learned much in the fields of visual and drama arts that led to his writing, editing and directing TV documentaries. Dost established good friendships with cartoonist Dieter Hanitzsch and editor Brigitte Schroedter and good relationships with colleagues Wolfgang Kahle, Thilo Schneider, Dietmar Ebert, Karl Neumann, Henric L. Wuermeling, Jürgen Martin Moeller, Meggy Steffens, Christel Hinrichsen, and with Rudolf Mühlfenzl, the somewhat baroque, liberal editor-in-chief. In 1978, Bernd Dost married Caroline von Harder, a businesswoman, who headed the PR department of the Beck clothing store in Munich and who set up a mail order business of her own selling decorative household accessories. Their daughter Franziska Dost studied TV journalism and later, European Ethnology in Berlin.

1972: • "Diseases of Society: Stress: a disease of civilization" (30') • "Brains Inc. - A psychological show about manipulation (60’) • "About Ourselves: Protracted Old Age" (32’) • "Review of a Year: a Psychogram of the Events of 1972" (66') 1973: • "Slow Motion: Eros and Politics" (47´) • "Human Games: An Experiment in Group Dynamics" (80´) • "Slow Motion: When You're on Your Way: Understanding the Other" (45´) • "Slow Motion: The Star is Dead - is the Star Dead?" (45´) • "A Year in Retrospect: Psychogram of the Events of 1973" (58´) 1974: • "Slow Motion: A Number for Everyone - Registered, Programmed, Controlled" (45´) • "Slow Motion: Worker and Model" (43’) • "A Year in Retrospect: Psychogram of the Events of 1974" (45´) 1975: • "Death of a Sea: The Mediterranean Sewage Pit" (45´) • "Slow Motion: The Rumor" (45´) • "The Big Prize" (43´) • "What They Call Normal or: Life is Child’s Play" (44´) 1976: • "Cypriot Family Life" (42´) • "Apprenticeship in Feeling: Esalen, Big Sur" (45´) 1977: • "Hope of Healing: Lourdes and Faith Healers" (45´) • "Miracles Happen All the Time; About People that Have Survived Against the Odds" (45´) • "People, Drinks and Politics: Portrait of a Standup Bar" (45´) • "Olé HSV! - Football - A Circus for Millions" (58´) • "Workplace Situation: Nobody Don't Know Nothing!" (45´) • "Family Vacation. One German, One Swedish and One Italian Family in Lignano" (45’) 1978: • "Shady New Flags: Exploitation on Ships Under New Flags" (45´) • "Green Time: Environmental Protection in the Form of a Party" (45´) • "I Represent Young People" (45´) • "The Emigrants: Off to Australia" (45´) • "The Flying Doctor: On the Way to Lonely Farms in Australia" (45´) • "About Driving, Franzen and Tuning - Rally Drivers" (43´) 1979: • "A Fragmented Image: What People Think of Politicians" (45´) 1980: • "Mary and Jesus: Between Oath and Business Profit in Oberammergau" (45´) • "Of Heroes, Buccaneers and Crash Pilots: Private Flyers" (43´) • "Extreme Travel: Survival Training in Canada" (43´) • "Recreation Areas for Everyone: The dilemma on Lake Shores" (45´) 1981: • "Exotic Profits: International Trade With Protected Animals" (45´) • "Constant Trouble With the Program: Scandals in the Theater" (45’) • "The Friendly Sharks: The Profitable Business of Rescue Shipping" (45’) 1982: • "Contemporary History on Television: The Reichstag Fire" (90´) • "Last Farewells: Of Young Runaways and Desperate Parents" (60´) • "The Emigrants and What Became of Them" (45´) • "The Anguish Telephone: Children Calling For Help" (45´) • "Inheriting Evils: Sick Environment, Sick Children" (45´) 1983: • "The Programmed Catastrophe: Safety at Sea" (45´) • "Situation: Us and the Children: Overshadowed by Dachau" (45´) • "Under the Hammer. Fortunes Around an Auction House" (45´) 1984: • "The Revenge of the Victims: Taking the Law into One’s Own Hands" (45´) • "Helpless in the Flow. Powerless Against the Power of the Power Suppliers" (45´) • "Searching for Heirs" (59´) 1985: • "Rescue the Mediterranean: The 10-Year Battle for the Mare Nostrum" (45´) • "Everyone Has His Nest in Mind: Iserlohn Revisited" (69´) • "Dangerous Freight: The Risk of Transporting a Hazardous Load" (45´) • "Night Studio: The Little Nobel Prize" (60´) 1986: • "Marco Polo’s Heirs: Traveling with Businessmen" (45´) • "Einstein’s Child Prodigies: Of the Happiness and Misery of the Highly Gifted" (60´) • "Sinking Ships: Criminal Practices in Shipping" (30´) 1987: • "My Home is the Big Top: Chicky Altenburger, Clown" (45´) • "My Home is the Sea: Immo von Schnurbein and the Gorch Fock" (45´) • "My Home is the Stars: Gustav A. Tammann, Astronomer" (59´) • "My Home is the Jungle: Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzees of Gombe" (45´) 1988: • "Luxury, Smiles, Loneliness: A Ship’s Doctor on a Cruise