Hans-Dieter Grabe

Hans-Dieter Grabe recollects his memories of his experiences in 1945, when he was eight years old and living in Dresden.

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Documentary about an old farmer.

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Hans-Dieter Grabe portrays his neighbour, Raimund, one year before his suicide.

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Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell stories about the country and its people. The teams filmed at 20 different locations between June and August 2010 under the same production conditions: four days of filming, one week of editing.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Grabe's film about his friend, fellow filmmaker, and painter Jürgen Böttcher aka Strawalde.

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A reunion with Mendel Szajnfeld 27 years after Grabe's first encounter with the Holocaust survivor.

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A long-term film documentary about the Vietnamese Do Sanh, who lost his parents as an eight-year-old boy in the Vietnam War and was critically injured by a grenade. Grabe accompanied and filmed him from 1970 until his death. This film is the fifth and final documentary in this series.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Three German women living in Poddembice during the Second World War are asked to share their memories.

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From the diaries of a German official in occupied Poland 1940-42.

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After 17 years, Do Sanh and Marlies Winkelheide, the social worker who brought Sanh to Germany and was his most important caregiver there, meet again when she visits him in Vietnam. During their month-long reunion, his drug addiction comes to light.

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Jens is nine and has physical and metal disabilities since his birth. The film accompanies Jens and his parents in their everyday life.

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It has been nearly 15 years since Do Sanh returned to Vietnam. He is now 29 years old. In the documentary, Sanh talks about his current life, the experiences he has had, and the tough times he had to go through since the filming for director Hans-Dieter Grabe's documentary "Sanh und seine Freunde - Beobachtung einer Rückkehr nach Vietnam" ended in 1974.

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On March 22, 1983, Abdullah Yakupoglu, a Turkish worker living in Germany, killed his daughter Perihan. The documentary looks at the motives of Yakupoglu, who is interviewed in prison.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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The story of Ludwig Gehm - a German resistance fighter against Nazism.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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They leave their home country with the intention of working in Germany for a year or two, hoping that this time will be enough to bring them the prosperity they long for. Then they realize that the time was not enough and they set a new deadline. This is how most ‘guest workers’ begin to experience the rupture of a life whose planning overwhelms them. One of them: Mehmet Turan.

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Tells the story of several Vietnamese children who were injured in the Vietnam War and were brought by the Children's aid organization Terre des Hommes to Germany for better care. In 1974, some of them had to return to Vietnam and were faced with the challenge of getting used to the life in their home country again.

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Hans-Dieter Grabe accompanies Mendel Schainfeld on his second journey to Germany.

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Portrait of the Federal President Gustav Heinemann.

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Hans-Dieter Grabe documents the work on board the "Helgoland", a hospital ship for the civilian victims of the Vietnam War.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Electric locomotives in the West, steam locomotives in the East. This report from Bebra uses "observations at a German train station" to illustrate the division of Germany. This was the terminus of the "interzone trains" that carried East German pensioners to visit relatives in the West. While the widening gulf between family members is noticeable, the residents of Bebra have made their peace with the division, not least of all because some of them profit from it financially.

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Hans-Dieter Grabe recollects his memories of his experiences in 1945, when he was eight years old and living in Dresden.

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A portrait of documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Despite or perhaps because of his position at the public television channel ZDF, Hans-Dieter Grabe has developed his own unmistakable signature style which falls between journalism and documentary (similar to Klaus Wildenhahn during his time at the TV channel NDR).

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Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

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Hans-Dieter Grabe recollects his memories of his experiences in 1945, when he was eight years old and living in Dresden.

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Documentary about an old farmer.

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Hans-Dieter Grabe portrays his neighbour, Raimund, one year before his suicide.

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Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

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Grabe's film about his friend, fellow filmmaker, and painter Jürgen Böttcher aka Strawalde.

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A reunion with Mendel Szajnfeld 27 years after Grabe's first encounter with the Holocaust survivor.

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A long-term film documentary about the Vietnamese Do Sanh, who lost his parents as an eight-year-old boy in the Vietnam War and was critically injured by a grenade. Grabe accompanied and filmed him from 1970 until his death. This film is the fifth and final documentary in this series.

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