Weitermachen Sanssouci (2019)

The Cybernetics and Simulation Institute faces the threat of closure-the starting point of this satirical novel about how to turn the university system into a turbo capitalist research machine. Phoebe Fiden, a very qualified and promising young scholar, accepted another temporary teaching contract. With her progressive ideals of climate research more or less intact, she acted as a link to frustration, but prepared for the battle of the students who occupied the library. On the other side of the battlefield are established faculty whose willingness to survive in the dunghill acquired by third-party financing makes them vain cynics for whom it is absurd to make no ridiculous concessions to crazy assessments. Max Linz makes his films with keen Berlin sensitivity, urban background, office atmosphere and academic attire. He also exaggerates decadent college jargon with relish, which functions like bait in behavioral research. In the end, the film has actually become a musical, with a catchy tune that may be an ode to the post-capitalist revolution: "Why can't it be good here? why aren't we happy?" "The Institute...