Liner" (45´) • "Computers Are Not for Kissing: Mankind in the Age of Data Processing" (45´) • "Art as Hot Goods: Art Fakers, Art Robbers, Art Searchers (45´) 1989: • "Hunting Down Ancestors: On the Adventure of Discovering Your Family" (45´) • "People Under the Hammer: Compulsory Auctions" (45´) • "The Toothless Tigers: The Youth Organizations of the Political Parties" (45´) • "In the Future: Open-Minded Thinkers Needed" (45´) • „War Brides: Katharina Militello" (30´) • "War Brides: Lisa Slaughter" (30´) • "Highly-Gifted Children: Observations Over a Period of Three Years" (60´) 1990: • "Yesterday’s Enemy, Today’s Comrade? The Federal German Armed Forces and the National People’s Army" (45´) • "A Wound That Won't Heal: Deforestation in Papua New Guinea" (45´) • "Yesterday and Today: Rioting in Schwabing" (30´) • "Legally Incapacitated: On the Drama of No Longer Being a Person" (59´) 1991: • "30 Years of Amnesty International: The Fight for Human Rights" (45´) • "People Who Change Their Lives: From Officer to Missionary" (30´) • "People Who Change Their Lives: A Surgeon in Search of the Soul" (30´) • "People Who Change Their Lives: From Engineer to Priest" (30´) 1992: • "Hope of Healing (I): The Chances of Gentle Medicine" (45´) • "Hope of Healing (II): On the Way to Energy-Based Medicine" (45´) • "Blue Helmets: With a UN Unit in Yugoslavia" (45´) • "All Kinds of People: Angelo Conti Rossini" (30´) • "Plunge Into a Void: On the Fate of People with Cranio-Cerebral Injuries" (45´) 1993: • "The Long Waltz: Dancing, My Life. Walter Deutsch" (58´) • "Nature Hits Back: Climatic Catastrophes" (45´) • "Reportage on Monday: Contaminated Home" (45´) • "Lifeline: The Conductor Eduard Macku" (45´) • "An Eagle with Broken Wings: Dancing, My Life. Ilias Pilalis" (60´) 1994: • "Report on Monday: What Make Children Sick Today" (45´) 1995: • "Lifeline: The Cook, the Clown and His Love of Anarchy: Angelo Conti Rossini" (45´) • "Spiritual Crises. Sense in Insanity" (45´) (not broadcast) • "Geniuses of Tomorrow: Intermediate Report on a Long-Term Observation" (45´) • "Dachau Concentration Camp" (90´) • "Lifeline: Anna. Florist. Anna Lindner" (45´) • "Three Women in Papua New Guinea: Between a Hut and a High-Rise Block" (58´) 1996: • "Did Kohl Kiss Madonna? How Pictures Can Be Manipulated" (45´) • "Lifeline: The Napoleon Among Landlords. Richard Süßmeier" (45´) • "The Kind Uncle: The Life and Death of Felix Haserick" (45´) • "Highlights of the 41st German Historians’ Congress" (45´) • "Save Our Children: Violence on TV and Its Consequences" (45´) 1997: • "Lifeline: Death Embraces Us In the Middle of Life. Claudia Marschner, Undertaker" (45´) • "The Firm - Siemens: A German Family History" (45´) • "Lifeline: Always on Course. Pilot Hein Mehrkens" (45´) • "Suddenly Gone: The Fates of Missing Youngsters" (80´) • "Lifeline: A Gentleman from Bohemia and His Love of Beauty. Rainer Kreissl’’ (45’) 1998: • "Simply to Live: Young people and Their Right to a Future" (45´) • "Lifeline: A Piece of Chocolate, Miss? Kathy and Dany Militello" (45´) 1999: • "20 Days in the 20th Century: Chernobyl - The Atomic Scare" (44´) • "20 Days in the 20th Century: Hiroshima - The Nuclear Threat" (44´) • "Walt Disney’s Secret: Tracing a Legend" (68') • "Lifeline: You'll Never Be Down with Frieda. - Frieda Hiesgen, Canteen landlady" (44´) 2000: • "Lifeline: I’ll paint a Rembrandt Today. Günter Hopfinger" (44´) • "World Courier: Family Life in Kazakhstan" (26´) • "World Courier: Family Life in Siberia" (26´) • "World Courier: Family Life in Tansania" (26´) • "World Courier: Family Life in Eritrea" (26´) • "World Courier: Family Life in Egypt" (26´) • "Four Bright Minds: Long-Term Observation of Highly-Gifted Children" (88´) • "The Amazons of Oberammergau: the Passion of the Strong Women" (79´) 2001: • "Lifeline: Digging Charley of Seebruck. Karl Ostermayer" (45´) • "Scene of Crime - a Child: Violence That Came Out of the Cold" (45´) 2002: • "Man as a Victim" (45´) • "The Clones Are Coming: Genetic Engineering, Dream or Nightmare?" (45´) • "In the Waiting Room of Death: The Fates of Forced Labourers" (74´) • "Lifeline: Catching the Right Moment. Inge Feltrinelli, Publisher" (45´) • "Escape to the Paradises in the World of Advertising" (45´) • "Scandals in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Witch Trials of Memmingen" (45´) 2003: • "Lifeline: A Gentleman from Bohemia and His Love of Beauty (II) • "Rainer Kreissl" (45´) 2004: • "Lifeline: The Oktoberfest Landlord from Nockherberg. Peter Pongratz" (45´) • "To Europe Together: German-Czech Reconciliation" (45´)