The creation of a neighborhood, Leutschenbach/Zurich 2006-2013 (Swiss Stories 2015, by Rolf Günter) - Swiss Press Award

Kino Stüssihof Zürich

Rolf Günter

A filmic documentation in 85 chapters, from 2006 to 2013. Combined in an 86-minute film. The Leutschenbach district is nationally known, as it serves as the backdrop for the daily Metot program on Swiss television. In 2006, the Leutschenbach area between Oerlikon and Seebach consisted of little more than a collection of mismatched office buildings, a waste incineration plant, and the Swiss television building. Back then, Leutschenbach was an area without identity, a no-go zone. Things are different today! The area became the focus of urban planners, and the city decided that a new district should be built here. First, a vote was taken on the construction of the park, then private entrepreneurs ensured that apartments would be built around it. The park, the residential high-rises, and cooperative housing projects are now built or under construction. The question of identity remains. The Leutschenbach district is only eight years old. But its origins have already disappeared and been forgotten – were it not for this film, which tells the story of the new district's origins: from human fates to the deposits of the lake that rippled in the Leutschenbach district 18,000 years ago.