Auf dem Familienschacht

Mansfelder Land—tailings piles and mine shafts dominate the landscape, bearing witness to the mining industry. Mansfeld copper shale—one of the valuable raw materials mined in the GDR. We meet Karl-Rudolf Hause’s youth brigade. The washroom, the bench, the mine car, the underground longwall, the lunch break. By listening to their conversations and observing them at work, we aim to describe their way of life.