NEVER GIVE UP

About the History of the Carl-Zeiss Company

Author & Director:

Martin Huebner | Juergen Ast

Commissioning Editor:

Manfred Schmidt

Duration:

80'

Production:

MDR

Carl-Zeiss, the world's greatest producer of optical Instruments. Founded in 1846 as a two-man company, it has achieved an exemplary reputation by its social reform. After a historical abstract, the documentary focus upon the aftermath of 1945, when the company was broke up by the allied occupying powers and divided in an eastern and a western part. Since then, a fierce class struggle was in the spotlight. After the German reunification, the East-company could be saved, but that mental gap between East and West, it could not be closed completely.