Reni Mertens
2021Die Selbstzerstörung des Walter Matthias Diggelmann
Reni Mertens, Walter Marti
Walter Matthias Diggelmann
Walter Matthias Diggelmann (1927-1979) was one of Switzerland's most famous and also most controversial writers. Although his novelistic work is strongly auto-biographical, he always engaged in Swiss politics. In this movie, he says: "Although I am writer, my existence is that of a human, a contemporary, a witness, a believer, a doubter, a desperate, an accepter, a refuser, one who loves and wants to be loved, a hater, a creative, an ambitious, a good and a bad mensch". Filmmakers Walter Marti and Reni Mertens offered Diggelmann one hour of time in order to explain and to defend himself, to accuse, to apologize, to reconsider his judgments.
Die Selbstzerstörung des Walter Matthias Diggelmann
Im Schatten des Wohlstandes
Reni Mertens, Walter Marti
Im Schatten des Wohlstandes is about children; their illnesses – if that’s what we want to call them – are civilisational in nature: their parents have to abandon them to keep up with their jobs; frustration is the core of capitalism.
In the Shadow of Prosperity
