Memories of Masuria and Gdansk

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"Ei, wie jeht ...' still rings in my ears when my father starts to talk about the past. His humorous stories in the circle of friends and the trip with a group of older East Prussians in 1988 to Treuburg, Lyck and Gdansk form the basis of this film" says Denzer about the film about his father, the graduate engineer Kurt Denzer, who was born in 1906 as the seventh child of the landowner Wilhelm Denzer on the parental estate Kukowken. He attended the one-class village school in Kukowken and the grammar schools in Lyck and Königsberg. He graduated from the Technical University of Gdansk with a degree in engineering. From 1937 he was employed as a construction foreman at Strabag Bau-AG Berlin for the construction of freeways and airfields. From 1957 he was a lecturer at the engineering school in Lage/Lippe and later co-founder of the Lippe University of Applied Sciences. He and his wife Lilly died in Detmold in November 2001.