Annette Dittert: "Dear Britain" - Auf der Suche nach der Seele Großbritanniens

In the organizer's words:

When Annette Dittert stood outside Downing Street at midnight on January 31, 2020 to report live on ARD's Tagesthemen that Brexit had finally been completed that night, tears suddenly welled up in her eyes shortly before the broadcast. London had long since become her home. Now the break with the EU could no longer be reversed. It was a depressing day for her and many Britons who had hoped for a different outcome right up to the end.

June 23, 2026 marks the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum and Annette Dittert wonders what has become of the country. She takes us on a journey across the island: we visit the Royal Albert Hall and the House of Lords, swim with the women's group "Blue Tits" in the sea on the east coast of the island, chat with Scots, priests and earls. And we are guests of the author on her narrowboat Emilia, a small, colorful steel boat on Regent's Canal in the center of London. The result is a multifaceted picture of the idiosyncratic and charming British people, whose precarious economic and social situation - not only as a result of leaving the EU - is palpable in everyday life, yet who always keep their composure.

Annette Dittert is a foreign correspondent for ARD and a passionate filmmaker. She became known to a wide audience as a studio manager and correspondent in Warsaw, and later in New York and London. Annette Dittert has received two Grimme Awards for her films. In 2019, she was named Political Journalist of the Year. She lives in London on her houseboat Emilia.