Series „Das Institut – Oase des Scheiterns“
A scene like from forgotten times. A group of adult people is gathered around a table – and doing handicrafts. Not handicrafts for the non-profit bazaar of the community center or the like. Here bottles are smashed and the broken pieces are put into hardening material. They were later to crown the outer wall and protect the Institute for German Language and Culture from attacks. Because you always have to reckon with that in Central Asian Uzbekistan, a playground for warlords, bandits and Salafists. You won’t find it on any atlas, nor on Google Earth. But somehow it slipped between Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, apparently overlooked by the geographers for centuries… But not by German foreign policy, who set up an exclave of Germanic culture here and then more or less left it to herself. Five Germans and one local are tasked with introducing the Kisbeks to the German language…
