Deutschland von Oben

City (Stadt) (1x1)

Data di messa in onda: Mag 23, 2010

It's amazing what effect a change in perspective: "Germany from above" the country is presenting exclusively from the air. During an entire year flew "Terra X" by helicopter, microlight or powered aircraft on German landscapes and cities. The Alps and the highlands, the moors and the Wadden Sea, the large urban centers and the rural idyll - hardly a region in Germany like the other. Together they form the most diverse picture of Germany, which was shown on TV ever. Because the turbulent history of the country is still written in the earth. One only has to rise high enough to see them: the prehistoric crater meteorite, the remains of Bronze Age lake dwellings in Lake Constance, the traces of the Roman Limes and the green belt of the former Berlin Wall. A truly uplifting history lesson. But modernity opens up in the air, their complex networks. The transportation hubs, the gas and power lines or train tracks connecting the people of Germany. As diverse as these roads are repaired and the interesting experiences of those who build, maintain and, we learn only from the air. The first episode of the series looks at the cities. From the air, they reveal the secrets of their plans, their internal logic and hidden some of their lifelines. "Germany from the top" shows the roofs and towers of large and small towns, the railroad tracks and streets, where every morning about 40 million people, almost all at the same time, strive to work or to school. From the air you can see the Brandenburg Gate in a different light, and one wonders how the trees were able to get into the streets of the residential quadrants of Friedrichshain ever get enough sun to grow. From above you can see the luxury suburbs of Hamburg Alster in the lush green and the size of the plots. And you can see how the historic warehouse district meets with its modern, new building adjacent to the Port City. As the seemingly haphazard jumble of medieval streets in the old towns of Rothenburg, Regensburg and Lübeck come about? What secret plan behind it? And how can that work in Munich Oktoberfest, the largest festival in the world, even if most of want to go up to 500 000 visitors in the evening almost all at the same time and if possible take a taxi home? As experts identified by aerial photographs of England still 65 years after the end of the Second World War on aerial photographs from the dangerous unexploded bomb the dark times of war? Nothing has changed, the German cities more sustainable than the destruction of World War II. From a bird's eye view you can see it more clearly than ever before. "If I run an ant in a carpet, I can not see the pattern of the carpet," says Klaus Leidorf aerial archeology. "I can only distance - ie from the very top."