The business woman

The Fifties in Germany are well known to be the economic boom-years (Wirtschafts-wunder). A Frankfurt prostitute named Rosemarie Nitribitt was found strangled in her apartment in 1957. Nobody really could explain it – but suddenly myths grew around that woman. Obviously she had had affairs with bigheads from the industry and famous politicians. There were secrets which were never uncovered. For the young one Nitribitt was just a name to get acquainted with the fact of sexuality, prostitution, secret rites of passion. The Fifties has been so puritanic and work –ridden so far that suddenly certain needs poured into the open. This film was conceived and written for an open series on German History, as it is told from “another” perspective. We just start to invent stories which give us the chance of telling a tale-prolonguing historic facts as they may be. E. G.: the prostitute Nitribitt is not dead. She lives in Boom-City Frankfurt, the most Americanized city in Germany. She has become a banker and gets visited once in a while by an old friend. There is verbal sex, sentimental Journey into the past because everything has changed to the worse. This programme is a fascinating try at another way of producing history-programmes. It is daring in its content and very poetical at the same time. We –satirically – call it Last Foxtrot in Frankfurt, 1985.