Dirty Deetz

Mal Deetz bergauf, mal Deetz bergab

Germany / / 00:06:32 min

Berlin ends in Deetz, a landfill site in Brandenburg. Here, a mountain of construction waste is growing, marking the downside of urban growth and greed for profit. The film analyzes the ecological and social consequences of demolition in Berlin. Over 50% of urban waste comes from the construction industry. But instead of a genuine circular economy, “downcycling” prevails. High-quality material usually ends up as gravel in civil engineering or for profiling in landfills. With demolition, established social structures, city history, and the biographies of residents disappear. Berlin is trading its soul for faceless architecture. The Deetz landfill thus becomes a memorial to a society that sacrifices the value of preservation for the greed for profit.
Monday, 24 August 2026 20:00
Block 2
Kaiserhof +


Q&A – A filmmaker from this film will be present for a Q&A.


Film maker
Fritz Hahn

As a student of visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts, Fritz Hahn explores the aesthetic and social structures of urban space. His documentary essay “Mal Deetz bergauf, mal Deetz bergab” (Dirty Deetz) is his first film project. Driven by questions about the material consequences of our construction practices, Fritz Hahn uses the medium of film for the first time as a tool for long-term observation. The work is intended as a visual inventory of a city in transition.