DEUTSCH SÜD-OST

Deutsch Süd-Ost is a video novel, narrated in 25 episodes by actress Mavie Hörbiger. After retreating to a “bastion” in southeast Germany a Who’s Who of prominent “last White men” they let their imaginations run wild.

White men are becoming extinct, and they don’t seem to be having such a bad time. After retreating to a “bastion” in southeast Germany they let their imaginations run wild. Such is the premise of my video novel Deutsch Süd-Ost, narrated in 25 episodes by actress Mavie Hörbiger. Deutsch Süd-Ost is a Who’s Who of prominent “last White men”: representatives of the Neue Rechte, Reich citizens, controversial artists and intellectuals. Inspired by their new sociotope, they develop revolutionary trends in music, fashion, sex, food, and terrorism; they build “Nazizoos” and attempt to breed an Aryan-Slavic master race and a species above and beyond both man and beast.

Deutsch Süd-Ost is a tragicomic laboratory for the mind in which my own role as a White man and the radicalization of some of my own acquaintances are subject to playful experimentation. Right-wing ideology is not consigned to the trash can, but rather processed and prophetically transformed.

“I’m blasted and blown away. Niermann’s grip is as sure as that of an acrobat on the trapeze. Awesome.” —Elfriede Jelinek

“Oh if only it were a novel! Oh if only it were all invented!” —Peter Rau

-> Trailer at Paranoia TV

Written and directed by Ingo Niermann
Narrated by Mavie Hörbiger
Graphic design: Boah Kim
Collages and drawings: Mad Smells
Documentation Thuringia: Erik Niedling
Camera, sound, lights: Kilian Immervoll & Anna Sophia Rußmann
Editing: Tiphanie Mall Sound
Mix: Robin Michel
Title music: Hannah Weinberger
Text editing: Rainer Wieland
English translation: Alexander Scrimgeour

Commissioned and co-produced by steirischer herbst ’20 and Staatstheater Wiesbaden. Supported by Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst Basel-Stadt / Basel-Landschaft

All 25 episodes, 4:03 h (with English subs)
Single episodes on YouTube, if not deleted due to "violating YouTubes Community Guidelines."