The game „ISUNGUR - Save your Viking Village“ is a point-and-click adventure for children up to 14 years. The serious game combines knowledge and fun. It takes the player on a journey to the Northern Europe of the year 845 and offers an entertaining and playful way to gain insights into the fascinating culture of the Vikings. The player‘s viking village was raided; important goods, inventories and the most precious sword of the clan leader were stolen. A hard winter is coming. How will the clan survive? The player finds himself in a Coming-of-Age Story in which he has to prove that he is not a child anymore and able to save his village. This is why the game is called "Isungur" - after an old nordic name for "hero". The web-based game "ISUNGUR - Save your Viking Village" is available on www.isungur.com

"Hey, you, Viking! Your village was plundered last night, and all its treasure taken! Embark on a quest to find 18 precious objects and restore honour to your village! But first you have to show what you know about the vikings." The Viking app takes the user on an exciting journey into the Viking's culture. The app is an interactive quiz for mobile devices that guides the user through the exhibition „The Vikings“. By answering questions he gets to know the highlights of the exhibition in a playful way. The app is not only an experience inside the museum but can also be played at home. Get the app for iOS here: and for Android here:

Thousands of young Israelis join "The journey to Poland" each year to learn about the holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reviles a moving and troubling image of the Israeli narrative and the way collective memory is formed in the web age. In the YouTube clips they create, students share private and moving moments of fear and despair - unmediated testimonies of themselves trying to make sense of the insane. Using these clips as raw material, we follow the journey to Poland from a variety of intimate points of view and explore how the personal becomes national, reality becomes cyber and history becomes myth. Have a look at the web project: www.uploading-holocaust.com The DVD can now be purchased directly through us! For personal use the price is 25,52€ including delivery, together with an educational concession the price is 45,22€ including delivery. If you are interested, please send an e-mail to info@gebrueder-beetz.de

25 years after the spectacular landing of Mathias Rust on the Red Square in Moscow, Rust talks for the first time in detail about his flight, which left the reputation of the Soviet military in tattern. The exclusive documentary "One flew over the Kremlin – Mathias Rust and the End of the Soviet Bloc" will be broadcasted on Monday, 21st of May at 11.30 pm on ARD.

1987. The Soviet military is outmanoeuvred by a teenager. Only equipped with a map he crosses the border in a chartered Cessna and lands in the heart of Moscow, leaving the reputation of the military in tatters. In May 2012 it will be 25 years that Mathias Rust breached the integrity of the iron curtain, triggering change of historic dimensions.

One flew over the Kremlin – Mathias Rust and the End of the Soviet Bloc

It is the 28th of May 1987, shortly after 7 pm. The world is richer by one sensation and the Soviet Union is totally disgraced. What had happened? The nineteen-year-old Mathias Rust from Wedel near Hamburg had landed his single engine Cessna 172 directly next to the Red Square in Moscow. No one had stopped him on his several hour flight through the Soviet airspace. The Soviet Air Force, so far considered invincible, is exposed to ridicule and mockery. Thousands of missiles, state of the art air defence radars and antiaircraft defences overcome by an amateur pilot, a messenger of peace, who wanted to build a bridge between East and West with his flight. The flight scandal becomes state affair, the minister of defence has to resign and many high-ranking officers have to follow. The young German pilot’s intent had been to move the deadlocked disarmament talks along, in order to bring peace between East and West. In the end, his flight did indeed help perestroika along – though in another way than expected.

The president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, acted outraged externally, but domestically he finally had enough space to reduce the military budget, to pull out of Afghanistan and to finally give the satellite states their longed for independence. The military had always been Gorbachev’s opponent and now he used its disgrace to enthrone the political hardliners. Among them are also senior officers who can’t take the “dishonour” and kill themselves. The catalyst of all this becomes a media star. The “New York Times” and the “Washington Post” hail Mathias Rust in union as “daredevil pilot” on the 30th of May in 1987.

25 years later, exclusively for this documentary, Rust talks for the first time in detail about his flight, his motives and the stay in the Moscow prison afterwards. The former “high-flyer” is still a fascinating personality. Film author Gabriele Denecke undertakes a very special journey through time to the places and people who were involved then, politically, militarily or journalistically. The German foreign minister at that time, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, recalls the reaction in Bonn and the writer Wladimir Kaminer, who had been a soldier stationed in Moscow, explains how Rust escaped them, saying: “I was supposed to shoot him down!” The former foreign correspondent of the ARD in Moscow, Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, gets a say as well as do expulsed Soviet generals and the chief of the Federal Intelligence Service BND, Hans-Georg Wieck. Mathias Rust himself says today: “If I would have known the outcome of this, I would not have done it. This is something you can only do if you don’t know the consequences and the development of a story”.