Workers, employees, technicians and engineers from the Karl Marx Plant in Magdeburg came together to found an amateur circus. As acrobats, clowns and musicians, they rehearse in preparation for a public performance at their workplace.
This film introduces the viewers to GDR higher education policy via Berlin's Humboldt University. In an interview, university director and professor Helmut Klein describes his career at the university beginning with his studies in 1946.
Many women face the challenge of reconciling professional and family life. In the GDR, programs such as vocational training, day care, and medical care during pregnancy give women better opportunities for personal and career development and greater equality at work.