Science/Fiction

Jahr 2022... Die überleben wollen (Soylent Green)
Director: Richard Fleischer, USA 1973, 97 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young


In 2022 New York City is grossly overcrowded. As food is scarce the government creates the product Soylent Gren for people to eat. A privileged upper class has every interest to keep the recipe a secret – even at he cost of murdering people.


Guest: Dr. Uwe Meier



Agronomist Dr Uwe Meier is a Scientific Director at the Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry in Braunschweig. Following his training as a gardener, he read Horticultural Science at the universities of Osnabrueck and Hannover, focusing on crop management and protection, plant medicine, business studies and agricultural markets. He is an expert for the practical implementation of ethical goals in agronomy, including cultural sustainability, in agriculture business and regional development.




Andromeda - Tödlicher Staub aus dem All (The Andromeda Strain)
Director: Robert Wise, USA 1971, 130 min, 35 mm, Panavision, Technicolor, GV
Actors: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid


"The Andromeda Strain" is a tense sciencefiction thriller. This film shows a team of scientists attempting to isolate a deadly virus from outer space while racing against time and the possibility of nuclear war. A film according to Michael Crichton’s novel.


Guest: Prof. Dr. Erko Stackebrand



Prof. Dr. Erko Stackebrandt, born 9. June, 1944 in Hamburg. Studied biology in München, 1966-1971, Ph.D. in biology in 1974, German "Habilitation" in 1982. Chair for Microbiology in Kiel in 1984, moved to the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1990. Since 1993 the Chair for the Systemology of Prokaryotes at the Technical University of Braunschweig and Director of the DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Culture.




Gattaca
Director: Andrew Niccol, USA 1997, 101 min, DVD, colour, GV
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law


In a frightening future genetically manipulated "Valids" stand against underprivileged "Invalids" bred through conventional means. By manipulation short sighted and sickly Vincent slips into the role of highly gifted yet paraplegic Jerome achieving a high position in Aeronautic Company "Gattaca".


Guest: Dr. Wolfgang Buschlinger



Wolfgang Buschlinger, born 1964, philosopher at the TU Braunschweig. Focus: philosophy in popular (German) songs and movies; the question what consequences the findings of modern science have for the human understanding of her-/himself and the world; Nietzsche; und bioethics.




The Wild Blue Yonder
Director: Werner Herzog, USA/D/GB/F 2005, 81 min, Beta SP, colour, GS
Actors: Brad Dourif


In this science-fiction film-essay Werner Herzog has an alien from Andromeda be stranded in the United States. The earth is nothing but a desert. We are confronted with meditative images from space: a hallucinatory film beyond any conventional category.


Guest: Dr.-Ing. Joachim Block



Dr Joachim Block read physics at the TU Braunschweig from 1974-1981. In 1988 he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Kassel. He has been working at the DLR since 1981, where he has been responsible for a number of projects on aerospace structures, including projects related to ESA’s ROSETTA mission. Since 2004 he has been the leader of a large project group at the Institute for Composite Structures and Adaptronic. He also teaches at the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics at the TU Braunschweig.




Wonderful Days
Director: Kim Moon-Saeng, ROK 2003, 87 min, DVD, colour, GV


In this South-Korean animated film in the tradition of apocalyptic science-fiction a privileged minority isolates itself on the island of Ecoban, while a majority of exploited proletarians do the dirty work.


Guest: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Fricke



Studied geology-palaeontology at Göttingen, supplementary study of environmental protection as well as waste management at Kassel. Ph.D. in 1988. TU Braunschweig from 1999, Chair for Waste Management. Focus: material and energy use of waste, development of reutilization and elimination technologies for developing and emerging market countries.




Staub
Director: Hartmut Bitomsky, D/CH 2007, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, GV


Dust is everywhere at any time. It's perhaps the smallest visible thing a film could depict. Bitomsky approaches the thing with scientific and everyday methods. The universe originates from dust and without it the sky would not be blue. With this film our science/fiction series comes down to earth.


Guest: Dr. Erik Uhde



Erik Uhde, born 1968, studied chemistry at the TU Braunschweig and did his Ph.D. there in 1998. From 1995 at the Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut in Braunschweig; since 2001 deputy head of the area "Material Analysis and Indoor Air Chemistry". Scientific focus: the investigation of product emissions and smells, the release of volatile substances from materials as well as the measuring of ultra fine dust.




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