“Observations by Wolfgang Ettlich”
It does not happen every day that a gigantic stadium is built on a greenfield: In October of 2001, the citizens of Munich voted with a clear yes for a new soccer stadium in the north of the city. 66,000 soccer fans of FC Bayern and 1860 Munich will find a new common home in the futuristic looking structure. But before that stand four years of work on a construction site of superlatives. The director Wolfgang Ettlich and his cameraman Hans-Albrecht Lusznat followed the construction of the new Munich soccer arena since the first groundbreaking. They have recorded several phases of the construction and did thereby get to know the microcosm of a large construction site from the inside: The logistics, with which hundreds of construction workers have to be coordinated, and the steady growth of the stadium all the way to the perfectly conceptualized illuminated structure, with VIP-boxes, mass restaurants, and Europe’s largest parking garage.
Directed by Wolfgang Ettlich
Wolfgang Ettlich
Narrator
Peter Rozumnyi
Oberpolier
Dipl.-Ing. Horst Maus
Projektleiter
Michael Nell
Chef der Eisenflechter
Ela Knebelsberger
Kioskbesitzerin
Hans-Jörg Heindl
Kranführer
Hans Ehrenschwender
himself
Maria Ehrenschwender
herself
