Ein Moor ohne Wasser stirbt (‘A Moor Without Water Dies’)

Shrouded in legends and stories, moors were once feared and shunned like almost no other landscape. By the early 1990s, however, only one per cent of the originally 550 hectares of moorland in eastern Germany remained as living, growing moors. Moreover, just a fifth of this area wasn’t affected by excessive nutrient input – a shocking statistic. In Ein Moor ohne Wasser stirbt (‘A Moor Without Water Dies’) commissioned by DEFA Dok-Film GmbH, Siegfried Bergmann presents various near-natural moorland types and, in conversation with agronomist, biologist and conservationist Professor Michael Succow, explores the threats still facing the remaining moors.

On loan from the German Broadcasting Archive