The lovely neighbors

The walls are thin in Berlin. You can hear everything when the neighbor listens to the radio or the dog barks. Nightly home improvement work and honking cars in the residential area, noise pollution and disturbance of the peace: Das Ohr und wir (1981) explores in humorous form how this shapes coexistence in the city. In Lieber Leierkastenmann (1953) a street musician reviews the history of Berlin and recalls the music and dance of the 1920s (but also the shell impacts of the last days of the war). Projekt: Schnellstraße (1958) is about the problem for traffic planning in the face of 2,800 newly registered cars per day. All too often, the noises of the city and especially those from the neighbor's apartment lead to quarrels and annoyance. Sometimes, however, a love story and a trip to the countryside emerge, as in Nur ein Viertelstündchen (1932) with Theo Lingen.(ps)