Der Mensch ist ein schöner Gedanke. Volkhard Knigge und Buchenwald

Historian Volkhard Knigge has been the director of the Buchenwald memorial foundation for the past 20 years. Time and again he reflects upon the meaning and significance of this place of remembrance. The film is, together with Knigge's reflections, an approach to Buchenwald's scene of crime as we perceive it today, based on its emptiness, its aesthetics and its constructional fragments. The architect Karina Loos has described the buildings and facilities of the former concentration camp in terms of their functionality - these texts are read by Corinna Harfouch, and illustrate how "an ordinary place turned into something murderous". (Kasseler DokFest)