Oldtimer – At the Wall-fall, my Ford and I turned 30

»It’s 2019 and I’m turning 30. What a crappy number! By the time you reach 30 you should know who you are, where you are and where you’re going... But how can I know that when I’m not even sure where I come from?

The fact is I was born 30 years ago amidst total chaos. My birth certificate was issued in a country that no longer exists, and my first toy was paid with bank notes that looks like play money today. And when my parents talk about those times, it’s always ‘back then, everything was so much better!’
 But what was it like, this obscure ‘back then’? And if I was born exactly when the Wall fell, am I still an East German or already a West German? And should I even need to answer that question seeing that reunification is just as old as I am?«

The actress Isabel Tetzner and director Ulrike Günther, both of whom were born during the time of political upheaval in 1989, loaded all of these questions into the boot of a Ford Fiesta (model 1989) and then travelled through eastern Germany to ask people what they thought. The result is a theatrical road trip to the imagined world of political transformation, and a generation of young people who are demanding that German reunification – a project that began 30 years ago – be finally put into practice!