Three years ago NDR and SFB started an unparalleled action which was meant to be presented as a special TV-play-and “mirror-of-vices-and-virtues”-project in conjunction with the city of Berlin’s 750th anniversary. Wolfgang Menge (author of the play) and Horst Konigstein (director of research and TV-play) talked to the survivors about every-day-life in Berlin during the Nazi-period. This time their interest was not so much fort the hunted and the dead-the Jews, the dissidents, etc., but for the people who-in one way or another-made it through the years living in niches, not really “the responsible”, but the “what-can-I-do about”-type, more or less us. It was astonishing to wht extent the research in everyday life during the thirties had excluded this viewpoint (or just taken it for granted). Menge’s and Konigstein’s view is that of the ethnologist: they discover the Nazi-time (pre-war) as the experimental field for mass-consumation, mass-leisure; they discover the advent of mass-media ant the peculiar human reaction of living aside the agitation, the idea of mass-mobilization. From hundreds or interviews-being more or less collectors of the last voices (people who wrote to MDR, SFB; actors, singersm writers in their seventies)- Menge wrote a two-part play: Capital Berlin-private views (about 4 hours long). This will be broadcast in late October 1987. The third channel will show four accompanying programs. Each lasting 60-75 minutes. For the first time the audience will be able to look over an author’s shoulder-his “fantasies” about the Nazi-period boil down to hard facts, sidelines, personal stories which are unfolded in the format of a “Mirror of lifestyles”. This “mirror” is conceived by Horst Konigstein in an essayistic way: in an old factory hall the actors who we see also in the play sing the songs fo the times and meditate on the authentic material which is thrown at the audience as a montage of attractions. We’re going to show the 2nd part : the Berlin “wirtschaftswunder” of the pre-war-years, the (already) obsession with American lifestyle with young urban Berliners. (This work for Konigstein closes the cycle of Axe of Wandsbek and Haus Vaterland) It should be recommedable having Part two of the TV-play on demand.