# 1991 VHS • Discovering Germany 60 FPS

A travel documentary produced by International Video Network as part of its Video Visits series, covering reunified Germany following the absorption of the East German states into the Federal Republic in October 1990. The program opens with a brief account of the division and reunification before moving into regional coverage. International Video Network's catalog of other Video Visits titles and the Reader's Digest Great National Park Series is promoted in the closing segment, with a toll-free ordering number at 415-866-1121. The program covers Germany's geography and pre-Roman Germanic tribes before moving region by region. Western Germany is covered first, including the Black Forest, Upper Bavaria, the Bavarian Alps, and their folk traditions. Munich is covered in depth, tracing its 19th-century neoclassical rebranding as Athens on the Isar under Ludwig I, the patronage of Richard Wagner under Ludwig II, and Wagner's subsequent political exile from Bavaria. Nuremberg's medieval crafts and the remnants of Nazi-era rally grounds are covered together. Oktoberfest, marzipan from Lubeck, and Weisswurst from Bavaria represent the food sections. Berlin receives extended coverage, tracing the 1961 construction of the Wall, the 1989 fall, and the Brandenburg Gate's reopening. The former East German states are covered from the Baltic coast and island of Rugen through Leipzig and its musical heritage to the Harz Mountains. The program closes at the Weimar shrines of Goethe and…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1991
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-DiscoveringGermany1991)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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