Overgames

On a talkshow actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show Nur nicht nervös werden Dont Get Nervous first broadcast on West German TV in 1960 were developed along the lines of American psychiatry Asked So how many crazy people watched you he responded A whole crazy psychologically disturbed nation Why were the Germans or to be more precise the West Germans a psychologically disturbed nation at that time This is a film about cheerful and serious games therapies for reeducation and selfimposed reeducation as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows psychiatrists anthropologists and the diversely paranoid