“In 1987, the Leipzig Bowlingtreff opened, extraordinary, postmodern and unique in the GDR. The film portrays knowledgeably and lovingly the house and its special history.”
The “Bowlingtreff” is a bowling alley situated right in the centre of Leipzig opened in July 1987. At that time the quality of life in Leipzig and the whole GDR got worse. Houses collapsed because of poor conditions, public life and amusement was on a very low level. The “Bowlingtreff” was not merely an urban entertainment centre but a revolution in those days. Built with the help of hundreds of volunteers without permission of the state authorities in Berlin the building expresses a free and international architecture known as postmodernism. It is an architecture that was never seen before in Leipzig. Marble and parquet on the floor, a glass roof and beautiful pink pillars. The atmosphere was western as time witnesses remember it.
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Thomas Beyer Director · Adrian Dorschner Director Anna Baranowski Editor
First release October 31, 2015 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German, Italian
Production
Beyer & Dorschner
Production
MDR
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NDR
Production
Germany
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Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German · Italian
Release dates
Germany · October 31, 2015
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