What do you pick up when you can no longer find your footing in a crisis? How do you manage not to lose the thread? These were the questions facing the fishermen on the Greifswalder Bodden during the Great Depression of 1929, when the Baltic Sea was fished dry.
STUNDL AM MEER - the Freest fisherman's carpet saga part I
by Jens Hasselmann
with Tammo Messow, Christiane Waak, Ina Hartfil, Hans Löbnitz, Christian Peplow, Dirk "Oke" Möller, Klaus Falk
What do you pick up when you can no longer hold on in a crisis?
How do you manage not to lose the thread? These were the questions facing the fishermen on the Greifswalder Bodden during the Great Depression of 1929, when the Baltic Sea was fished dry. You have to: "Daun wat to daun is!" But what to do? Carry on as before or break new ground to get something into the "empty Maag"? District Administrator Kogge has an idea! Necessity is the mother of invention, but what does the Viennese carpet maker Rudolf Stundl have to do with it? New patterns for carpets, new patterns for life. The true story of the Freest fishermen's carpets is the basis for this amusing piece of local history.
The fishermen's carpets are a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage.
