Origin sticks like shit to your shoe! That's what Marlen Hobrack says, who grew up as a working-class child in Bautzen. But the promise of the old Federal Republic was that you can become anything if you just try hard enough. But that no longer applies. So is class in Germany fixed from birth? Have we long been living in a country in which origin and family background are more important for future prospects than individual performance and commitment? In Germany, it takes six generations to rise from poverty to the middle class, in Denmark only two generations. Those affected reflect on their life stories, the burden of their social origins, the wrong and right turning points for social advancement, as classified by social researchers. They talk of pride and shame, of financial hardship and wealth, of origin and future, of growing up and moving up in this Germany with its entrenched selection mechanisms for social advancement.
Dirk Schneider
Director, Writer
Ariane Riecker
Writer, Director
Marlen Hobrack
Self - Interviewee
Scott Wempe
Self - Interviewee
Natalya Nepomnyashcha
Self - Interviewee
Jörg Theobald
Self - Interviewee
Stephanie zu Guttenberg
Self - Interviewee
Cawa Younosi
Self - Interviewee
Martyna Linartas
Self - Interviewee
Marcel Helbig
Self - Interviewee
Michael Hartmann
Self - Interviewee
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