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Prince P\u00fcckler \u2013 Playboy, Pasha, Parkomaniac<\/strong>
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The name is associated with a brand of ice-cream rather than with a man\u2019s life work. A dandy who had travelled the East, Prince P\u00fcckler was one of the most famous landscape designers of all times. He turned his own land into sublime works of art, and his travelogues had an impact on millions of enthusiastic readers. Prince P\u00fcckler: the most eccentric aristocrat in 19th century Prussia.
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Details<\/h3>\n

ZDF, Arte 2015
\nLength::<\/strong> 43\/53 minutes
\nWritten and directed by:<\/strong> Eike Schmitz, Philipp Grie\u00df
\nCamera:<\/strong> Philipp Grie\u00df, Lars Barthel
\nEditor:<\/strong> Mathieu Honor\u00e9
\nMusic:<\/strong> Brynmor Jones
\nSound design & mix:<\/strong> Sebastian Reuter
\nProduction assistant:<\/strong> Elisabeth Fest
\nNarrator:<\/strong> Gert Heidenreich
\nCommissioning editor ZDF:<\/strong> Bernhard von Dadelsen
\nCommissioning editor ZDF\/Arte:<\/strong> Peter Allenbacher<\/p>\n

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A well-heeled playboy, P\u00fcckler captures the imagination of emerging tabloid journalism. In 1817, he marries the daughter of the powerful Prussian chancellor of state, Hardenberg. Although the decision is motivated by considerations other than love, the couple discovers that they are soulmates when it comes to garden and landscape design. In order to realize their joint vision, she agrees to a divorce. The plan is to find a better match, a wealthy wife, in England. Whilst failing to find one he keeps writing letters to his ex-wife, which are published as travelogues and become hugely popular.<\/p>\n

For a period of six years, P\u00fcckler travels through the East. He is determined to find the source of the river Nile, and risks his life sailing upstream into the region known as Sudan. With his ethnographic gaze and talent as a writer, he makes an exotic world come alive for German audiences at home. Past and present German notions of the East were largely shaped by P\u00fcckler\u2019s travelogues.<\/p>\n

Despite his success as a travel writer, Prince P\u00fcckler\u2019s main legacy are his parks. He perfected the idea of the 19th<\/sup> century English landscape garden. For decades, he was preoccupied with the realization of grand, artificial sceneries inspired by the Romantics. Today, almost 150 years after his death, his visions are eternalized in the parks of Muskau and Branitz.<\/p>\n

Elaborate re-enactments depict life in 19th century Prussia. The film is set in original locations that perpetuate the name of the illustrious Prussian nobleman – Prince P\u00fcckler.<\/p>\n

Art is the highest and noblest thing in life, because it is creation in the service of humanity. Throughout my long life, I have pursued this task to the best of my abilities in the realm of nature<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– P\u00fcckler\u2019s last diary entry<\/p>\n